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Frederick Verbruggen

Frederick Verbruggen

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Psychology

D-Index
54
Citations
15146
World Ranking
4526
National Ranking
64

Overview

Frederick Verbruggen is a researcher affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium. Their work spans multiple fields of study, predominantly Psychology and Neuroscience, with a considerable focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology, and General Decision Sciences.

Their research topics include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Gambling Behavior and Treatments, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Frederick Verbruggen has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "A direct and conceptual replication of post-loss speeding when gambling" (2020), Royal Society Open Science
  • "Cortical and subcortical functional specificity associated with response inhibition" (2020), NeuroImage
  • "Winning and losing in online gambling: Effects on within-session chasing" (2022), PLoS ONE
  • "Clarifying the Role of Negative Emotions in the Origin and Control of Impulsive Actions" (2020), Psychologica Belgica
  • "Non-problematic and problematic binge-watchers do not differ on prepotent response inhibition: A preregistered pilot experimental study" (2020), Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

Their frequent co-authors consist of Luc Lens, Charlotte Eben, Zhang Chen, Joël Billieux, and Wendt Müller. The collaboration with these researchers has been conducted across various publications, showing established research partnerships.

Frederick Verbruggen's studies are regularly published in the following venues:

  • Royal Society Open Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • International Gambling Studies

Their research addresses issues within gambling behavior and treatments, focusing particularly on cognitive and behavioral mechanisms related to impulsivity, decision-making, and emotional regulation. The work on neural and behavioral psychology reflects an interdisciplinary approach combining experimental psychology and neuroscience methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Response inhibition in the stop-signal paradigm

    Frederick Verbruggen;Gordon D. Logan

  • A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task

    Frederick Verbruggen;Adam R. Aron;Guido Ph Band;Christian Beste

  • Models of response inhibition in the stop-signal and stop-change paradigms

    Frederick Verbruggen;Gordon D. Logan

  • Task switching: interplay of reconfiguration and interference control.

    André Vandierendonck;Baptist Liefooghe;Frederick Verbruggen

  • Automatic and Controlled Response Inhibition: Associative Learning in the Go/No-Go and Stop-Signal Paradigms

    Frederick Verbruggen;Gordon D. Logan

  • On the ability to inhibit thought and action: general and special theories of an act of control.

    Gordon D. Logan;Trisha Van Zandt;Frederick Verbruggen;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

  • STOP-IT: Windows executable software for the stop-signal paradigm.

    Frederick Verbruggen;Gordon D. Logan;Michaël A. Stevens

  • Fictitious Inhibitory Differences How Skewness and Slowing Distort the Estimation of Stopping Latencies

    Frederick Verbruggen;Christopher D. Chambers;Gordon D. Logan

  • Proactive adjustments of response strategies in the stop-signal paradigm

    Frederick Verbruggen;Gordon D. Logan

  • Do emotional stimuli interfere with response inhibition? Evidence from the stop signal paradigm

    Frederick Verbruggen;Jan De Houwer

  • Theta burst stimulation dissociates attention and action updating in human inferior frontal cortex

    Frederick Verbruggen;Adam R. Aron;Michaël A. Stevens;Christopher D. Chambers

  • Training response inhibition to food is associated with weight loss and reduced energy intake.

    Natalia S. Lawrence;Jamie O'Sullivan;David Parslow;Mahmood Javaid

  • Tscope: A C library for programming cognitive experiments on the MS windows platform.

    MichaËl Stevens;Jan Lammertyn;Frederick Verbruggen;AndrË Vandierendonck

  • Banishing the Control Homunculi in Studies of Action Control and Behavior Change

    Frederick Verbruggen;Ian P. L. McLaren;Christopher D. Chambers

  • Responding with restraint: What are the neurocognitive mechanisms?

    Sara Jahfari;Cathy M. Stinear;Mike Claffey;Frederick Verbruggen

  • Top-down and bottom-up sequential modulations of congruency effects.

    Wim Notebaert;Wim Gevers;Frederick Verbruggen;Baptist Liefooghe

  • Stop the Presses Dissociating a Selective From a Global Mechanism for Stopping

    Adam R. Aron;Frederick Verbruggen;Frederick Verbruggen

  • The interaction between stop signal inhibition and distractor interference in the flanker and Stroop task

    Frederick Verbruggen;Baptist Liefooghe;André Vandierendonck

  • The inhibitory control reflex

    Frederick Verbruggen;Maisy Best;William A. Bowditch;Tobias Stevens

  • Control of interference during working memory updating.

    Arnaud Szmalec;Frederick Verbruggen;André Vandierendonck;Eva Kemps

  • Stopping to food can reduce intake. Effects of stimulus-specificity and individual differences in dietary restraint

    Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Fredrick Verbruggen;Sinead Morrison;Rachel Charlotte Adams

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher D. Chambers
Christopher D. Chambers Cardiff University
Gordon D. Logan
Gordon D. Logan Vanderbilt University
Natalia Lawrence
Natalia Lawrence University of Exeter
André Vandierendonck
André Vandierendonck Ghent University
Joël Billieux
Joël Billieux University of Lausanne
Wim Notebaert
Wim Notebaert Ghent University
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
Xavier Noël
Xavier Noël Université Libre de Bruxelles
Damien Brevers
Damien Brevers Université Catholique de Louvain
Charles Kornreich
Charles Kornreich Université Libre de Bruxelles

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