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Wim Notebaert

Wim Notebaert

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
6968
World Ranking
8280
National Ranking
99

Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
6965
World Ranking
8539
National Ranking
122

Overview

Wim Notebaert is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has produced research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work encompasses several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, general decision sciences, applied psychology, social psychology, and neurology.

Their research covers a range of topics with an emphasis on neural and behavioral psychology studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, behavioral health and interventions, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, neural dynamics and brain function, motor control and adaptation, and evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Notebaert has published multiple papers in various scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Shared Neural Representations of Cognitive Conflict and Negative Affect in the Medial Frontal Cortex," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Cognitive and Affective Theory of Mind in Healthy Aging," 2020, Experimental Aging Research
  • "Reinforcement learning of adaptive control strategies," 2024, Communications Psychology
  • "The subjective evaluation of task switch cues is related to voluntary task switching," 2022, Cognition
  • "Correct responses alleviate the negative evaluation of conflict," 2021, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Frequent publication venues for Notebaert's work include:

  • Communications Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Collabra Psychology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Experimental Aging Research

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Notebaert's research profile. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Senne Braem
  • Luc Vermeylen
  • Ruth M. Krebs
  • Иван Иванчей
  • C. Nico Boehler

Their body of work integrates cognitive neuroscience with practical applications related to decision-making processes and behavioral interventions. This multidisciplinary approach supports a broad investigation of neural mechanisms underlying cognitive and affective functions across different populations and contexts.

Best Publications

  • Post-error slowing: an orienting account.

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

  • 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

  • Measuring Adaptive Control in Conflict Tasks

    Senne Braem;Julie M. Bugg;James R. Schmidt;Matthew J.C. Crump

  • 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

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

    Wim Notebaert;Wim Gevers;Frederick Verbruggen;Baptist Liefooghe

  • Cognitive control acts locally.

    Wim Notebaert;Tom Verguts

  • Reward Modulates Adaptations to Conflict.

    Senne Braem;Tom Verguts;Chantal Roggeman;Wim Notebaert

  • What determines the specificity of conflict adaptation? A review, critical analysis, and proposed synthesis

    Senne Braem;Elger L. Abrahamse;Wout Duthoo;Wim Notebaert

  • The heterogeneous world of congruency sequence effects: an update

    Wout Duthoo;Elger L. Abrahamse;Senne Braem;Carsten N. Boehler

  • Stimulus-and response-conflict-induced cognitive control in the flanker task

    Frederick Verbruggen;Wim Notebaert;Baptist Liefooghe;André Vandierendonck

  • Outcome Expectancy and Not Accuracy Determines Posterror Slowing: ERP Support

    Elena Patricia Nunez Castellar;Simone Kühn;Simone Kühn;Wim Fias;Wim Notebaert

  • Open your eyes for prediction errors.

    Senne Braem;Ena Coenen;Klaas Bombeke;Marlies E. van Bochove

  • Sequential analysis of a Simon task--evidence for an attention-shift account.

    Wim Notebaert;Eric Soetens;Annemie Melis

  • Effects of stimulus-stimulus compatibility and stimulus-response compatibility on response inhibition.

    Frederick Verbruggen;Baptist Liefooghe;Wim Notebaert;André Vandierendonck

  • The Congruency Sequence Effect 3.0: A Critical Test of Conflict Adaptation

    Wout Duthoo;Elger L. Abrahamse;Senne Braem;C. Nico Boehler

  • The role of the striatum in effort-based decision-making in the absence of reward

    N. Schouppe;J. Demanet;C.N. Boehler;K.R. Ridderinkhof

  • Sequence learning and sequential effects

    Eric Soetens;Annemie Melis;Wim Notebaert

  • Post-conflict slowing: cognitive adaptation after conflict processing

    Tom Verguts;Wim Notebaert;Wilfried Kunde;Peter Wühr

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Verguts
Tom Verguts Ghent University
Wim Fias
Wim Fias Ghent University
Frederick Verbruggen
Frederick Verbruggen Ghent University
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
Carsten N. Boehler
Carsten N. Boehler Ghent University
André Vandierendonck
André Vandierendonck Ghent University
K. Richard Ridderinkhof
K. Richard Ridderinkhof University of Amsterdam
Philippe Peigneux
Philippe Peigneux Université Libre de Bruxelles
Boris Burle
Boris Burle Aix-Marseille University
Maurits W. van der Molen
Maurits W. van der Molen University of Amsterdam

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