“…The use of mixed-effects (or multilevel) models has recently captured attention in longitudinal medical research [6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14], behavioral and social sciences research [15,16,17,18,19] (including speech and hearing research [20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41]), and neurophysiological and neuroimaging research [42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52]. Its increasing popularity is shown in the exponential growth over the last three decades in the number of publications in the scientific literature (Figure 1).…”