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Overview

René Zeelenberg is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on experimental and cognitive psychology as well as social psychology, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, and sensory systems.

Their work concentrates on topics such as neurobiology of language and bilingualism, multisensory perception and integration, olfactory and sensory function studies, categorization, perception, and language, action observation and synchronization, child and animal learning development, and language, metaphor, and cognition.

René Zeelenberg has published in several academic venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Memory & Cognition
  • Cognition
  • Cortex
  • Journal of Cognition
  • Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie)

The following are examples of recent papers authored or coauthored by René Zeelenberg:

  • "The Influence of Poststudy Action Congruency on Memory Consolidation," 2020, Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie)
  • "Non-native language comprehenders encode implied shapes of objects in memory," 2024, Cortex

Other relevant publications in which René Zeelenberg is not the first author but related to their research include:

  • "Does multisensory study benefit memory for pictures and sounds?," 2022, Cognition
  • "Automatic mental simulation in native and non-native speakers," 2024, Memory & Cognition
  • "NewAbstractConcepts: A Database of 42 Normed Abstract Concepts and Exemplars," 2024, Journal of Cognition

René Zeelenberg collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Diane Pecher
  • Samuel J. A. van Zuijlen
  • Sharon Singh
  • Kevin Gunawan
  • Mirthe E M van der Meijden

Best Publications

  • Verifying Different-Modality Properties for Concepts Produces Switching Costs

    Diane Pecher;René Zeelenberg;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Registered Replication Report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper (1988)

    E. J. Wagenmakers;Titia Beek;Laura Dijkhoff;Quentin F. Gronau

  • Emotion Improves and Impairs Early Vision

    Bruno R. Bocanegra;René Zeelenberg

  • Perceptual processing affects conceptual processing

    Saskia Van Dantzig;Diane Pecher;René Zeelenberg;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Sensorimotor simulations underlie conceptual representations: Modality-specific effects of prior activation

    Diane Pecher;Diane Pecher;René Zeelenberg;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • The Impact of Emotion on Perception Bias or Enhanced Processing

    René Zeelenberg;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers;Mark Rotteveel

  • Evidence for long-term cross-language repetition priming in conceptual implicit memory tasks

    René Zeelenberg;René Zeelenberg;Diane Pecher

  • Dissociating emotion-induced blindness and hypervision.

    Bruno R Bocanegra;René Zeelenberg

  • A model for evidence accumulation in the lexical decision task.

    Eric-Jan Wagenmakers;Mark Steyvers;Jeroen G.W. Raaijmakers;Richard M. Shiffrin

  • Does pizza prime coin? Perceptual priming in lexical decision and pronunciation.

    Diane Pecher;René Zeelenberg;Jeroen G.W. Raaijmakers

  • Participant Nonnaiveté and the reproducibility of cognitive psychology

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Diane Pecher;Gabriele Paolacci;Samantha Bouwmeester

  • Language comprehenders retain implied shape and orientation of objects

    Diane Pecher;Saskia van Dantzig;Rolf A. Zwaan;René Zeelenberg

  • Emotion-induced trade-offs in spatiotemporal vision.

    Bruno R. Bocanegra;Rene Zeelenberg

  • Turning up the noise or turning down the volume? On the nature of the impairment of episodic recognition memory by midazolam.

    Kenneth J. Malmberg;Rene Zeelenberg;Richard M. Shiffrin

  • Auditory emotional cues enhance visual perception.

    René Zeelenberg;Bruno R. Bocanegra

  • A sharp image or a sharp knife: norms for the modality-exclusivity of 774 concept-property items

    Saskia van Dantzig;Rosemary A. Cowell;René Zeelenberg;Diane Pecher

  • False memories and lexical decision: even twelve primes do not cause long-term semantic priming.

    Ren e Zeelenberg;Diane Pecher

  • Are Independent Probes Truly Independent

    Gino Camp;Diane Pecher;Henk G. Schmidt;Rene Zeelenberg

  • Semantic context effects and priming in word association

    René Zeelenberg;Diane Pecher;Richard M. Shiffrin;Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers

  • Nonword repetition priming in lexical decision reverses as a function of study task and speed stress.

    Rene Zeelenberg;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers;Richard M. Shiffrin

Frequent Co-Authors

Diane Pecher
Diane Pecher Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers
Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers University of Amsterdam
Richard M. Shiffrin
Richard M. Shiffrin Indiana University
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam
Rolf A. Zwaan
Rolf A. Zwaan Erasmus University Rotterdam
Lawrence W. Barsalou
Lawrence W. Barsalou University of Glasgow
Piotr Winkielman
Piotr Winkielman University of California, San Diego
Agneta H. Fischer
Agneta H. Fischer University of Amsterdam
Jamin Halberstadt
Jamin Halberstadt University of Otago
Ursula Hess
Ursula Hess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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