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Fren T.Y. Smulders

Fren T.Y. Smulders

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
34
Citations
5179
World Ranking
9317
National Ranking
254

Fren T.Y. Smulders publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fren T.Y. Smulders sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 73 publications — 5th percentile

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Fren T.Y. Smulders D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fren T.Y. Smulders sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Fren T.Y. Smulders is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their research focuses on areas spanning psychology and neuroscience, with particular attention to cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's recent publications include the following:

  • Touch Helps Hearing: Evidence From Continuous Audio-Tactile Stimulation (2024) in Ear and Hearing
  • The concealed information test with a continuously moving stimulus (2024) in Psychophysiology

Key topics in their work involve multisensory perception and integration, tactile and sensory interactions, neural dynamics and brain function, deception detection and forensic psychology, as well as adversarial robustness in machine learning.

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Xueying Fu
  • Lars Riecke
  • Lianne Nadine Wolsink
  • Ewout H. Meijer
  • Robin Orthey

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Ear and Hearing
  • Psychophysiology

Smulders' research integrates interdisciplinary approaches contributing to understanding sensory interactions and cognitive processes. Their work includes studies on how tactile input influences auditory perception and tests on concealed information using continuously moving stimuli, indicating a focus on sensory integration and forensic psychological methods.

Best Publications

  • Implicit and explicit alcohol-related cognitions in heavy and light drinkers

    Reinout W. Wiers;Nieske van Woerden;Fren T. Y. Smulders;Peter J. de Jong

  • Cephalic phase responses, craving and food intake in normal subjects

    C. Nederkoorn;F.T.Y. Smulders;A.T.M. Jansen

  • Challenging implicit and explicit alcohol‐related cognitions in young heavy drinkers

    Reinout W Wiers;Jade van de Luitgaarden;Esther van den Wildenberg;Fren T Y Smulders

  • Event-related potentials to conjunctions of spatial frequency and orientation as a function of stimulus parameters and response requirements.

    J.L. Kenemans;A. Kok;F.T.Y. Smulders

  • Implicit measures of association in psychopathology research.

    Anne Roefs;Jorg Huijding;Fren T. Y. Smulders;Colin M. MacLeod

  • The lateralized readiness potential.

    Fren T. Y. Smulders;Jeff O. Miller

  • The P300 is sensitive to concealed face recognition

    Ewout H. Meijer;Fren T.Y. Smulders;Harald L.G.J. merckelbach;Ann G. Wolf

  • The temporal selectivity of additive factor effects on the reaction process revealed in ERP component latencies

    F.T.Y. Smulders;A. Kok;J.L. Kenemans;T.R. Bashore

  • Simplifying jackknifing of ERPs and getting more out of it: Retrieving estimates of participants' latencies

    Fren T. Y. Smulders

  • Cerebral event-related potentials associated with selective attention to color: Developmental changes from childhood to adulthood

    Odin van der Stelt;Albert Kok;Fren T.Y. Smulders;Jan Snel

  • The role of frontal EEG asymmetry in post-traumatic stress disorder.

    Thomas Meyer;Tom Smeets;Timo Giesbrecht;Conny W.E.M. Quaedflieg

  • The validity of individual frontal alpha asymmetry EEG neurofeedback

    C.W.E.M. Quaedflieg;F.T.Y. Smulders;T. Meyer;F.P.M.L. Peeters

  • The functional role of individual-alpha based frontal asymmetry in stress responding

    C.W.E.M. Quaedflieg;T. Meyer;F.T.Y. Smulders;T.J.M. Smeets

  • Selective processing of two-dimensional visual stimuli in young and old subjects: electrophysiological analysis.

    J.L. Kenemans;F.T.Y. Smulders;A. Kok

  • The effects of sleep loss on task performance and the electroencephalogram in young and elderly subjects

    F.T.Y. Smulders;J.L. Kenemans;L.M. Jonkman;A. Kok

  • Exposure to binge food in bulimia nervosa: finger pulse amplitude as a potential measure of urge to eat and predictor of food intake.

    Chantal Nederkoorn;Fren T.Y. Smulders;Remco C. Havermans;Anita Jansen

  • Attentional bias and general orienting processes in bipolar disorder.

    Ellen M.M. Jongen;Fren T.Y. Smulders;Saskia M.G. Ranson;Baer M.G. Arts

  • The cognitive mechanisms underlying deception: an event-related potential study.

    Kristina Suchotzki;Geert Crombez;Fren T.Y. Smulders;Ewout Meijer

  • The effect of visual sexual content on the event-related potential

    Jacques J.D.M. van Lankveld;Fren T.Y. Smulders

  • Lateralized ERP components related to spatial orienting: Discriminating the direction of attention from processing sensory aspects of the cue

    Ellen M. M. Jongen;Fren T. Y. Smulders;Joep S. H. Van der Heiden

  • A comparison of different methods for estimating single-trial P300 latencies.

    F.T.Y. Smulders;J.L. Kenemans;A. Kok

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert Kok
Albert Kok University of Amsterdam
Anita Jansen
Anita Jansen Maastricht University
Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Anne Roefs
Anne Roefs Maastricht University
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Chantal Nederkoorn
Chantal Nederkoorn Maastricht University
Remco C. Havermans
Remco C. Havermans Maastricht University
Colin MacLeod
Colin MacLeod University of Western Australia
Peter J. de Jong
Peter J. de Jong University of Groningen
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets Tilburg University

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