Publications
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Our research investigates how top-down cognitive processes - including beliefs, expectations, and attention - shape the brain's interpretation of internal and external information, driving learning, behavior, and physiological regulation, which ultimately influence mental and physical health.
Cognition, Symptom Perception & Brain-Body Regulation
Hebi H, Ganem N, Wolf MF, Lowenstein L, Kahalon R*, Rozenkrantz L*, Sgayer I*. (2025). Maternal Psychological Responses During Regional War: A Cross-Sectional Study of Fear of Childbirth, Stress, and Intolerance of Uncertainty. Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine, 10-1097.
Shqara RA, Rozenkrantz L, Biderman SN, Perez Y, ... Wolf MF. (2025). Impact of midwife clinical experience and survey-based attitudes towards labor epidural analgesia on utilization rates in pregnant patients: A retrospective cohort study. International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia, 104809.
Mizrachi N, Kube T, Rozenkrantz L. (2024). Perceiving Immunity, Shaping Health: The Perceived Immunity (PI) Scale. British Journal of Health Psychology, 30 (1), e12772.
Krittanawong C, Maitra NS, Khawaja M, Wang Z, Fogg S, Rozenkrantz L, ... & Levine GN. (2022). Association of pessimism with cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 76, 91-98.
Rozenkrantz L, Kube T, Bernstein M, Gabrilei JDE. (2022). How beliefs about coronavirus disease (COVID) influence COVID-like symptoms?–A longitudinal study. Health Psychology, 41 (8), 519-522.
→ Highlighted at the APA Science Showcase on Health Psychology and COVID-19 (link).
Bernstein, C.A., Connor, J.P., Vilsmark, E.S., Paschali, M., Rozenkrantz L, .... Lazaridou, A. (2022). Acceptance and commitment therapy for episodic migraine: Rationale and design of a pilot randomized controlled trial. Contemporary clinical trials, 106907.
Rozenkrantz L, Bernstein M, Hemond C. (2020) A paradox of social distancing for SARS-CoV-2: Loneliness and heightened immunological risk. Molecular Psychiatry, 25, 3442–3444.
Kube T*, Rozenkrantz L*. (2020). When beliefs face reality: An integrative review of belief-updating in mental health and illness. Perspectives on Psychological Sciences, 16(2):247-274.
Kube T, Rozenkrantz L, Rief W, Barsky A. (2020). Understanding persistent physical symptoms: Conceptual integration of psychological expectation models and predictive processing accounts. Clinical Psychology Review, 101829.
Learning, Belief Updating & Psychopathology
Ben-Artzi I, Rozenkrantz L*, Shahar N*. (2026). Autism-associated learning patterns show reduced credit assignment to outcome-irrelevant features. Translational Psychiatry, In Press.
Rozenkrantz L, Laskorunskyi O, Zilcha-Mano S*, Dattner I*. (2026). Dynamic expectancies: The independent role of within-person change in outcome expectancy in predicting overall treatment outcomes in psychotherapy for depression. Psychotherapy Research, 1-11.
Li C, Wang K, Treves I, ... Gabrieli JDE*, Rozenkrantz L*. (2025). Smartphone Mindfulness Intervention Reduces Anxiety and Stress in Autistic Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Mindfulness, 1-18.
→ Highlighted by MIT News (link).
Haim-Nachum S, Kube T, Rozenkrantz L, Lazarov A, ... Sopp MR. (2024). Does disconfirmatory evidence shape safety- and danger-related beliefs of trauma-exposed individuals? European journal of psychotraumatology, 15(1), 2335788.
D'Mello A.M., Bach P, Corlett P, Rozenkrantz L. (2022). Editorial: Predictive mechanisms in action, perception, cognition, and clinical disorders. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 598.
Rozenkrantz L, D’Mello A.M., Gabrilei J.D.E. (2021). Enhanced rationality in autism spectrum disorder. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25 (8), 685-696. Selected for journal cover (link).
→ Science communication article for PSYCHE/AEON: Autistic people challenge preconceived ideas about rationality (link; Hebrew translation on Alaxon).
Kube T*, Rozenkrantz L*. (2021). When beliefs face reality: An integrative review of belief-updating in mental health and illness. Perspectives on Psychological Sciences, 16(2):247-274.
Kube T, Schwarting R, Rozenkrantz L, Glombiewski J.A, Rief W. (2019). Distorted cognitive processes in major depression–A predictive processing perspective. Biological Psychiatry, 87(5), 388-398.
→ Highlighted by Harmer, C. J., & Browning, M. (2020). Can a Predictive Processing Framework Improve the Specification of Negative Bias in Depression? Biological Psychiatry, 87(5), 382-383.
Beliefs, Predictions & Cognitive Performance
Zheng SY, Rozenkrantz L, Sharot T. (2024). Poor lie detection related to an under-reliance on statistical cues and overreliance on own behaviour. Communications Psychology, 2(1), 21.
D'Mello AM, Bach P, Corlett PR, Rozenkrantz L. (2022). Predictive mechanisms in action, perception, cognition, and clinical disorders. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 1005905.
Bauer CC*, Rozenkrantz L*, Caballero C, Scherer E, West M.R, Mrazek M, Phillips D.T, Gabrieli J.D.E, & Whitfield-Gabrieli S. (2020). Mindfulness training preserves sustained attention and resting state anticorrelation between default-mode network and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: a randomized controlled trial. Human Brain Mapping, 41(18), 5356–5369.
D’Mello A*, Rozenkrantz L*. (2020). Neural mechanisms for prediction: from action to higher-order cognition. Journal of Neuroscience, 40 (27) 5158-5160.
Rozenkrantz L, Mayo A, Ilan T, Hart Y, Noy L*, Alon U* (2017). Placebo Can Enhance Creativity. PLoS One, 12(9), e0182466.
Hart Y, Mayo A.E, Mayo R, Rozenkrantz L, Tendler A, Alon U*, Noy L* (2017). Creative foraging: An experimental paradigm for studying exploration and discovery. PLoS One, 12(8), e0182133.
Olfaction, Respiration, Chemosignals & Health (PhD work)
Mishor, E., Amir, D., Weiss, T., Honigstein, D., Weissbrod, A., Livne, E., ... Rozenkrantz L, … Sobel, N. (2021). Sniffing the human body volatile hexadecanal blocks aggression in men but triggers aggression in women. Science Advances, 47 (7).
Rozenkrantz L*, Weissgross R*, Weiss T*, Ravrebi I, Frumin I, ... Sobel N. (2020). Unexplained Repeated Pregnancy Loss is Associated with Altered Perceptual and Brain Responses to Men's Body-Odor. eLife, 9:e55305.
→ Highlighted by Borak, N. & Kohl, J. (2020). A possible link between olfaction and miscarriage,
eLife, 9:e62534.
Arzi A, Rozenkrantz L, Gorodisky L, Rozenkrantz D, Holtzman Y, … Sobel N. (2020). Olfactory Sniffing Signals Consciousness in Vegetative Patients. Nature, 581(7809), 428-433.
Endevelt Y, Perl O, Ravia A, Amir D, Eisen A, Bezalel V, Rozenkrantz L, Mishor E, Pinchover L, Soroka T, Honigstein D, Sobel N (2018). Altered responses to social chemosignals in autism spectrum disorder. Nature Neuroscience, 21:111-119.
Rozenkrantz L, Zachor D, Heller I, Plotkin A, Weissbrod A, Snitz K, Secundo L, Sobel N. (2015). A mechanistic link between olfaction and autism spectrum disorder. Current Biology, 25:1904-1910.
→ Highlighted by Small, D. M., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2015). Autism spectrum disorder: sniffing out a new
biomarker. Current Biology, 25(15), R674-R676.
Arzi A, Rozenkrantz L, Holzman Y, Secundo L, Sobel N. (2014). Sniffing patterns uncover implicit memory for undetected odors. Current Biology, 24: R263-R264.
Gelstein S*, Yeshurun Y*, Rozenkrantz L, Shushan S, Frumin I, Roth Y, Sobel N. (2011). Human Tears Contain a Chemosignal. Science, 331:226-230.
Rozenkrantz L, Gan-Or Z, Gana-Weisz M, Mirelman A, Giladi N, Bar-Shira A, Orr-Urtreger A (2016). SEPT14 is associated with a reduced risk for Parkinson’s disease and expressed in human brain. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 59:343-350.
Gan-Or Z, Ozelius L.J, Bar-Shira A, Saunders-Pullman R, Mirelman A, Kornreich R, Gana-Weisz M, Raymond D, Rozenkrantz L, … Orr-Urtreger A. (2013). The p.L302P mutation in the lysosomal enzyme gene SMPD1 is a risk factor for Parkinson disease. Neurology, 80:1606-1610.