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Nicole Van Hoeck
Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Publications - 11
Citations - 335
Nicole Van Hoeck is an academic researcher from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The author has contributed to research in topics: Counterfactual thinking & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 11 publications receiving 285 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicole Van Hoeck include VU University Amsterdam.
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Counterfactual thinking: an fMRI study on changing the past for a better future
TL;DR: Results confirm that episodic and counterfactual thinking share a common brain network, involving a core memory network and prefrontal areas that might be related to mentalizing and performance monitoring and additionally activates the bilateral inferior parietal lobe and posterior medial frontal cortex.
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Cognitive neuroscience of human counterfactual reasoning
TL;DR: It is proposed that counterfactual thinking depends on an integrative network of systems for affective processing, mental simulation, and cognitive control that together enable adaptive behavior and goal-directed decision making and make recommendations for the study ofcounterfactual inference in health, aging, and disease.
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Situation and person attributions under spontaneous and intentional instructions: an fMRI study
TL;DR: FMRI research explores how observers make causal beliefs about an event in terms of the person or situation, and shows common activation in areas related to mentalizing, across all types of causes or instructions.
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False belief and counterfactual reasoning in a social environment.
Nicole Van Hoeck,Elizabet Begtas,Johan Steen,Jenny Kestemont,Marie Vandekerckhove,Frank Van Overwalle +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that counterfactual reasoning is a more complex cognitive process than false belief reasoning, showing stronger activation of the dorsomedial, left dorsolateral PFC, cerebellum and left temporal cortex.
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Distinct recruitment of temporo-parietal junction and medial prefrontal cortex in behavior understanding and trait identification
TL;DR: Findings confirm that in a social context, the TPJ (and pSTS) is activated for understanding goal-directed behaviors, whereas the mPFC is involved in processing traits.