Research
Here you will find peer‑reviewed articles, preprints and other outputs based on data collected through the Neureka app. Together, these publications show how contributions from thousands of citizen scientists are helping researchers better understand dementia risk, mood and mental health, and the factors that support brain health across the lifespan.
Peer Reviewed Publications
Baez, S., Rodriguez Marquez, S., Rosická, A. M., & Gillan, C. M. (in press). Social disadvantage outweighs knowledge in dementia risk. Alzheimer’s & Dementia. 10.1002/alz.71260
Teckentrup, V., Rosická, A. M., Donegan, K. R., Gallagher, E., Hanlon, A., & Gillan, C. (2025). Digital questionnaire response time (DQRT): a ubiquitous and low-cost digital assay of cognitive status. Behavior Research Methods, 57(7), 1-20. [url]
Rosická, A. M., Teckentrup, V., Fittipaldi, S., Ibanez, A., Pringle, A., Gallagher, E., … & Gillan, C. M. (2024). Modifiable dementia risk factors associated with objective and subjective cognition. Alzheimer’s & Dementia. [url]
Fox, C. A., McDonogh, A., Donegan, K. R., Teckentrup, V., Crossen, R. J., Hanlon, A. K., … & Gillan, C. M. (2024). Reliable, rapid, and remote measurement of metacognitive bias. Scientific Reports [url]
Friedemann, M., Fox, C. A., Hanlon, A. K., Tighe, D., Yeung, N., & Gillan, C. M. (2024). Confidence biases in problem gambling. Journal of Behavioral Addictions [url] [pdf]
Donegan, K. R., Brown, V., Price, R. B., Pringle, A., Gallagher, E., Hanlon, A., & Gillan, C. (2023). Using smartphones to optimise and scale-up the assessment of model-based planning. Communications Psychology [url] [pdf]
Kelley, S., Fisher, A. J., Lee, C. T., Gallagher, E., Hanlon, A., Robertson, I., & Gillan, C. (2023). Elevated Emotion Network Connectivity Leaves People Vulnerable to Fluctuations in Depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [url] [pdf]
Preprints
Teckentrup, V., Fox, C. A., Donegan, K. R., Gallagher, E., Hanlon, A., Fineberg, N. A., … Gillan, C. (2025). Understanding the habitual properties of compulsivity through experience sampling. [url]
Donegan, K. R., Suddell, S., de Forest, S., Sun, J., Gallagher, E., Hanlon, A., … Gillan, C. (2025, July 28). Compulsivity is associated with accelerated stimulus- response habit learning. [url]
Beyond Neureka
For additional projects and publications from our group, visit the Gillan Lab website gillanlab.com/publications