Frank Van Overwalle

10.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
144 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Frank Van Overwalle is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Van Overwalle has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 81 papers in Social Psychology and 42 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Frank Van Overwalle's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (55 papers), Vestibular and auditory disorders (36 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (35 papers). Frank Van Overwalle is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (55 papers), Vestibular and auditory disorders (36 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (35 papers). Frank Van Overwalle collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Frank Van Overwalle's co-authors include Kris Baetens, Peter Mariën, Marie Vandekerckhove, Elien Heleven, Ning Ma, Qianying Ma, Kim van Dun, Maria Leggio, Mario Manto and Chris Baeken and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Frank Van Overwalle

138 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Social cognition and the brain: A meta‐analysis

2008 1.3k citations Frank Van Overwalle Human Brain Mapping profile →
Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis

2009 955 citations Frank Van Overwalle, Kris Baetens NeuroImage profile →
Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Emotion

2016 409 citations Michael Adamaszek, Federico D’Agata et al. The Cerebellum profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frank Van Overwalle Belgium	37	4.1k	3.0k	1.3k	1.1k	823	144	6.6k
Angela Sirigu France	47	5.5k 1.3×	3.6k 1.2×	667 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	100	8.7k
Giuseppe di Pellegrino Italy	44	6.2k 1.5×	3.5k 1.2×	481 0.4×	1.7k 1.6×	1.0k 1.3×	139	8.3k
Anna Berti Italy	34	6.5k 1.6×	1.6k 0.5×	434 0.3×	908 0.8×	904 1.1×	115	8.3k
Jorge Moll Brazil	43	5.4k 1.3×	3.1k 1.0×	303 0.2×	1.6k 1.4×	418 0.5×	148	8.1k
Giuseppe Pagnoni Italy	37	3.9k 1.0×	1.9k 0.6×	437 0.3×	1.7k 1.5×	230 0.3×	68	7.4k
Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg Netherlands	43	4.1k 1.0×	888 0.3×	628 0.5×	963 0.9×	681 0.8×	101	6.2k
Rogier B. Mars United Kingdom	56	9.0k 2.2×	2.1k 0.7×	910 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	726 0.9×	138	11.6k
Ingrid R. Olson United States	51	8.0k 2.0×	1.4k 0.5×	678 0.5×	2.0k 1.8×	923 1.1×	131	10.0k
Jack van Honk Netherlands	64	4.3k 1.0×	3.6k 1.2×	924 0.7×	4.3k 3.9×	384 0.5×	174	10.5k
Michael Koenigs United States	41	5.2k 1.3×	1.9k 0.6×	655 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	224 0.3×	90	8.3k

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Haihambo, Naem, Kris Baetens, Natacha Deroost, Chris Baeken, & Frank Van Overwalle. (2025). Crus control: effective cerebello-cerebral connectivity during social action prediction using dynamic causal modelling. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 20(1). 1 indexed citations

Overwalle, Frank Van, et al.. (2025). Individuals with autism have difficulties learning implicit sequences of social interactions that require mentalizing. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. 25(3). 100617–100617.

Li, Meijia, Min Pu, Kris Baetens, et al.. (2025). Human cerebellum and social navigation: cerebello-cerebral connectivity using dynamic causal modelling. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 20(1).

Overwalle, Frank Van, Naem Haihambo, Qianying Ma, et al.. (2024). Cerebellar non-invasive stimulation of social and emotional mentalizing: A meta-analysis. Imaging Neuroscience. 2. 1 indexed citations

Li, Meijia, Naem Haihambo, Qianying Ma, et al.. (2024). Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 19(1). 4 indexed citations

Li, Meijia, Min Pu, Qianying Ma, et al.. (2024). One step too far: social cerebellum in norm-violating navigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 19(1). 4 indexed citations

Overwalle, Frank Van, Elien Heleven, Naem Haihambo, et al.. (2024). Mentalizing About Dynamic Social Action Sequences Is Supported by the Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, and Neocortex: A Meta‐Analysis of Activation and Connectivity. Human Brain Mapping. 45(18). e70098–e70098. 1 indexed citations

Overwalle, Frank Van & Elien Heleven. (2023). Short review article: cerebellum and social behavior. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 53. 101309–101309. 3 indexed citations

Baetens, Kris, et al.. (2023). Differential effects of conventional and high‐definition transcranial direct‐current stimulation of the motor cortex on implicit motor sequence learning. European Journal of Neuroscience. 58(10). 4181–4194. 4 indexed citations

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Overwalle, Frank Van, Peter Van Schuerbeek, Hubert Raeymaekers, et al.. (2023). The effects of stimulating the cerebellum on social sequences: A tDCS-fMRI pilot study. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. 23(3). 100373–100373. 7 indexed citations

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Ma, Qianying, Min Pu, Meijia Li, et al.. (2022). Can transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the cerebellum improve implicit social and cognitive sequence learning?. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. 23(2). 100355–100355. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Meijia, Min Pu, Kris Baetens, et al.. (2022). Mind your step: social cerebellum in interactive navigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 18(1). 12 indexed citations

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Ma, Qianying, Min Pu, Naem Haihambo, et al.. (2022). Effective cerebello–cerebral connectivity during implicit and explicit social belief sequence learning using dynamic causal modeling. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 18(1). 14 indexed citations

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Baetens, Kris, et al.. (2021). Implicit learning of perceptual sequences is preserved in Parkinson’s disease.. Neuropsychology. 35(7). 679–690. 4 indexed citations

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Heleven, Elien, Kim van Dun, & Frank Van Overwalle. (2019). The posterior Cerebellum is involved in constructing Social Action Sequences: An fMRI Study. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11110–11110. 74 indexed citations

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Adamaszek, Michael, Federico D’Agata, Roberta Ferrucci, et al.. (2016). Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Emotion. The Cerebellum. 16(2). 552–576. 409 indexed citations breakdown →

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Overwalle, Frank Van, et al.. (2015). Social cognition and the cerebellum: A meta‐analytic connectivity analysis. Human Brain Mapping. 36(12). 5137–5154. 155 indexed citations

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Overwalle, Frank Van. (2010). Infants' teleological and belief inference: A recurrent connectionist approach to their minimal representational and computational requirements. NeuroImage. 52(3). 1095–1108. 11 indexed citations

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Overwalle, Frank Van. (2003). Acquisition of dispositional attributions: effects of sample size and covariation. European Journal of Social Psychology. 33(4). 515–533. 7 indexed citations

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Duynslaeger, Marijke Van, Bert Timmermans, & Frank Van Overwalle. (1999). Automatic goal inferences: Are direct and hidden goals alike?. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 1 indexed citations

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