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Wim Gevers is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work includes contributions to statistics and probability, education, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to neural and behavioral psychology studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills. Additional areas include mathematics education and teaching techniques, memory and neural mechanisms, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, as well as visual perception and processing mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Wim Gevers include:

  • Catherine Culot
  • Carole Fantini-Hauwel
  • Amandine Van Rinsveld
  • Mathieu Guillaumé
  • Alain Content

Publications appear regularly in several venues, with multiple papers in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Consciousness and Cognition, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other journals include the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Biochemical Pharmacology.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Wim Gevers include:

  • The neural signature of numerosity by separating numerical and continuous magnitude extraction in visual cortex with frequency-tagged EEG, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Local build-up of sleep pressure could trigger mind wandering: Evidence from sleep, circadian and mind wandering research, 2021, Biochemical Pharmacology
  • The influence of sad mood induction on task performance and metacognition, 2021, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Ordinality: The importance of its trial list composition and examining its relation with adults' arithmetic and mathematical reasoning, 2021, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Happy is easy: the influence of affective states on cognitive control and metacognitive reports, 2021, Cognition & Emotion

Best Publications

  • 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

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

    Wim Gevers;Tom Verguts;Bert Reynvoet;Bernie Caessens

  • Sensory-integration system rather than approximate number system underlies numerosity processing: A critical review.

    Titia Gebuis;Roi Cohen Kadosh;Wim Gevers

  • 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

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

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

  • Top-down and bottom-up sequential modulations of congruency effects.

    Wim Notebaert;Wim Gevers;Frederick Verbruggen;Baptist Liefooghe

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

    Wim Gevers;Seppe Santens;Elisah Dhooge;Qi Chen

  • The Brain Locus of Interaction between Number and Size: A Combined Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Event-related Potential Study

    Roi Cohen Kadosh;Kathrin Cohen Kadosh;David E. J. Linden;Wim Gevers

  • The SNARC effect does not imply a mental number line

    Seppe Santens;Wim Gevers

  • Numbers are associated with different types of spatial information depending on the task.

    Jean-Philippe van Dijck;Wim Gevers;Wim Fias

  • Number sense in children with visuospatial disabilities: Orientation of the mental number line

    Jan Bachot;Wim Gevers;Wim Fias;Herbert Roeyers

  • The hunt for SNARC

    Wim Gevers;Jan Lammertyn

  • Further evidence that the SNARC effect is processed along a dual-route architecture: Evidence from the lateralized readiness potential.

    Wim Gevers;Elie Ratinckx;Wouter De Baene;Wim Fias

  • How number is associated with space? The role of working memory.

    Wim Fias;Jean-Philippe van Dijck;Wim Gevers

  • Towards a common processing architecture underlying Simon and SNARC effects

    Wim Gevers;Bernie Caessens;Wim Fias

  • Shared spatial representations for numbers and space: the reversal of the SNARC and the Simon effects.

    Wim Notebaert;Wim Gevers;Tom Verguts;Wim Fias

  • Subjective visibility depends on level of processing

    Bert Windey;Wim Gevers;Axel Cleeremans

  • Unconscious task application

    Filip Van Opstal;Wim Gevers;Magda Osman;Tom Verguts

Frequent Co-Authors

Wim Fias
Wim Fias Ghent University
Tom Verguts
Tom Verguts Ghent University
Wim Notebaert
Wim Notebaert Ghent University
Bert Reynvoet
Bert Reynvoet KU Leuven
Axel Cleeremans
Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles
Roi Cohen Kadosh
Roi Cohen Kadosh University of Surrey
Philippe Peigneux
Philippe Peigneux Université Libre de Bruxelles
Boris Burle
Boris Burle Aix-Marseille University
Marie-Pascale Noël
Marie-Pascale Noël Université Catholique de Louvain
Fabrizio Doricchi
Fabrizio Doricchi Sapienza University of Rome

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