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1. Ferguson, I., George, G., Wu, C., Xu, I., Passel, E., Germine, L., Beard, C. (2024). Evaluating the reliability of the Word-Sentence Association Paradigm (WSAP) as an interpretation bias assessment across ethnoracial groups. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1-8. read more
2. Kim, H., Kaduthodil, J., Strong, R. W., Germine, L., Cohan, S., & Wilmer, J. B. (2024). Multiracial Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (MRMET): an inclusive version of an influential measure. Behavior Research Methods. read more
3. Stern, C. M., McPherson, I., Dreier, M. J., Coniglio, K., Palmer, L. P., Gydus, J., Graver, H., Germine, L. T., ...Plessow, F., & Becker, K. R. (2024). Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder differs from anorexia nervosa in delay discounting. Journal of Eating Disorders. read more
4. Tsay., J. S., Asmerian, H., Germine, L. T., Wilmer, J., Ivry, R. B., & Nakayama., K. (2024). Large-scale web-based approach reveals predictors of successful motor learning. Nature Human Behaviour. read more
5. Aul, C., Brau, J. M., Sugarman, A., DeGutis, J. M., Germine, L. T., Esterman, M., ... & Fortenbaugh, F. C. (2023). The functional relevance of visuospatial processing speed across the lifespan. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8(1), 51. read more
6. Ayık, E., Fevzioğlu, A., Kaşıkçı, G. B., Kaşıkçı, C., & Midi, İ. (2023). Evaluation of the Effect of Anti-seizure Drugs on Cognition in Patients with Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy by Digital Neuropsychological Test. Archives of Epilepsy, 29(1), 16-20. read more
7. Camargo, C. J., Merritt, S., Modjeski, M., Counotte, D. S., & Fernández McInerney, K. (2023). Reducing the Effects of Ageing on Cognition with Therapeutic Intervention of an Oral Multi-Nutrient: The REACTION Pilot Trial Study Design. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease, 1-7. read more
8. Cannon, J., Eldracher, E., Cardinaux, A., Irfan, F., Bungert, L., Li, C., ... & Sinha, P. (2023). Rhythmic and interval‐based temporal orienting in autism. Autism Research, 16(4), 772-782. read more
9. Cataldo, A. M., Scheuer, L., Maksimovskiy, A. L., Germine, L. T., & Dillon, D. G. (2023). Abnormal evidence accumulation underlies the positive memory deficit in depression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(1), 139. read more
10. Feyzioğlu, A., Midi, İ., Ayık, E., Kaşıkçı, G. B., & Kaşıkçı, C. H. (2023). Digital Neuropsychological Assessment of Cognitive Functions in Patients with Epilepsy. Archives of Neuropsychiatry, 60(2), 129-133. read more
11. French, M. A., Keatley, E., Li, J., Balasubramanian, A., Hansel, N. N., Wise, R., ... & Celnik, P. (2023). The feasibility of remotely monitoring physical, cognitive, and psychosocial function in individuals with stroke or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Digital Health, 9, 1-19. read more
12. Fry, R., Tanaka, J. W., Cohan, S., Wilmer, J. B., Germine, L. T., & DeGutis, J. (2023). Effects of age on face perception: Reduced eye region discrimination ability but intact holistic processing. Psychology and Aging, 38(6), 548–561. read more
13. Jones, L. M., de Marco, K., Keener, K., & Monroe, K. E. (2023). Blood Pressure and Self-management in Black Women With Hypertension: Protocol Revisions to the Brain Relationships Among Information, Neuroprocessing, and Self-Management Study Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. JMIR Research Protocols, 12(1), e43849. read more
14. Knott, C. E., Gomori, S., Ngyuen, M., Pedrazzani, S., Sattaluri, S., Mierzwa, F., & Chantala, K. (2021). Connecting and linking neurocognitive, digital phenotyping, physiologic, psychophysical, neuroimaging, genomic, & sensor data with survey data. EPJ Data Science, 10(9), 1-16. read more
15. Lynham, A., Jones, I., & Walters, J. (2023). Cardiff ONline Cognitive Assessment (CONCA): Results from a web-based national population cohort. Journal of Medical Internet Research, Online Version. read more
16. Mascarenhas Fonseca, L., Strong, R. W., Singh, S., Bulger, J. D., Cleveland, M., Grinspoon, E., ... & Chaytor, N. S. (2023). Glycemic variability and fluctuations in cognitive status in adults with type 1 diabetes (GluCog): observational study using ecological momentary assessment of cognition. JMIR Diabetes, 8, e39750. read more
17. Pozo, E., T. Germine, L., Scheuer, L., & Strong, R. W. (2023). Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of the Famous Faces Doppelgangers Test, a Novel Measure of Familiar Face Recognition. Assessment, 30(4), 1200-1210. read more
18. Pratt, D. N., Luther, L., Kinney, K. S., Osborne, K. J., Corlett, P. R., Powers III, A. R., ... & Mittal, V. A. (2023). Comparing a Computerized Digit Symbol Test to a Pen-and-Paper Classic. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 4(1), sgad027. read more
19. Singh, S., Strong, R., Xu, I., Fonseca, L. M., Hawks, Z., Grinspoon, E., ... & Germine, L. T. (2023). Ecological Momentary Assessment of Cognition in Clinical and Community Samples: Reliability and Validity Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, e45028. read more
20. Strong, R. W., Grashow, R., Roberts, A. L., Passell, E., Scheuer, L., Terry, D. P., ... & Germine, L. T. (2023). Association of retrospectively reported concussion symptoms with objective cognitive performance in former American-style football players. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, acad008. read more
21. Treves, I. N., Cannon, J., Shin, E., Li, C. E., Bungert, L., O’Brien, A., ... & Gabrieli, J. D. (2023). Autistic Adults Show Intact Learning on a Visuospatial Serial Reaction Time Task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-9. read more
22. Wen, A., Wolitzky-Taylor, K., Gibbons, R. D., & Craske, M. (2023). A randomized controlled trial on using predictive algorithm to adapt level of psychological care for community college students: STAND triaging and adapting to level of care study protocol. Trials, 24(1), 1-19. read more
23. DeGutis, J., Li, X., Yosef, B., & Mishra, M. V. (2022). Not so fast! Response times in the computerized Benton Face Recognition Test may not reflect face recognition ability. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 39(3-4), 155-169. read more
24. DeGutis, J., Yosef, B., Lee, E. A., Saad, E., Arizpe, J., Song, J. S., ... & Esterman, M. (2022). The rise and fall of face recognition awareness across the life span. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49(1), 22-33. read more
25. Germine, L. T., Joormann, J., Passell, E., Rutter, L. A., Scheuer, L., Martini, P., ... & Kessler, R. C. (2022). Neurocognition after motor vehicle collision and adverse post-traumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae within 8 weeks: Initial findings from the AURORA study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 298, 57-67. read more
26. Hawks, Z. W., Strong, R., Jung, L., Beck, E. D., Passell, E. J., Grinspoon, E., ... & Germine, L. T. (2022). Accurate prediction of momentary cognition from intensive longitudinal data. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 8(8), 841-851. read more
27. Levy, T., Britvan, B., Grosman, H., Giserman‐Kiss, I., Meyering, K., Weissman, J., ... & Siper, P. M. (2022). Assessing the utility of electronic measures as a proxy for cognitive ability. Autism Research, 15(6), 988-995. read more
28. Lynham, A. J., Jones, I. R., & Walters, J. T. (2022). Web-based cognitive testing in psychiatric research: Validation and usability study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(2), e28233. read more
29. Passell, E., Rutter, L. A., Turban, J. L., Scheuer, L., Wright, N., & Germine, L. (2022). Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms are Higher Among Same-and Both-Sex Attracted Individuals in a Large, International Sample. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1-12. read more
30. Peterson, C. S., Zhu, Y., Germine, L. T., & Dunn, E. C. (2022). Associations Between Childhood Trauma Characteristics and Theory of Mind in Adults: Results From a Large, Diverse Sample. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 1-12. read more
31. Prijatelj, D. S., McCurrie, M., Anthony, S. E., & Scheirer, W. J. (2022). A Bayesian evaluation framework for subjectively annotated visual recognition tasks. Pattern Recognition, 123, 108395. read more
32. Rodosthenous, R. S., Niemi, M. E., Kallio, L., Perala, M., Terho, P., Knopp, T., ... & Ganna, A. (2022). Recontacting biobank participants to collect lifestyle, behavioural and cognitive information via online questionnaires: lessons from a pilot study within FinnGen. BMJ Open, 12(10), e064695. read more
33. Rutter, L. A., Lind, C., Howard, J., Lakhan, P., & Germine, L. (2022). Posttraumatic stress symptom severity is associated with impaired processing of emotional faces in a large international sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 35(4), 1263-1272. read more
34. Treviño, M., Zhu, X., Lu, Y. Y., Scheuer, L. S., Passell, E., Huang, G., ... & Horowitz, T. S. (2022). Establishing construct validity of neuropsychological tests in cancer survivors. Psycho‐Oncology, 31(10), 1728-1736. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.6015. read more
35. Whelan, R., Barbey, F. M., Cominetti, M. R., Gillan, C. M., & Rosická, A. M. (2022). Developments in scalable strategies for detecting early markers of cognitive decline. Translational Psychiatry, 12(1), 473. read more
36. Cabral, D. F., Hinchman, C. A., Nunez, C., Rice, J., Loewenstein, D. A., Cahalin, L. P., ... & Gomes-Osman, J. (2021). Harnessing neuroplasticity to promote brain health in aging adults: protocol for the MOVE-cog intervention study. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(11), e33589. read more
37. Chaytor, N.S., Barbosa-Leiker, C., Germine, L. T., Fonseca, L.M., McPherson, S.M., Tuttle, K.R. (2021). Construct validity, ecological validity and acceptance of self-administered online neuropsychological assessment in adults. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 35(1), 148-164. read more
38. Germine, L., Strong, R. W., Singh, S., & Sliwinski, M. J. (2021). Toward dynamic phenotypes and the scalable measurement of human behavior. Neuropsychopharmacology, 46(1), 209-216. read more
39. Li, L. Y., Cicero, D. C., Dodell-Feder, D., Germine, L., & Martin, E. A. (2021). Comparability of social anhedonia across epidemiological dimensions: A multinational study of measurement invariance of the Revised Social Anhedonia Scale. Psychological Assessment, 33(2), 171. read more
40. Passell, E., Strong, R. W., Rutter, L. A., Kim, H., Scheuer, L., Martini, P., ... & Germine, L. (2021). Cognitive test scores vary with choice of personal digital device. Behavior Research Methods, 53(6), 2544-2557. read more
41. Singh, S., Strong, R. W., Jung, L., Li, F. H., Grinspoon, L., Scheuer, L. S., Passell, E. J., Martini, P., Chaytor, N., Soble, J. R., & Germine, L. (2021). The TestMyBrain Digital Neuropsychology Toolkit: Development and Psychometric Characteristics. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 43(8), 786-795. read more
42. Treviño, M., Zhu, X., Lu, Y. Y., Scheuer, L. S., Passell, E., Huang, G. C., ... & Horowitz, T. S. (2021). How do we measure attention? Using factor analysis to establish construct validity of neuropsychological tests. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(1), 1-26. read more
43. Vinogradov, S., Mishra, J., Nahum, M., & Ramsay, I. S. (2021). Information processing impairments as transdiagnostic treatment targets in psychiatric disorders. Precision Psychiatry: Using Neuroscience Insights to Inform Personally Tailored, Measurement-Based Care, 51. read more
44. Yamashita, A., Rothlein, D., Kucyi, A., Valera, E. M., Germine, L., Wilmer, J., ... & Esterman, M. (2021). Variable rather than extreme slow reaction times distinguish brain states during sustained attention. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 14883. read more
45. D’Ardenne, K., Savage, C. R., Small, D., Vainik, U., & Stoeckel, L. E. (2020). Core neuropsychological measures for obesity and diabetes trials: Initial report. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 554127. read more
46. Dodell-Feder, D., Ressler, K. J., & Germine, L. T. (2020). Social cognition or social class and culture? On the interpretation of differences in social cognitive performance. Psychological Medicine, 50(1), 133-145. read more
47. Dodell-Feder, D., Shovestul, B., Woodyatt, J., Popov, V., & Germine, L. (2020). Social anhedonia, social networks, and psychotic-like experiences: A test of social deafferentation. Psychiatry Research, 284, 112682. read more
48. Lebois, L. A., Palermo, C. A., Scheuer, L. S., Lebois, E. P., Winternitz, S. R., Germine, L., & Kaufman, M. L. (2020). Higher integration scores are associated with facial emotion perception differences in dissociative identity disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 123, 164-170. read more
49. McLean, S.A., Ressler, K., Koenen, K.C., Neylan, T., Germine, L., Jovanovic, T., … Kessler, R. (2020). The AURORA Study: A longitudinal, multimodal library of brain biology and function after traumatic stress exposure. Molecular Psychiatry, 25, 283-296. read more
50. Rutter, L. A., Passell, E., Scheuer, L., & Germine, L. (2020). Depression severity is associated with impaired facial emotion processing in a large international sample. Journal of Affective Disorders, 275, 175-179. read more
51. Rutter, L. A., Vahia, I. V., Forester, B. P., Ressler, K. J., & Germine, L. (2020). Heterogeneous Indicators of Cognitive Performance and Performance Variability Across the Lifespan. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 12, 62. read more
52. Shovestul, B., Han, J., Germine, L., & Dodell-Feder, D. (2020). Risk factors for loneliness: The high relative importance of age versus other factors. PloS ONE, 15(2), e0229087. read more
53. Turban, J. L., Passell, E., Scheuer, L., & Germine, L. (2020). Use of geosocial networking applications is associated with compulsive sexual behavior disorder in an online sample. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 17(8), 1574-1578. read more
54. Vogel, S. C., Esterman, M., DeGutis, J., Wilmer, J. B., Ressler, K. J., & Germine, L. T. (2020). Childhood adversity and dimensional variations in adult sustained attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 691. read more
55. Arizpe, J. M., Saad, E., Douglas, A. O., Germine, L., Wilmer, J. B., & DeGutis, J. M. (2019). Self-reported face recognition is highly valid, but alone is not highly discriminative of prosopagnosia-level performance on objective assessments. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1102-1116. read more
56. Dodell-Feder, D., Saxena, A., Rutter, L., & Germine, L. (2019). The network structure of schizotypal personality traits in a population-based sample. Schizophrenia Research, 208, 258-267. read more
57. Germine, L., Reinecke, K., & Chaytor, N.S. (2019). Digital neuropsychology: Challenges and opportunities at the intersection of science and software. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 33(2), 271-286. read more
58. Mishra, M. V., Likitlersuang, J., B Wilmer, J., Cohan, S., Germine, L., & DeGutis, J. M. (2019). Gender differences in familiar face recognition and the influence of sociocultural gender inequality. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 17884. read more
59. Rutter, L. A., Dodell-Feder, D., Vahia, I. V., Forester, B. P., Ressler, K. J., Wilmer, J. B., & Germine, L. (2019). Emotion sensitivity across the lifespan: Mapping clinical risk periods to sensitivity to facial emotion intensity. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 148(11), 1993-2005. read more
60. Rutter, L. A., Scheuer, L., Vahia, I. V., Forester, B. P., Smoller, J. W., & Germine, L. (2019). Emotion sensitivity and self‐reported symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder across the lifespan: A population‐based sample approach. Brain and Behavior, 9(6), e01282. read more
61. Deveney, C.M., Chen, S.H., Wilmer, J.B., Zhao, V., Schimdt, H.B., & Germine, L. (2018). How generalizable is the inverse relationship between social class and emotion perception? PLoS ONE, 13(10): e0205949. read more
62. Dodell-Feder, D., & Germine, L. (2018). Epidemiological dimensions of social anhedonia. Clinical Psychological Science, 6(5), 735-743. read more
63. Rothlein, D., DeGutis, J., Germine, L., Wilmer, J., McGlinchey, R., & Esterman, M. (2018). Sensitivity to stimulus similarity is associated with greater sustained attention ability. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 80(6), 1390-1408. read more
64. Macdonald, K., Germine, L., Anderson, A., Christodoulou, J., & McGrath, L. M. (2017). Dispelling the myth: Training in education or neuroscience decreases but does not eliminate beliefs in neuromyths. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1314. read more
65. Richler, J. J., Wilmer, J. B., & Gauthier, I. (2017). General object recognition is specific: Evidence from novel and familiar objects. Cognition, 166, 42-55. read more
66. Riley, E., Esterman, M., Fortenbaugh, F. C., & DeGutis, J. (2017). Time-of-day variation in sustained attentional control. Chronobiology International, 34(7), 993-1001. read more
67. Riley, E., Okabe, H., Germine, L., Wilmer, J., Esterman, M., & DeGutis, J. (2016). Gender differences in sustained attentional control relate to gender inequality across countries. PloS One, 11(11), e0165100. read more
68. Fortenbaugh, F. C., DeGutis, J., Germine, L., Wilmer, J. B., Grosso, M., Russo, K., & Esterman, M. (2015). Sustained Attention Across the Life Span in a Sample of 10,000: Dissociating Ability and Strategy. Psychological Science, 26(9), 1497–1510. read more
69. Germine, L., Dunn, E.C., McLaughlin, K., & Smoller, J.W. (2015). Childhood adversity is associated with adult theory of mind and social affiliation, but not face processing. PLoS ONE, 10(6): e0129612. read more
70. Germine, L., Russell, R., Bronstad, P. M., Blokland, G. A., Smoller, J. W., Kwok, H., ... & Wilmer, J. B. (2015). Individual aesthetic preferences for faces are shaped mostly by environments, not genes. Current Biology, 25(20), 2684-2689. read more
71. Hartshorne, J. K., & Germine, L. T. (2015). When does cognitive functioning peak? The asynchronous rise and fall of different cognitive abilities across the life span. Psychological Science, 26(4), 433-443. read more
72. Susilo, T., Germine, L., & Duchaine, B. (2013) Face recognition ability matures late: Evidence from individual differences in young adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(5), 1212-1217. read more
73. Germine, L. T., Nakayama, K., Duchaine, B. C., Chabris, C. F., Chatterjee, G., & Wilmer, J. B. (2012). Is the Web as good as the lab? Comparable performance from Web and lab in cognitive/perceptual experiments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(5), 847–857. read more
74. Halberda, J., Ly, R., Wilmer, J., Naiman, D., & Germine, L. (2012) Number sense across the lifespan as revealed by a massive internet-based sample. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(28): 11116-11120. read more
75. Wilmer, J. B., Germine, L., Chabris, C. F., Chatterjee, G., Gerbasi, M., & Nakayama, K. (2012). Capturing specific abilities as a window into human individuality: The example of face recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 29(5-6), 360-392. read more
76. Germine, L. & Hooker, C. (2011) Face emotion recognition is related to individual differences in psychosis-proneness.Psychological Medicine, 41(5), 937-948. read more
77. Germine, L., Duchaine, B., & Nakayama, K. (2011) Where cognitive development and aging meet: Face learning ability peaks after age 30. Cognition, 118(2), 201-210. read more
78. Wilmer, J., Germine, L., Chabris, C., Chatterjee, G., Williams., M., Loken, E., Nakayama, K., & Duchaine, B. (2010) Human face recognition ability is specific and highly heritable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(11), 5238-5241. read more