Dr Nemanja Vaci
School of Psychology
Lecturer
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School of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
- Profile
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I am a psychologist and applied statistician with an extensive background in data science.
My research focuses on understanding and describing the changes in performance across the lifetime. I am interested in skill development and expertise, as well as, preserving effects of expertise on the age-related declines in performance. My work often explores novel usage of statistical methods on the existing or passively collected large data in psychology and medical sciences.
- Qualifications
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- BA Psychology
- MSc Applied Statistics
- PhD Psychology
- Research interests
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- Ageing
- Expertise
- Skill development
- Nonlinear modelling
- Bayesian models
- Electronic health records
- Natural language processing
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Prediction of rapid amyloid and phosphorylated‐Tau accumulation in cognitively healthy individuals. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 12(1). View this article in WRRO
- Real‐world evidence in Alzheimer's disease : the ROADMAP Data Cube. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 16(3), 461-471. View this article in WRRO
- Natural language processing for structuring clinical text data on depression using UK-CRIS. Evidence Based Mental Health, 23(1), 21-26. View this article in WRRO
- The joint influence of intelligence and practice on skill development throughout the life span. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(37), 18363-18369. View this article in WRRO
- Large data and Bayesian modeling—aging curves of NBA players. Behavior Research Methods, 51(4), 1544-1564. View this article in WRRO
- Chess databases as a research vehicle in psychology : modeling large data. Behavior Research Methods, 49(4), 1227-1240. View this article in WRRO
- Restricting range restricts conclusions. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. View this article in WRRO
- 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, 1-7. View this article in WRRO
- Is age really cruel to experts? Compensatory effects of activity.. Psychology and Aging, 30(4), 740-754.
Chapters
- Alternative quantitative methods in psycholinguistics: Implications for theory and design, Word Knowledge and Word Usage (pp. 83-126). De Gruyter View this article in WRRO
- The Neural Underpinnings of Expertise in Games, The Science of Expertise (pp. 182-199). Routledge
All publications
Journal articles
- 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, 69, 102492-102492.
- Tracing cognitive processes in insight problem solving: using GAMs and change point analysis to uncover restructuring. Journal of Intelligence, 11(5).
- Validation of UK Biobank data for mental health outcomes: A pilot study using secondary care electronic health records. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 160, 104704-104704.
- Personalised treatment for cognitive impairment in dementia : development and validation of an artificial intelligence model. BMC Medicine, 20(1). View this article in WRRO
- Home advantage mediated (HAM) by referee bias and team performance during covid. Scientific Reports, 11. View this article in WRRO
- Med7: A transferable clinical natural language processing model for electronic health records. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 118.
- 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, 1(2).
- 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, 32(2), 301-304. View this article in WRRO
- Impact of APOE4 and future family history on early adulthood cardiovascular risk: Results from a 30‐year cohort study. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16(S10).
- Reading the future from body movements – anticipation in handball. Journal of Motor Behavior. View this article in WRRO
- Maximizing the use of social and behavioural information from secondary care mental health electronic health records. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. View this article in WRRO
- 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, 11. View this article in WRRO
- Prediction of rapid amyloid and phosphorylated‐Tau accumulation in cognitively healthy individuals. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 12(1). View this article in WRRO
- Real‐world evidence in Alzheimer's disease : the ROADMAP Data Cube. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 16(3), 461-471. View this article in WRRO
- Natural language processing for structuring clinical text data on depression using UK-CRIS. Evidence Based Mental Health, 23(1), 21-26. View this article in WRRO
- The joint influence of intelligence and practice on skill development throughout the life span. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(37), 18363-18369. View this article in WRRO
- Large data and Bayesian modeling—aging curves of NBA players. Behavior Research Methods, 51(4), 1544-1564. View this article in WRRO
- When the Solution Is on the Doorstep: Better Solving Performance, but Diminished Aha! Experience for Chess Experts on the Mutilated Checkerboard Problem. Cognitive Science, 43(8).
- Chess databases as a research vehicle in psychology : modeling large data. Behavior Research Methods, 49(4), 1227-1240. View this article in WRRO
- Comprehending negated action(s): embodiment perspective. COGNITIVE PROCESSING, 15(1), S71-S72.
- Revising home advantage in sport – home advantage mediation (HAM) model. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1-27.
- Maximizing the Potential of Digital Games for Understanding Skill Acquisition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 096372142110578-096372142110578.
- The temporal dynamics of insight problem solving – restructuring might not always be sudden. Thinking & Reasoning, 1-37.
- Restricting range restricts conclusions. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. View this article in WRRO
- 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, 1-7. View this article in WRRO
- Analiza vremena reakcije modelovanjem linearnih mešovitih efekata. Primenjena psihologija, 6(3), 311-332.
- Is age really cruel to experts? Compensatory effects of activity.. Psychology and Aging, 30(4), 740-754.
Chapters
- Alternative quantitative methods in psycholinguistics: Implications for theory and design, Word Knowledge and Word Usage (pp. 83-126). De Gruyter View this article in WRRO
- The Neural Underpinnings of Expertise in Games, The Science of Expertise (pp. 182-199). Routledge
- The Science of Expertise In Hambrick DZ, Campitelli G & Macnamara BN (Ed.) Routledge
Conference proceedings papers
- Modelling paralinguistic properties in conversational speech to detect bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 7243-7247). Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
- An efficient representation of chronological events in medical texts. Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (pp 97-103)
- An efficient representation of chronological events in medical texts. Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, November 2020 - November 2020.
- 31 Prediction of emerging amyloid and tau pathology in cognitively healthy individuals: a longitudinal CSF study. Members’ POSTER Abstracts
Preprints
- Lack of univariate, clinically-relevant biomarkers of autism in resting state EEG: a study of 776 participants, Research Square Platform LLC.
- Lack of univariate, clinically-relevant biomarkers of autism in resting state EEG: a study of 776 participants, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Revising Home Advantage in Sport – Home Advantage Mediation (HAM) Model, Center for Open Science.
- Bayesian Framework for Moderated Mediation Using Covid-19-caused Natural Experiment: Modeling Home Advantage in Soccer, Center for Open Science.
- Modelling Paralinguistic Properties in Conversational Speech to Detect Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, arXiv.
- An efficient representation of chronological events in medical texts, arXiv.
- Med7: a transferable clinical natural language processing model for electronic health records, arXiv.
- The Effect of COVID-19 on Home Advantage in High-stake Situations: The Case of EURO 20, Center for Open Science.
- The (Missing) 12th Man: Home Advantage Mediated (HAM) by Referee Bias and Team Performance During Covid, Center for Open Science.
- Maximizing the potential of digital games for understanding skill acquisition, Center for Open Science.
- Never Too Much—The Benefit of Talent to Team Performance in the National Basketball Association: Comment on Swaab, Schaerer, Anicich, Ronay, and Galinsky (2014), Center for Open Science.
- Research group
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Neuroscience and Cognition
- Grants
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Chess Prodigy project funded by the Chessable and Play Magnus Group (8,755$). You can read more about the project on this link.
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Vascular Dementia consortium – co-applicant (50,000£)
- Talent Austria Grant, Center for International Cooperation and Mobility (ICM), OEAD, Austria (20,000€)
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- PhD Opportunities
I am happy to receive applications for PhD study in my area of research.
We advertise PhD opportunities (Funded or Self-Funded) on FindAPhD.com
For further information, please see the department PhD Opportunities page.