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Peter Mariën is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Their research spans the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with a specific focus on cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's work centers on topics such as the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, dementia and cognitive impairment research, reading and literacy development, hemispheric asymmetry in neuroscience, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Peter Mariën has contributed to several recent publications including:

  • Dutch Diagnostic Instrument for Mild Aphasia (DIMA): standardisation and a first clinical application in two brain tumour patients, 2022, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
  • Optimizing Magnetoencephalographic Imaging Estimation of Language Lateralization for Simpler Language Tasks, 2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Functional Foreign Accent Syndrome in suspected Conversion Disorder: A case study, 2020, The European Journal of Psychiatry
  • Embodying Stressful Events: No Difference in Subjective Arousal and Neural Correlates Related to Immersion, Interoception, and Embodied Mentalization, 2021, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Diagnostic Instrument for Mild Aphasia, 2022, PsycTESTS Dataset

Frequent publication venues include Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, The European Journal of Psychiatry, and PsycTESTS Dataset.

Notable frequent co-authors are Elke De Witte, Roelien Bastiaanse, Frank Van Overwalle, Djaina Satoer, and Bram Bulté.

Best Publications

  • Consensus paper: roles of the cerebellum in motor control--the diversity of ideas on cerebellar involvement in movement.

    Mario Manto;James M. Bower;Adriana Bastos Conforto;José M. Delgado-García

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Emotion

    M Adamaszek;Federico D'Agata;R. Ferrucci;C. Habas

  • Consensus Paper: Language and the Cerebellum: an Ongoing Enigma

    Peter Mariën;Herman Ackermann;Michael Adamaszek;Caroline H S Barwood

  • Social cognition and the cerebellum: a meta-analysis of over 350 fMRI studies.

    Frank Van Overwalle;Kris Baetens;Peter Mariën;Marie Vandekerckhove

  • The lateralized linguistic cerebellum: A review and a new hypothesis

    Peter Marien;Sebastiaan Engelborghs;Franco Fabbro;Peter P. De Deyn

  • Cerebellar neurocognition: insights into the bottom of the brain.

    Hanne Baillieux;Hyo Jung De Smet;Philippe Paquier;Philippe Paquier;Peter Paul De Deyn

  • Consensus Paper: Revisiting the Symptoms and Signs of Cerebellar Syndrome

    Florian Bodranghien;Amy Bastian;Carlo Casali;Mark Hallett

  • Developmental Foreign Accent Syndrome : Report of a new case

    Stefanie Keulen;Stefanie Keulen;Peter Mariën;Peggy Wackenier;Roel Jonkers

  • The cerebellum: Its role in language and related cognitive and affective functions

    Hyo Jung De Smet;Philippe Paquier;Jo J. Verhoeven;Peter Mariën

  • Social cognition and the cerebellum: A meta‐analytic connectivity analysis

    Frank Van Overwalle;Tine D'aes;Peter Mariën

  • Cognitive and affective disturbances following focal cerebellar damage in adults: a neuropsychological and SPECT study.

    Hanne Baillieux;Hyo Jung De Smet;André Dobbeleir;Philippe Paquier;Philippe Paquier

  • Schmahmann’s syndrome - identification of the third cornerstone of clinical ataxiology

    Mario Manto;Peter Mariën

  • Normative data for the Boston naming test in native Dutch-speaking Belgian elderly.

    Peter Marien;E Mampaey;A Vervaet;J. Saerens

  • Neurobiochemical Markers of Brain Damage in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients

    Raf Brouns;Raf Brouns;Bart De Vil;Patrick Cras;Didier De Surgeloose

  • Mindfulness based intervention in Parkinson's disease leads to structural brain changes on MRI A randomized controlled longitudinal trial

    Barbara A. Pickut;Wim Van Hecke;Wim Van Hecke;Eric Kerckhofs;Peter Mariën

  • Functional connectivity between the cerebrum and cerebellum in social cognition: A multi-study analysis

    Frank Van Overwalle;Peter Mariën

  • Prospective Belgian study of neurodegenerative and vascular dementia: APOE genotype effects

    S Engelborghs;Bart Dermaut;J Goeman;J Saerens

  • The Dutch Linguistic Intraoperative Protocol: a valid linguistic approach to awake brain surgery.

    E De Witte;D Satoer;E Robert;H Colle

  • Cerebellar induced aphasia: case report of cerebellar induced prefrontal aphasic language phenomena supported by SPECT findings

    Peter Marien;J. Saerens;R Nanhoe;E Moens

  • Depression in Mild Cognitive Impairment is associated with Progression to Alzheimer's Disease: A Longitudinal Study

    Stefan Van der Mussele;Erik Fransen;Hanne Struyfs;Jill Luyckx

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario Manto
Mario Manto University of Mons
Roelien Bastiaanse
Roelien Bastiaanse University of Groningen
Frank Van Overwalle
Frank Van Overwalle Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Jubin Abutalebi
Jubin Abutalebi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Marie Vandekerckhove
Marie Vandekerckhove Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Wouter Duyck
Wouter Duyck Ghent University
Dagmar Timmann
Dagmar Timmann University of Duisburg-Essen
Marc Cruts
Marc Cruts University of Antwerp

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