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Species | Sander NieuwenhuisSummaryAffiliation: Leiden University Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Bilateral saccadic eye movements and tactile stimulation, but not auditory stimulation, enhance memory retrievalSander Nieuwenhuis
Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Brain Cogn 81:52-6. 2013..We also discuss the findings in the context of clinical practice, in which bilateral eye movements (EMDR) and auditory stimulation are used in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder...- The role of the magnocellular and parvocellular pathways in the attentional blinkSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden, The Netherlands
Brain Cogn 68:42-8. 2008..Contrary to our expectations, the attentional blink was not affected by these manipulations, suggesting no specific relationship between the attentional blink and magnocellular and/or parvocellular processing... 
Error-likelihood prediction in the medial frontal cortex: a critical evaluationSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Cereb Cortex 17:1570-81. 2007..We conclude that although the EL hypothesis presents an elegant integrative account of pMFC function, it requires additional empirical support to remain tenable...
Effects of the noradrenergic agonist clonidine on temporal and spatial attentionSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden, The Netherlands
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 193:261-9. 2007..In contrast, the spatially diffuse topographical projections of the noradrenergic system are inconsistent with a direct role in spatial selection...- Consciousness of targets during the attentional blink: a gradual or all-or-none dimension?Sander Nieuwenhuis
Institute of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333, AK Leiden, The Netherlands
Atten Percept Psychophys 73:364-73. 2011..These results are more consistent with models that assume a gradual change between nonconscious and conscious perception during the attentional blink... - Knowing good from bad: differential activation of human cortical areas by positive and negative outcomesSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eur J Neurosci 21:3161-8. 2005..These results support a new hypothesis regarding the neural generators of the FRN, and have important implications for the use of this component as an electrophysiological index of performance monitoring and reward processing... - Accounting for sequential trial effects in the flanker task: conflict adaptation or associative priming?Sander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mem Cognit 34:1260-72. 2006..This pattern of results provides strong evidence that the conflict adaptation effect reflects associative stimulus-response priming instead of conflict-driven adaptations in cognitive control... - Neurocognitive function in dopamine-β-hydroxylase deficiencyMarieke Jepma
Leiden University, Institute of Psychology, Leiden, The Netherlands
Neuropsychopharmacology 36:1608-19. 2011..The largely spared neurocognitive function in DβH-deficient patients suggests that other neuromodulators have taken over the function of norepinephrine in the brains of these patients... - Mediofrontal negativities in the absence of respondingFranc C L Donkers
Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25:777-87. 2005..The results are discussed in the framework of current conceptions of the FRN and related electrophysiological components... - A goal activation approach to the study of executive function: an application to antisaccade tasksSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Cognitive Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Brain Cogn 56:198-214. 2004..Theoretical and methodological implications for the study of executive function are discussed... - How does bilingualism improve executive control? A comparison of active and reactive inhibition mechanismsLorenza S Colzato
Institute for Psychological Research, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 34:302-12. 2008..Under some circumstances, this ability may indirectly lead to more pronounced reactive inhibition of irrelevant information... - Temporal expectation and information processing: a model-based analysisMarieke Jepma
Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Cognition 122:426-41. 2012..Our findings provide novel evidence about the psychological processes underlying temporal-expectation effects on reaction time... - The flexible mind is associated with the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Val158Met polymorphism: evidence for a role of dopamine in the control of task-switchingLorenza S Colzato
Leiden University, Institute for Psychological Research and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden, The Netherlands
Neuropsychologia 48:2764-8. 2010..e., less cognitive flexibility), F(1,85)=4.28, p<0.05, than Val/Val homozygous individuals. Our findings support the idea that low prefrontal dopamine levels promote cognitive flexibility... - The beneficial effect of concurrent task-irrelevant mental activity on temporal attentionChristian N L Olivers
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorstraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychol Sci 16:265-9. 2005..This finding raises questions about the fundamental nature of the attentional blink, and suggests that the temporal dynamics of attention are determined by task circumstances that induce either a more or a less distributed state of mind... - Performance monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorderSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychiatry Res 134:111-22. 2005..The discrepancy between these results and the results from previous studies is discussed... - Activity in human reward-sensitive brain areas is strongly context dependentSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Neuroimage 25:1302-9. 2005..These results provide important evidence regarding the way in which the brain scales the motivational value of events by the context in which these events occur... - The effects of accessory stimuli on information processing: evidence from electrophysiology and a diffusion model analysisMarieke Jepma
Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research, and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, The Netherlands
J Cogn Neurosci 21:847-64. 2009..The visual P1 and N1 amplitudes on accessory-stimulus trials were modulated in a way that is consistent with multisensory energy integration, a possible mechanism for this facilitation... - Decision making, the P3, and the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine systemSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychol Bull 131:510-32. 2005.... - Pupil diameter predicts changes in the exploration-exploitation trade-off: evidence for the adaptive gain theoryMarieke Jepma
Department of Psychology, Leiden University and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, The Netherlands
J Cogn Neurosci 23:1587-96. 2011..These findings provide novel evidence that pupil diameter correlates closely with control state, and are consistent with a role for the LC-NE system in the regulation of the exploration-exploitation trade-off in humans... - Beta receptor-mediated modulation of the late positive potential in humansMischa De Rover
Cognitive Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden, The Netherlands
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 219:971-9. 2012..Previous work has shown that the LPP reflects the modulation of activity in extrastriate visual cortical structures, but little is known about the source of that modulation... - Functional significance of the emotion-related late positive potentialStephen B R E Brown
Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University Leiden, Netherlands
Front Hum Neurosci 6:33. 2012..The results provide preliminary evidence that the LPP reflects a global inhibition of activity in visual cortex, resulting in the selective survival of activity associated with the processing of the emotional stimulus... - When moving faces activate the house area: an fMRI study of object-file retrievalAndré W Keizer
Institute for Psychological Research, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands
Behav Brain Funct 4:50. 2008..abstract:.. - Reinforcement-related brain potentials from medial frontal cortex: origins and functional significanceSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 28:441-8. 2004..Our review is organized around a set of predictions derived from a recent theory, which holds that the ERN is associated with the arrival of a negative reward prediction error signal in anterior cingulate cortex... - Errors are foreshadowed in brain potentials associated with action monitoring in cingulate cortex in humansK Richard Ridderinkhof
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Neurosci Lett 348:1-4. 2003..We propose that this modulation reflects fluctuations in the efficiency of the action monitoring system, which may occasionally compromise subsequent performance and thus comprise a prelude to performance errors... - The role of the locus coeruleus in mediating the attentional blink: a neurocomputational theorySander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, NJ, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 134:291-307. 2005..Finally, the relationship between the authors' neurocomputational theory and existing cognitive theories of the attentional blink is discussed... - Neural dynamics of error processing in medial frontal cortexRogier B Mars
F C Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Neuroimage 28:1007-13. 2005..Specifically, these data illustrate how the anterior cingulate receives evaluative information, indicating that an action has not produced the desired result... - The beneficial effects of additional task load, positive affect, and instruction on the attentional blinkChristian N L Olivers
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 32:364-79. 2006.... - The orienting of visuospatial attention: an event-related brain potential studyDurk Talsma
Center for Cognitive Neurosciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25:117-29. 2005..This result suggests a relatively late (re)activation in visual areas associated with the processing of stimuli that had not been cued in advance... - Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex shows fMRI response to internal and external error signalsClay B Holroyd
Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Nat Neurosci 7:497-8. 2004.... - The role of the medial frontal cortex in cognitive controlK Richard Ridderinkhof
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, Netherlands
Science 306:443-7. 2004.... - Stimulus modality, perceptual overlap, and the go/no-go N2Sander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Psychophysiology 41:157-60. 2004..These findings are discussed in terms of existing hypotheses of the N2, and clarify why previous studies have not found an N2 modulation in auditory go/no-go tasks... - Electrophysiological correlates of anterior cingulate function in a go/no-go task: effects of response conflict and trial type frequencySander Nieuwenhuis
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 3:17-26. 2003..Instead, the results are consistent with the view that the N2 in go/no-go tasks reflects conflict arising from competition between the execution and the inhibition of a single response... - Sensitivity of electrophysiological activity from medial frontal cortex to utilitarian and performance feedbackSander Nieuwenhuis
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, NJ, USA
Cereb Cortex 14:741-7. 2004..The results are consistent with the view that the two components are manifestations of the same underlying cognitive and neural process... - Residual costs in task switching: testing the failure-to-engage hypothesisSander Nieuwenhuis
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychon Bull Rev 9:86-92. 2002..But strong incentives for preparation only marginally increased the estimated preparation probability, suggesting some intrinsic limitation to the ability to achieve endogenous preparation for a task switch on every trial... - Theta phase resetting and the error-related negativityNick Yeung
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Psychophysiology 44:39-49. 2007..These findings suggest that the proposed analysis methods cannot provide unambiguous evidence that the ERN is generated by phase resetting of ongoing oscillations... - Error-preceding brain activity: robustness, temporal dynamics, and boundary conditionsGreg Hajcak
Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
Biol Psychol 70:67-78. 2005..The onset and duration of the modulation, however, did vary between studies. These results are discussed in terms of response-locked ERPs and action monitoring... - Drink alcohol and dim the lights: the impact of cognitive deficits on medial frontal cortex functionNick Yeung
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 7:347-55. 2007..The sensitivity of the MFC to disrupted processing elsewhere in the brain suggests complications in interpreting evidence of disturbed MFC function... - Mental training affects distribution of limited brain resourcesHeleen A Slagter
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior and Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
PLoS Biol 5:e138. 2007..Our study supports the idea that plasticity in brain and mental function exists throughout life and illustrates the usefulness of systematic mental training in the study of the human mind... - Reappraisal modulates the electrocortical response to unpleasant picturesGreg Hajcak
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 6:291-7. 2006..These results indicate that reappraisal modulates early electrocortical activity that is related to emotional salience, and that the LPP is a useful tool for studying emotion regulation... - Neural mechanisms of attention and control: losing our inhibitions?Sander Nieuwenhuis
Nat Neurosci 8:1631-3. 2005 - A computational account of altered error processing in older age: dopamine and the error-related negativitySander Nieuwenhuis
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2:19-36. 2002..These age changes could be simulated by manipulation of a single parameter of the neurocomputational model, this manipulation corresponding to weakened phasic activity of the mesencephalic dopamine system...