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Ruth M. Krebs

Ruth M. Krebs

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
36
Citations
5045
World Ranking
9023
National Ranking
108

Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
5009
World Ranking
9887
National Ranking
142

Overview

Ruth M. Krebs is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with an emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main subjects of their work include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Think green: Investing cognitive effort for a pro-environmental cause" (2022, Journal of Environmental Psychology)
  • "Comparing the motivational value of rewards and losses in an EEG-pupillometry study" (2020, European Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Selective reinforcement of conflict processing in the Stroop task" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "Reinforcement learning of adaptive control strategies" (2024, Communications Psychology)
  • "Are all behavioral reward benefits created equally? An EEG-fMRI study" (2020, NeuroImage)

Krebs has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • C. Nico Boehler
  • Nanne Kukkonen
  • Wim Notebaert
  • Joshua O. Eayrs
  • Arthur Prével

Their articles have appeared notably in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • NeuroImage
  • Acta Psychologica
  • European Journal of Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Mesolimbic Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Activations during Reward Anticipation Correlate with Reward-Related Ventral Striatal Dopamine Release

    Björn H Schott;Luciano Minuzzi;Ruth M Krebs;David Elmenhorst

  • The influence of reward associations on conflict processing in the Stroop task

    Ruth M. Krebs;Carsten N. Boehler;Marty G. Woldorff

  • Motivation and cognitive control in depression

    Ivan Grahek;Amitai Shenhav;Sebastian Musslick;Ruth M. Krebs

  • The Involvement of the Dopaminergic Midbrain and Cortico-Striatal-Thalamic Circuits in the Integration of Reward Prospect and Attentional Task Demands

    Ruth M. Krebs;Carsten N. Boehler;Carsten N. Boehler;Kenneth C. Roberts;Allen W. Song

  • Pinning down response inhibition in the brain - conjunction analyses of the Stop-signal task

    Carsten Nicolas Boehler;Lawrence G. Appelbaum;Ruth M. Krebs;Jens-Max Hopf;Jens-Max Hopf

  • The neural underpinnings of how reward associations can both guide and misguide attention.

    Ruth M. Krebs;Carsten N. Boehler;Tobias Egner;Marty G. Woldorff

  • Novelty increases the mesolimbic functional connectivity of the substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area (SN/VTA) during reward anticipation: Evidence from high-resolution fMRI

    Ruth Krebs;Dorothee Heipertz;Hartmut Schuetze;Emrah Duzel;Emrah Duzel

  • The Novelty Exploration Bonus and Its Attentional Modulation.

    Ruth M. Krebs;Björn H. Schott;Björn H. Schott;Björn H. Schott;Hartmut Schütze;Emrah Düzel;Emrah Düzel

  • Personality Traits Are Differentially Associated with Patterns of Reward and Novelty Processing in the Human Substantia Nigra/Ventral Tegmental Area

    Ruth M. Krebs;Björn H. Schott;Björn H. Schott;Björn H. Schott;Emrah Düzel;Emrah Düzel

  • Task preparation processes related to reward prediction precede those related to task-difficulty expectation

    Hanne Schevernels;Ruth M. Krebs;Patrick Santens;Marty G. Woldorff

  • Utilization of reward-prospect enhances preparatory attention and reduces stimulus conflict

    Berry van den Berg;Berry van den Berg;Ruth M. Krebs;Monicque M. Lorist;Marty G. Woldorff

  • Reward prospect rapidly speeds up response inhibition via reactive control

    Carsten N. Boehler;Hanne Schevernels;Jens-Max Hopf;Jens-Max Hopf;Christian M. Stoppel;Christian M. Stoppel

  • Task-Load-Dependent Activation of Dopaminergic Midbrain Areas in the Absence of Reward

    Carsten N Boehler;Jens-Max Hopf;Ruth M Krebs;Christian M Stoppel

  • Sensory MEG Responses Predict Successful and Failed Inhibition in a Stop-Signal Task

    C. N. Boehler;T. F. Münte;R. M. Krebs;H. J. Heinze;H. J. Heinze

  • Neural conflict-control mechanisms improve memory for target stimuli.

    Ruth M. Krebs;Carsten N. Boehler;Maya De Belder;Tobias Egner

  • Motivating inhibition: reward prospect speeds up response cancellation

    Carsten N. Boehler;Jens-Max Hopf;Christian M. Stoppel;Ruth M. Krebs

  • Anticipatory processes in brain state switching - evidence from a novel cued-switching task implicating default mode and salience networks.

    Justina Sidlauskaite;Jan R. Wiersema;Herbert Roeyers;Ruth M. Krebs

  • The role of anterior cingulate cortex in the affective evaluation of conflict

    Senne Braem;Joseph A. King;Franziska M. Korb;Ruth M. Krebs

  • Cognitive Control in Depression: Toward Clinical Models Informed by Cognitive Neuroscience:

    Ivan Grahek;Jonas Everaert;Jonas Everaert;Ruth M. Krebs;Ernst H. W. Koster

  • Affective Modulation of Cognitive Control is Determined by Performance-Contingency and Mediated by Ventromedial Prefrontal and Cingulate Cortex

    Senne Braem;Joseph A. King;Franziska M. Korb;Ruth M. Krebs

  • Reward associations reduce behavioral interference by changing the temporal dynamics of conflict processing.

    Ruth M. Krebs;Ruth M. Krebs;Carsten N. Boehler;Carsten N. Boehler;Lawrence G. Appelbaum;Marty G. Woldorff

  • Dissociating contributions of ACC and vmPFC in reward prediction, outcome, and choice

    Eliana Vassena;Eliana Vassena;Ruth M. Krebs;Massimo Silvetti;Massimo Silvetti;Wim Fias;Wim Fias

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten N. Boehler
Carsten N. Boehler Ghent University
Jens-Max Hopf
Jens-Max Hopf Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Marty G. Woldorff
Marty G. Woldorff Duke University
Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld
Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Björn H. Schott
Björn H. Schott University of Göttingen
Tom Verguts
Tom Verguts Ghent University
Wim Fias
Wim Fias Ghent University
Tobias Egner
Tobias Egner Duke University

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