Onians, John (2018) Art, the visual imagination and neuroscience: The Chauvet Cave, Mona Lisa's smile and Michelangelo's terribilitá. Cortex, 105. pp. 182-188. ISSN 0010-9452
MacKisack, Matthew, Aldworth, Susan, Macpherson, Fiona, Onians, John, Winlove, Crawford and Zeman, Adam (2016) On picturing a candle: The prehistory of imagery science. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. ISSN 1664-1078
Onians, John (2016) The ‘masterpiece’: a social or neural phenomenon? World Art, 6 (2). pp. 187-201. ISSN 2150-0894
Onians, John (2007) Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki. Yale. ISBN 9780300126778
Onians, John (2007) Neuroarchaeology and the Origins of Representation in the Grotte de Chauvet: a Neural Approach to Archaeology. In: Image and Imagination: a Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation. McDonald Institute, pp. 307-320. ISBN 9781902937489
Onians, John (2006) Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300097905
Onians, John (2004) Atlas of World Art. Laurence King Publishing. ISBN 1856693775
Onians, John (2003) A natural anthropology of art. International Journal of Anthropology, 18 (4). pp. 259-264. ISSN 1824-3096
Onians, John (2003) Gombrich and biology. In: E. H. Gombrich in Memoriam. EUNSA EDICIONES UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA, pp. 95-119. ISBN 8431321253
Onians, John (2003) Alberti and the neuropsychology of style. In: Leon Battista Alberti e il Quattrocento, Studi in Onore di Cecil Grayson e Ernst Gombrich. Casa Editrice Leo S.Olschki, pp. 239-250. ISBN 8822249577
Onians, John (2002) The Greek Temple and the Greek brain. In: Body and Building. Essays on the changing relation of body and architecture. The MIT Press, pp. 44-63. ISBN 0262041952
Onians, John (2002) Architecture and painting: the biological connection. In: The built surface.Vol. 1 Architecture and the pictorial arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. Ashgate Publishing, pp. 1-14. ISBN 075460022X