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Overview

Freek van Ede is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of Neuroscience, with a substantial focus on Cognitive Neuroscience as a subfield. Additional areas of study include Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Neurology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, among which are:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection

Freek van Ede has published research in a range of venues, with the most frequent publication outlets including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Vision
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Cognition

The scientist has authored papers that address various aspects of working memory, attention, and visual processing. Notable recent publications include:

  • Turning Attention Inside Out: How Working Memory Serves Behavior, 2022, Annual Review of Psychology
  • Functional but not obligatory link between microsaccades and neural modulation by covert spatial attention, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Goal-directed and stimulus-driven selection of internal representations, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Output planning at the input stage in visual working memory, 2021, Science Advances
  • Visual working memory and action: Functional links and bi-directional influences, 2020, Visual Cognition

Freek van Ede frequently collaborates with other researchers, with multiple co-authors across their publications. These frequent co-authors include:

  • Anna C. Nobre
  • Sage Boettcher
  • Baiwei Liu
  • Daniela Gresch
  • Mark G. Stokes

The research contributions of Freek van Ede reflect a multidisciplinary approach integrating cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology methodologies. Their work addresses mechanisms underlying attention, working memory, and the interplay between visual processing and motor planning.

Best Publications

  • Anticipated moments: temporal structure in attention.

    A C Nobre;F van Ede

  • Prior Expectation Mediates Neural Adaptation to Repeated Sounds in the Auditory Cortex: An MEG Study

    A. Todorovic;F.L. van Ede;E.G.G. Maris;F.P. de Lange

  • Orienting attention to an upcoming tactile event involves a spatially and temporally specific modulation of sensorimotor alpha- and beta-band oscillations.

    F.L. van Ede;F.P. de Lange;O. Jensen;E.G.G. Maris

  • Neural Oscillations: Sustained Rhythms or Transient Burst-Events?

    Freek van Ede;Andrew J. Quinn;Mark W. Woolrich;Anna C. Nobre

  • Human gaze tracks attentional focusing in memorized visual space.

    Freek van Ede;Sammi R Chekroud;Anna C Nobre

  • Tactile expectation modulates pre-stimulus beta-band oscillations in human sensorimotor cortex.

    F.L. van Ede;O. Jensen;E.G.G. Maris

  • Concurrent visual and motor selection during visual working memory guided action.

    Freek van Ede;Sammi R. Chekroud;Mark G. Stokes;Anna C. Nobre

  • Temporal Expectations Guide Dynamic Prioritization in Visual Working Memory through Attenuated α Oscillations.

    F van Ede;M Niklaus;A C Nobre

  • Driving Human Motor Cortical Oscillations Leads to Behaviorally Relevant Changes in Local GABAA Inhibition: A tACS-TMS Study.

    M Nowak;E Hinson;F van Ede;A Pogosyan

  • Attentional cues affect accuracy and reaction time via different cognitive and neural processes.

    F.L. van Ede;F.P. de Lange;E.G.G. Maris

  • Diverse Phase Relations among Neuronal Rhythms and Their Potential Function.

    E.G.G. Maris;P. Fries;F.L. van Ede;F.L. van Ede

  • Attentional modulations of somatosensory alpha, beta and gamma oscillations dissociate between anticipation and stimulus processing

    F.L. van Ede;S. Szebenyi;E.G.G. Maris

  • Mnemonic and attentional roles for states of attenuated alpha oscillations in perceptual working memory: a review.

    Freek van Ede

  • Goal-directed and stimulus-driven selection of internal representations.

    Freek Van Ede;Freek Van Ede;Alexander G. Board;Anna C. Nobre

  • Temporal expectation and attention jointly modulate auditory oscillatory activity in the beta band.

    Ana Todorovic;Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen;Freek van Ede;Eric Maris

  • Output planning at the input stage in visual working memory

    Sage E. P. Boettcher;Daniela Gresch;Daniela Gresch;Anna C. Nobre;Freek van Ede;Freek van Ede

  • Decoding the influence of anticipatory states on visual perception in the presence of temporal distractors.

    Freek van Ede;Sammi R. Chekroud;Mark G. Stokes;Anna C. Nobre

  • Visual working memory and action: Functional links and bi-directional influences.

    Freek van Ede

  • Decoding visual colour from scalp electroencephalography measurements.

    Jasper E. Hajonides;Anna Christina Nobre;Freek van Ede;Freek van Ede;Mark G. Stokes

  • Joint action modulates motor system involvement during action observation in 3-year-olds.

    Marlene Meyer;Sabine Hunnius;Michiel van Elk;Michiel van Elk;Freek van Ede

  • Beyond establishing involvement: quantifying the contribution of anticipatory α- and β-band suppression to perceptual improvement with attention.

    F.L. van Ede;M. Köster;E.G.G. Maris

  • P215 Driving human motor cortical oscillations leads to behaviourally relevant changes in local GABA(A) Inhibition: A tACS-TMS study

    Magdalena Nowak;Emily Hinson;Freek Van Ede;Alek Pogosyan

  • Data from: Concurrent visual and motor selection during visual working memory guided action

    Freek van Ede;Sammi R. Chekroud;Mark G. Stokes;Anna C. Nobre

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna C. Nobre
Anna C. Nobre Yale University
Mark G. Stokes
Mark G. Stokes University of Oxford
Mark W. Woolrich
Mark W. Woolrich University of Oxford
Ole Jensen
Ole Jensen University of Oxford
Alek Pogosyan
Alek Pogosyan University of Oxford
Charlotte J. Stagg
Charlotte J. Stagg University of Oxford
Peter Brown
Peter Brown University of Oxford
Michiel van Elk
Michiel van Elk Leiden University Medical Center
Floris P. de Lange
Floris P. de Lange Radboud University
Sabine Hunnius
Sabine Hunnius Radboud University

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