List of works - Tom Beckers

A Bayesian Theory of Sequential Causal Learning and Abstract Transfer.

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

A Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model decomposition of performance in Approach-Avoidance Tasks

scientific article published on 9 December 2014

A Primer on Bayesian Analysis for Experimental Psychopathologists.

scientific article

A comparison of behavioral and pharmacological interventions to attenuate reactivated fear memories

scientific article

A free software package for a human online-conditioned suppression preparation

scientific article

A preregistered, direct replication attempt of the retrieval-extinction effect in cued fear conditioning in rats.

scientific article published on 29 July 2017

Additivity pretraining and cue competition effects: developmental evidence for a reasoning-based account of causal learning.

scientific article published on 13 February 2012

Advancing psychotherapy and evidence-based psychological interventions.

scientific article published on January 2014

Automatic integration of non-perceptual action effect features: the case of the associative affective Simon effect.

scientific article published on 25 May 2002

Avoidance and decision making in anxiety: An introduction to the special issue

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Avoidance learning: a review of theoretical models and recent developments

scientific article

Bending rules: the shape of the perceptual generalisation gradient is sensitive to inference rules

scientific article published on 28 September 2016

Blocking in children's causal learning depends on working memory and reasoning abilities

scientific article published on 15 March 2013

Blocking in human causal learning is affected by outcome assumptions manipulated through causal structure

scientific article published in June 2014

Blocking is sensitive to causal structure in 4-year-old and 8-year-old children

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Concomitant deficits in working memory and fear extinction are functionally dissociated from reduced anxiety in metabotropic glutamate receptor 7-deficient mice

scientific journal article

Conditioned craving cues elicit an automatic approach tendency.

scientific article published on 27 June 2008

Contrasting predictive and causal values of predictors and of causes.

scientific article published on May 2005

Cortisol response mediates the effect of post-reactivation stress exposure on contextualization of emotional memories.

scientific article published on 23 August 2014

Counterconditioning reduces cue-induced craving and actual cue-elicited consumption.

scientific article published in October 2010

Different effects of lorazepam and diazepam on perceptual integration

scientific article published in August 2001

Differential acquisition, extinction, and reinstatement of conditioned suppression in mice.

scientific article published on October 2007

Direct and indirect effects of perception on generalization gradients

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

Dopamine: from prediction error to psychotherapy

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Effects of Approach-Avoidance Training on the Extinction and Return of Fear Responses

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Encouraging children to think counterfactually enhances blocking in a causal learning task

scientific article published on 21 February 2013

Expectancy bias in a selective conditioning procedure: trait anxiety increases the threat value of a blocked stimulus.

scientific article

Failures to replicate blocking are surprising and informative-Reply to Soto (2018).

scientific article

Fear conditioning of SCR but not the startle reflex requires conscious discrimination of threat and safety.

scientific article published on 28 February 2014

Fearing shades of grey: individual differences in fear responding towards generalisation stimuli.

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Feature- versus rule-based generalization in rats, pigeons and humans

scientific article

Further evidence for the role of inferential reasoning in forward blocking.

scientific article

Generalization and recovery of post-retrieval amnesia

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Heart rate pattern and resting heart rate variability mediate individual differences in contextual anxiety and conditioned responses

scientific article published on 19 September 2015

Higher-order retrospective revaluation in human causal learning.

scientific article published in April 2002

Identification of everyday objects on the basis of silhouette and outline versions.

scientific article published in January 2008

Implicit and explicit measures of spider fear and avoidance behavior: Examination of the moderating role of working memory capacity.

scientific article

In Search for Boundary Conditions of Reconsolidation: A Failure of Fear Memory Interference.

scientific article

Individual Differences in Discriminatory Fear Learning under Conditions of Ambiguity: A Vulnerability Factor for Anxiety Disorders?

scientific article published on 28 May 2013

Instructed extinction differentially affects the emotional and cognitive expression of associative fear memory

scientific article published on 7 September 2012

Interfering with emotional processing resources upon associative threat memory reactivation does not affect memory retention

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Limited replicability of drug-induced amnesia after contextual fear memory retrieval in rats

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Low-dose systemic scopolamine disrupts context conditioning in rats

scientific article

Manipulating affective state influences conditioned appetitive responses

scientific article published on 6 October 2017

Memory Reconsolidation Interference as an Emerging Treatment for Emotional Disorders: Strengths, Limitations, Challenges, and Opportunities.

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Moving threat: Attention and distance change interact in threat responding

scientific article published on 8 September 2016

Narrowing down the conditions for extinction of Pavlovian feature-positive discriminations in humans.

scientific article published in December 2012

Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Neurocognitive and psychotiform behavioral alterations and enhanced hippocampal long-term potentiation in transgenic mice displaying neuropathological features of human alpha-mannosidosis

scientific journal article

No effect of glucose administration in a novel contextual fear generalization protocol in rats

scientific article

Noradrenergic blockade of memory reconsolidation: a failure to reduce conditioned fear responding

scientific article

One-trial overshadowing: Evidence for fast specific fear learning in humans.

scientific article published on 8 December 2016

Outcome additivity and outcome maximality influence cue competition in human causal learning.

scientific article published in March 2005

Outcome and cue properties modulate blocking.

scientific article published in July 2002

Outcome maximality and additivity training also influence cue competition in causal learning when learning involves many cues and events

scientific article

Parameter optimization for automated behavior assessment: plug-and-play or trial-and-error?

scientific article published on 4 February 2014

Pathways towards the proliferation of avoidance in anxiety and implications for treatment

scientific article

Post-Weaning Housing Conditions Influence Freezing during Contextual Fear Conditioning in Adult Rats

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Prediction error demarcates the transition from retrieval, to reconsolidation, to new learning

scientific article published on 15 October 2014

Prediction error governs pharmacologically induced amnesia for learned fear

scientific article published in February 2013

Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms: A verification report of Schiller et al. (2010)

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Priming associations between bodily sensations and catastrophic misinterpretations: Specific for panic disorder?

scientific article published on 27 May 2010

Probing the role of perception in fear generalization

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Psychophysiological response patterns to affective film stimuli

scientific article

Rating data are underrated: validity of US expectancy in human fear conditioning

scientific article

Reactivation-dependent amnesia for contextual fear memories: Evidence for publication bias

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Reappraisal of threat value: loss of blocking in human aversive conditioning

scientific article published in January 2013

Reasoning rats: forward blocking in Pavlovian animal conditioning is sensitive to constraints of causal inference.

scientific article published in February 2006

Reasoning versus association in animal cognition: Current controversies and possible ways forward

scientific article published in August 2016

Reinforcement Contingency Learning in Children with ADHD: Back to the Basics of Behavior Therapy

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Reinstatement after human feature-positive discrimination learning.

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Repeated cue exposure effects on subjective and physiological indices of chocolate craving

scientific article published on 18 May 2007

Retrieval per se is not sufficient to trigger reconsolidation of human fear memory

scientific article

Return of experimentally induced chocolate craving after extinction in a different context: divergence between craving for and expecting to eat chocolate.

scientific article published on 20 January 2008

Return of fear in a human differential conditioning paradigm caused by a return to the original acquistion context.

scientific article published in March 2005

Second-order backward blocking and unovershadowing in human causal learning

scientific article published in January 2002

Secondary task difficulty modulates forward blocking in human contingency learning

scientific article published in November 2003

Selectivity in associative learning: a cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena

scientific article published on 12 November 2014

Smoking behavior in context: where and when do people smoke?

scientific article published on 4 January 2010

Statistical contingency has a different impact on preparation judgements than on causal judgements

scientific article

Stress enhances reconsolidation of declarative memory.

scientific article published on 24 April 2014

Stronger renewal in human fear conditioning when tested with an acquisition retrieval cue than with an extinction retrieval cue.

scientific article published on 2 February 2006

The continued need for animals to advance brain research

scientific article

The effect of subadditive pretraining on blocking: limits on generalization.

scientific article

The effects of noradrenergic blockade on extinction in humans.

scientific article

The elusive nature of the blocking effect: 15 failures to replicate.

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

The hide-and-seek of retrospective revaluation: recovery from blocking is context dependent in human causal learning.

scientific article published in April 2011

The inertia of conditioned craving. Does context modulate the effect of counterconditioning?

scientific article published on 10 February 2013

The need for a behavioural science focus in research on mental health and mental disorders.

scientific article published on January 2014

Three-year-olds' retrospective revaluation in the blicket detector task. Backward blocking or recovery from overshadowing?

scientific article published in January 2009

Trait anxiety is associated with reduced typicality asymmetry in fear generalization

scientific article published in 2021

What's wrong with fear conditioning?

scientific article

List of works by Tom Beckers

A Bayesian Theory of Sequential Causal Learning and Abstract Transfer.

A Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model decomposition of performance in Approach-Avoidance Tasks

A Primer on Bayesian Analysis for Experimental Psychopathologists.

A comparison of behavioral and pharmacological interventions to attenuate reactivated fear memories

A free software package for a human online-conditioned suppression preparation

A preregistered, direct replication attempt of the retrieval-extinction effect in cued fear conditioning in rats.

Additivity pretraining and cue competition effects: developmental evidence for a reasoning-based account of causal learning.

Advancing psychotherapy and evidence-based psychological interventions.

Automatic integration of non-perceptual action effect features: the case of the associative affective Simon effect.

Avoidance and decision making in anxiety: An introduction to the special issue

Avoidance learning: a review of theoretical models and recent developments

Bending rules: the shape of the perceptual generalisation gradient is sensitive to inference rules

Blocking in children's causal learning depends on working memory and reasoning abilities

Blocking in human causal learning is affected by outcome assumptions manipulated through causal structure

Blocking is sensitive to causal structure in 4-year-old and 8-year-old children

Concomitant deficits in working memory and fear extinction are functionally dissociated from reduced anxiety in metabotropic glutamate receptor 7-deficient mice

Conditioned craving cues elicit an automatic approach tendency.

Contrasting predictive and causal values of predictors and of causes.

Cortisol response mediates the effect of post-reactivation stress exposure on contextualization of emotional memories.

Counterconditioning reduces cue-induced craving and actual cue-elicited consumption.

Different effects of lorazepam and diazepam on perceptual integration

Differential acquisition, extinction, and reinstatement of conditioned suppression in mice.

Direct and indirect effects of perception on generalization gradients

Dopamine: from prediction error to psychotherapy

Effects of Approach-Avoidance Training on the Extinction and Return of Fear Responses

Encouraging children to think counterfactually enhances blocking in a causal learning task

Expectancy bias in a selective conditioning procedure: trait anxiety increases the threat value of a blocked stimulus.

Failures to replicate blocking are surprising and informative-Reply to Soto (2018).

Fear conditioning of SCR but not the startle reflex requires conscious discrimination of threat and safety.

Fearing shades of grey: individual differences in fear responding towards generalisation stimuli.

Feature- versus rule-based generalization in rats, pigeons and humans

Further evidence for the role of inferential reasoning in forward blocking.

Generalization and recovery of post-retrieval amnesia

Heart rate pattern and resting heart rate variability mediate individual differences in contextual anxiety and conditioned responses

Higher-order retrospective revaluation in human causal learning.

Identification of everyday objects on the basis of silhouette and outline versions.

Implicit and explicit measures of spider fear and avoidance behavior: Examination of the moderating role of working memory capacity.

In Search for Boundary Conditions of Reconsolidation: A Failure of Fear Memory Interference.

Individual Differences in Discriminatory Fear Learning under Conditions of Ambiguity: A Vulnerability Factor for Anxiety Disorders?

Instructed extinction differentially affects the emotional and cognitive expression of associative fear memory

Interfering with emotional processing resources upon associative threat memory reactivation does not affect memory retention

Limited replicability of drug-induced amnesia after contextual fear memory retrieval in rats

Low-dose systemic scopolamine disrupts context conditioning in rats

Manipulating affective state influences conditioned appetitive responses

Memory Reconsolidation Interference as an Emerging Treatment for Emotional Disorders: Strengths, Limitations, Challenges, and Opportunities.

Moving threat: Attention and distance change interact in threat responding

Narrowing down the conditions for extinction of Pavlovian feature-positive discriminations in humans.

Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research

Neurocognitive and psychotiform behavioral alterations and enhanced hippocampal long-term potentiation in transgenic mice displaying neuropathological features of human alpha-mannosidosis

No effect of glucose administration in a novel contextual fear generalization protocol in rats

Noradrenergic blockade of memory reconsolidation: a failure to reduce conditioned fear responding

One-trial overshadowing: Evidence for fast specific fear learning in humans.

Outcome additivity and outcome maximality influence cue competition in human causal learning.

Outcome and cue properties modulate blocking.

Outcome maximality and additivity training also influence cue competition in causal learning when learning involves many cues and events

Parameter optimization for automated behavior assessment: plug-and-play or trial-and-error?

Pathways towards the proliferation of avoidance in anxiety and implications for treatment

Post-Weaning Housing Conditions Influence Freezing during Contextual Fear Conditioning in Adult Rats

Prediction error demarcates the transition from retrieval, to reconsolidation, to new learning

Prediction error governs pharmacologically induced amnesia for learned fear

Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms: A verification report of Schiller et al. (2010)

Priming associations between bodily sensations and catastrophic misinterpretations: Specific for panic disorder?

Probing the role of perception in fear generalization

Psychophysiological response patterns to affective film stimuli

Rating data are underrated: validity of US expectancy in human fear conditioning

Reactivation-dependent amnesia for contextual fear memories: Evidence for publication bias

Reappraisal of threat value: loss of blocking in human aversive conditioning

Reasoning rats: forward blocking in Pavlovian animal conditioning is sensitive to constraints of causal inference.

Reasoning versus association in animal cognition: Current controversies and possible ways forward

Reinforcement Contingency Learning in Children with ADHD: Back to the Basics of Behavior Therapy

Reinstatement after human feature-positive discrimination learning.

Repeated cue exposure effects on subjective and physiological indices of chocolate craving

Retrieval per se is not sufficient to trigger reconsolidation of human fear memory

Return of experimentally induced chocolate craving after extinction in a different context: divergence between craving for and expecting to eat chocolate.

Return of fear in a human differential conditioning paradigm caused by a return to the original acquistion context.

Second-order backward blocking and unovershadowing in human causal learning

Secondary task difficulty modulates forward blocking in human contingency learning

Selectivity in associative learning: a cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena

Smoking behavior in context: where and when do people smoke?