Frederick Verbruggen

13.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
136 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Frederick Verbruggen is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Applied Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frederick Verbruggen has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 papers in Applied Psychology and 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Frederick Verbruggen's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (85 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (24 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (23 papers). Frederick Verbruggen is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (85 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (24 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (23 papers). Frederick Verbruggen collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United Kingdom and United States. Frederick Verbruggen's co-authors include Gordon D. Logan, André Vandierendonck, Chris Chambers, Baptist Liefooghe, Michaël Stevens, Adam R. Aron, Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers, Trisha Van Zandt, Jan De Houwer and Ian P. L. McLaren and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Frederick Verbruggen

131 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Response inhibition in the stop-signal paradigm

2008 1.0k citations Frederick Verbruggen et al. profile →
On the ability to inhibit thought and action: General and special theories of an act of control.

2014 637 citations Frederick Verbruggen et al. profile →
Models of response inhibition in the stop-signal and stop-change paradigms

2008 576 citations Frederick Verbruggen et al. profile →
Task switching: Interplay of reconfiguration and interference control.

2010 558 citations André Vandierendonck, Baptist Liefooghe et al. profile →

Peers

Frederick Verbruggen

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Markus Ullsperger Germany

Michael Falkenstein Germany

Nick Yeung United Kingdom

William J. Gehring United States

Maurits W. van der Molen Netherlands

Tobias Egner United States

Clay B. Holroyd Canada

César Ávila Spain

Daphna Shohamy United States

Silvia A. Bunge United States

Markus Ullsperger Germany

Frederick Verbruggen

10.4k ×1.6

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1.0k ×0.7

522 ×0.5

683 ×0.7

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Countries citing papers authored by Frederick Verbruggen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frederick Verbruggen

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Troisi, Camille A., et al.. (2026). Unpacking response Inhibition in animals – part 2: an empirical test. Animal Cognition. 29(1). 22–22. 1 indexed citations

Verbruggen, Frederick, et al.. (2025). Don't judge a book by its cover: The effect of perceived facial trustworthiness on advice following in the context of value-based decision-making. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 118. 104719–104719.

Müller, Wendt, et al.. (2025). Do ecological valid stop signals aid detour performance? A comparison of four bird species. Royal Society Open Science. 12(6). 250316–250316. 3 indexed citations

Debeer, Dries, An Martel, Wendt Müller, et al.. (2025). Neophobia across social contexts in juvenile herring gulls. Royal Society Open Science. 12(5). 250398–250398. 1 indexed citations

Stienen, Eric, et al.. (2025). Small dietary changes yield growth benefits in Lesser Black-backed Gull chicks.. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints).

Chen, Zhang, et al.. (2024). Differential effects of prior outcomes and pauses on the speed and quality of risky choices. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 37(2). 1 indexed citations

Stienen, Eric, et al.. (2024). Learning on the job? Foraging strategies of juvenile versus adult Lesser black-backed gulls at their first migratory stopover. Royal Society Open Science. 11(12). 241224–241224.

Verbruggen, Frederick, et al.. (2024). Instructing somebody else to act: motor co-representations in the instructor. Royal Society Open Science. 11(1). 230839–230839. 2 indexed citations

Verbruggen, Frederick, et al.. (2023). Proactively Adjusting Stopping: Response Inhibition is Faster when Stopping Occurs Frequently. Journal of Cognition. 6(1). 22–22. 6 indexed citations

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Vermeylen, Luc, et al.. (2023). When Response Selection Becomes Gambling: Post-error Slowing and Speeding in Self-paced Colour Discrimination Tasks. Collabra Psychology. 9(1). 5 indexed citations

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Baert, Jan M., Eric Stienen, Frederick Verbruggen, et al.. (2021). Resource predictability drives interannual variation in migratory behavior in a long-lived bird. Behavioral Ecology. 33(1). 263–270. 5 indexed citations

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Baert, Jan M., Eric Stienen, Frederick Verbruggen, et al.. (2021). Context‐dependent specialisation drives temporal dynamics in intra‐ and inter‐individual variation in foraging behaviour within a generalist bird population. Oikos. 130(8). 1272–1283. 15 indexed citations

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Bundt, Carsten, C. Nico Boehler, Frederick Verbruggen, Marcel Braß, & Wim Notebaert. (2020). Reward does not modulate corticospinal excitability in anticipation of a Stroop trial. European Journal of Neuroscience. 53(4). 1019–1028. 5 indexed citations

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Jones, Andrew, Laura Baines, Helen K. Ruddock, et al.. (2020). Does alcohol cue inhibitory control training survive a context shift?. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 34(7). 783–792. 8 indexed citations

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Lea, Stephen E. G., et al.. (2019). Pigeons’ performance in a tracking change-signal procedure is consistent with the independent horse-race model.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition. 45(4). 464–473. 4 indexed citations

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Stevens, Tobias, Damien Brevers, Chris Chambers, et al.. (2015). How does response inhibition influence decision making when gambling?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied. 21(1). 15–36. 33 indexed citations

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Sheldon, Sarah, et al.. (2009). Having a goal to stop action is associated with advance control of specific motor representations. Neuropsychologia. 48(2). 541–548. 65 indexed citations

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Verbruggen, Frederick, Wim Notebaert, Baptist Liefooghe, & André Vandierendonck. (2006). Stimulus- and response-conflict-induced cognitive control in the flanker task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 13(2). 328–333. 113 indexed citations

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Stevens, Michaël, Jan Lammertyn, Frederick Verbruggen, & André Vandierendonck. (2006). Tscope: A C library for programming cognitive experiments on the MS Windows platform. Behavior Research Methods. 38(2). 280–286. 181 indexed citations

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Liefooghe, Baptist, et al.. (2004). The phonological loop in task alternation and task repetition. Memory. 13(5). 550–560. 28 indexed citations

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