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Overview

Heleen A. Slagter is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and focuses primarily on neuroscience, with a concentration on cognitive neuroscience. Their scholarly output includes 138 publications in neuroscience and related subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and neurology.

Their research explores a variety of topics within neuroscience and psychology, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Heleen A. Slagter's recent publications highlight key research in attention, inhibition, and cognition. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Inhibition in selective attention," 2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • "From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Neural mechanisms underlying expectation-dependent inhibition of distracting information," 2020, eLife
  • "Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression," 2022, Progress in Neurobiology
  • "Neural mechanisms underlying distractor inhibition on the basis of feature and/or spatial expectations," 2021, Cortex

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors who appear often in their work, including Dirk van Moorselaar, Caterina Trentin, Christian N. L. Olivers, Ruben Laukkonen, and Lynn K. A. Sörensen.

Heleen A. Slagter's publications appear regularly in a number of journals, with repeated contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Vision
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Best Publications

  • Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation

    Antoine Lutz;Heleen A. Slagter;John D. Dunne;Richard J. Davidson

  • The integration of negative affect, pain and cognitive control in the cingulate cortex

    Alexander J. Shackman;Timothy V. Salomons;Heleen A. Slagter;Andrew S. Fox

  • Mental Training Affects Distribution of Limited Brain Resources

    Heleen A Slagter;Antoine Lutz;Lawrence L Greischar;Andrew D Francis

  • Mental Training Enhances Attentional Stability: Neural and Behavioral Evidence

    Antoine Lutz;Heleen A. Slagter;Nancy B. Rawlings;Andrew D. Francis

  • Mental training as a tool in the neuroscientific study of brain and cognitive plasticity.

    Heleen A. Slagter;Richard J. Davidson;Antoine Lutz

  • Knowing good from bad: differential activation of human cortical areas by positive and negative outcomes

    Sander Nieuwenhuis;Heleen A. Slagter;Niels J. Alting von Geusau;Dirk J. Heslenfeld

  • Functional Anatomical Correlates of Controlled and Automatic Processing

    Johan Martijn Jansma;Nick F. Ramsey;Heleen A. Slagter;Rene S. Kahn

  • Inhibition in selective attention

    Dirk van Moorselaar;Heleen A Slagter

  • Theta phase synchrony and conscious target perception: Impact of intensive mental training

    Heleen A. Slagter;Antoine Lutz;Lawrence L. Greischar;Sander Nieuwenhuis

  • Oscillatory Control over Representational States in Working Memory.

    Ingmar E.J. de Vries;Heleen A. Slagter;Christian N.L. Olivers

  • From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind.

    Ruben E. Laukkonen;Ruben E. Laukkonen;Heleen A. Slagter;Heleen A. Slagter

  • Learning What Is Irrelevant or Relevant: Expectations Facilitate Distractor Inhibition and Target Facilitation through Distinct Neural Mechanisms.

    Dirk van Moorselaar;Heleen A. Slagter

  • Probability effects in the stop-signal paradigm: the insula and the significance of failed inhibition.

    Jennifer R. Ramautar;Heleen A. Slagter;Albert Kok;K. Richard Ridderinkhof;K. Richard Ridderinkhof

  • Electromyogenic Artifacts and Electroencephalographic Inferences

    Alexander J. Shackman;Brenton W. McMenamin;Heleen A. Slagter;Jeffrey S. Maxwell

  • Facilitation and inhibition in attention: Functional dissociation of pre-stimulus alpha activity, P1, and N1 components

    Heleen A. Slagter;S. Prinssen;L. C. Reteig;Ali Mazaheri

  • The Effect of Horizontal Eye Movements on Free Recall: A Preregistered Adversarial Collaboration

    Dora Matzke;Sander Nieuwenhuis;Hedderik van Rijn;Heleen A Slagter

  • Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression

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  • Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Affects behavior by Biasing Endogenous Cortical Oscillations.

    Massihullah Hamidi;Heleen A. Slagter;Giulio Tononi;Bradley R. Postle

  • The orienting of visuospatial attention: An event-related brain potential study

    Durk Talsma;Heleen A. Slagter;Sander Nieuwenhuis;Jasper Hage

  • Blinks of the eye predict blinks of the mind.

    Lorenza S. Colzato;Heleen A. Slagter;Michiel M.A. Spapé;Bernhard Hommel

  • Probing emotion in the developing brain: functional neuroimaging in the assessment of the neural substrates of emotion in normal and disordered children and adolescents.

    Richard J. Davidson;Heleen A. Slagter

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Simon van Gaal
Simon van Gaal University of Amsterdam
Albert Kok
Albert Kok University of Amsterdam
Michael X Cohen
Michael X Cohen Radboud University
Sander Nieuwenhuis
Sander Nieuwenhuis Leiden University
Ali Mazaheri
Ali Mazaheri University of Birmingham
Tom Johnstone
Tom Johnstone Swinburne University of Technology
K. Richard Ridderinkhof
K. Richard Ridderinkhof University of Amsterdam
Ingmar H.A. Franken
Ingmar H.A. Franken Erasmus University Rotterdam

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