Publications

Harel, M., Nakdimon, I., Ben-Ari, O., & Schonberg, T. (2026). Eye movement patterns under exposure to spatial disorientation illusions during simulated flight. Human Factors. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187208261452147

Gabay, M., & Schonberg, T. (2026). The effect of virtual reality modality level of immersion and locomotion on spatial learning and gaze measures. Virtual Reality, 30, Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-025-01297-9

Rosenbach, H., Itzkovitch, A., Gidron, Y., & Schonberg, T. (2025). Assessing stress level scores against wearables-driven physiological measurements. Stress and Health, 41(6), e70125. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.70125

Itzkovitch, A., Oren, S., Chopra, S., Fornito, A., & Schonberg, T. (2025). Mechanisms of long-term nonexternally reinforced preference change: Functional connectivity changes in a longitudinal functional MRI study. Journal of Neuroscience, 45(40).

Bissett, P. G., Achyutuni, K. G., Li, J. K., Jones, H. M., Shim, S., Rios, J. A. H., … & Poldrack, R. A. (2025). Arbitrary stimuli are not devalued by stopping action: A registered replication of Wessel et al. (2014). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Salomon, T., Itzkovitch, A., Daw, N. D., & Schonberg, T. (2025). A computational model for individual differences in nonreinforced learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Hamann, H., Heisserer, U., Kabira, N., Kusche, I., Kuznetsova, I., Liedl, P., Schonberg, T., & Ventura, C. A. A. (2025). Dynamic cities and rigid laws? Reflections on the role of law(s) in creating livable cities. Laws: Rigidity and Dynamics, 181-205.

Kobo, O., Meltzer-Asscher, A., Berant, J., & Schonberg, T. (2024). Classification of depression tendency from gaze patterns during sentence reading. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 93, 106015.

Kobo, O., Yeshurun, Y., & Schonberg, T. (2023). Reward-related regions play a role in natural story comprehension. iScience, 27(6).

Gera, R., Barak, S., & Schonberg, T. (2024). A novel free-operant framework enables experimental habit induction in humans. Behavior Research Methods, 56(4), 3937-3958.

Schonberg, T., & Gabay, M. (2023). Automatic preference quantification of displayed objects based on eye tracker data. US Patent 11,880,504.

Hirschhorn, R., & Schonberg, T. (2023). Replication. Elsevier.

Gabay, M., & Schonberg, T. (2023). The effect of virtual reality level of immersion on spatial learning performance and strategy usage. Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 1-2

Gabay, M., & Schonberg, T. (2023). Passive identification of subjective preferences toward individual items using eye-tracking in a virtual reality environment. Virtual Reality, 27(3), 2723-2743.

Gera, R., Bar Or, M., Tavor, I., Roll, D., Cockburn, J., Barak, S., Tricomi, E., O'Doherty, J. P., & Schonberg, T. (2023). Characterizing habit learning in the human brain at the individual and group levels: A multi-modal MRI study. NeuroImage, 272, 120002.

Kobo, O., Yeshurun, Y., & Schonberg, T. (2024). The reward system plays a role in natural story comprehension. bioRxiv, 2023.07.13.548681.

Gera, R., Barak, S., & Schonberg, T. (2023). A novel smartphone application for habit induction in humans. PsyArXiv.

Itzkovitch, A., Bar Or, M., & Schonberg, T. (2022). Cue-approach training for food behavior. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 47, 101202.

Oren, S., Tittgemeyer, M., Rigoux, L., Schlamann, M., Schonberg, T., & Kuzmanovic, B. (2022). Neural Encoding of Food and Monetary Reward Delivery. NeuroImage, 119335.‏

Pool, E. R., Gera, R., Fransen, A., Perez, O. D., Cremer, A., Aleksic, M., ... & O'Doherty, J. P. (2022). Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multilaboratory investigation. Learning & Memory, 29(1), 16-28.‏

Salomon, T., Cohen, A., Barazany, D., Ben-Zvi, G., Botvinik-Nezer, R., Gera, R., Oren, S., Roll, D., Rozic, G., Saliy, A., Tik, N., Tsarfati, G., Tavor, I., Schonberg, T., & Assaf, Y. (2021). Brain volumetric changes in the general population following the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown. NeuroImage, 118311.‏

Botvinik-Nezer, R., Bakkour, A., Salomon, T., Shohamy, D., & Schonberg, T. (2021). Memory for individual items is related to nonreinforced preference change. Learning & Memory, 28(10), 348-360.‏

Pelletier, G., Aridan, N., Fellows, L. K., & Schonberg, T. (2021). A Preferential Role for Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Assessing “the Value of the Whole” in Multiattribute Object Evaluation. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(23), 5056-5068.‏‏

Oren, S., Sela, T., Levy, D. J., & Schonberg, T. (2020). Item features interact with item category in their influence on preferences. Frontiers in psychology, 11, 988.‏

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Schonberg, T., & Katz, L. N. (2020). A Neural Pathway for Nonreinforced Preference Change. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(7), 504-514.‏

Botvinik-Nezer, R., Holzmeister, F., Camerer, C. F., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., ... & Rieck, J. R. (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature, 582(7810), 84-88. ‏

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Salomon, T., Botvinik‐Nezer, R., Oren, S., & Schonberg, T. (2020). Enhanced striatal and prefrontal activity is associated with individual differences in nonreinforced preference change for faces. Human brain mapping, 41(4), 1043-1060.

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Botvinik-Nezer, R., Salomon, T., & Schonberg, T. (2019). Enhanced bottom-up and reduced top-down fMRI activity is related to long-lasting nonreinforced behavioral change. Cerebral Cortex, 30(3), 858-874.‏

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Botvinik-Nezer, R., Iwanir, R., Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Dreber, A., Camerer, C.F., Poldrack, R., & Schonberg, T. (2019). fMRI data of mixed gambles from the Neuroimaging Analysis Replication and Prediction Study. Scientific data, 6(1), 1-9.‏‏

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Gera, R., Barak, S., & Schonberg, T. (2019). Counterconditioning following memory retrieval diminishes the reinstatement of appetitive memories in humans. Scientific reports, 9(1), 1-11.

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Aridan, N., Pelletier, G., Fellows, L. K., & Schonberg, T. (2019). Is ventromedial prefrontal cortex critical for behavior change without external reinforcement?. Neuropsychologia, 124, 208-215.‏

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Aridan, N., Malecek, N. J., Poldrack, R. A., & Schonberg, T. (2019). Neural correlates of effort-based valuation with prospective choices. Neuroimage, 185, 446-454.‏

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Bakkour, A., Botvinik-Nezer, R., Cohen, N., Hover, AM., Poldrack, RA., Schonberg, T. (2018). Spacing of Cue-approach Training Leads to Better Maintenance of Behavioral Change. PloS one, 13(7):e0201580. 

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Salomon, T., Botvinik-Nezer, R., Gutentag, T., Gera, R., Iwanir, R., Tamir, M., & Schonberg, T. (2018). The Cue-Approach Task as a General Mechanism for Long-Term Non-Reinforced Behavioral Change. Scientific reports, 8(1), 1-13.  

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Bakkour, A., Lewis-peacock, J. A., Poldrack, R. A., & Schonberg, T. (2017). Neural mechanisms of cue-approach training. NeuroImage, 151, 92-104.

Bakkour, A., Leuker, C., Hover, A. M., Giles, N., Poldrack, R. A., & Schonberg, T. (2016). Mechanisms of choice behavior shift using cue-approach training. Frontiers in psychology, 7.‏‏ 

Schonberg T., Bakkour A., Hover A. M., Mumford J. A., Nagar L., Perez J., Poldrack, R. A. (2014) Changing value through cued approach: An automatic mechanism of behavior change. Nature Neuroscience, 17: 625-630. 

Schonberg T., Bakkour A., Hover A. M., Mumford J. A., Poldrack, R. A. (2014) Influencing food preferences by training: Evidence for modulation of frontoparietal control signals. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(2): 247-68.

Helfinstein S. M., Schonberg T., Congdon E., Karlsgodt K. H., Sabb F. W., Cannon T. D., London E. D., Bilder R. M., Poldrack R. A. (2014). Predicting risky choices from brain activity patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(7), 2470-2475.‏

Galván, A., Schonberg, T., Mumford, J., Kohno, M., Poldrack, R. A., & London, E. D. (2013). Greater risk sensitivity of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in young smokers than in nonsmokers. Psychopharmacology, 229(2), 345-355.‏

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Congdon, E., Bato, A., Schonberg, T., Mumford, J. A., Karlsgodt, K. H., Sabb, F. W., Cannon, T. D., London, E. D., Bilder, R. M., Freimer, N. B., & Poldrack, R. A. (2013). Differences in Neural Activation as a Function of Risk-taking Task Parameters. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7.

Poldrack, RA, Mumford, J.A., Schonberg, T., Kalar, D., Barman, B. and Yarkoni, T. (2012) Discovering relations between mind, brain, and mental disorders using topic mapping. PLoS Computational Biology, 8(10). 

Schonberg T., Fox CR., Poldrack RA. (2011) Mind the Gap:  Bridging economic and naturalistic risk-taking with cognitive neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 15(1):11-9. 

Schonberg T., O’Doherty JP, Joel D., Inzelberg R., Segev Y., Daw ND. (2010) Selective impairment of prediction error signaling in human dorsolateral but not ventral striatum in Parkinson’s disease patients: evidence from a model-based fMRI study. NeuroImage, 49(1): 772-81. 

Siman-Tov T, Papo D, Gadoth N, Schonberg T. Mendelsohn A, Perry D, Hendler T. (2009) Mind Your Left: Spatial Bias in Subcortical Fear Processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(9):1782-9. 

Schonberg T., Daw N., Joel D., O’Doherty JP. (2007) Reinforcement learning signals in the human striatum distinguish Learners from Non-learners during reward-based decision making. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(47):12860-7. 

Siman-Tov T., Mendelssohn A., Schonberg T., Avidan G., Gadoth N., Pessoa L., Ungerleider LG., Hendler T. (2007) Bi-hemispheric leftward bias in a visuospatial attention-related network. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(42):11271-8. 

Schonberg T., Pianka P., Hendler T., Pasternak O., and Assaf Y. (2006) Characterization of displaced white matter by brain tumors using combined DTI and fMRI. NeuroImage, 30(4):1100-11.