2026 Heleen A. Slagter: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	49	5572	5175	264	253	141	14405
Neuroscience	49	5867	5395	166	155	146	14424

Heleen A. Slagter publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heleen A. Slagter sits on this spectrum.

31 publications 705+

This scientist: 141 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Heleen A. Slagter D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heleen A. Slagter sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

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

3661
Citations
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

2373
Citations
Mental Training Affects Distribution of Limited Brain Resources

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

1200
Citations
Mental Training Enhances Attentional Stability: Neural and Behavioral Evidence

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

734
Citations
Mental training as a tool in the neuroscientific study of brain and cognitive plasticity.

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

416
Citations
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

392
Citations
Functional Anatomical Correlates of Controlled and Automatic Processing

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

359
Citations
Inhibition in selective attention

Dirk van Moorselaar;Heleen A Slagter

194
Citations
Theta phase synchrony and conscious target perception: Impact of intensive mental training

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

183
Citations
Oscillatory Control over Representational States in Working Memory.

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

171
Citations
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

160
Citations
Learning What Is Irrelevant or Relevant: Expectations Facilitate Distractor Inhibition and Target Facilitation through Distinct Neural Mechanisms.

Dirk van Moorselaar;Heleen A. Slagter

154
Citations
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

152
Citations
Electromyogenic Artifacts and Electroencephalographic Inferences

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

149
Citations
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

148
Citations
The Effect of Horizontal Eye Movements on Free Recall: A Preregistered Adversarial Collaboration

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

145
Citations
Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression

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124
Citations
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Affects behavior by Biasing Endogenous Cortical Oscillations.

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

122
Citations
The orienting of visuospatial attention: An event-related brain potential study

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

113
Citations
Blinks of the eye predict blinks of the mind.

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

109
Citations
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

107
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison

Simon van Gaal University of Amsterdam

Albert Kok University of Amsterdam

Michael X Cohen Radboud University

Durk Talsma Ghent University

Antoine Lutz Inserm

Sander Nieuwenhuis Leiden University

K. Richard Ridderinkhof University of Amsterdam

Tom Johnstone Swinburne University of Technology

Ali Mazaheri University of Birmingham

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