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Overview

Wim Fias is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium. Their research spans multiple areas, primarily focusing on neuroscience and psychology with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience.

The main fields of study for their work include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these areas, they have contributed extensively to several subfields, including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction

The scientific topics that dominate their research address diverse aspects of cognition and development. Key topics covered in their work include:

  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation

Wim Fias has authored or co-authored several recent papers published in notable journals. Selected publications from 2020 and 2021 include:

  • "Metacognition across domains: Is the association between arithmetic and metacognitive monitoring domain-specific?" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Spatial Attention in Serial Order Working Memory: An EEG Study" (2020), published in Cerebral Cortex
  • "The neural basis of metacognitive monitoring during arithmetic in the developing brain" (2020), published in Human Brain Mapping
  • "Eye-movements reveal the serial position of the attended item in verbal working memory" (2021), published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "Do preliterate children spontaneously employ spatial coding for serial order in working memory?" (2020), published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jean-Philippe van Dijck
  • Muhammet Ikbal Sahan
  • Bert De Smedt
  • Elien Bellon
  • Elger Abrahamse

The common venues for Wim Fias's publications are:

  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Neuropsychologia
  • PLoS ONE
  • Cerebral Cortex

Best Publications

  • The Importance of Magnitude Information in Numerical Processing: Evidence from the SNARC Effect

    Wim Fias

  • Post-error slowing: an orienting account.

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

  • The mental representation of ordinal sequences is spatially organized.

    Wim Gevers;Bert Reynvoet;Wim Fias

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

    Tom Verguts;Wim Fias

  • Parietal Representation of Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Magnitude

    Wim Fias;Jan Lammertyn;Bert Reynvoet;Patrick Dupont

  • A working memory account for spatial-numerical associations.

    Jean-Philippe van Dijck;Wim Fias

  • Spatial representation of numbers.

    Wim Fias;Martin H. Fischer

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

    Wim Gevers;Tom Verguts;Bert Reynvoet;Bernie Caessens

  • Physical activity to improve cognition in older adults: can physical activity programs enriched with cognitive challenges enhance the effects? A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Freja Gheysen;Louise Poppe;Ann DeSmet;Stephan Swinnen

  • A model of exact small-number representation.

    Tom Verguts;Wim Fias;Michaël Stevens

  • Brain networks under attack: robustness properties and the impact of lesions

    Hannelore Aerts;Wim Fias;Karen Caeyenberghs;Daniele Marinazzo

  • Irrelevant digits affect feature-based attention depending on the overlap of neural circuits.

    Wim Fias;Johan Lauwereyns;Jan Lammertyn

  • Two routes for the processing of verbal numbers: evidence from the SNARC effect.

    Wim Fias

  • The mental representation of ordinal sequences is spatially organised: evidence from days of the week

    Wim Gevers;Bert Reynvoet;Wim Fias

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

    Wim Gevers;Jan Lammertyn;Wim Notebaert;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

  • Processing of abstract ordinal knowledge in the horizontal segment of the intraparietal sulcus.

    Wim Fias;Jan Lammertyn;Bernie Caessens;Guy A. Orban

  • Semantic priming in number naming.

    Bert Reynvoet;Marc Brysbaert;Wim Fias

  • Common and distinct brain regions in both parietal and frontal cortex support symbolic and nonsymbolic number processing in humans: A functional neuroimaging meta-analysis

    H. Moriah Sokolowski;Wim Fias;Ahmad Mousa;Daniel Ansari

  • Oculomotor bias induced by number perception.

    Martin H. Fischer;Nele Warlop;Robin L. Hill;Wim Fias

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Verguts
Tom Verguts Ghent University
Bert De Smedt
Bert De Smedt KU Leuven
Bert Reynvoet
Bert Reynvoet KU Leuven
Steve Majerus
Steve Majerus University of Liège
Wim Notebaert
Wim Notebaert Ghent University
Marc Brysbaert
Marc Brysbaert Ghent University
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Wouter Duyck
Wouter Duyck Ghent University

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