What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Cognition
- Cognitive psychology
- Social psychology
His primary scientific interests are in Cognitive psychology, Fear conditioning, Extinction, Memory consolidation and Social psychology.
His Cognitive psychology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Conditioning, Cognition, Avoidance learning and Data science.
Fear-potentiated startle is closely connected to Startle response in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Fear conditioning.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Expectancy theory, Behavioral neuroscience and Behavioural sciences.
His Memory consolidation research integrates issues from Amnesia and Engram.
His Social psychology study incorporates themes from Contingency, Associative property and Differential conditioning.
His most cited work include:
- Prediction Error Governs Pharmacologically Induced Amnesia for Learned Fear (202 citations)
- Prediction Error Governs Pharmacologically Induced Amnesia for Learned Fear (202 citations)
- Retrieval per se is not sufficient to trigger reconsolidation of human fear memory (171 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His scientific interests lie mostly in Cognitive psychology, Developmental psychology, Fear conditioning, Extinction and Neuroscience.
His studies deal with areas such as Stimulus, Social psychology and Cognition as well as Cognitive psychology.
Tom Beckers has researched Developmental psychology in several fields, including Classical conditioning, Association and Craving.
His Fear conditioning research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Expectancy theory, Startle response and Moro reflex.
His research in Extinction intersects with topics in Counterconditioning and Propranolol.
His study in Memory consolidation is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Fear memory, Blockade, Amnesia and Engram.
He most often published in these fields:
- Cognitive psychology (51.53%)
- Developmental psychology (32.21%)
- Fear conditioning (28.22%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?
- Cognitive psychology (51.53%)
- Fear conditioning (28.22%)
- Memory consolidation (18.40%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Tom Beckers mainly focuses on Cognitive psychology, Fear conditioning, Memory consolidation, Extinction and Amnesia.
His research in Cognitive psychology is mostly concerned with Generalization.
His Fear conditioning research incorporates themes from Trait anxiety, Social psychology and Outlier.
His Memory consolidation study improves the overall literature in Neuroscience.
His work in the fields of Memory retention overlaps with other areas such as Mean squared prediction error.
The Extinction study combines topics in areas such as Endocrinology, Knockout mouse and Counterconditioning.
Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research (32 citations)
- Acute but Not Permanent Effects of Propranolol on Fear Memory Expression in Humans. (13 citations)
- Direct and indirect effects of perception on generalization gradients (12 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Cognition
- Cognitive psychology
- Artificial intelligence
Tom Beckers mostly deals with Fear conditioning, Cognitive psychology, Extinction, Amnesia and Memory consolidation.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Stimulus, Stimulus generalization, Associative learning and Data science in addition to Fear conditioning.
The various areas that Tom Beckers examines in his Stimulus study include Sleep deprivation, Classical conditioning, Perception and Audiology.
His Extinction study is associated with Developmental psychology.
Tom Beckers interconnects Neuroscience and Contextual fear in the investigation of issues within Amnesia.
His Memory consolidation research includes themes of Fear memory and Engram.
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