Eliana Vassena

1.8k total citations
33 papers, 930 citations indexed

About

Eliana Vassena is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eliana Vassena has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 930 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 papers in General Decision Sciences and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Eliana Vassena's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (24 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (8 papers). Eliana Vassena is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (24 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (8 papers). Eliana Vassena collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Belgium and United States. Eliana Vassena's co-authors include Tom Verguts, Massimo Silvetti, William H. Alexander, Wim Fias, Clay B. Holroyd, Eric Achten, A. Ross Otto, C. Nico Boehler, Elger Abrahamse and Roma Šiugždaitė and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Eliana Vassena

32 papers receiving 926 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eliana Vassena Netherlands 17 738 173 137 121 77 33 930
Alexander Soutschek Germany 21 891 1.2× 327 1.9× 140 1.0× 104 0.9× 57 0.7× 61 1.2k
Marcus Grueschow Switzerland 16 732 1.0× 161 0.9× 126 0.9× 58 0.5× 49 0.6× 32 1.2k
Roland Nigbur Germany 10 1.0k 1.4× 212 1.2× 56 0.4× 55 0.5× 60 0.8× 10 1.1k
Lucas S. Broster United States 19 709 1.0× 258 1.5× 149 1.1× 127 1.0× 41 0.5× 35 1.0k
Jelle Demanet Belgium 15 559 0.8× 162 0.9× 108 0.8× 68 0.6× 24 0.3× 25 678
Bettina Studer Germany 14 368 0.5× 111 0.6× 84 0.6× 76 0.6× 32 0.4× 36 673
Reto Iannaccone Switzerland 11 736 1.0× 234 1.4× 68 0.5× 72 0.6× 39 0.5× 11 1.0k
Olav Krigolson Canada 19 1.1k 1.5× 179 1.0× 59 0.4× 65 0.5× 31 0.4× 40 1.3k
Franziska M. Korb Germany 14 565 0.8× 162 0.9× 66 0.5× 76 0.6× 28 0.4× 29 692
Martin E. Maier Germany 18 641 0.9× 164 0.9× 62 0.5× 36 0.3× 46 0.6× 28 756

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eliana Vassena

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All Works

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Koolschijn, Renée S., et al.. (2024). Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 60. 101453–101453. 1 indexed citations
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Vermeylen, Luc, Ruth M. Krebs, Jan R. Wiersema, et al.. (2024). Mind the instructions: Reward cues are liked first, wanted later. Cognition. 251. 105885–105885. 1 indexed citations
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Vassena, Eliana, et al.. (2024). The unpleasantness of thinking: A meta-analytic review of the association between mental effort and negative affect.. Psychological Bulletin. 150(9). 1070–1093. 26 indexed citations
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Alexander, William H., et al.. (2023). Dissociation and integration of outcome and state uncertainty signals in cognitive control. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 23(3). 691–704. 5 indexed citations
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Vassena, Eliana, Anne F.M. Jansen, Peter Pickkers, et al.. (2023). Fatigue during acute systemic inflammation is associated with reduced mental effort expenditure while task accuracy is preserved. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 112. 235–245. 3 indexed citations
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Krause, Florian, et al.. (2023). Detecting Prolonged Stress in Real Life Using Wearable Biosensors and Ecological Momentary Assessments: Naturalistic Experimental Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25. e39995–e39995. 14 indexed citations
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Vassena, Eliana, et al.. (2023). More than a feeling: physiological measures of affect index the integration of effort costs and rewards during anticipatory effort evaluation. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 23(4). 1129–1140. 11 indexed citations
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Silvestrini, Nicolas, Sebastian Musslick, Anne S. Berry, & Eliana Vassena. (2022). An integrative effort: Bridging motivational intensity theory and recent neurocomputational and neuronal models of effort and control allocation.. Psychological Review. 130(4). 1081–1103. 34 indexed citations
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Janssen, Tieme W. P., Jennie K. Grammer, Martin G. Bleichner, et al.. (2021). Opportunities and Limitations of Mobile Neuroimaging Technologies in Educational Neuroscience. Mind Brain and Education. 15(4). 354–370. 51 indexed citations
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Vassena, Eliana, Janna N. Vrijsen, Guillaume Sescousse, et al.. (2020). Negative Learning Bias in Depression Revisited: Enhanced Neural Response to Surprising Reward Across Psychiatric Disorders. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 6(3). 280–289. 8 indexed citations
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Otto, A. Ross & Eliana Vassena. (2020). It’s all relative: Reward-induced cognitive control modulation depends on context.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 150(2). 306–313. 32 indexed citations
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Paul, Katharina, et al.. (2019). Dissociable effects of reward magnitude on fronto‐medial theta and FRN during performance monitoring. Psychophysiology. 57(2). e13481–e13481. 19 indexed citations
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Vassena, Eliana, Filip Van Opstal, Ingeborg Goethals, & Tom Verguts. (2019). Striatal dopamine D2 binding correlates with locus of control: Preliminary evidence from [11C]raclopride Positron Emission Tomography. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 146. 117–124. 4 indexed citations
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Vassena, Eliana, et al.. (2017). Predicting Motivation: Computational Models of PFC Can Explain Neural Coding of Motivation and Effort-based Decision-making in Health and Disease. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 29(10). 1633–1645. 32 indexed citations
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Vassena, Eliana, Clay B. Holroyd, & William H. Alexander. (2017). Computational Models of Anterior Cingulate Cortex: At the Crossroads between Prediction and Effort. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 11. 316–316. 87 indexed citations
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Vassena, Eliana, et al.. (2016). Unimodal and cross-modal prediction is enhanced in musicians. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 25225–25225. 3 indexed citations
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Verguts, Tom, Eliana Vassena, & Massimo Silvetti. (2015). Adaptive effort investment in cognitive and physical tasks: a neurocomputational model. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 9. 57–57. 86 indexed citations
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Sidlauskaite, Justina, Jan R. Wiersema, Herbert Roeyers, et al.. (2014). Anticipatory processes in brain state switching — Evidence from a novel cued-switching task implicating default mode and salience networks. NeuroImage. 98. 359–365. 34 indexed citations
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Vassena, Eliana, Ruth M. Krebs, Massimo Silvetti, Wim Fias, & Tom Verguts. (2014). Dissociating contributions of ACC and vmPFC in reward prediction, outcome, and choice. Neuropsychologia. 59. 112–123. 57 indexed citations

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