Publications

This list is generated from my ORCID record and includes peer-reviewed papers, preprints and chapters. For a citation-count view, see Google Scholar.

2026

  1. Merim Bilalić, Nemanja Vaci, Johannes Hönekopp, Thomas Victor Pollet. Studying the Best Can Mislead: Selection Bias in Expertise Research Preprint. doi
  2. M Bilalic, M Graf, N Vaci. Computers and chess masters: the role of AI in transforming elite human performance British Journal of Psychology. doi · read more
  3. Ivan Koychev, Nemanja Vaci, Justine Moonen, Graham Reid, Gregory Howgego, Kristine Yaffe, Ilya Nasrallah, Stephen Sidney, Christoph Jindra, John Gallacher, Lenore J. Launer. Relationships between heritable dementia risk factors, cardiovascular risk factors in young adulthood, and midlife neuropsychological outcomes Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. doi

2025

  1. J Kwon, L Schoutens, M Burden, C Colam, S Zhao, B Nezafat Maldonado, E Blundell, A Krywonos, J Jiang, M Karagiannidou, C Jindra, N Vaci, N Roberts, R Wittenberg, M Knapp, A Y Castro Sanchez, E Roncancio‐Diaz, M Potashman, R Thompson, R Handels, J Wolstenholme, A M Gray, F Landeiro. Systematic review of health economic models for assessment and diagnosis of dementia Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging. doi
  2. F Marmolejo-Ramos, N Vaci, F Reali, P Milin. The interplay of sensory and motoric information on processing emotions in narrative texts Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. doi
  3. J A C Myers, T Stafford, I Koychev, R Perneczky, O Bandmann, N Vaci. Loneliness, social isolation, and effects on cognitive decline in patients with dementia: A retrospective cohort study using natural language processing Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. doi · read more
  4. Merim Bilalić, Bartosz Gula, Nemanja Vaci. Revising home advantage in sport – home advantage mediation (HAM) model International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology. doi
  5. Nemanja Vaci, Bartosz Gula, Merim Bilalić. Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: The Case of Home Advantage in Sports Current Directions in Psychological Science. doi
  6. A J O Dede, W Xiao, N Vaci, M X Cohen, E Milne. Exploring EEG resting state differences in autism: sparse findings from a large cohort Molecular Autism. doi

2024

  1. Justin Ong, Merim Bilalić, Nemanja Vaci. Sparse but Strategic: Quantitative Insights into Chess Middlegame Complexity Preprint. doi
  2. James A C Myers, Tom Stafford, Nemanja Vaci. Changes in cognition of ADRD patients: effects of social isolation proxies, utilising data from UK electronic health records Alzheimer's and Dementia. doi

2023

  1. Merim Bilalić, Mario Graf, Nemanja Vaci. The effect of COVID-19 on home advantage in high- and low-stake situations: Evidence from the European national football competitions Psychology of Sport and Exercise. doi
  2. Adam Dede, Wenyi Xiao, Nemanja Vaci, Michael Cohen, Elizabeth Milne. Lack of univariate, clinically-relevant biomarkers of autism in resting state EEG: a study of 776 participants Preprint. doi
  3. Mario Graf, Amory H Danek, Nemanja Vaci, Merim Bilalić. Tracing cognitive processes in insight problem solving: using GAMs and change point analysis to uncover restructuring Journal of Intelligence. doi

2022

  1. Merim Bilalić, Nemanja Vaci. Bayesian Framework for Moderated Mediation Using Covid-19-caused Natural Experiment: Modeling Home Advantage in Soccer Preprint. doi
  2. Zhenpeng Li, Andrey Kormilitzin, Marco Fernandes, Nemanja Vaci, Qiang Liu, Danielle Newby, Sarah Goodday, Tanya Smith, Alejo J Nevado-Holgado, Laura Winchester. Validation of UK Biobank data for mental health outcomes: A pilot study using secondary care electronic health records International Journal of Medical Informatics. doi
  3. Tom Stafford, Nemanja Vaci. Maximizing the potential of digital games for understanding skill acquisition Current Directions in Psychological Science. doi
  4. Qiang Liu, Nemanja Vaci, Ivan Koychev, Andrey Kormilitzin, Zhenpeng Li, Andrea Cipriani, Alejo Nevado-Holgado. Personalised treatment for cognitive impairment in dementia : development and validation of an artificial intelligence model BMC Medicine. doi

2021

  1. Merim Bilalić, Bartosz Gula, Nemanja Vaci. Home advantage mediated (HAM) by referee bias and team performance during covid Scientific Reports. doi
  2. Merim Bilalić, Bartosz Gula, Nemanja Vaci. The (Missing) 12th Man: Home Advantage Mediated (HAM) by Referee Bias and Team Performance During Covid Preprint. doi
  3. Andrey Kormilitzin, Nemanja Vaci, Qiang Liu, Alejo Nevado-Holgado. Med7: A transferable clinical natural language processing model for electronic health records Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. doiOpen-source release: 227 GitHub stars and 26 forks (Apache-2.0), 4,247 downloads of the lg model from Hugging Face, 151 citations (Semantic Scholar).
  4. Karen L Mansfield, Danielle Newby, Emma Soneson, Nemanja Vaci, Christoph Jindra, Galit Geulayov, John Gallacher, Mina Fazel. COVID‐19 partial school closures and mental health problems: A cross‐sectional survey of 11,000 adolescents to determine those most at risk JCPP Advances. doi
  5. Nemanja Vaci, Ivan Koychev, Chi-Hun Kim, Andrey Kormilitzin, Qiang Liu, Christopher Lucas, Azad Dehghan, Goran Nenadic, Alejo Nevado-Holgado. Real-world effectiveness, its predictors and onset of action of cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine in dementia: retrospective health record study The British Journal of Psychiatry. doi
  6. Bo Wang, Yue Wu, Nemanja Vaci, Maria Liakata, Terry Lyons, Kate E A Saunders. Modelling paralinguistic properties in conversational speech to detect bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference). doi
  7. Bartosz Gula, Nemanja Vaci, Rainer W Alexandrowicz, Merim Bilalić. Never too much—The benefit of talent to team performance in the National Basketball Association: comment on Swaab, Schaerer, Anicich, Ronay, and Galinsky (2014) Psychological Science. doi
  8. Merim Bilalić, Mario Graf, Nemanja Vaci, Amory H Danek. The temporal dynamics of insight problem solving – restructuring might not always be sudden Thinking & Reasoning. doi

2020

  1. Ivan Koychev, Nemanja Vaci, Justine E Moonen, Kristine Yaffe, Ilya M Nasrallah, Stephen Sidney, Christoph Jindra, John Gallacher, Lenore J Launer. Impact of APOE4 and future family history on early adulthood cardiovascular risk: Results from a 30‐year cohort study Alzheimer's & Dementia. doi
  2. Andrey Kormilitzin, Nemanja Vaci, Qiang Liu, Hao Ni, Goran Nenadic, Alejo Nevado-Holgado. An efficient representation of chronological events in medical texts Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis. doi
  3. Dijana Cocić, Nemanja Vaci, Robert Prieger, Merim Bilalić. Reading the future from body movements – anticipation in handball Journal of Motor Behavior. doi
  4. S M Goodday, A Kormilitzin, N Vaci, Q Liu, A Cipriani, T Smith, A Nevado-Holgado. Maximizing the use of social and behavioural information from secondary care mental health electronic health records Journal of Biomedical Informatics. doi
  5. Alternative quantitative methods in psycholinguistics Word Knowledge and Word Usage A Cross-disciplinary Guide to the Mental Lexicon. doi
  6. J van Rijn, N Vaci, L H Wurm, L B Feldman, V Pirrelli, I Plag, W U Dressler. Alternative quantitative methods in psycholinguistics : implications for theory and design Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs. doi
  7. Identifying Predictors of Suicide in Severe Mental Illness: A Feasibility Study of a Clinical Prediction Rule (Oxford Mental Illness and Suicide Tool or OxMIS) Frontiers in Psychiatry. doi
  8. Prediction of rapid amyloid and phosphorylated‐Tau accumulation in cognitively healthy individuals Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. doi
  9. Ivan Koychev, Nemanja Vaci, Murat Bilgel, Yang An, Graciela Terrera Muniz, Dean F Wong, John Gallacher, Abhay Mogekhar, Marilyn Albert, Susan M Resnick. Prediction of rapid amyloid and phospotylated‐Tau accumulation in cognitively healthy individuals Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. doi
  10. Olin Janssen, Stephanie J B Vos, Glòria García‐Negredo, Claire Tochel, Anders Gustavsson, Michael Smith, Amanda Ly, Mia Nelson, Helen Baldwin, Catherine Sudlow, Christin Bexelius, Christoph Jindra, Nemanja Vaci, Sarah Bauermeister, John Gallacher, Anna Ponjoan, Carole Dufouil, Josep Garre Olmo, Lars Pedersen, Ingmar Skoog, Antje Hottgenroth, Pieter Jelle Visser, Johan van der Lei, Carlos Diaz. Real‐world evidence in Alzheimer's disease : the ROADMAP Data Cube Alzheimer's & Dementia: Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. doi
  11. Nemanja Vaci, Qiang Liu, Andrey Kormilitzin, Franco De Crescenzo, Ayse Kurtulmus, Jade Harvey, Bessie O'Dell, Simeon Innocent, Anneka Tomlinson, Andrea Cipriani, Alejo Nevado-Holgado. Natural language processing for structuring clinical text data on depression using UK-CRIS Evidence Based Mental Health. doi

2019

  1. The joint influence of intelligence and practice on skill development throughout the life span Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi
  2. Nemanja Vaci, Dijana Cocić, Bartosz Gula, Merim Bilalić. Large data and Bayesian modeling—aging curves of NBA players Behavior Research Methods. doi
  3. When the Solution Is on the Doorstep: Better Solving Performance, but Diminished Aha! Experience for Chess Experts on the Mutilated Checkerboard Problem Cognitive Science. doi
  4. Ivan Koychev, Nemanja Vaci, Murat Bilgel, Graciela Terrera Muniz, John Gallacher, Susan Resnick, Marilyn Albert. 31 Prediction of emerging amyloid and tau pathology in cognitively healthy individuals: a longitudinal CSF study Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. doi

2017

  1. The Neural Underpinnings of Expertise in Games The Science of Expertise. doi
  2. Nemanja Vaci, Merim Bilalić. Chess databases as a research vehicle in psychology: Modeling large data Behavior Research Methods. doi

2015

  1. Nemanja Vaci, Bartosz Gula, Merim Bilalić. Is age really cruel to experts? Compensatory effects of activity. Psychology and Aging. doi

2014

  1. Comprehending negated action(s): embodiment perspective Cognitive Processing.
  2. N Vaci, B Gula, M Bilalić. Restricting range restricts conclusions Frontiers in Psychology. doi

2013

  1. Jelena Radanović, Nemanja Vaci. Analiza vremena reakcije modelovanjem linearnih mešovitih efekata Primenjena psihologija. doi