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We are committed to open, transparent, and reproducible science. Below you'll find links to our publications, preprints, preregistrations, data, code, and full-text PDFs whenever possible. We believe scientific knowledge should be shared freely to advance understanding and collaboration.

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2025 Expectation effects in pain and visual perception

Botvinik-Nezer R., Geuter S., Lindquist M.A., & Wager T.D. (2025). Expectation generation and its effect on subsequent pain and visual perception. PLOS Computational Biology.

2024 Neural mechanisms of placebo effects

Botvinik-Nezer R.*, Petre B.*, Ceko M., Lindquist M.A., Friedman N.P., & Wager T.D. (2024). Placebo treatment affects brain systems related to affective and cognitive processes, but not nociceptive pain. Nature Communications.

* Equal contribution

2024 Evaluation for multi-analyst studies

Sarafoglou, A., Hoogeveen, S., van den Bergh, D., Aczel, B., Albers, C. J., Althoff, T., …, Botvinik-Nezer, R., …, Wagenmakers, E. (2024). Subjective Evidence Evaluation Survey for Multi-Analyst Studies. Royal Society Open Science.

2024 Incentivizing reproducible science

Weinerova J., Botvinik-Nezer R., & Tibon R. (2024). Replacing barriers with incentives: 5 creative ways to promote reproducible science. Nature Human Behaviour.

2023 Belief systems

Botvinik-Nezer R., Jones M., & Wager T.D. (2023). Fraud beliefs following the 2020 U.S. presidential election: A belief systems analysis. Nature Human Behaviour.

2022 Reproducibility in neuroimaging analysis

Botvinik-Nezer R. & Wager T.D. (2022). Reproducibility in neuroimaging analysis: challenges and solutions. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

2023 Book chapter: advancing cognitive neuroscience

Botvinik-Nezer R. & Wager T.D. (2023). Advancing cognitive neuroscience. In Boyle, G. J., Northoff, G., Barbey, A. K., Fregni, F., Jahanshahi, M., Pascual-Leone, A., & Sahakian, B. J. (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience. Neuroscientific Principles, Systems and Methods (pp. 569-589). SAGE Publications Limited

2022 Open and reproducible neuroimaging

Niso G.*, Botvinik-Nezer R.*, Appelhoff S., De La Vega A., Esteban O., Etzel J.A., Finc K., Ganz M., Gau R., Halchenko Y.O., Herholz P., Karakuzu A., Keator D.B., Markiewicz C.J., Maumet C., Pernet C.R., Pestilli F., Queder N., Schmitt T., Sójka W., Wagner A.S., Whitaker K.J., & Rieger J.W. (2022). Open and reproducible neuroimaging: Practices and tools from inception to publication. Neuroimage.

* Equal contribution

2021 Non-reinforced behavioral change and memory

Botvinik-Nezer, R., Bakkour, A., Salomon, T., Shohamy, D., & Schonberg, T. (2021). Memory for individual items is related to nonreinforced preference change. Learning & Memory, 28(10), 348-360.

2021 Guidance for multi-analyst studies 

Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Nilsonne, G., Van Den Akker O.R., Albers C.J., Van Assen M.A., Bastiaansen J.A., Benjamin D., Boehm U., Botvinik-Nezer R., Bringmann L.F., Busch N.A., Caruyer E., Cataldo A.M., Cowan N., Delios A., van Dongen N.N., Donkin C., van Doorn J.B., Dreber A., Dutilh G., Egan G.F., Gernsbacher M.A., Hoekstra R., Hoffmann S., Holzmeister F., Huber J., Johannesson M., Jonas K.J., Kindel A.T., Michael Kirchler, Kunkels Y.K., Lindsay D.S., Mangin J.F., Matzke, D., Munafò M.R., Newell B.R., Nosek B.A., Poldrack R.A., van Ravenzwaaij D., Rieskamp J., Salganik M.J., Sarafoglou A., Schonberg T., Schweinsberg M., Shanks D., Silberzahn R., Simons D.J., Spellman B.A., St-Jean S., Starns J.J., Uhlmann E.L., Wicherts J., & Wagenmakers E.J. (2021). Guidance for Multi-Analyst Studies. eLife, 10.

2021 Inclusivity in online conferences

Levitis E., Gould van Praag C.D., Gau R., Heunis S., Dupre E., Kiar G., Bottenhorn K., Glatard T., Nikolaidis A., Whitaker K.J., Mancini M., Niso G., Afyouni S., Ortiz E.A., Appelhoff S., Arnatkeviciute A., Atay M.S., Auer T., Baracchini G., Bayer J.M.M., Beauvais M.J.S., Bijsterbosch J.D., Bilgin I.P., Bollmann S., Bollmann S., Botvinik-Nezer R., Bright M., Calhoun V., Chen X., Chopra S., Chuan-Peng H., Close T., Cookson S., Craddock C., de La Vega A., de Leener B., Demeter D., Di Maio P., Dickie E., Eickhoff S., Esteban O., Finc K., Frigo M., Ganesan S., Ganz M., Garner K., Garza-Villarreal E., Gonzalez-Escamilla G., Goswami R., Griffiths J.D., Grootswagers T., Guay S., Guest O., Handwerker D., Herholz P., Heuer K., Huijser D., Iacovella V., Joseph M., Karakuzu A., Keator D., Kobeleva X., Kumar M., Laird A., Larson-Prior L., Lautarescu A., Lazari A., Gorroño J.H.L., Li X.-Y., Lv J., Mansour S., Meunier D., Moraczewski D., Nandi T., Nastase S., Nau M., Noble S., Norgaard M., Obungoloch J., Oostenveld R., Orchard E., Pinho A.L., Poldrack R.A., Qiu A., Raamana P.R., Rokem A., Rutherford S., Sharan M., Shaw T., Syeda W., Testerman M., Toro R., Valk S., van den Bossche S., Varoquaux G., Vasa F., Veldsman M., Vohryzek J., Wagner A.S., Walsh R., White T., Wong F.-T., Xie X., Yan C.-G., Yang Y.-F., Yee Y., Zanitti G., van Gulick A., Duff E.,  & Maumet C. (2021). Centering inclusivity in the design of online conferences. GigaScience, 10(8), giab051

2020 The Neuroimaging Analysis Replication and Prediction Study (NARPS)

Botvinik-Nezer R., Holzmeister F., Camerer C.F., Dreber A., Huber J., Johannesson M., Kirchler M., Iwanir R., Mumford J.A., Adcock R.A., Avesani P., Baczkowski B.M., Bajracharya A., Bakst L., Ball S., Barilari M., Bault N., Beaton D., Beitner J., Benoit R.J., Berkers R.M.W.J., Bhanji J.P., Biswal B.B., Bobadilla-Suarez S., Bortolini T., Bottenhorn K.L., Bowring A., Braem S., Brooks H.R., Brudner E.G., Calderon C.B., Camilleri J.A., Castrellon J.J., Cecchetti L., Cieslik E.C., Cole Z.J., Collignon O., Cox R.W., Cunningham W.A., Czoschke S., Dadi K., Davis C.P., De Luca A., Delgado M.R., Demetriou L., Dennison J.B., Di X., Dickie E.W., Dobryakova E., Donnat C.L., Dukart J., Duncan N.W., Durnez J., Eed A., Eickhoff S.B., Erhart A., Fontanesi L., Fricke G.M., Fu S., Galván A., Gau R., Genon S., Glatard T., Glerean E., Goeman J.J., Golowin S.A.E., González-García C., Gorgolewski K.J., Grady C.L., Green M.A., Guassi Moreira J.F., Guest O., Hakimi S., Hamilton J.P., Hancock R., Handjaras G., Harry B.B., Hawco C., Herholz P., Herman G., Heunis S., Hoffstaedter F., Hogeveen J., Holmes S., Hu C.-P., Huettel S.A., Hughes M.E., Iacovella V., Iordan A.D., Isager P.M., Isik A.I., Jahn A., Johnson M.R., Johnstone T., Joseph M.J.E., Juliano A.C., Kable J.W., Kassinopoulos M., Koba C., Kong X.-Z., Koscik T.R., Kucukboyaci N.E., Kuhl B.A., Kupek S., Laird A.R., Lamm C., Langner R., Lauharatanahirun N., Lee H., Lee S., Leemans A., Leo A., Lesage E., Li F., Li M.Y.C., Lim P.C., Lintz E.N., Liphardt S.W., Losecaat Vermeer A.B., Love B.C., Mack M.L., Malpica N., Marins T., Maumet C., McDonald K., McGuire J.T., Melero H., Méndez Leal A.S., Meyer B., Meyer K.N., Mihai G., Mitsis G.D., Moll J., Nielson D.M., Nilsonne G., Notter M.P., Olivetti E., Onicas A.I., Papale P., Patil K.R., Peelle J.E., Pérez A., Pischedda D., Poline J.-B., Prystauka Y., Ray S., Reuter-Lorenz P.A., Reynolds R.C., Ricciardi E., Rieck J.R., Rodriguez-Thompson A.M. , Romyn A., Salo T., Samanez-Larkin G.R., Sanz-Morales E., Schlichting M.L., Schultz D.H., Shen Q., Sheridan M.A., Silvers J.A., Skagerlund K., Smith A., Smith D.V., Sokol-Hessner P., Steinkamp S.R., Tashjian S.M., Thirion B., Thorp J.N., Tinghög G., Tisdall L., Tompson S.H., Toro-Serey C., Torre Tresols J.J., Tozzi L., Truong V., Turella L., van 't Veer A.E., Verguts T., Vettel J.M., Vijayarajah S., Vo K., Wall M.B., Weeda W.D., Weis S., White D.J., Wisniewski D., Xifra-Porxas A., Yearling E.A., Yoon S., Yuan R., Yuen K.S.L., Zhang L., Zhang X., E. Zosky J.E., Nichols T.A., Poldrack R.A., &  Schonberg T. (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature.

2020 Brain plasticity following COVID-19

Salomon T., Cohen A., Barazany D., Ben-Zvi G., Botvinik-Nezer R., Gera R, Oren S., Roll D., Rozic G., Saliy A., Tik N., Tsarfati G., Tavor I., Schonberg T., & Assaf Y. (2020). Brain volumetric changes in the general population following the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown. Neuroimage.

2019 Functional plasticity related to non-reinforced behavioral change

Botvinik-Nezer R., Salomon T., & Schonberg T. (2019). Enhanced bottom-up and reduced top-down fMRI activity is related to long-lasting non-reinforced behavioral change. Cerebral Cortex.

2019 NARPS dataset

Botvinik-Nezer R.*, Iwanir R.*, Holzmeister F., Huber J., Johannesson M., Kirchler M., Dreber A., Poldrack R.A., & Schonberg T. (2019). Neuroimaging Analysis Replication and Prediction Study: Raw and preprocessed fMRI data of mixed gambles. Scientific Data.
* Equal contribution

2019 fMRI of non-reinforced behavioral change

Salomon T., Botvinik-Nezer R., Oren S., & Schonberg T. (2019). Enhanced striatal and prefrontal activity is associated with individual differences in nonreinforced preference change for faces. Human Brain Mapping.

2019 Structural plasticity following motor learning

Tavor I., Botvinik-Nezer R., Bernstein-Eliav M., Tsarfaty G., & Assaf Y. (2019). Short-term plasticity following motor sequence learning revealed by diffusion MRI. Human Brain Mapping.

2018 Non-reinforced behavioral change training

Bakkour A., Botvinik-Nezer R., Cohen N., Hover A.M., Poldrack R.A., & Schonberg T. (2018). Spacing of cue-approach training leads to better maintenance of behavioral change. PLoS ONE.

2018 Non-reinforced behavioral change

Salomon T., Botvinik-Nezer R., Gutentag T., Gera R., Iwanir R., Tamir M., & Schonberg T. (2018). The Cue-Approach Task as a General Mechanism for Long-Term Non-Reinforced Behavioral Change. Scientific Reports.

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