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Neuroscience

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3855
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43

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Overview

Tom Verguts is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium, where their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience. Their work spans multiple interconnected areas including neural and behavioral psychology studies, neural dynamics and brain function, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, memory and neural mechanisms, functional brain connectivity studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on cognitive control, brain connectivity, and decision-making processes. Key papers include the 2022 article, Theta oscillations shift towards optimal frequency for cognitive control, published in Nature Human Behaviour; the 2021 work, The Best Laid Plans: Computational Principles of Anterior Cingulate Cortex, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences; and the 2020 paper, Cognitive Effort Modulates Connectivity between Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Task-Relevant Cortical Areas, published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Other notable publications are Reward Prediction Error and Declarative Memory (2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences) and Dynamic expressions of confidence within an evidence accumulation framework (2020, Cognition).

Frequent co-authors on Verguts' work include Pieter Verbeke, Kobe Desender, Esther De Loof, Cristian Buc Calderon, and Kate Ergo, reflecting collaborations that have contributed to a breadth of research outputs.

The venues where Verguts most commonly publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Verguts has contributed extensively within the field of neuroscience with over 125 publications, of which more than 120 focus on cognitive neuroscience. Additional research interests extend to clinical psychology, general decision sciences, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Main topics of their work are:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Best Publications

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

    Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Felix Holzmeister;Colin F. Camerer;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber

  • Post-error slowing: an orienting account.

    Wim Notebaert;Femke Houtman;Filip Van Opstal;Wim Gevers

  • Representation of Number in Animals and Humans: A Neural Model

    Tom Verguts;Wim Fias

  • Adaptation by binding: a learning account of cognitive control.

    Tom Verguts;Wim Notebaert

  • Hebbian Learning of Cognitive Control : Dealing With Specific and Nonspecific Adaptation

    Tom Verguts;Wim Notebaert

  • Numbers and space: a computational model of the SNARC effect.

    Wim Gevers;Tom Verguts;Bert Reynvoet;Bernie Caessens

  • A model of exact small-number representation.

    Tom Verguts;Wim Fias;Michaël Stevens

  • Grounding cognitive control in associative learning.

    Elger Abrahamse;Senne Braem;Wim Notebaert;Tom Verguts

  • Automatic response activation of implicit spatial information: Evidence from the SNARC effect

    Wim Gevers;Jan Lammertyn;Wim Notebaert;Tom Verguts

  • Dissecting the symbolic distance effect: comparison and priming effects in numerical and nonnumerical orders.

    Filip Van Opstal;Wim Gevers;Wendy De Moor;Tom Verguts

  • Overlapping Neural Systems Represent Cognitive Effort and Reward Anticipation

    Eliana Vassena;Massimo Silvetti;Carsten N. Boehler;Eric Achten

  • Verbal-spatial and visuospatial coding of number-space interactions.

    Wim Gevers;Seppe Santens;Elisah Dhooge;Qi Chen

  • Cognitive control acts locally.

    Wim Notebaert;Tom Verguts

  • Reward Modulates Adaptations to Conflict.

    Senne Braem;Tom Verguts;Chantal Roggeman;Wim Notebaert

  • Number Processing Pathways in Human Parietal Cortex

    Seppe Santens;Chantal Roggeman;Wim Fias;Tom Verguts

  • Interacting neighbors: A connectionist model of retrieval in single-digit multiplication

    Tom Verguts;Wim Fias

  • Value and Prediction Error in Medial Frontal Cortex: Integrating the Single-Unit and Systems Levels of Analysis

    Massimo Silvetti;Massimo Silvetti;Ruth Seurinck;Ruth Seurinck;Tom Verguts;Tom Verguts

  • From conflict management to reward-based decision making: actors and critics in primate medial frontal cortex.

    Massimo Silvetti;William Alexander;Tom Verguts;Joshua W. Brown

  • Adaptive effort investment in cognitive and physical tasks: a neurocomputational model.

    Tom Verguts;Eliana Vassena;Massimo Silvetti

  • Priming reveals differential coding of symbolic and non-symbolic quantities.

    Chantal Roggeman;Tom Verguts;Wim Fias

Frequent Co-Authors

Wim Fias
Wim Fias Ghent University
Wim Notebaert
Wim Notebaert Ghent University
Bert Reynvoet
Bert Reynvoet KU Leuven
Tobias H. Donner
Tobias H. Donner Universität Hamburg
Jean M. Vettel
Jean M. Vettel United States Army Research Laboratory
Jean-Baptiste Poline
Jean-Baptiste Poline Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Bharat B. Biswal
Bharat B. Biswal New Jersey Institute of Technology
Ruth M. Krebs
Ruth M. Krebs Ghent University
Felix Hoffstaedter
Felix Hoffstaedter Forschungszentrum Jülich

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