Tom Beckers

7.2k total citations
160 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Tom Beckers is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Beckers has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 45 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 39 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Tom Beckers's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (83 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (39 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (34 papers). Tom Beckers is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (83 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (39 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (34 papers). Tom Beckers collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and United States. Tom Beckers's co-authors include Merel Kindt, Jan De Houwer, Dieuwke Sevenster, Frank Baeyens, Dirk Hermans, Yannick Boddez, Debora Vansteenwegen, Angelos‐Miltiadis Krypotos, Laura Luyten and Marieke Effting and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Tom Beckers

155 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tom Beckers Belgium 41 3.2k 1.2k 1.1k 986 918 160 4.8k
Daniela Schiller United States 36 4.1k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 367 0.4× 1.7k 1.8× 89 5.9k
Joseph E. Dunsmoor United States 37 2.9k 0.9× 1.4k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 293 0.3× 651 0.7× 91 4.0k
Daphna Shohamy United States 47 6.3k 1.9× 1.3k 1.0× 393 0.3× 1.1k 1.2× 1.5k 1.7× 100 8.3k
Sonia J. Bishop United Kingdom 25 3.5k 1.1× 2.3k 1.9× 590 0.5× 671 0.7× 287 0.3× 41 5.2k
Martín Lepage Canada 45 4.8k 1.5× 1.6k 1.3× 468 0.4× 459 0.5× 881 1.0× 270 8.3k
Catherine A. Hartley United States 27 1.6k 0.5× 913 0.7× 561 0.5× 309 0.3× 521 0.6× 61 3.3k
Dominik R. Bach United Kingdom 43 3.7k 1.1× 1.7k 1.4× 664 0.6× 190 0.2× 555 0.6× 126 5.2k
Jorge L. Armony Canada 42 7.9k 2.5× 2.8k 2.2× 860 0.8× 544 0.6× 1.0k 1.1× 108 9.7k
Szabolcs Kéri Hungary 42 2.7k 0.8× 995 0.8× 442 0.4× 304 0.3× 853 0.9× 219 6.0k
Turhan Canli United States 46 4.7k 1.5× 3.0k 2.4× 1.3k 1.2× 373 0.4× 1.1k 1.3× 81 8.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Beckers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Beckers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tom Beckers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tom Beckers based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Tom Beckers. Tom Beckers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Beckers, Tom, et al.. (2025). The impact of systemic blockade of dopamine receptors on the acquisition of two-way active avoidance in male rats. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 219. 108039–108039.
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Beckers, Tom, et al.. (2025). Extinction, avoidance, and generalization: Fear learning processes and their relations with anxious and depressive traits. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 193. 104841–104841.
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Beckers, Tom, et al.. (2024). The assessment of gender differences in perceptual fear generalization and related processes. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 183. 104640–104640. 4 indexed citations
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Beckers, Tom, et al.. (2024). Anhedonia influences threat avoidance and relief: A conceptual replication. PubMed. 5. 100050–100050. 6 indexed citations
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Luyten, Laura, et al.. (2024). No harmful effect of propranolol administered prior to fear memory extinction in rats and humans. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 104. 102870–102870.
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Beckers, Tom, et al.. (2023). What a relief! The pleasure of threat avoidance.. Emotion. 24(3). 539–550. 9 indexed citations
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Beckers, Tom, Dirk Hermans, Iris Lange, et al.. (2023). Understanding clinical fear and anxiety through the lens of human fear conditioning. Nature Reviews Psychology. 2(4). 233–245. 66 indexed citations
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Beckers, Tom, et al.. (2022). No joy - why bother? Higher anhedonia relates to reduced pleasure from and motivation for threat avoidance. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 159. 104227–104227. 10 indexed citations
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Beckers, Tom, et al.. (2022). Appraising reconsolidation theory and its empirical validation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 30(2). 450–463. 6 indexed citations
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Hulsbosch, An‐Katrien, et al.. (2021). Systematic Review: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Instrumental Learning. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 60(11). 1367–1381. 15 indexed citations
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Chalkia, Anastasia, et al.. (2020). No persistent attenuation of fear memories in humans: A registered replication of the reactivation-extinction effect. Cortex. 129. 496–509. 40 indexed citations
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Noortgate, Wim Van Den, et al.. (2020). Reactivation-Dependent Amnesia for Contextual Fear Memories: Evidence for Publication Bias. eNeuro. 8(1). ENEURO.0108–20.2020. 13 indexed citations
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Luyten, Laura, et al.. (2019). Limited replicability of drug-induced amnesia after contextual fear memory retrieval in rats. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 166. 107105–107105. 18 indexed citations
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Molina, Vı́ctor A., et al.. (2018). Post-weaning housing conditions influence freezing during contextual fear conditioning in adult rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 359. 172–180. 8 indexed citations
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Beckers, Tom & Merel Kindt. (2017). Memory Reconsolidation Interference as an Emerging Treatment for Emotional Disorders: Strengths, Limitations, Challenges, and Opportunities. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. 13(1). 99–121. 113 indexed citations
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Franssen, Mathijs, et al.. (2012). Narrowing down the conditions for extinction of Pavlovian feature-positive discriminations in humans. Learning & Behavior. 40(4). 393–404. 2 indexed citations
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Lu, Hongjing, Randall R. Rojas, Tom Beckers, & Alan Yuille. (2008). Sequential Causal Learning in Humans and Rats. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 30(30). 185–190. 16 indexed citations
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Beckers, Tom, et al.. (2005). An Integrated Approach for Device Independent Publication of Complex Multimedia Documents.. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 347–352. 4 indexed citations
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Pineño, Oskar, James C. Denniston, Tom Beckers, Helena Matute, & Ralph R. Miller. (2005). Contrasting predictive and causal values of predictors and of causes. Learning & Behavior. 33(2). 184–196. 21 indexed citations
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Ploeger, Annemie, et al.. (1998). Are silhouettes easier to recognize than outlines. Perception. 27. 1 indexed citations

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