Publications of the Centre

Abir, Y., Mok, J., Baldassano, C. A., Marvin, C. B., & Shohamy, D. (2026). Learning reinforces curiosity for related information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(17), Article e2529176123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2529176123

Aigner, C. S., Forlim, C. G., Santoro, D., Bodammer, N. C., Brühl, R., Sudimac, S., Schmalen, K., Schröder, S., Mohammadi, S., & Kühn, S. (2026). MRI goes mobile: Assessing the reliability and repeatability of a mobile vs. stationary 1.5 T MRI for functional neuroscience studies. NMR in Biomedicine, 39(7), Article e70310. https://doi.org/10.1002/nbm.70310

Akin, G., Schwarze, S. A., Lindenberger, U., Bunge, S. A., & Fandakova, Y. (2026). Individual differences in error-related brain activity and post-error slowing in children. Human Brain Mapping, 47(9), Article e70581. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70581

Aldern, C. P., Todorova, B., Massazza, A., Lawrance, E. L., Ibanez, A., Perera, F., Berman, M. G., Guinto, R. R., Kühn, S., Jabalpurwala, I., Lamm, C., Mishra, J., Nomura, Y., Eyre, H. A., Junck, L., Meidenbauer, K. L., Moussa, D., Breuer, A., Tuter, I., Adalat, S., & Ikiz, B. (2026). Brain health: The blind spot in climate policy. One Earth, 9(9), Article 101835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2026.101835

Algermissen, J., Rascu, M., Weber, L. A., den Boer, T., Martin, E., Treeby, B., Gray, M. D., Cleveland, R. O., Wittmann, M. K., Clarke, W. T., Fouragnan, E., Rushworth, M. F. S., & Klein-Flügge, M. C. (2026). Low-intensity focused ultrasound to human amygdala reveals a causal role in ambiguous emotion processing and alters local and network activity. Neuron, 114(7), 1269–1289.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2026.03.009

Ascone, L., Mahlke, C., Tawil, N., Samaan, L., Frisch, M., Nugent, L., Nixdorf, R., Börncke, F., Lüdecke, D., Fischer, R., Bach, N., Hackbarth, C., McCall, T., Gallinat, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Informing the redesign of psychiatric seclusion rooms: A mixed-methods pre-evaluation with individuals with lived experience. BMC Psychiatry, 26, Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-026-07780-0

Ascone, L., Mostajeran, F., Hagen, H., Börncke, F., Klock, L., Gallinat, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Compassion-focused virtual reality for individuals with a psychotic disorder: A randomized-controlled pilot study. Psychosis, 18(1), 47–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2025.2545769

Ascone, L., Samaan, L., Augustin, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Nature vs. abstract imagery as an indoor design intervention in senior residential settings: Effects on cognition, affect, and pain in very old age. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 113, Article 103115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103115

Bagdades, E., Biria, M., Burman, C., Delpech, R., Huys, Q. J. M., Moses-Payne, M., Norman, J., Pizzagalli, D. A., Spencer, L., Tromans, N., Singh, I., Leigh, E., Krebs, G., & Stringaris, A. (2026). Social prediction errors and feedback shape momentary mood and anxiety: Moderation by social anxiety and depression symptoms. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 205, Article 105145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2026.105145

Balachander, S., Narayanaswamy, J. C., Shivakumar, V., Abe, Y., Alonso, P., Backhausen, L. L., Banaj, N., Batistuzzo, M. C., Benedetti, F., Bollettini, I., Bravi, B., Brem, S., Cappi, C., Chhatkuli, R. B., Choi, S., Coelho, P., Costa, A. D., Dallaspezia, S., Denys, D., Diniz, J. B., Dzinalija, N., Eng, G. K., Feusner, J. D., Fiedler, S., Ha, M., Hirano, Y., Hoexter, M. Q., Hu, H., Huijser, C., Ipser, J., Jahanshad, N., Jang, J., Kim, M., Koch, K., Kurita, K., Kwon, J. S., Lazaro, L., Lochner, C., Machado-Sousa, M., Manrique, D. R., Marle, H. van, Martínez-Zalacaín, I., Mataix-Cols, D., Menchón, J. M., Morgado, P., Mortel, L. van de, Muñoz-Moreno, E., Nakao, T., Nurmi, E., O'Neill, J., Ortiz, A. E., Ousdal, O. T., Pascual-Diaz, S., Pellicano, C., Phillips, M. L., Piacentini, J., Picó-Pérez, M., Piras, F., Piras, F., Sakai, Y., Shavitt, R. G., Shimizu, E., Soriano-Mas, C., Stern, E. R., Thorsen, A. L., Tomiyama, H., Vecchio, D., Veltman, D. J., Vetter, N. C., Vriend, C., Walitza, S., Wang, Z., Werf, Y. D. van der, Wingen, G. van, Zhao, Q., ENIGMA-OCD Working Group [Member of the UCL: Taekwan Kim], Thomopoulos, S., Thompson, P. M., Stein, D. J., van den Heuvel, O. A., Venkatasubramanian, G., & Reddy, Y. C. J. (2026). Regional cerebellar volumetrics in obsessive-compulsive disorder: An ENIGMA-OCD study. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 11(10), 1229–1237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2026.02.006

Ben-Artzi, I., Pereg, M., Luria, R., Moran, R., & Shahar, N. (2026). Automatic value learning results in counterproductive human behavior. Nature Communications, 17, Article 9567. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76297-7

Berndt, L. C. S., Crawley, D., Tymchyk, R., Hall, A., Onysk, J., Erdmann, T., Wimmer, E., Berwian, I. M., Norbury, A., & Huys, Q. J. M. (2026). Early reduction in aversive Pavlovian bias as a mediator of anhedonia improvement during behavioural activation in realistic treatment settings. PLoS Computational Biology, 22(7), Article e1014439. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014439

Beyer, M., Kuznetsov, D., & Kühn, S. (2026). The German Twin Registry (GERTRUD): Towards harmonized, multisource twin research. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 29(4), 258–268. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2026.10057

Beyer, M., Quinones, J., Stanojlovic, A., & Kühn, S. (2026). Das Gehirn ist keine Insel: Umweltneurowissenschaften. Nervenheilkunde, 45(1-2), 23–24. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2727-8354

Brandmaier, A. M. (2026). Rethinking Cohen’s d: From effect size to detectability. Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation, 31(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.7275/pare.3550

Brandt, L., Böge, G., Hahn, E., Bajbouj, M., & Kühn, S. (2026). Klima und psychische Gesundheit. Nervenheilkunde, 45(1-2), 25–26. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2727-8394

Brandt, L., De Prisco, M., Nocera, D., Rehm, M. C., Cohen, S., Kosker, D. N., von Luxburg, S., Ori, D., Pinzón-Espinosa, J., Scheuber, P., Sonntag, N., Radua, J., Hasan, A., Luykx, J. J., & the Global Evidence on Planetary Mental Health Study Group [Member of the MPIB: Simone Kühn]. (2026). Climate-related and nature-based interventions for mental health: An umbrella review and meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 83(5), 499–509. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.0037

Buchberger, E., Brandmaier, A. M., Lindenberger, U., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Ngo, C. T. (in press). The process structure of memory abilities in early and middle childhood [Registered Report]. Developmental Science.

Cardoso Saraiva, L., Sato, J. R., Sebenius, I., Dzinalija, N., del Río-Torné, C., Godinho, F., Lopes, A. C., Fernandez, T. V., Lima, M. O., Ramos, V. R., Iglesio, R., Abe, Y., Alonso, P., Ameis, S. H., Anticevic, A., Araújo, A., Arnold, P. D., Balachander, S., Banaj, N., Batistuzzo, M. C., Benedetti, F., Bertolín, S., Bollettini, I., Bravi, B., Brennan, B., Buitelaar, J., Castelhano, J., Castelo-Branco, M., Cerqueira, T. F. T., Choi, S., Coelho, P., Couto, B., Costa, A. D., Dallaspezia, S., Denys, D., Duarte, I. C., Echevarria, M. A. N., Eng, G. K., Fernandes, A., Ferreira, S., Feusner, J. D., Figee, M., Fitzsimmons, S. M. D. D., Fontenelle, L. F., Grazioplene, R., Ha, M., Hinojosa, A., Hoexter, M. Q., Huijser, C., Hu, H., James, A., Ipser, J., Kim, M., Kim, T., Kwon, J. S., Lazaro, L., Lochner, C., Leeuwen, W. van, Lochner, C., Machado-Sousa, M., Marle, H. van, Martínez-Zalacaín, I., Mataix-Cols, D., Mathis, M. A. S. de, Melloni, E., Menchón, J. M., Minuzzi, L., Moreira, P., Morgado, P., Muñoz-Moreno, E., Morer, A., Mortel, L. van de, Nakamae, T., Nakao, T., Narayanaswamy, J. C., Narumoto, J., Nurmi, E. L., O'Neill, J., Oh, H., Ortiz, A. E., Park, I., Phillips, M. L., Piacentini, J. C., Picó-Pérez, M., Piras, F., Piras, F., Poletti, S., Postma, T. S., R. Li, C.-shan, Real, E., Reddy, J. Y. C., Rooij, D. van, Sakai, Y., Salles Andrade, J. B. de, Scheffler, F., Segalàs, C., Shivakumar, V., Soreni, N., Sousa, N., Stern, E. R., Straten, A. van der, Tang, J., Thomopoulos, S. I., Tomiyama, H., Tovar-Moll, F., Vecchio, D., Veltman, D. J., Venkatasubramanian, G., Vriend, C., Wang, Z., Watanabe, A., Werf, Y. van der, Wingen, G. van, Yamada, K., Zhao, Q., Charney, A. W., Cho, Y. T., Shavitt, R. G., Pushkarskaya, H., Soriano-Mas, C., Romero-Garcia, R., Thompson, P. M., Stein, D. J., van den Heuvel, O. A., Winkler, A. M., Miguel Filho, E. C., Pittenger, C., & Cappi, C. (2026). Regional, functional and transcriptomic decoding of multidimensional brain structure alterations in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Nature Communications, 17, Article 8480. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74153-2

Carmon, J., Rolfs, M., Steffens, M. C., Kiesel, A., Meiser, T., Schwarzer, G., & Kühn, S. (2026). Psychologische Forschung zu Zeiten generativer KI: Eine methodische Positionierung. Psychologische Rundschau, 77(4), 245–248. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000784