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Robert Oostenveld

Robert Oostenveld

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Neuroscience

D-Index
78
Citations
55506
World Ranking
1720
National Ranking
56

Overview

Robert Oostenveld is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Oostenveld's recent publications include:

  • The Human Connectome Project: A retrospective (2021, NeuroImage)
  • Advances in human intracranial electroencephalography research, guidelines and good practices (2022, NeuroImage)
  • #EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments (2021, Cortex)
  • A unified view on beamformers for M/EEG source reconstruction (2021, NeuroImage)
  • Enhancing reproducibility in developmental EEG research: BIDS, cluster-based permutation tests, and effect sizes (2021, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)

The scientist frequently collaborates with Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Stefan Appelhoff, Cyril Pernet, Maria Carla Piastra, and Guiomar Niso.

Robert Oostenveld has published extensively in journals such as NeuroImage, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Data, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Imaging Neuroscience.

Their main fields of study reflect a focus on brain function and medical applications, with notable research topics including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Best Publications

  • FieldTrip: open source software for advanced analysis of MEG, EEG, and invasive electrophysiological data

    Robert Oostenveld;Pascal Fries;Eric Maris;Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen

  • Nonparametric statistical testing of EEG- and MEG-data

    Eric Maris;Robert Oostenveld

  • The Human Connectome Project: A data acquisition perspective

    D. C. Van Essen;Kamil Ugurbil;Edward J Auerbach

  • The five percent electrode system for high-resolution EEG and ERP measurements

    Robert Oostenveld;Peter Praamstra

  • An improved index of phase-synchronization for electrophysiological data in the presence of volume-conduction, noise and sample-size bias.

    Martin A. Vinck;Robert Oostenveld;Marijn van Wingerden;Franscesco Battaglia

  • Modulation of neuronal interactions through neuronal synchronization

    Thilo Womelsdorf;Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen;Robert Oostenveld;Wolf Singer;Wolf Singer

  • Visual Areas Exert Feedforward and Feedback Influences through Distinct Frequency Channels

    André Moraes Bastos;André Moraes Bastos;André Moraes Bastos;Julien Vezoli;Conrado Arturo Bosman;Conrado Arturo Bosman;Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen

  • Increased auditory cortical representation in musicians

    Christo Pantev;Robert Oostenveld;Almut Engelien;Bernhard Ross

  • Prestimulus Oscillatory Activity in the Alpha Band Predicts Visual Discrimination Ability

    Hanneke van Dijk;Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen;Robert Oostenveld;Ole Jensen

  • Independent EEG sources are dipolar.

    Arnaud Delorme;Arnaud Delorme;Arnaud Delorme;Jason Palmer;Julie Onton;Robert Oostenveld

  • Theta and gamma oscillations predict encoding and retrieval of declarative memory.

    Daria Osipova;Atsuko Takashima;Robert Oostenveld;Guillén Fernández

  • Attentional stimulus selection through selective synchronization between monkey visual areas.

    Conrado A. Bosman;Conrado A. Bosman;Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen;Nicolas Brunet;Robert Oostenveld

  • Good practice for conducting and reporting MEG research

    Joachim Gross;Sylvain Baillet;Gareth R. Barnes;Richard N. A. Henson

  • Lead-DBS v2: Towards a comprehensive pipeline for deep brain stimulation imaging.

    Andreas Horn;Ningfei Li;Till Anselm Dembek;Ari Kappel

  • Stress-Related Noradrenergic Activity Prompts Large-Scale Neural Network Reconfiguration

    Erno J. Hermans;Hein J. F. van Marle;Lindsey Ossewaarde;Marloes J. A. G. Henckens

  • EEG and MEG data analysis in SPM8.

    Vladimir Litvak;Jérémie Mattout;Stefan J. Kiebel;Christophe Phillips

  • Neuronal coherence as a mechanism of effective corticospinal interaction

    Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen;Robert Oostenveld;Robert Oostenveld;Pascal Fries

  • Neuronal Synchronization along the Dorsal Visual Pathway Reflects the Focus of Spatial Attention

    Markus Siegel;Markus Siegel;Markus Siegel;Tobias H. Donner;Tobias H. Donner;Tobias H. Donner;Robert Oostenveld;Pascal Fries

  • Tactile spatial attention enhances gamma-band activity in somatosensory cortex and reduces low-frequency activity in parieto-occipital areas

    Markus Bauer;Robert Oostenveld;Maarten Peeters;Pascal Fries

  • The Effects of Visual Stimulation and Selective Visual Attention on Rhythmic Neuronal Synchronization in Macaque Area V4

    Pascal Fries;Thilo Womelsdorf;Robert Oostenveld;Robert Desimone

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Fries
Pascal Fries Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience
Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen
Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen Radboud University
Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Arnaud Delorme
Arnaud Delorme University of California, San Diego
Peter Praamstra
Peter Praamstra Radboud University
Vladimir Litvak
Vladimir Litvak University College London
Peter De Weerd
Peter De Weerd Maastricht University
Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen
Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen Tilburg University
Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Lars Arendt-Nielsen Aalborg University
Karl Magnus Petersson
Karl Magnus Petersson University of Algarve

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