Open Science holds the promise to make scientific endeavours more inclusive, participatory,
understandable, accessible and re-usable for large audiences. However, making processes …

Consistent evidence documents powerful effects of social inequality on health, well-being
and academic achievement. Yet research on whether social inequality may also be linked to …

Recent studies proposed a general psychopathology factor underlying common
comorbidities among psychiatric disorders. However, its neurobiological mechanisms and …

Human language is expressive because it is compositional: The meaning of a sentence
(semantics) can be inferred from its structure (syntax). It is commonly believed that language …

Visual imagery is a form of sensory imagination, involving subjective experiences typically
described as similar to perception, but which occur in the absence of corresponding external …

Modern biomedical, behavioral and psychological inference about cause-effect
relationships respects an ergodic assumption, that is, that mean response of representative …

Behavioral neuroscience research incorporates the identical high level of meticulous
methodologies and exacting attention to detail as all other scientific disciplines. To achieve …

The search for a scientific theory of consciousness should result in theories that are
falsifiable. However, here we show that falsification is especially problematic for theories of …

Background Transparency can build trust in the scientific process, but scientific findings can
be undermined by poor and obscure data use and reporting practices. The purpose of this …

Widespread sharing of data and materials (including displays and text-and video-based
descriptions of experimental procedures) will improve the reproducibility of psychological …