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Mieke Verfaellie

Mieke Verfaellie

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Psychology

D-Index
72
Citations
15761
World Ranking
2092
National Ranking
1211

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Mieke Verfaellie is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their research spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, and molecular biology.

The main topics of their work include memory and neural mechanisms, memory processes and influences, identity, memory and therapy, face recognition and perception, epigenetics and DNA methylation, face recognition and analysis, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Frequent venues for publication include Cortex, Neuropsychologia, UNC Libraries, Journal of Neuroscience, and Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience.

Recent papers by Mieke Verfaellie encompass the following:

  • An epigenome-wide association study of posttraumatic stress disorder in US veterans implicates several new DNA methylation loci (2020, Clinical Epigenetics)
  • Characterizing developmental prosopagnosia beyond face perception: Impaired recollection but intact familiarity recognition (2020, Cortex)
  • Maintenance of Procedural Motor Memory across Brief Rest Periods Requires the Hippocampus (2024, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Evidence for normal novel object recognition abilities in developmental prosopagnosia (2020, Royal Society Open Science)
  • Temporal discounting when outcomes are experienced in the moment: Validation of a novel paradigm and comparison with a classic hypothetical intertemporal choice task (2021, PLoS ONE)

Mieke Verfaellie has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Virginie Patt, William Milberg, Joseph DeGutis, Erika J. Wolf, and Elbert Geuze.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 2008.

Best Publications

  • Working Memory for Conjunctions Relies on the Medial Temporal Lobe

    Ingrid R. Olson;Katie Page;Katherine Sledge Moore;Anjan Chatterjee

  • The Neuropsychology of Memory Illusions: False Recall and Recognition in Amnesic Patients

    Daniel L. Schacter;Daniel L. Schacter;Mieke Verfaellie;Mieke Verfaellie;Dan Pradere

  • Interdependence of episodic and semantic memory: evidence from neuropsychology.

    Daniel L. Greenberg;Mieke Verfaellie

  • Medial Temporal Lobe Damage Causes Deficits in Episodic Memory and Episodic Future Thinking Not Attributable to Deficits in Narrative Construction

    Elizabeth Race;Margaret M. Keane;Mieke Verfaellie

  • Cortical activity reductions during repetition priming can result from rapid response learning.

    Ian G. Dobbins;David M. Schnyer;David M. Schnyer;Mieke Verfaellie;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Mild traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder in returning veterans: perspectives from cognitive neuroscience.

    Jennifer J. Vasterling;Mieke Verfaellie;Mieke Verfaellie;Karen D. Sullivan

  • A critical role for the anterior hippocampus in relational memory: Evidence from an fMRI study comparing associative and item recognition

    Kelly Sullivan Giovanello;David M. Schnyer;David M. Schnyer;Mieke Verfaellie

  • The neurological and cognitive sequelae of cardiac arrest

    Chun Lim;M. P. Alexander;M. P. Alexander;G. LaFleche;David Schnyer

  • Semantic processing in the neglected visual field: Evidence from a lexical decision task

    Regina McGlinchey-berroth;William P. Milberg;Mieke Verfaellie;Michael Alexander

  • Traumatic Brain Injury as a Disorder of Brain Connectivity.

    Jasmeet P. Hayes;Erin D. Bigler;Mieke Verfaellie

  • Patterns of autobiographical memory loss in medial-temporal lobe amnesic patients.

    R. Shayna Rosenbaum;Morris Moscovitch;Jonathan K. Foster;David M. Schnyer

  • A role for right medial prefrontal cortex in accurate feeling-of-knowing judgments: evidence from patients with lesions to frontal cortex

    David M Schnyer;Mieke Verfaellie;Michael P Alexander;Michael P Alexander;Ginette LaFleche

  • Illusory memories in amnesic patients: conceptual and perceptual false recognition.

    D.L. Schacter;M. Verfaellie;Anes

  • Status of recognition memory in amnesia.

    Mieke Verfaellie;Jonathan R. Treadwell

  • Effect of instructions on functional reach in persons with and without cerebrovascular accident

    Susan E Fasoli;Catherine A Trombly;Linda Tickle-Degnen;Mieke H Verfaellie

  • Working memory and long‐term memory for faces: Evidence from fMRI and global amnesia for involvement of the medial temporal lobes

    Elizabeth A. Nichols;Yun-Ching Kao;Mieke Verfaellie;John D.E. Gabrieli

  • Common Data Elements for Traumatic Brain Injury: Recommendations From the Interagency Working Group on Demographics and Clinical Assessment

    Andrew I. R. Maas;Cynthia L. Harrison-Felix;David Menon;P. David Adelson

  • Fear recognition deficits after focal brain damage A cautionary note

    Steven Z. Rapcsak;S. R. Galper;J. F. Comer;S. L. Reminger

  • Dissociations between familiarity processes in explicit recognition and implicit perceptual memory

    Anthony D. Wagner;John D. E. Gabrieli;Mieke Verfaellie

  • The medial temporal lobes are critical for reward-based decision making under conditions that promote episodic future thinking.

    Daniela J. Palombo;Margaret M. Keane;Mieke Verfaellie;Mieke Verfaellie

  • RAPID COMMUNICATION A Critical Role for the Anterior Hippocampus in Relational Memory: Evidence From an fMRI Study Comparing Associative and Item Recognition

    Kelly Sullivan Giovanello;David M. Schnyer;Mieke Verfaellie

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret M. Keane
Margaret M. Keane Boston University
William P. Milberg
William P. Milberg Boston University
David M. Schnyer
David M. Schnyer The University of Texas at Austin
Laird S. Cermak
Laird S. Cermak Boston University
Kenneth M. Heilman
Kenneth M. Heilman University of Florida
Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Regina E. McGlinchey
Regina E. McGlinchey Boston University
Dawn Bowers
Dawn Bowers University of Florida
Mark W. Miller
Mark W. Miller Boston University
Erika J. Wolf
Erika J. Wolf Boston University

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