Open reviews
When solicited for peer review by academic journals—if the authors have posted a public preprint—I try to post an open review. I send the same review to the journal (usually signed) at the same time as posting the public review.
December 15, 2024 — Open review of Ke and colleagues: review PubPeer
Ke, J., Song, H., Bai, Z., Rosenberg, M. D., & Leong, Y. C. (2023). Predicting emotional arousal during naturalistic movie-watching from whole-brain dynamic connectivity across individuals and movie stimuli. bioRxiv. DOI
September 18, 2024 — Open review of Reddan and colleagues: review PubPeer
Reddan, M., Ong, D., Wager, T., Mattek, S., Kahhale, I., & Zaki, J. (2023). Neural signatures of emotional inference and experience align during social consensus. Research Square. DOI
August 4, 2024 — Open review of Raccah and colleagues: review PubPeer
Raccah, O., Chen, P., Gureckis, T. M., Poeppel, D., & Vo, V. (2024). The Naturalistic Free Recall Dataset: four stories, hundreds of participants, and high-fidelity transcriptions. PsyArXiv. DOI
June 19, 2024 — Open review of He & Toyoizumi: review PubPeer
He, Z., & Toyoizumi, T. (2023). Causal graph in language model rediscovers cortical hierarchy in human narrative processing. arXiv. DOI
April 22, 2024 — Open review of Mischler, Li and colleagues: review PubPeer
Mischler, G., Li, Y. A., Bickel, S., Mehta, A. D., & Mesgarani, N. (2024). Contextual feature extraction hierarchies converge in large language models and the brain. arXiv. DOI
April 13, 2024 — Open review of Borovska & de Haas: review PubPeer
Borovska, P., & de Haas, B. Individual gaze shapes diverging representations in inferior temporal cortex. PsyArXiv. DOI
March 11, 2024 — Open review of Zhang and colleagues: review PubPeer
Zhang, Y., Fan, L., Jiang, T., Dagher, A., & Bellec, P. (2024). Connectome-constrained neural decoding reveals a representational hierarchy from perception to cognition to action. bioRxiv. DOI
January 16, 2024 — Open review of Im and colleagues: review PubPeer
Im, E. J., Shirahatti, A., & Isik, L. (2023). Early neural development of social perception: evidence from voxel-wise encoding in young children and adults. PsyArXiv. DOI
December 28, 2023 — Open review of Lin & Kriegeskorte: review PubPeer
Lin, B., & Kriegeskorte, N. (2023). The topology and geometry of neural representations. arXiv. DOI
October 5, 2023 — Open review of preprint by Vo, Jain and colleagues: review PubPeer
Vo, V. A.*, Jain, S.*, Beckage, N., Chien, H. Y. S., Obinwa, C., & Huth, A. G. (2023). A unifying computational account of temporal context effects in language across the human cortex. bioRxiv. DOI
September 25, 2023 — Open review of preprint by Kewenig and colleagues: review PubPeer
Kewenig, V., Edwards, C., DEstalenx, Q. L., Rechardt, A., Skipper, J. I., & Vigliocco, G. (2023). Evidence of human-like visual-linguistic integration in multimodal large language models during predictive language processing. arXiv. link
July 18, 2023 — Open review of preprint by Zimmerman and colleagues: review PubPeer
Zimmermann, M., Cusack, R., Bedny, M., Szwed, M. (2023) Auditory areas are recruited for naturalistic visual meaning in early deaf people. Research Square. DOI
May 5, 2023 — Open review of preprint by Fitzpatrick and colleagues: review PubPeer
Fitzpatrick, P. C., Heusser, A. C., & Manning, J. R. (2023). Text embedding models yield high-resolution insights into conceptual knowledge from short multiple-choice quizzes. PsyArXiv. DOI
April 24, 2023 — Open review of preprint by Vigliocco and colleagues: review PubPeer
Vigliocco, G., Conventino, L., De Felice, S., Gregorians, L., Kewenig, V., Mueller, M. A., Veselic, S., Musolesi, M., Hudson-Smith, A., Tyler, N., Flouri, E., & Spiers, H. (2023). Ecological brain: reframing the study of human behaviour and cognition. PsyArXiv. DOI
December 11, 2022 — Open review of preprint by Samara and colleagues: review PubPeer
Samara, A., Eilbott, J., Margulies, D. S., Xu, T., & Vanderwal, T. (2022). Cortical gradients during naturalistic processing are hierarchical and modality-specific. bioRxiv. DOI
November 25, 2022 — Open review of preprint by Dima and colleagues: review PubPeer
Dima, D. C., Hebart, M. N., & Isik, L. (2022). A data-driven investigation of human action representations. bioRxiv. DOI
September 25, 2022 — Open review of preprint by Yang and colleagues: review PubPeer
Yang, E., Milisav, F., Kopal, J., Holmes, A., Mitsis, G. D., Misic, B., Finn, E. S., & Bzdok, D. (2022). Bringing language to dynamic brain states: the default network dominates neural responses to evolving movie stories. bioRxiv. DOI
September 23, 2022 — Open review of preprint by Gwilliams and colleagues: review PubPeer
Gwilliams, L., Flick, G., Marantz, A., Pylkkanen, L., Poeppel, D., & King, J.-R. (2022). MEG-MASC: a high-quality magneto-encephalography dataset for evaluating natural speech processing. arXiv. link
July 24, 2022 — Open review of preprint by Amalric and Cantlon: review PubPeer
Amalric, M., & Cantlon, J. F. (2020). Entropy, complexity, and maturity in children’s neural responses during naturalistic mathematics learning. bioRxiv. DOI —
June 16, 2022 — Open review of preprint by Caucheteux and colleagues: review PubPeer
Caucheteux, C., Gramfort, A., & King, J. R. (2021). Long-range and hierarchical language predictions in brains and algorithms. arXiv. link
April 3, 2022 — Open review of preprint by Assouline and Mendelsohn: review
Assouline, A., & Mendelsohn, A. (2019). Weaving a story: narrative formation over prolonged time scales engages social cognition and fronto-parietal networks. bioRxiv. DOI
November 23, 2021 — Open review of preprint by Chowdhury and colleagues: review PubPeer
Chowdhury, P. R., Wadhwa, A., & Tyagi, N. (2021). Brain inspired face recognition: a computational framework. arXiv. link
November 4, 2021 — Open review of preprint by Di and colleagues: review PubPeer
Di, X., Zhang, Z., Xu, T., & Biswal, B. B. (2021). Dynamic and stable brain connectivity during movie watching as revealed by functional MRI. bioRxiv. DOI
August 14, 2021 — Open review of preprint by Shahdloo and colleagues: review PubPeer
Shahdloo, M., Çelik, E., Urgen, B. A., Gallant, J. L., & Çukur, T. (2021). Task-dependent warping of semantic representations during search for visual action categories. bioRxiv. DOI
July 28, 2021 — Open review of preprint by De Angelis and colleagues: review PubPeer
De Angelis, L., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2021). Parametric tests for leave-one-out inter-subject correlations in fMRI provide adequate type I error control while providing high sensitivity. bioRxiv. DOI
July 17, 2021 — Open review of preprint by Liu and colleagues: review PubPeer
Liu, L., Li, H., Ren, Z., Zhou, Q., Zhang, Y., Lu, C., Qiu, J., Chen, H., & Ding, G. (2021). The “two-brain” approach reveals the active role of task-deactivated default mode network in speech comprehension. bioRxiv. DOI
June 18, 2021 — Open review of preprint by Chen and colleagues: review PubPeer
Chen, A. A., Beer, J. C., Tustison, N. J., Cook, P. A., Shinohara, R. T., Shou, H. & the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (2020). Removal of scanner effects in covariance improves multivariate pattern analysis in neuroimaging data. bioRxiv. DOI
May 22, 2021 — Open review of preprint by Lee Masson and Isik: review PubPeer
Lee Masson, H. & Isik, L. (2021). Functional selectivity for naturalistic social interaction perception in the human superior temporal sulcus. bioRxiv. DOI
May 11, 2021 — Open review of preprint by Dominey: review PubPeer
Dominey, P. F. (2021). Narrative event segmentation in the cortical reservoir. bioRxiv. DOI
April 18, 2021 — Open review of preprint by Azhari and colleagues: review PubPeer
Azhari, A., Bizzego, A., & Esposito, G. (2020). Father-child dyads exhibit unique inter-subject synchronisation during co-viewing of animation video stimuli. bioRxiv. DOI
February 6, 2021 — Open review of preprint by Naumann and colleagues: review PubPeer
Naumann, S., Byrne, M. L., de la Fuente, L. A., Harrewijn, A., PhD, Nugiel, T., Rosen, M. L., Dziobiek, I., van Atteveldt, N., & Matusz, P. J. (2020). Assessing the degree of ecological validity of your study: Introducing the Ecological Validity Assessment (EVA) Tool. PsyArXiv. DOI
January 6, 2021 — Open review of preprint by Bazeille, DuPre, and colleagues: review PubPeer
Bazeille, T., DuPre, E., Poline, J. B., & Thirion, B. (2020). An empirical evaluation of functional alignment using inter-subject decoding. bioRxiv. DOI
December 31, 2020 — Open review of preprint by Kaiser and colleagues: review PubPeer
Kaiser, D., Haeberle, G., & Cichy, R. M. (2020). Coherent natural scene structure facilitates the extraction of task-relevant object information in visual cortex. bioRxiv. DOI
December 27, 2020 — Open review of preprint by Xu and colleagues: review PubPeer
Xu, Y., Vignali, L., Collignon, O., Crepaldi, D., & Bottini, R. (2020). Brain network reconfiguration for narrative and argumentative thought. bioRxiv. DOI
November 28, 2020 — Open review of preprint by Toneva and colleagues: review PubPeer
Toneva, M., Mitchell, T. M., & Wehbe, L. (2020). Combining computational controls with natural text reveals new aspects of meaning composition. bioRxiv. DOI
November 9, 2020 — Open review of preprint by Maffei and Sessa: review PubPeer
Maffei, A., & Sessa, P. (2020). Event-related network changes unfold the dynamics of cortical integration during face processing. bioRxiv. DOI
October 29, 2020 — Open review of preprint by Di and Biswal: review PubPeer
Di, X., & Biswal, B. B. (2020). Dissecting individual differences in responses to naturalistic stimuli in functional MRI: effects of development and gender. bioRxiv. DOI
July 23, 2020 — Open review of preprint by Hawco and colleagues: review PubPeer
Hawco, C. S., Dickie, E. W., Jacobs, G., Daskalakis, Z. J., & Voineskos, A. N. (2020). Moving beyond the mean: subgroups and dimensions of brain activity and cognitive performance across domains. bioRxiv. DOI
June 8, 2020 — Open review of preprint by Coutanche and colleagues: review PubPeer
Coutanche, M. N., Akpan, E., & Buckser, R. R. (2020). Representational connectivity analysis: identifying networks of shared changes in representational strength through jackknife resampling. bioRxiv. DOI
May 15, 2020 — Open review of preprint by Papale and colleagues: review PubPeer
Papale, P., Leo, A., Handjaras, G., Cecchetti, L., Pietrini, P., & Ricciardi, E. (2019). Shape coding in occipito-temporal cortex relies on object silhouette, curvature and medial-axis. bioRxiv, 814251. DOI
August 29, 2019 — Open review of preprint by Chen and colleagues: review PubPeer
Chen, G., Taylor, P. A., Qu, X., Molfese, P. J., Bandettini, P. A., Cox, R. W., & Finn, E. S. (2019). Untangling the relatedness among correlations, part III: inter-subject correlation analysis through Bayesian multilevel modeling for naturalistic scanning. bioRxiv, 655738. DOI
August 20, 2019 — Open review of preprint by Nili and colleagues: review PubPeer
Nili, H., Walther, A., Alink, A., & Kriegeskorte, N. (2016). Inferring exemplar discriminability in brain representations. bioRxiv, 080580. DOI
August 8, 2019 — Open review of preprint by Hudson and colleagues: review PubPeer
Hudson, M., Seppälä, K., Putkinen, V., Sun, L., Glerean, E., Karjalainen, T., Hirvonen, J., Nummenmaa, L. (2019) Dissociable neural systems for unconditioned acute and sustained fear. bioRxiv, 676650. DOI
June 29, 2019 — Open review of preprint by DuPre and colleagues: review PubPeer
DuPre, E., Hanke, M., & Poline, J. (2019). Nature abhors a paywall: how open science can realize the potential of naturalistic stimuli. PsyArXiv. DOI
March 27, 2019 — Open review of software by Kent and Herholz: GitHub
Kent, J. D., Herholz, P. (2019). NiBetaSeries: task related correlations in fMRI. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(41), 1295. DOI
November 12, 2018 — Open review of software by Vallat: GitHub
Vallat, R. (2018). Pingouin: statistics in Python. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(31), 1026. DOI
May 19, 2018 — Open review of preprint by Esteban and colleagues: review
Esteban, O., Markiewicz, C. J., Blair, R. W., Moodie, C. A., Isik, A. I., Erramuzpe, A., Kent, J. D., Goncalves, M., DuPre, E., Snyder, M., Oya, H., Ghosh, S. S., Wright, J., Durnez, J., Poldrack, R. A., Gorgolewski, K. J. (2018). FMRIPrep: a robust preprocessing pipeline for functional MRI. bioRxiv, 306951. DOI
March 29, 2018 — Open review of preprint by Pallarés and colleagues: review
Pallarés, V., Insabato, A., Sanjuan, A., Kuehn, S., Mantini, D., Deco, G., & Gilson, M. (2018). Extracting orthogonal subject- and behavior-specific signatures from fMRI data using whole-brain effective connectivity. bioRxiv, 201624. DOI
January 2, 2017 — Open review of preprint by Gorgolewski and colleagues: review
Gorgolewski, K. J., Alfaro-Almagro, F., Auer, T., Bellec, P., Capota, M., Chakravarty, M. M., Churchill, N. W., Cohen, A. L., Craddock, R. C., Devenyi, G. A., Eklund, A., Esteban, O., Flandin, G., Ghosh, S. S., Guntupalli, J. S., Jenkinson, M., Keshavan, A., Kiar, G., Liem, F., Raamana, P. R., Raffelt, D., Steel, C. J., Quirion, P.-O., Smith, R. E., Strother, S. C., Varoquaux, G., Yarkoni, T., Wang, Y., Poldrack, R. A. (2017). BIDS Apps: improving ease of use, accessibility, and reproducibility of neuroimaging data analysis methods. bioRxiv, 079145. DOI