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Freek van Ede
Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamORCID 0000-0002-7434-1751Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
Biology Disciplines
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2018-2026 · peak 8/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
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- NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Proactive visual and motor prioritization differentially scale with cue reliability
This study investigates how visual and motor prioritization in working memory scale with cue reliability, finding that motor prioritization scales more with cue reliability than visual prioritization.
DOI 10.1523/jneurosci.0176-26.2026 - NeuroscienceTranscranial magnetic stimulation .Peer-reviewed
Transcranial magnetic stimulation induced pupil dilations can serve as a cortical excitability measure
Phivos Phylactou, Fraser MacRae, Athina Manoli…·Siobhan M. Schabrun
The paper demonstrates that TMS-induced pupil dilations are a valid cortical excitability proxy, with larger pupil size indicating higher excitability, supported by Bayesian evidence across three experiments.
2 citations - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Externally driven attention to internal working memory content
Anna M van Harmelen, Laurie Rol, Freek van Ede
The paper demonstrates that external stimuli can involuntarily draw attention to internal working memory representations, showing a bidirectional interaction between perception and memory.
DOI 10.64898/2026.04.08.717206 - NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Sparse spatial scaffolding for visual working memory
Baiwei Liu, Zampeta-Sofia Alexopoulou, Siyang Kong…·Freek van Ede
This study investigates how the human brain uses sparse spatial scaffolding to organize and retain visual working memory representations based on direction and distance.
3 citations - NeuroscienceeNeuroPeer-reviewed
Exogenously driven neural reactivation of spatially matching visual working-memory contents
Águeda Fuentes-Guerra, Elisa Martín‐Arévalo, Freek van Ede, Carlos González‐García
The paper shows that task-irrelevant visual cues can reactivate spatially matching working-memory contents, demonstrating involuntary attentional selection within working memory.
DOI 10.1523/eneuro.0076-26.2026 - NeuroscienceScience AdvancesPeer-reviewed
Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search
This study shows internal and external selection processes can occur concurrently during visual search, challenging the idea they must take turns.
3 citations - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Microsaccades track shifting but not necessarily maintaining covert visual-spatial attention
Anna M van Harmelen, Freek van Ede
The paper shows that microsaccades track shifting covert visual-spatial attention but not maintaining it, depending on the stage of attentional deployment.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Anticipated action goals structure spatial organisation in visual working memory following self-movement
Babak Chawoush, Dejan Draschkow, Freek van Ede
This study shows that anticipated action goals influence the spatial frame used to organize visual working memory after self-movement.
DOI 10.1101/2025.05.01.651644 - NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Neural dynamics of reselecting visual and motor contents in working memory after external interference
Daniela Gresch, Larissa Behnke, Freek van Ede…·Sage Boettcher
The paper investigates how visual and motor contents in working memory are reselected after external interference, finding that both are reselected immediately and concurrently.
13 citationstop 2% - NeuroscienceProgress in NeurobiologyPeer-reviewed
Memory load influences our preparedness to act on visual representations in working memory without affecting their accessibility
Rose Nasrawi, Mika Mautner-Rohde, Freek van Ede
The paper investigates how working-memory load affects response speed by distinguishing between delays in motor preparation and visual selection.
3 citations - NeuroscienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Neural dynamics of shifting attention between perception and working-memory contents
Daniela Gresch, Sage Boettcher, Chetan Gohil…·Anna Christina Nobre
This study investigates neural dynamics during attention shifts between external sensory input and internal working memory using magnetoencephalography.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Dynamic prioritisation of sensory and motor contents in working memory
Irene Echeverria-Altuna, Sage Boettcher, Freek van Ede, Anna Christina Nobre
The paper investigates how sensory and motor contents are prioritized in working memory through dynamic temporal modulation, finding they are temporally uncoupled and governed by distinct neural mechanisms.
2 citations - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Microsaccades strongly modulate but do not cause the N2pc EEG marker of spatial attention
- NeuroscienceCommunications PsychologyPeer-reviewed
Attention and microsaccades: do attention shifts trigger new microsaccades or only bias ongoing microsaccades?
Baiwei Liu, Zampeta-Sofia Alexopoulou, Freek van Ede
The paper investigates whether attention shifts trigger new microsaccades or bias ongoing ones, finding that attention biases direction without increasing microsaccade rate.
19 citationstop 5% - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Faster attentional focusing in working memory instills better long-term memory
The paper investigates how attentional focusing during working memory affects long-term memory, finding that faster attentional deployment improves memory retention for attended objects.
10 citations - NeuroscienceJournal of Cognitive NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Neural signatures of competition between voluntary and involuntary influences over the focus of attention in visual working memory
Yun Ding, Bradley R. Postle, Freek van Ede
The paper investigates neural dynamics during competition between voluntary and involuntary attentional control in visual working memory, showing delayed prioritization and increased frontal midline theta activity.
10 citations - NeuroscienceeLifePeer-reviewed
Jointly looking to the past and the future in visual working memory
Baiwei Liu, Zampeta-Sofia Alexopoulou, Freek van Ede
This study investigates how visual working memory integrates past and future information by dissociating their encoding and testing locations, revealing joint utilization of both memory attributes.
24 citations - NeuroscienceProgress in NeurobiologyPeer-reviewed
Microsaccades transiently lateralise EEG alpha activity
Baiwei Liu, Anna Christina Nobre, Freek van Ede
The paper shows that microsaccades transiently lateralise EEG alpha power based on their direction, linking eye movements to spatial cognition.
44 citationstop 2% - NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Multiple and Dissociable Effects of Sensory History on Working-Memory Performance
Jasper E. Hajonides, Freek van Ede, Mark G. Stokes…·Nicholas E. Myers
The paper investigates how sensory history affects working-memory performance, finding two distinct biases in behavior and neural representations.
37 citationstop 3% - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Flexible early prospection of potential behavior in working memory
Rose Nasrawi, Sage Boettcher, Freek van Ede
The paper investigates early planning of potential visual working memory use for behavior, finding it adapts to task demands and occurs even for non-relevant actions, affecting performance.
3 citations - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
No trade-off between the use of space and time for working memory
Eelke de Vries, George Fejer, Freek van Ede
The paper investigates whether there is a trade-off between spatial and temporal coding in visual working memory and finds no evidence of such a trade-off.
8 citations - NeuroscienceNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Functional but not obligatory link between microsaccades and neural modulation by covert spatial attention
Baiwei Liu, Anna Christina Nobre, Freek van Ede
The paper investigates the relationship between microsaccades and neural modulation by covert spatial attention, finding that microsaccades are correlated with but not required for neural modulation.
150 citationstop 1% - NeuroscienceProgress in NeurobiologyPeer-reviewed
Transient beta activity and connectivity during sustained motor behaviour
Irene Echeverria-Altuna, Andrew J. Quinn, Nahid Zokaei…·Freek van Ede
The paper investigates beta activity and connectivity during sustained motor tasks and finds that beta activity and connectivity are transient, not sustained, even when motor behavior is sustained.
58 citationstop 3% - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
A neural decision signal during internal sampling from working memory
Freek van Ede, Anna Christina Nobre
This study identifies a neural signal during internal sampling from working memory that mirrors decision-making processes observed in external sensory sampling.
4 citations - NeuroscienceJournal of Cognitive NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Planning the potential future during multi-item visual working memory
This study shows that action planning occurs during multi-item visual working memory, with beta activity attenuation indicating potential future actions even when multiple items are remembered.
28 citations - NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Rhythmic modulation of visual perception by continuous rhythmic auditory stimulation
Anna‐Katharina R. Bauer, Freek van Ede, Andrew J. Quinn, Anna Christina Nobre
This study shows that continuous auditory stimulation modulates visual perception and neural activity without rhythmic structure in the visual stimulus or abrupt auditory onsets.
41 citationstop 4%