Agata Bochynska

• Bochynska, Agata; Kalandadze, Tamara; Korbmacher, Max; Mayiwar, Lewend; Mayor, Julien & Quintana, Daniel (2025). Grassroots networks can help implement and harmonize open research efforts. Nordic Perspectives on Open Science. ISSN 2464-1839. 10. doi: 10.7557/11.8343. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Grassroots networks are peer-led, bottom-up initiatives that can drive meaningful change in research reform. Norwegian Reproducibility Network (NORRN), a nation-wide initiative after the model from similar networks around the world, is an example of a grassroots network where a community of researchers works together towards more transparent, rigorous and robust research. By connecting with other researchers, librarians and research support staff across Norwegian universities and colleges as well as various stakeholders, including higher-education institutions and research funders, NORRN aims to help implement and harmonize open and reproducible research efforts across the country. In this paper, we describe the origins, mission, and structure of NORRN and similar networks, as well as successes, challenges and future directions of NORRN’s efforts that show a critical role of grassroots initiatives in supporting research improvement.

• Roettger, Timo; Askelund, Jo Adrian Dahl; Birkenæs, Viktoria; Bjørndal, Ludvig Daae; Bochynska, Agata & Glaser, Bernt Damian [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2025). Transparency in epidemiological analyses of cohort data a case study of the Norwegian mother, father, and child cohort study (MoBa). BMC Medical Research Methodology. 25, p. 1–11. doi: 10.1186/s12874-025-02601-6. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background Epidemiological research is central to our understanding of health and disease. Secondary analysis of cohort data is an important tool in epidemiological research but is vulnerable to practices that can reduce the validity and robustness of results. As such, adopting measures to increase the transparency and reproducibility of secondary data analysis is paramount to ensuring the robustness and usefulness of findings. The uptake of such practices has not yet been systematically assessed. Methods Using the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort study (MoBa; [23, 24]) as a case study, we assessed the prevalence of the following reproducible practices in publications between 2007–2023: preregistering secondary analyses, sharing of synthetic data, additional materials, and analysis scripts, conducting robustness checks, directly replicating previously published studies, declaring conflicts of interest and publishing publicly available versions of the paper. Results Preregistering secondary data analysis was only found in 0.4% of articles. No articles used synthetic data sets. Sharing practices of additional data (2.3%), additional materials (3.4%) and analysis scripts (4.2%) were rare. Several practices, including data and analysis sharing, preregistration and robustness checks became more frequent over time. Based on these assessments, we present a practical example for how researchers might improve transparency and reproducibility of their research. Conclusions The present assessment demonstrates that some reproducible practices are more common than others, with some practices being virtually absent. In line with a broader shift towards open science, we observed an increasing use of reproducible research practices in recent years. Nonetheless, the large amount of analytical flexibility offered by cohorts such as MoBa places additional responsibility on researchers to adopt such practices with urgency, to both ensure the robustness of their findings and earn the confidence of those using them. A particular focus in future efforts should be put on practices that help mitigating bias due to researcher degrees of freedom – namely, preregistration, transparent sharing of analysis scripts, and robustness checks. We demonstrate by example that challenges in implementing reproducible research practices in analysis of secondary cohort data—even including those associated with data sharing—can be meaningfully overcome.

• Bochynska, Agata & Baggio, Giosue (2025). When Hypothesis Preregistration Feeds Into Theory Development. Collabra: Psychology. ISSN 2474-7394. 11(1). doi: 10.1525/collabra.130077. Full text in Research Archive
• Soderstrom, Melanie; Rocha-Hidalgo, Joscelin; Munoz, Luis Eduardo; Bochynska, Agata; Werker, Janet F. & Skarabela, Barbora [Show all 42 contributors for this article] (2024). Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study. Journal of Child Language. ISSN 0305-0009. doi: 10.1017/S0305000924000254. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  From early on, infants show a preference for infant-directed speech (IDS) over adult-directed speech (ADS), and exposure to IDS has been correlated with language outcome measures such as vocabulary. The present multi-laboratory study explores this issue by investigating whether there is a link between early preference for IDS and later vocabulary size. Infants’ preference for IDS was tested as part of the ManyBabies 1 project, and follow-up CDI data were collected from a subsample of this dataset at 18 and 24 months. A total of 341 (18 months) and 327 (24 months) infants were tested across 21 laboratories. In neither preregistered analyses with North American and UK English, nor exploratory analyses with a larger sample did we find evidence for a relation between IDS preference and later vocabulary. We discuss implications of this finding in light of recent work suggesting that IDS preference measured in the laboratory has low test-retest reliability.

• Larson, Caroline; Bochynska, Agata & Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova (2024). Mental rotation and language in autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research. ISSN 1939-3792. 17(4), p. 785–798. doi: 10.1002/aur.3128. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Though visuospatial skills are often considered a relative strength in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), unexplained difficulties relative to neurotypical (NT) peers have also been observed. Dissociations between spatial cognition and language skills in ASD may explain these difficulties given that these systems are linked in NT individuals. The current study examined performance on a mental rotation task that systematically varied stimulus features and the degree to which performance was associated with language in ASD relative to NT peers. Participants were children and young adults with ASD and 25 pairwise age- and IQ-matched NT peers (p's>0.53). The mental rotation task involved four conditions: two-dimensional (2D) abstract figures, three-dimensional (3D) abstract figures, 2D common objects, and 3D common objects. Structural language was measured using the grammar subscale from the Test of Language Development: Intermediate adapted for Norwegian. Mixed-effects model results indicated that autistic individuals were less accurate and had slower reaction time across mental rotation task conditions than NT peers. Language was associated with mental rotation accuracy for both groups across conditions, but with reaction time only for the NT group. The current study demonstrated selective associations between language and performance on a classic spatial cognition task in autistic individuals. Namely, there was a dissociation between language and in-the-moment efficiency in the ASD group, and this dissociation may reflect a broader dissociation between visuospatial and language systems.

• Pownall, Madeleine; Azevedo, Flávio; König, Laura M.; Slack, Hannah R.; Evans, Thomas Rhys & Flack, Zoe [Show all 70 contributors for this article] (2023). Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes. Royal Society Open Science. 10(5). doi: 10.1098/rsos.221255. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness and reproducibility of research, characterized by increased interest and promotion of open and transparent research practices. While progress has been positive, there is a lack of consideration about how this approach can be embedded into undergraduate and postgraduate research training. Specifically, a critical overview of the literature which investigates how integrating open and reproducible science may influence student outcomes is needed. In this paper, we provide the first critical review of literature surrounding the integration of open and reproducible scholarship into teaching and learning and its associated outcomes in students. Our review highlighted how embedding open and reproducible scholarship appears to be associated with (i) students' scientific literacies (i.e. students’ understanding of open research, consumption of science and the development of transferable skills); (ii) student engagement (i.e. motivation and engagement with learning, collaboration and engagement in open research) and (iii) students' attitudes towards science (i.e. trust in science and confidence in research findings). However, our review also identified a need for more robust and rigorous methods within pedagogical research, including more interventional and experimental evaluations of teaching practice. We discuss implications for teaching and learning scholarship.

• Lobben, Marit; Bochynska, Agata; Eifring, Halvor & Laeng, Bruno (2023). Tracking semantic relatedness: numeral classifiers guide gaze to visual world objects. Frontiers in Language Sciences. doi: 10.3389/flang.2023.1222982. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Directing visual attention toward items mentioned within utterances can optimize understanding the unfolding spoken language and preparing appropriate behaviors. In several languages, numeral classifiers specify semantic classes of nouns but can also function as reference trackers. Whereas all classifier types function to single out objects for reference in the real world and may assist attentional guidance, we propose that only sortal classifiers efficiently guide visual attention by being inherently attached to the nouns' semantics, since container classifiers are pragmatically attached to the nouns they classify, and the default classifiers index a noun without specifying the semantics. By contrast, container classifiers are pragmatically attached, and default classifiers index a noun without specifying the semantics. Using eye tracking and the “visual world paradigm”, we had Chinese speakers ( N = 20) listen to sentences and we observed that they looked spontaneously within 150 ms after offset of the Sortal classifier. After about 200 ms the same occurred for the container classifiers, but with the default classifier only after about 700 ms. This looking pattern was absent in a control group of non-Chinese speakers and the Chinese speakers' gaze behavior can therefore only be ascribed to classifier semantics and not to artifacts of the visual objects. Thus, we found that classifier types affect the rapidity of spontaneously looking at the target objects on a screen. These significantly different latencies indicate that the stronger the semantic relatedness between a classifier and its noun, the more efficient the deployment of overt attention.

• Bochynska, Agata; Keeble, Liam; Halfacre, Caitlin; Casillas, Joseph V.; Champagne, Irys-Amélie & Chen, Kaidi [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2023). Reproducible research practices and transparency across linguistics. Glossa Psycholinguistics. 2(1). doi: 10.5070/G6011239. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Scientific studies of language span across many disciplines and provide evidence for social, cultural, cognitive, technological, and biomedical studies of human nature and behavior. As it becomes increasingly empirical and quantitative, linguistics has been facing challenges and limitations of the scientific practices that pose barriers to reproducibility and replicability. One of the proposed solutions to the widely acknowledged reproducibility and replicability crisis has been the implementation of transparency practices, e.g., open access publishing, preregistrations, sharing study materials, data, and analyses, performing study replications, and declaring conflicts of interest. Here, we have assessed the prevalence of these practices in 600 randomly sampled journal articles from linguistics across two time points. In line with similar studies in other disciplines, we found that 35% of the articles were published open access and the rates of sharing materials, data, and protocols were below 10%. None of the articles reported preregistrations, 1% reported replications, and 10% had conflict of interest statements. These rates have not increased noticeably between 2008/2009 and 2018/2019, pointing to remaining barriers and the slow adoption of open and reproducible research practices in linguistics. To facilitate adoption of these practices, we provide a range of recommendations and solutions for implementing transparency and improving reproducibility of research in linguistics.

• Bochynska, Agata & Dillon, Moira (2022). Young children’s drawings and descriptions of layouts and objects. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. ISSN 1069-7977. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Dillon, Moira (2022). Opening science to families so families can open their homes to science. BPS Developmental Psychology Forum. ISSN 2396-8699. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Dillon, Moira (2021). Bringing Home Baby Euclid: Testing Infants’ Basic Shape Discrimination Online. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734592. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata Elzbieta; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Vulchanov, Valentin & Landau, Barbara (2020). Spatial language difficulties reflect the structure of intact spatial representation: Evidence from high-functioning autism. Cognitive Psychology. ISSN 0010-0285. 116, p. 1–27. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2019.101249. Full text in Research Archive
• Endestad, Tor; Godøy, Rolf Inge; Sneve, Markus Handal; Hagen, Thomas; Bochynska, Agata Elzbieta & Laeng, Bruno (2020). Mental Effort When Playing, Listening, and Imagining Music in One Pianist’s Eyes and Brain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 14. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.576888. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  We investigated “musical effort” with an internationally renowned, classical, pianist while playing, listening, and imagining music. We used pupillometry as an objective measure of mental effort and fMRI as an exploratory method of effort with the same musical pieces. We also compared a group of non-professional pianists and non-musicians by the use of pupillometry and a small group of non-musicians with fMRI. This combined approach of psychophysiology and neuroimaging revealed the cognitive work during different musical activities. We found that pupil diameters were largest when “playing” (regardless of whether there was sound produced or not) compared to conditions with no movement (i.e., “listening” and “imagery”). We found positive correlations between pupil diameters of the professional pianist during different conditions with the same piano piece (i.e., normal playing, silenced playing, listen, imagining), which might indicate similar degrees of load on cognitive resources as well as an intimate link between the motor imagery of sound-producing body motions and gestures. We also confirmed that musical imagery had a strong commonality with music listening in both pianists and musically naïve individuals. Neuroimaging provided evidence for a relationship between noradrenergic (NE) activity and mental workload or attentional intensity within the domain of music cognition. We found effort related activity in the superior part of the locus coeruleus (LC) and, similarly to the pupil, the listening and imagery engaged less the LC–NE network than the motor condition. The pianists attended more intensively to the most difficult piece than the non-musicians since they showed larger pupils for the most difficult piece. Non-musicians were the most engaged by the music listening task, suggesting that the amount of attention allocated for the same task may follow a hierarchy of expertise demanding less attentional effort in expert or performers than in novices. In the professional pianist, we found only weak evidence for a commonality between subjective effort (as rated measure-by-measure) and the objective effort gauged with pupil diameter during listening. We suggest that psychophysiological methods like pupillometry can index mental effort in a manner that is not available to subjective awareness or introspection.

• Lobben, Marit; Bochynska, Agata; Tanggaard, Stine & Laeng, Bruno (2020). Classifiers in non-European languages and semantic impairments in western neurological patients have a common cognitive structure. Lingua. ISSN 0024-3841. 244C. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102929. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  We compared two non-overlapping data sets: (a) the semantic categories in representative samples of nominal classification languages (N = 334); and in a non-overlapping population (b) semantic category-specific impairments of European neurological patients (N = 121). Each of these appears to organize world objects in natural kinds (e.g., animal, body part, plant, fruit and vegetable, liquid) or manmade kinds (e.g., food, clothing, tool, vehicle, furniture). We show that whenever a specific semantic category is found as a cognitive impairment, this category also exists in some language as a semantic classifier. Since all of the existing semantic impairments reports are with speakers whose languages lack semantic nominal classification systems, the present regularities between grammar and cognitive deficit suggests the idea that cognitive universals may constrain how the neural substrate of knowledge is organized and can break apart but also how they can become expressed in different grammars.

• Bochynska, Agata Elzbieta; Postma, Albert; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova & Laeng, Bruno (2020). More mental rotation time does not imply more mental effort: Pupillary diameters do not change with angular distance. Brain and Cognition. ISSN 0278-2626. 148. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105670. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The ability to mentally rotate objects in space is a fundamental cognitive capacity. Previous studies showed that the time to rotate the image of a figure to match another increases progressively with angular disparity. It remains unclear whether this increase in response time with angular disparity could reflect increased processing operations or more cognitive effort instead of a sustained use of a ‘rotate’ mechanism without a change in workload. We collected response times as well as pupillary responses that index cognitive workload and activity in the brainstem’s locus coeruleus, from a sample of 38 young adults performing a chronometric mental rotations task. The results showed the expected increase in response times but no increase in pupil diameters between 60, 120, and 180 degrees of rotation, suggesting no significant changes in arousal levels when rotating figures near and far. This indicates that during mental rotation the load on cognitive resources remains constant irrespective of angular distance.

• Bochynska, Agata Elzbieta; Coventry, Kenny R.; Vulchanov, Valentin & Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova (2020). Tell me where it is: Selective difficulties in spatial language on the autism spectrum. Autism. ISSN 1362-3613. 24(7), p. 1740–1757. doi: 10.1177/1362361320921040. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata Elzbieta; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Vulchanov, Valentin & Landau, Barbara (2019). Spatial language difficulties reflect the structure of intact spatial representation: Evidence from high-functioning autism  . Cognitive Psychology. ISSN 0010-0285. 116. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2019.101249. Full text in Research Archive
• Lobben, Marit & Bochynska, Agata (2018). Grounding by Attention Simulation in Peripersonal Space: Pupils Dilate to Pinch Grip But Not Big Size Nominal Classifier. Cognitive Science. ISSN 0364-0213. 42(2), p. 576–599. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12524. Full text in Research Archive
• Laeng, Bruno; Kiambarua, Kenneth Gitiye; Hagen, Thomas; Bochynska, Agata; Lubell, James & Suzuki, Hikaru [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2018). The "face race lightness illusion": An effect of the eyes and pupils? PLOS ONE. 13:e0201603(8), p. 1–36. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201603. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In an internet-based, forced-choice, test of the ‘face race lightness illusion’, the majority of respondents, regardless of their ethnicity, reported perceiving the African face as darker in skin tone than the European face, despite the mean luminance, contrast and numbers of pixels of the images were identical. In the laboratory, using eye tracking, it was found that eye fixations were distributed differently on the African face and European face, so that gaze dwelled relatively longer onto the locally brighter regions of the African face and, in turn, mean pupil diameters were smaller than for the European face. There was no relationship between pupils’ size and implicit social attitude (IAT) scores. In another experiment, the faces were presented either tachistoscopically (140 ms) or longer (2500 ms) so that, when gaze was prevented from looking directly at the faces in the former condition, the tendency to report the African face as “dark” disappeared, but it was present when gaze was free to move for just a few seconds. We conclude that the presence of the illusion depends on oculomotor behavior and we also propose a novel account based on a predictive strategy of sensory acquisition. Specifically, by differentially directing gaze towards to facial regions that are locally different in luminance, the resulting changes in retinal illuminance yield respectively darker or brighter percepts while attending to each face, hence minimizing the mismatch between visual input and the learned perceptual prototypes of ethnic categories.

• Bochynska, Agata & Laeng, Bruno (2015). Tracking down the path of memory: eye scanpaths facilitate retrieval of visuospatial information. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. 16, p. 159–163. doi: 10.1007/s10339-015-0690-0. Full text in Research Archive

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• Bochynska, Agata & Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole (2026). (Perceived) barriers to data sharing and resuse: Results from a discipline-specific needs analysis. doi: https:/eden-fidelis.eu/events/data-reuse-workshops. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2025). Responsible open science: how to practice openness ethically and mindfully? doi: https:/www.hiof.no/english/studies/courses/iio/iio/2025/autumn/phdds92023.html. Full text in Research Archive
• Hauge, Åshild Lappegard; Moss, Sigrun Marie; Omland, Guro Brokke; Bochynska, Agata; Houge, Anette Bringedal & Tateo, Luca [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2025). ReDemOS​ ​ ​ ​ ​ The Unintended Undemocratic Consequences of Open Science practices: Rethinking the Democratisation of Knowledge Production. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Open Science movement aims to democratise knowledge production, making data, research processes and results more open and transparent. However, it may also risk being undemocratic in its approaches to knowledge production. With its current guidelines, Open Science is tailored to methods used in specific disciplines, e.g. the Natural Sciences or hypothesis-testing social science. Though the aims of Open Science are transparency, equity and inclusion, the recommended methodological practices are often difficult to apply to other types of research approaches, e.g. qualitative methods. Open Science may, therefore, unintentionally exclude certain forms of knowledge production, especially within the social sciences. Consequentially, some types of research addressing important societal issues may face hindrances, as Open Science gains ground in research, funding, hiring and publishing. There may be cases where knowledge production paradoxically becomes narrower and less transparent due to Open Science. ReDemOs seeks to address these unintended consequences. By critically investigating how the aim of democratization in Open Science influences knowledge production, ReDemOs aims to suggest alternative conceptualisations and practices within Open Science.

• Bochynska, Agata (2024). Sharing is caring: mapping existing transparency and reproducibility practices. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Christiansen, Torgeir & Klette, Kirsti (2024). Towards reusable qualitative data: lessons from the QualiFAIR project. Full text in Research Archive
• Neff, Mary Elizabeth; Bochynska, Agata & Force, Pilot Reporting Task (2024). To pilot or not to pilot, that's not the question: developing a template for transparent pilot study reporting. Full text in Research Archive
• Cole, Nicki Lisa; Ulpts, Sven Arend; Good, Matthew; Bochynska, Agata; Leitner, Barbara & Kormann, Eva [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2024). Reproducibility of qualitative research – an integrative review of barriers and enablers. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Christiansen, Torgeir (2024). Åpen forskning møter juridiske og etiske utfordringer – eksempler på mulighetsrommet. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2024). Registered Reports: How to publish regardless of the results. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Christiansen, Torgeir & Klette, Kirsti (2024). Towards more reusable qualitative data at your local institution. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Bergstrøm, Rebecca Josefine Five & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2024). Why do we need licenses on data? Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Christiansen, Torgeir; Lunde, Anders & Bergsaker, Anne Schad (2024). Infrastructures for storing and sharing data. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2024). When hypothesis preregistration feeds into theory development. Full text in Research Archive
• Lin, Yi; Bochynska, Agata; Dilks, Daniel D & Dillon, Moira (2024). The role of spatial layout and language in infants' categorization of places. Full text in Research Archive
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum & Bochynska, Agata (2024). Opphavsrettslige utfordringer ved overgangen til FAIR forskningsdata ved UiO. Full text in Research Archive
• Kvale, Live Håndlykken; Sarre, Aili; Ostrop, Jenny; Pharo, Nils; Stangeland, Elin & Sundstøl, Shea Allison [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2023). Competency framework for development of Research Data Support Services. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2023). Hvordan gjøre kvalitative data FAIR? Opphavsrett og lisenser. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Christiansen, Torgeir & Klette, Kirsti (2023). Towards reusable qualitative data: lessons from the QualiFAIR project. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Good, Matthew (2023). Felleskapsbygging for akademisk kompetanseutvikling. Full text in Research Archive
• Good, Matthew; Pierfederici, Maria Elisa; Gilbert, Sofie; Bochynska, Agata; Sæbø, Anne & Kvale, Live Håndlykken [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2023). Discovering the Power of Digital research: The DSC at the University of Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2023). Assessment of transparent research practices in linguistics. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2023). NORRN: Barriers and enablers to building reproducibility communities. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2023). Bottom-up: Developing a culture of data sharing. Norwegian Reproducibility Network. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2023). The power of communities: setting up a new reproducibility network. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2023). Research reproducibility: what it is and why it matters. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Eskeland, Ragnhild; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Klette, Kirsti (2023). Why and how to share qualitative data. Full text in Research Archive
• Lin, Yi; Bochynska, Agata; Dilks, Daniel D & Dillon, Moira (2023). Scene and Heard: Infants use shape and language to categorize places. Full text in Research Archive
• Neff, Mary Beth & Bochynska, Agata (2023). Unconference on (Transparent) Piloting: current practices and ways forward. Full text in Research Archive
• Quintana, Daniel; Kalandadze, Tamara; Bochynska, Agata & Nordahl-Hansen, Anders Johan (2022). RIOT Science Club: Five things about open science that every researcher should know | Dr Dan Quintana. Full text in Research Archive
• Pennington, Charlotte; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Bochynska, Agata & Kalandadze, Tamara (2022). A new way of publishing: Registered Reports 2.0 by Dr Charlotte Pennington. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Growing concerns of replicability and reproducibility have ushered in fast-paced changes to scientific reform under the umbrella term of ‘open science’. We now understand that such concerns stem from academic incentives that reward novel surprising results and quantity over quality which fuel a range of questionable research practices. Study preregistration and Registered Reports (RRs) represent two open science initiatives that aim to improve research quality and rigour, and emerging empirical research demonstrates their effectiveness. However, neither are perfect. This talk will outline study preregistration and the standard Registered Report model before introducing a new form of Registered Reports that reshape academic publishing – Peer Community In Registered Reports (PCI RR). PCI RR is a community-driven initiative that reviews and recommends RRs across the full spectrum of STEM, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. Upon receiving In Principle Acceptance (IPA) of a Stage 1 manuscript, authors are then free to choose from a range of ‘PCI friendly journals’ who agree to publish the Stage 2 manuscript without the need for additional peer review. PCI RRs, therefore, represent an exciting new way of publishing that puts the authors back in control.

• Bochynska, Agata; Quintana, Daniel; Mayor, Julien; Leknes, Siri; Roettger, Timo & Mayiwar, Lewend [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). Fram for troverdig forskning: Forskningen må være gjennomsiktig og etterprøvbar. 54(4), p. 38–39. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Forskere ved Universitetet i Oslo, Handelshøyskolen BI og Høgskolen i Østfold har etablert det nasjonale nettverket Norwegian Reproducibility Network (NORRN). NORRN skal bidra til god forskningspraksis i Norge gjennom å fremme og legge til rette for åpenhet og etterprøvbarhet av forskningsresultater.

• Hart, Sara A.; Kalandadze, Tamara & Bochynska, Agata (2022). RIOT Science Club: Data sharing in developmental science. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this talk, Dr Sara Hart talked about her experiences in creating a data repository and otherwise supporting open science, as well as working with her research community to understand hesitations around data sharing and support those towards open data goals.

• Bochynska, Agata & Kalandadze, Tamara (2022). Preregistration: Benefits, challenges, and practical tips by Dr Agata Bochynska. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  More and more researchers across disciplines are preregistering their hypotheses, methods, and analysis plans before they collect or analyze the data. Preregistration motivates us to think more carefully about research designs, helps prevent manipulating the study outcomes, and increases research transparency and visibility. But how and where do we preregister research studies? In this talk, Agata Bochynska will lay out the benefits and challenges of preregistration and provide practical tips for preregistering studies on Open Science Framework (OSF) – a well-developed platform for research registration and sharing.

• Kvale, Live Håndlykken; Bertheussen, Lene Elisabeth; Bochynska, Agata; Good, Matthew; Stangeland, Elin & Enerstvedt, Kjersti Hasle [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2022). Kompetanse for forskningsdatastøtte i fag- og forskningsbibliotek. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2022). Fram for mer etterprøvbar forskning i humaniora og samfunnsfag. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2022). Open science practices for neuroimaging research. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Good, Matthew (2022). Moving towards more open and reproducible research. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Dillon, Moira (2022). Young children’s drawings and descriptions of layouts and objects. Full text in Research Archive
• Lin, Yi; Bochynska, Agata; Dilks, Daniel & Dillon, Moira (2022). Scene and heard: Infants categorize scenes with language. Full text in Research Archive
• Kvale, Live Håndlykken; Bochynska, Agata; Sarre, Aili; Stangeland, Elin; Ostrop, Jenny & Enerstvedt, Kjersti Hasle [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2022). Competency Framework for research data services in Norwegian libraries. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Dillon, Moira (2021). Bringing Home Baby Euclid: Evaluating infants’ basic shape discrimination using the online platform Lookit. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Dillon, Moira (2021). Young children’s spatial communication in drawings and language. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Dillon, Moira (2021). Online data collection with infants and children. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata Elzbieta (2018). How to harness the support of your local community: write with your PhD pals. doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05925-0. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Vulchanov, Valentin & Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova (2017). Same but different: comprehension of spatial terms in highly verbal individuals with autism and typically developing controls. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Vulchanov, Valentin & Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova (2017). Differences in the production of path terms in highly verbal individuals with autism and typically developing controls. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Vulchanov, Valentin & Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova (2016). Mental rotasjon av to- og tredimensjonale figurer i Autismespekterforstyrrelser. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Vulchanov, Valentin & Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova (2016). Mental rotation of geometrical figures and common objects in Autism Spectrum Disorder: a pupillometry study. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Nilsen, Randi Alice; Vulchanov, Valentin & Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova (2016). Where is the red ball (moving)?: Differences in the use of locative and directional prepositions in high-functioning autism. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2015). Spatial language and spatial cognition in Autism Spectrum Disorders: what do we know (so far)? Full text in Research Archive
• Foyn, Camilla Hellum; Eshuis, Rik; Voß, Friederike; Chahboun, Sobh; Bochynska, Agata & Havas, Viktoria [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2015). Språk: Mat for tanken? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Vi kommer fra språktilegnelses- og språkprosesseringslaben. Vi tilbyr deg demonstrasjoner av kulinariske atferds- og eye-tracking-eksperimenter. Vår utsøkte meny for Ungdommens Forskernatt er som følger. Forrett: "Å koke suppe på en spiker" Lær om idiomer og metaforer. Hvordan prosesserer hjernen vår idiomer og hvordan foregår dette hos autister? Hovedrett: “Hjerneføde" Lær om språk, mat, ‘embodiment’ og hjernen. Hva får mat til å se velsmakende ut? Dessert: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating" Hvordan lærer barn seg å forstå hva pronomener som "han" eller "hun” refererer til? Hvis de blir bedt om å spise opp "den", hvordan finner de ut om de må spise puddingen eller iskremen? Velkommen til restauranten vår!

• Bochynska, Agata; Vulchanov, Valentin & Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova (2015). Mental Rotation in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Laeng, Bruno (2015). Tracking down the path of memory. Eye scanpaths facilitate retrieval of visuospatial information. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Laeng, Bruno (2015). Re-enactment of eye movements’ sequences facilitates retrieval of visuospatial information. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Eifring, Halvor Bøyesen; Laeng, Bruno & Lobben, Marit (2015). The role of visual attention in the semantic processing of item, container and default numeral classifiers in Chinese. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata & Laeng, Bruno (2014). The Sequence Matters. An Experimental Study of the Functional Role of Eye Movements in Long-term Visuospatial Memory. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2012). Executive functions and social skills. A case study of a patient with frontal lobes damage. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata; Bergstrøm, Rebecca J. Five & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2024). Copyright challenges in the transition to FAIR research data at UiO: Note from a QualiFAIR working group. Det utdanningsvitenskapelige fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo . doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10830072. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The competence hub QualiFAIR (2021 to 2024) at the University of Oslo has been focusing on how qualitative, context-sensitive and personally identifiable data can be made FAIR: findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. This note summarises the findings and main recommendations from QualiFAIR's Copyright Working Group, which worked towards identifying copyright challenges in the transition to FAIR research data at the university.

• Bochynska, Agata; Bergstrøm, Rebecca Josefine Five & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2024). Opphavsrettslige utfordringer ved overgangen til FAIR forskningsdata ved UiO - Notat fra en QualiFAIR-arbeidsgruppe. QualiFair. Full text in Research Archive
• Kvale, Live Håndlykken; Bochynska, Agata; Stangeland, Elin; Sarre, Aili; Arnesen, Sondre Strandskog & Goncharenko, Igor [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). Kompetanserammeverk for forskningsdatastøtte i UH-bibliotek. OSF. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata Elzbieta (2018). Spatial language and spatial representation in high-functioning individuals with autism. An experimental study of the linguistic and non-linguistic spatial abilities in the presence of a developmental deficit. NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology. ISSN 9788232635658. Full text in Research Archive
• Bochynska, Agata (2014). The functional role of gaze scanpaths in long-term visual memory. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Eye movements occur spontaneously during recall from the visual memory despite neither the object nor context remembered may be visible at the time of recall. Recent research provides support for the hypothesis that these eye movements could play a functional role in the retrieval of stored information by matching the original eye fixations from the time of encoding. However, studies have provided conflicting results in this field. To investigate this, we designed a novel experimental procedure where the eye scanpaths from encoding were forced to be either enacted or not during recognition of the image. Simple geometrical patterns resembling checkerboards were used as stimuli in the current experiment. We hypothesized that enactment of the original scanpath would facilitate memory retrieval. Observed results supported the predictions, which is in accordance with theories pointing to a functional role of eye movements in long-term memory.

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