CURRICULUM VITAE TOM BECKERS, PHD · CURRICULUM VITAE TOM BECKERS, PHD October 2016 BIOGRAPHICAL AND CONTACT INFORMATION Tom René Johannes Beckers Belgian, born in Leuven on May

C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E T O M B E C K E R S , P H D

October 2016

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CONTACT INFORMATION

Tom René Johannes Beckers

Belgian, born in Leuven on May 23, 1975 Married to Saskia van der Oord, father of Juul, Siel and Max

Professor of Psychology (Research Fund Professor) Department of Psychology KU Leuven Tiensestraat 102, box 3712 3000 Leuven Belgium Phone: +32 16 32 61 34 Fax: +32 16 32 60 99 [email protected]

Affiliated faculty member Department of Clinical Psychology University of Amsterdam (UvA) http://ppw.kuleuven.be/home/english/research/clep/people/00005902

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EDUCATION & TRAINING

1993 – 1995 BSc Psychology, KU Leuven, cum laude

1995 – 1998 MSc Psychology, major in physiological and experimental psychology, minor in clinical psychology, KU Leuven, magna cum laude

1998 – 1999 Qualified teacher in psychology, KU Leuven, cum laude

1998 – 2002 PhD Psychology, KU Leuven (no grading) Dissertation: Extinction in Human Associative Learning Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Eelen Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jan De Houwer (Ghent University)

09/2000 Summer school "Learning: The acquisition of behavioural competence", Würzburg University

07/2007 Summer school “Probabilistic models of cognition: The mathematics of mind”, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

2010 Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, University of Amsterdam

since 2010 Laboratory animal science (felasa C certificate), coaching skills training (4-day course)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE & ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1997, 1998 Visiting Researcher, INSERM Unité 405, Psychopathologie et pharmacologie de la cognition, Strasbourg, France

1998 – 2002 Research Assistant of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen), KU Leuven, Belgium

2002 - 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen), KU Leuven, Belgium

2003 – 2004 Visiting Assistant Professor, State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton, NY, USA

2007 Visiting Research Scholar, University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

2008 – 2010 Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands


2010 – 2014 Associate Professor of Research (Hoofddocent BOFZAP), KU Leuven, Belgium

since 2010 Affiliated Faculty Member, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2013 – 2014 Visiting Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium

since 2014 Research Professor of Psychology (Hoogleraar BOFZAP), KU Leuven, Belgium

GRANTS AWARDED

1998 – 2002 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen):

Predoctoral fellowship, Associative learning in the action-effect paradigm

2002 – 2005 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Postdoctoral fellowship, Cue competition in human contingency learning and autonomic conditioning

2003 – 2004 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Travel grant (€ 18.000)

2005 – 2008 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Postdoctoral fellowship (extension), Structural and functional analysis of cue competition in humans and mice

2006 – 2008 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Research grant, Functional and structural analysis of cue competition and other complex learning phenomena in mice (PI; € 39.900; with Rudi D’Hooge, KU Leuven)

2006 – 2011 KU Leuven Research Council (BOF): Concerted Research Action grant (GOA), Extinction ‘in context’: When simple extinction fails (involved as senior researcher; € 1.250.000; PI Frank Baeyens, KU Leuven)

2007 – 2008 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Travel grant (€ 18.000)

2009 – 2011 Economic and Social Research Council (UK): Research grant, Reasoning and cue competition effects in causal learning: A developmental study (CI; £ 200.000; PI Teresa McCormack, Queen's University, Belfast)


2010 – 2015 Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO): Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Vidi grant, Where has the fear gone - Is it lost, or has it just changed places? (PI; € 800.000)

2010 – 2017 KU Leuven Research Council (BOF): Program Funding (PF), GRIP*TT - Generalization Research in Ill health and Psychopathology: Transdiagnostic processes and Transfer of knowledge (CI; € 3.150.000; PI Dirk Hermans, KU Leuven; with Frank Baeyens, Filip Raes, Omer van den Bergh, Ilse Van Diest, Johan Vlaeyen, KU Leuven)

2011 – 2012 KU Leuven Research Council (BOF): F+ fellowship for Dr. Bridget McConnell, Experimental extinction as a laboratory model for exposure: Mechanisms of generalization and the role of extinction cues (promotor) (terminated after two months to take up FWO fellowship)

2011 – 2014 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Postdoctoral fellowship for Dr. Bridget McConnell, Experimental extinction as a laboratory model for exposure: Mechanisms of generalization and the role of extinction cues (supervisor)

2011 – 2014 Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation: Scholarship for Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos (advisor)

2011 – 2015 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Research grant, Affirming Darwin: Rule-based generalization and analogical reasoning in rats (PI; € 350.000; with Jan De Houwer, Ghent University, and Rudi D’Hooge, KU Leuven)

2012 – 2014 KU Leuven Research Council (BOF): F+ fellowship for Dr. Holly Miller, Generalisation of exteroceptive and interoceptive cues (promotor)

2012 – 2016 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Research grant, Learning to not respond rather than not learning to respond: behavioral, neurological and clinical tests of a novel theory of selective conditioning (CI; € 382.900; PI Frank Baeyens, KU Leuven; with Bram Vervliet, KU Leuven)

2012 – 2016 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Predoctoral fellowship for Sarah Beurms, Stimulus equivalence in animals: Investigating the underlying mechanisms (promotor)


2012 – 2017 Hercules Foundation: Medium-sized Research Infrastructure grant, Generalization research in ill health and psychopathology (CI;€ 440.000; PI Dirk Hermans, KU Leuven; with Frank Baeyens, Filip Raes, Omer van den Bergh, Ilse Van Diest, Johan Vlaeyen, KU Leuven)

2012 – 2017 Belgian Science Policy Office: InterUniversity Attraction Pole (IUAP) grant, Mechanisms of conscious and unconscious learning (KU Leuven PI; KU Leuven budget € 500.000; consortium leader: Axel Cleeremans, ULB; with partners from ULB, UCLouvain, Ghent University, University of Sussex, UCLondon)

2013 – 2014 KU Leuven Research Council (BOF): PDM postdoctoral fellowship for Dr. Yannick Boddez, I shake fears: Keys to understanding pathological fear and its treatment (promotor)

2014 – 2018 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Research grant, Associative learning processes in ADHD (CI; € 313.600; PI Saskia van der Oord, KU Leuven; with Holly Miller, KU Leuven)

2015 – 2019 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Research grant, Hypnos’ healing powers: The role of sleep in the generalization of fear responses (PI; € 308.000; with Yannick Boddez, KU Leuven, and Philippe Peigneux, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

2015 – 2020 European Research Council (ERC): Consolidator Grant, How the brain learns to forget: The neural signature of fear memory erasure (PI; € 2.000.000)

2015 – 2019 Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen): Predoctoral fellowship for Anouk Pierre (VU Brussels), Reprogramming ghrelin-dopamine interactions in stress-induced psychopathology through caloric restriction (co-promotor)

2016 – 2017 KU Leuven Research Fund: International Cooperation Grant from the Latin America Fund (PI; € 4000)


FORMER AND PRESENT PHD STUDENTS

Yannick Boddez (2007 – 2011), Extinction of competitors and the emergence of fear (KU Leuven; KU Leuven GOA grant; supervisor). Now postdoc at KU Leuven.

Matthijs Franssen (2007 – 2011), Elemental versus configural processes in modulation and extinction (KU Leuven; KU Leuven GOA grant; co-supervisor). Now research support staff at KU Leuven.

Marieke Bos (2009 – 2013), Processes of consolidation and reconsolidation in fear conditioning (UvA; NWO Vici grant; co-supervisor). Now postdoc at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Dieuwke Sevenster (2009 – 2013), Reconsolidation disruption and the return of fear (UvA; NWO Vici grant; co-supervisor). Now assistant professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Angelos Krypotos (2010 – 2014), Individual differences and response system divergence in fear conditioning: The role of action tendencies (UvA; NWO Vidi grant and Onassis Foundation fellowship; supervisor). Now postdoc at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Inna Arnaudova (2011 – 2015), Where has the fear gone? Fear relocation and individual differences in impulsive action tendencies (UvA; NWO Vidi grant; supervisor). Now postdoc at University of Southern California. Elisa Maes (2011 – 2016), Affirming Darwin: rule-based generalization and analogical transfer in rats (KU Leuven; FWO research grant; supervisor). Now postdoc at KU Leuven. Sarah Beurms (2012 – 2016), Stimulus equivalence in animals: Investigating the underlying mechanisms (KU Leuven; FWO PhD fellowship; supervisor) Kim Haesen (2012 – 2016), Learning not to respond rather than not learning to respond:Behavioral, neurological, and clinical tests of a new theory of selective conditioning (KU Leuven; FWO research grant; co-supervisor) Hasse De Meyer (2014 – 2018), Associative learning processes in ADHD (KU Leuven; FWO research grant; co-supervisor) Ann-Kathrin Zenses (2015 – 2019), Effects of sleep on fear generalization and reconsolidation (KU Leuven; FWO grant; supervisor) Anouk Pierre (2015 – 2019), Reprogramming ghrelin-dopamine interactions in stress-induced psychopathology through caloric restriction (VUB; FWO PhD fellowship; co-supervisor) Joaquín Matías Alfei Pelloni (2015 – 2019), How the brain learns to forget: Experimental amnesia for retrieved fear memories in rodents (KU Leuven; ERC grant; supervisor)


Anastasia Chalkia (2015 – 2019), How the brain learns to forget: Inducing amnesia in humans (KU Leuven; ERC grant; supervisor) Natalie Schroyens (2016 – 2020), Implications of glucocorticoids in disrupting traumatic fear memories (KU Leuven; IAP grant; supervisor)

FORMER AND PRESENT POSTDOCS

Victoria Simms, PhD (2009 – 2011), Reasoning and cue competition effects in causal learning: A developmental study (Queen's University, Belfast; ESRC grant; co-supervisor). Now lecturer at University of Ulster, Ireland.

Marieke Effting, PhD (2010 – 2016), Action tendencies in fear conditioning (UvA; NWO Vidi grant; supervisor). Now lecturer at University of Amsterdam. Bridget McConnell, PhD (2011 – 2013), Generalisation of safety learning: its mechanisms and the role of extinction cues (KU Leuven; KU Leuven F+ fellowship followed by FWO postdoctoral fellowship; supervisor). Now lecturer at James Cook University, Singapore. Holly Miller, PhD (2012 – 2014), Generalisation of exteroceptive and interoceptive cues (KU Leuven; KU Leuven F+ fellowship; supervisor). Now sensory scientist at General Mills, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Yannick Boddez, PhD (2013 – 2017), Conditioning in the absence of awareness and mechanisms of generalization (KU Leuven; KU Leuven PDM fellowship, Centre for Excellence grant and InterUniversity Attraction Pole; supervisor) Riet Fonteyne, PhD (2015 – 2016), Neurobiological mechanisms of experimental amnesia in humans (KU Leuven; ERC grant; supervisor). Now management staff at Asster Psychiatric Hospital, Sint-Truiden. Laura Luyten, PhD (2015 – 2017), How the brain learns to forget: Neurobiological underpinnings of experimental amnesia in rodents (KU Leuven; ERC grant; supervisor)


ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE

1995 – 2008 Representative of temporary staff at the departmental and faculty counsel, KU Leuven

2002 – 2008 Treasurer and executive committee member of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science (BAPS)

2008 – 2010 Member of the master's dissertation proposal review board for the Master in Clinical Psychology program and of the master's dissertation proposal review board for the Research Master in Psychology program, UvA

2009 – 2010 Board of Education member, Research Master in Psychology program, UvA

2010 Member of task force for a master track on patho- physiology in the MA in Biomedical Sciences program, UvA

since 2010 Academic responsible for research resources (human participant pool, collective testing sessions, lab spaces) in the Department of Psychology, KU Leuven

2012 – 2016 Member of the KU Leuven Research Council and the BOF Advisory Committee

2014 – 2017 Member of the FWO panel member selection committee

since 2016 Member of the KU Leuven Social and Societal Ethics Review Board


TEACHING

1998 – 2002 Small group sessions in general and experimental

psychology: Sessions on methodology and psychology of learning, coordination (KU Leuven)

2000 – 2006 Occasional substitution for master course on the psychology of learning (KU Leuven)

since 2002 Supervision of bachelor theses and master’s dissertations (KU Leuven and UvA)

2002 – 2003 Supervision of informal research internships for foreign exchange students (KU Leuven)

2004 – 2005 Doctoral course on “Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference” (KU Leuven)

2004 – 2006 Master course in psychology for students in sciences, applied sciences and bio-engineering (substitute; KU Leuven)

2005 – 2006 Bachelor course in history of psychology (substitute; KU Leuven)

2007 – 2008 Bachelor course in psychology for students in economic sciences (partim; substitute; KU Leuven)

2008 – 2010 Master course on the theory and treatment of addiction (UvA)

2009 – 2010 Master course on science, pseudoscience and controversies in clinical psychology (UvA)

2007 – 2013 Guest courses on causal learning (KU Leuven), impulse control disorders (UvA), animal cognition (UvA), neurobiology of addiction (UvA); psychophysics of contingency assessment (KU Leuven)

since 2012 Bachelor course in psychology for students in pharmaceutical sciences (KU Leuven)

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Associate Editor, Experimental Psychology, since 2011 Associate Editor, Frontiers in Cognition, since 2012

Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, since 2016

Editorial board member, Acta Psychologica, 2009 - 2014 Editorial board member (review editor), Frontiers in Cognition (until 2012), Frontiers in Comparative Psychology, Frontiers in Psychopathology, since 2010

Ad hoc invited reviewer for Animal Cognition | Acta Psychologica | Appetite | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Behavioral Brain Research | Behaviour Research and Therapy | Biological Psychology | Clinical Psychological Science | Cognition & Emotion | Cognitive Psychology | Current Biology | Experimental Psychology | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience | International Journal of Psychology | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry | Journal of Comparative Psychology | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition| Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | Journal of Experimental Psychopathology | Learning & Behavior | Learning & Memory | Learning and Motivation | Memory & Cognition | Molecular Psychiatry | Motivation and Emotion | Psychologica Belgica | Psychological Science | Psychological Research | Psychological Review | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Psychophysiology | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Guest-editor of special issues/sections for Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology on human contingency learning (2007), International Journal of Comparative Psychology on the origins of causal cognition (2009), Journal of Comparative Psychology (2016) on reasoning versus association in animal cognition and Behaviour Research and Therapy on avoidance and decision making in anxiety.

Grant proposal reviewer / panel member for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, Netherlands; Toptalent panel member, 2015 – 2016), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK; ESRC Peer Review College member, 2010 – 2017), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC, UK), the National Science Foundation (NSF, USA); the Research Council for Culture and Society of the Academy of Finland; the Deutsche ForschungsGemeinschaft (DFG, Germany)

Organisor of international expert meetings on Human contingency learning, May 2004, on The origins of causal cognition, May 2007, and on Animal Reasoning, December 2013


Invited seminars, lectures and talks: Leiden University (NL), Deusto University (Bilbao, Spain), State University of New York at Binghamton (USA), McMaster University (Hamilton, CA), Free University of Brussels (BE), University of California at Los Angeles (USA), University of California at Berkeley (USA), NWO Autumn School (Dortwerth, NL), Ghent University (Belgium), University of Hamburg (Germany), Pavlovian Society meeting (Baltimore, USA), Queen’s University (Belfast, UK), University of Mannheim (Germany), University of Aachen (Germany), Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (Bielefeld, Germany), Animal Cognition Workshop (Bochum, Germany), University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK), Extinction Learning Symposium (Bochum, Germany), Max Planck Institut Leipzig (Germany), Cardiff University (UK), Lille University (France), New York University (US)

Senior member of the Dutch-Flemisch Post-Graduate School Experimental Psychopathology

Doctoral committee member for Stefaan Vandorpe, Mieke Declercq, Katrien Vandenbosch, Sarah Opsomer, Gaëtan Mertens, Ama Kissi (Ghent University), Elisabeth Piccart, Lore Willem, Adrian Lo, Elien Segers, Tine Pooters, Pieter Moors, Christophe Bossens, Antoine Selim Bilgin, Radha Nila Meghanathan (KU Leuven), Esti San Anton (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Jury member for the doctoral defenses of Marieke Effting (UvA, 2011), Marieke Soeter (UvA, 2012), Elisabeth Piccart (KU Leuven, 2012), Ben Vermaercke (KU Leuven, 2012), Marc-Antoine Muller (Université de Strasbourg, 2012), Stéphanie Volders (KU Leuven, 2013), Nerea Ortega Castro (Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, 2015; supplementary jury), Pieter Moors (KU Leuven, 2016), Gaëtan Mertens (Universiteit Gent 2016), Nathalie Claes (KU Leuven, 2016), Esther De Loof (Universiteit Gent, 2016), Karolien van den Akker (Maastricht University, 2016)

Member of the Pavlovian Society, Association for Psychological Science (APS), Society for Neuroscience (SfN), the Belgian Association for Psychological Science (BAPS) (board member and treasurer, 2002 - 2008), the Belgian Federation of Psychologists (BFP), Leuven research Initiative for Neuroscience & Disease (LIND), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)


PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

1. Beckers, T., Wagemans, J., Boucart, M., & Giersch, A. (2001). Different effects of lorazepam and diazepam on perceptual integration. Vision Research, 41, 2297-2303.

2. Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (2002). Automatic integration of non-perceptual action effect features: The case of the associative affective Simon effect. Psychological Research, 66, 166-173.

3. De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2002). A review of recent developments in research and theories on human contingency learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55B, 289-310.

4. De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2002). Higher-order retrospective revaluation in human causal learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55B, 137-151.

5. De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2002). Second-order backward blocking and unovershadowing in human causal learning. Experimental Psychology, 49, 27-33.

6. De Houwer, J., Beckers, T., & Glautier, S. (2002). Outcome and cue properties modulate blocking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55A, 965-985.

7. De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2003). Secondary task difficulty modulates forward blocking in human contingency learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56B, 345-357.

8. Baeyens, F., Vervliet, B., Vansteenwegen, D., Hermans, D., Beckers, T., & Eelen, P. (2004). Simultaneous and sequential feature negative discriminations: Elemental learning and occasion setting in human Pavlovian conditioning. Learning and Motivation, 35, 136-166.

9. Baeyens, F., Vansteenwegen, D., Beckers, T., Hermans, D., Kerkhof, I., & De Ceulaer, A. (2005). Extinction and renewal of Pavlovian modulation in human sequential feature positive discrimination learning. Learning & Memory, 12, 178-192.

10. Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., Pineño, O., & Miller, R. R. (2005). Outcome additivity and outcome maximality influence cue competition in human causal learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 238-249.

11. Beckers, T., Van den Broeck, U., Renne, M., Vandorpe, S., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (2005). Blocking is sensitive to causal structure in 4-year-old and 8-year-old children. Experimental Psychology, 52, 264-271.

12. De Houwer, J., Beckers, T., & Vandorpe, S. (2005). Evidence for the role of higher-order reasoning processes in cue competition and other learning phenomena. Learning & Behavior, 33, 239-249.

13. De Houwer, J., Beckers, T., Vandorpe, S., & Custers, R. (2005). Further evidence for the role of mode-independent short-term associations in spatial Simon effects. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 659-666.

14. D’Hooge, R., Lüllmann-Rauch, R., Beckers, T., Balschun, D., Schwake, M., Reiss, K., von Figura, K., & Saftig, P. (2005). Neurocognitive and psychotiform behavioral alterations and enhanced hippocampal long-term potentiation in transgenic mice displaying neuropathological features of human α-mannosidosis. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 6539-6549.


15. Pineño, O., Denniston, J. C., Beckers, T., Matute, H., & Miller, R. R. (2005). Contrasting predictive and causal values of predictors and of causes. Learning & Behavior, 33, 184-196.

16. Vandorpe, S., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2005). Further evidence for the role of inferential reasoning in forward blocking. Memory & Cognition, 33, 1047-1056.

17. Vansteenwegen, D., Hermans, D., Vervliet, B., Francken, G., Beckers, T., Baeyens, F., & Eelen, P. (2005). Return of fear in a human differential conditioning paradigm caused by a return to the original acquisition context. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 323-336.

18. Beckers, T., Miller, R. R., De Houwer, J., & Urushihara, K. (2006). Reasoning rats: Forward blocking in Pavlovian animal conditioning is sensitive to constraints of causal inference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 92-102. Highlighted in the APA Monitor on Psychology, 37(3), 13.

19. Callaerts-Vegh, Z., Beckers, T., Ball, S. M., Baeyens, F., Callaerts, P. F., Cryan, J. F., Molnar, E., & D'Hooge, R. (2006). Concomitant deficits in working memory and fear extinction are functionally dissociated from reduced anxiety in metabotropic glutamate receptor 7-deficient mice. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 6573-6582.

20. Dirikx, T., Gillard, E., Muyls, C., Beckers, T., Hermans, D., Vansteenwegen, D., & D’Hooge, R. (2006). Reinstatement of conditioned suppression in mice. Psychologica Belgica, 46, 185-195.

21. Vansteenwegen, D., Vervliet, B., Hermans, D., Beckers, T., Baeyens, F., & Eelen, P. (2006). Stronger renewal in human fear conditioning when tested with an acquisition retrieval cue than with an extinction retrieval cue. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 1717-1725.

22. Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., & Matute, H. (2007). Human contingency learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 289-290.

23. De Houwer, J., Beckers, T., & Moors, A. (2007). Novel attitudes can be faked on the Implicit Association Test. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 972-978.

24. De Houwer, J., Vandorpe, S., & Beckers, T. (2007). Statistical contingency has a different impact on preparation judgements than on causal judgements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 418-432.

25. Dirikx, T., Beckers, T., Muyls, C., Hermans, D., Vansteenwegen, D., Eelen, P., & D'Hooge, R. (2007). Differential acquisition, extinction and reinstatement of conditioned suppression in mice. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1313-1320.

26. Vandorpe, S., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2007). Outcome maximality and additivity training also influence cue competition in causal learning when learning involves many cues and events. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 356-368.

27. Vandorpe, S., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2007). The role of memory for compounds in cue competition. Learning and Motivation, 38, 195-207.

28. Van Gucht, D., Vansteenwegen, D., Beckers, T., Hermans, D., Baeyens, F., & Van den Bergh, O. (2008). Repeated exposure effects on subjective and physiological indices of chocolate craving. Appetite, 50, 19-24.


29. Van Gucht, D., Vansteenwegen, D., Beckers, T., & Van den Bergh, O.

(2008). Return of experimentally induced chocolate craving after extinction in a different context: Divergence between craving for and expecting to eat chocolate. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 375-391.

30. Van Gucht, D., Vansteenwegen, D., Van den Bergh, O., & Beckers, T. (2008). Conditioned craving cues elicit an automatic approach tendency. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 1160-1169.

31. Wagemans, J., De Winter, J., Op de Beeck, H. P., Ploeger, A., Beckers, T., & Vanroose, P. (2008). Identification of everyday objects on the basis of silhouette and outline versions. Perception, 37, 207-244.

32. Wheeler, D. S., Beckers, T., & Miller, R. R. (2008). The effect of subadditive pretraining on blocking: Limits on generalization. Learning & Behavior, 36, 341-351.

33. Beckers, T., de Vicq, P., & Baeyens, F. (2009). Evaluative conditioning is insensitive to blocking. Psychologica Belgica, 49, 41-57.

34. Beckers, T., Vandorpe, S., Debeys, I., & De Houwer, J. (2009). Three-year-old’s retrospective revaluation in the blicket detector task: Backward blocking or recovery from overshadowing? Experimental Psychology, 56, 27-32.

35. Beckers, T., & Vervliet, B. (2009). Commentary: The truth and value of theories of associative learning. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 32, 200-201.

36. Blaisdell, A. P., & Beckers, T. (2009). Editorial: Causal cognition. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 22, iii-v.

37. Franssen, M., Clarysse, J., Beckers, T., van Vooren, P. R., & Baeyens, F. (2010). A free software package for a human online conditioned suppression preparation. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 311-317.

38. Hermans, D., De Cort, K., Noortman, D., Vansteenwegen, D., Beckers, T., Spruyt, A., & Schruers, K. (2010). Priming associations between bodily sensations and catastrophic misinterpretations: Specific for panic disorder? Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48, 900-908.

39. Van Gucht, D., Baeyens, F., Vansteenwegen, D., Hermans, D., & Beckers, T. (2010). Counterconditioning reduces cue-induced craving and actual cue-elicited consumption. Emotion, 10, 688-695.

40. Van Gucht, D., Beckers, T., Van den Bergh, O., & Vansteenwegen, D. (2010). Does exposure to habitual smoking contexts before smoking cessation reduce relapse? Results from a pilot study. Behaviour Change, 27, 19-28.

41. Van Gucht, D., Van den Bergh, O., Beckers, T., & Vansteenwegen, D. (2010). Smoking in context: Where and when do people smoke? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41, 172-177.

42. Boddez, Y., Baeyens, F., Hermans, D., & Beckers, T. (2011). The hide-and-seek of retrospective revaluation: Recovery from blocking is context dependent in human causal learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 37, 230-240.

43. Boddez, Y., Callaerts-Vegh, Z., Vervliet, B., Baeyens, F., D'Hooge, R., Hermans, D., & Beckers, T. (2012). Stimulus generalization and return of fear in C57BL/6J mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 6, 41.


44. Boddez, Y., Vervliet, B., Baeyens, F., Lauwers, S., Hermans, D., & Beckers, T.

(2012). Expectancy bias in a selective conditioning procedure: Trait anxiety increases the threat value of a blocked stimulus. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 436, 832-837.

45. Bos, M. G. N., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2012). The effects of noradrenergic blockade on extinction in humans. Biological Psychology, 89, 598-605.

46. Sevenster, D., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2012). Retrieval per se is not sufficient to trigger reconsolidation of human fear memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 97, 338-345.

47. Sevenster, D., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2012). Instructed extinction differentially affects the emotional and cognitive expression of associative fear memory. Psychophysiology, 49, 1426-1435.

48. Simms, V., McCormack, T., & Beckers, T. (2012). Additivity pretraining and cue competition effects: Developmental evidence for a reasoning-based account of causal learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 38, 180-190.

49. van Vooren, P. R., Franssen, M., Beckers, T., Hermans, D., & Baeyens, F. (2012). Narrowing down the conditions for extinction of Pavlovian feature positive discriminations in humans. Learning & Behavior, 40, 393-404.

50. Arnaudova, I., Krypotos, A.-M., Effting, M., Boddez, Y., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (2013). Individual differences in discriminatory fear learning under conditions of ambiguity: A vulnerability factor for anxiety disorders? Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 298.

51. Beckers, T., Krypotos, A.-M., Boddez, Y., Effting, M., & Kindt, M. (2013). What's wrong with fear conditioning? Biological Psychology, 92, 90-96.

52. Boddez, Y., Baeyens, F., Hermans, D., & Beckers, T. (2013). Reappraisal of threat value: Loss of blocking in human aversive conditioning. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 16, E84.

53. Boddez, Y., Baeyens, F., Hermans, D., Van der Oord, S., & Beckers, T. (2013). Increasing the selectivity of threat through post-training instructions: Identifying one stimulus as source of danger reduces the threat value of surrounding stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 4, 315-324.

54. Boddez, Y., Baeyens, F., Luyten, L., Vansteenwegen, D., Hermans, D., Beckers, T. (2013). Rating data are underrated: Validity of US expectancy in human fear conditioning. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 44, 201-206.

55. Bos, M. G. N., Jentgens, P., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2013). Psychophysiological response patterns to affective film stimuli. PLoS ONE, 8, e62661.

56. Effting, M., Vervliet, B., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2013). Cued reacquisition trials during extinction weaken contextual renewal in human predictive learning. Learning and Motivation, 44, 184-195.

57. McCormack, T., Simms, V., McGourty, J., & Beckers, T. (2013). Blocking in children’s causal learning depends on working memory and reasoning abilities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 115, 562-569.

58. McCormack, T., Simms, V., McGourty, J., & Beckers, T. (2013). Encouraging children to think counterfactually enhances blocking in a causal learning task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 1910-1926.


59. Sevenster, D., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2013). Prediction error governs

pharmacologically induced amnesia for learned fear. Science, 339, 830-833. Highlighted in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 14, 228-229 and in Science News, 183(6), 13.

60. Van Gucht, D., Baeyens, F., Hermans, D., & Beckers, T. (2013). The inertia of conditioned craving: Does context modulate the effect of counterconditioning? Appetite, 65, 51-57.

61. Willem, L., Vasey, M. W., Beckers, T., Claes, L., & Bijttebier, P. (2013). Cognitive biases and alcohol use in adolescence and young adulthood: The moderating role of gender, attentional control and inhibitory control. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 925-930.

62. Blanco, F., Baeyens, F., & Beckers, T. (2014). Blocking in human causal learning is affected by outcome assumptions manipulated through causal structure. Learning & Behavior, 42, 185-199.

63. Boddez, Y., Haesen, K., Baeyens, F., & Beckers, T. (2014). Selectivity in associative learning: A cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1305.

64. Bos, M. G. N., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2014). Noradrenergic blockade of memory reconsolidation: A failure to reduce conditioned fear responding. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 412.

65. Bos, M. G. N., Jacobs van Goethem, T. H., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2014). Cortisol response mediates the effect of post-reactivation stress exposure on contextualization of emotional memories. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 50, 72-84.

66. Bos, M., Schuijer, J., Lodestijn, F., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2014). Stress enhances reconsolidation of declarative memory. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 46, 102-113.

67. Emmelkamp, P. M. G., David, D., Beckers, T., Muris, P., Cuijpers, P., Lutz, W., Andersson, G., Araya, R., Banos Rivera, R. M., Barkham, M., Berking, M., Berger, T., Botella, C., Carlbring, P., Colom, F., Essau, C. A., Hermans, D., Hofmann, S. G., Knappe, S., Ollendick, T. H., Raes, F., Rief, W., Riper, H., Van der Oord, S., & Vervliet, B. (2014). Advancing psychotherapy and evidence-based psychological interventions. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 23, 58-91.

68. Krypotos, A.-M., Effting, M., Arnaudova, I., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (2014). Avoided by association: Acquisition, extinction, and renewal of avoidance tendencies towards conditioned fear stimuli. Clinical Psychological Science, 2, 336-343. Winner of the 2014 Article Prize of the Dutch-Flemish Doctoral School Experimental Psychopathology

69. Luyten, L., Schroyens, N., Hermans, D., & Beckers, T. (2014). Parameter optimization for automated behavior assessment: Plug-and-play or trial-and-error? Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 28.

70. Sevenster, D., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2014). Fear conditioning of SCR but not the startle reflex requires conscious discrimination of threat and safety. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 32.

71. Sevenster, D., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2014). Prediction error demarcates the transition from retrieval, to reconsolidation, to new learning. Learning and Memory, 21, 580-584.


72. Wittchen, H.-U., Knappe, S., Andersson, G., Araya, R., Banos Rivera, R. M., Barkham, M., Bech, P., Beckers, T., Berger, T., Berking, M., Berrocal, C., Botella, C., Carlbring, P., Chouinard, G., Colom, F., Csillag, C., Cujipers, P., David, D., Emmelkamp, P. M. G., Essau, C. A., Fava, G. A., Goschke, T., Hermans, D., Hofmann, S. G., Lutz, W., Muris, P., Ollendick, T. H., Raes, F., Rief, W., Riper, H., Tossani, E., Van der Oord, S., Vervliet, B., Haro, J. M., & Schumann, G. (2014). The need for a behavioural science focus in research on mental health and mental disorders. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 23, 28-40.

73. Boddez, Y., Takano, K., Gijbels, J., Baeyens, F., & Beckers, T. (2015). Development of a protocol for studying premature onset of fear as a feature of pathological fear: The effects of conditional stimulus duration and counting behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 6, 206-229.

74. Krypotos, A.-M., Arnaudova, I., Effting, M., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (2015). Effects of approach-avoidance training on the extinction and return of fear responses. PLoS ONE, 10, e0131581.

75. Krypotos, A.-M., Beckers, T., Kindt, M., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2015). A Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model decomposition of performance in approach-avoidance tasks. Cognition & Emotion, 29, 1424-1444.

76. Krypotos, A.-M., Effting, M., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (2015). Avoidance learning: A review of theoretical models and recent developments. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 189.

77. Maes, E., De Filippo, G., Inkster, A., Lea, S. E. G., De Houwer, J., D'Hooge, R., Beckers, T.*, & Wills, A. J.* (2015). Feature- versus rule-based generalization in rats, pigeons and humans. Animal Cognition, 18, 1276-1284.

78. Sevenster, D., Hamm, A. O., Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (2015). Heart rate pattern and resting heart rate variability mediate individual differences in contextual anxiety and conditioned responses. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 98, 567-576.

79. Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., & Dwyer, D. M. (2016). Reasoning versus association in animal cognition: Current controversies and possible ways forward. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130, 187-191.

80. Effting, M., Salemink, E., Verschuere, B., & Beckers, T. (2016). Implicit and explicit measures of spider fear and avoidance behavior: Examination of the moderating role of working memory capacity. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 50, 269-276.

81. Lu, H., Rojas, R. R., Beckers, T., & Yuille, A. L. (2016). A Bayesian theory of sequential causal learning and abstract transfer. Cognitive Science, 40, 404-439.

82. Luyten, L., Schroyens, N., Luyck, K., Fanselow, M., & Beckers, T. (2016). No effect of glucose administration in a novel contextual fear generalization protocol in rats. Translational Psychiatry, 6, e903.

83. Maes, E., Boddez, Y., Alfei, J. M., Krypotos, A.-M., D’Hooge, R., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2016). The elusive nature of the blocking effect: 15 failures to replicate. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, e49-e71. Featured in Nature News, Sep 26, 2016.

84. Arnaudova, I., Krypotos, A.-M., Effting, M., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (in press). Fearing shades of grey: Individual differences in fear responding towards generalisation stimuli. Cognition & Emotion.


85. Arnaudova, I., Krypotos, A.-M., Effting, M., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (in press).

Moving threat: Attention and distance change interact in threat responding. Emotion.

86. Beckers, T., & Kindt, M. (in press). Memory reconsolidation interference as an emerging treatment for emotional disorders: Strengths, limitations, challenges and opportunities. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.

87. Boddez, Y., Bennett, M. P., van Esch, S., & Beckers, T. (in press). Bending rules: The shape of the perceptual generalization gradient is sensitive to inference rules. Cognition & Emotion.

SPECIAL ISSUES, BOOKS, CHAPTERS, PROCEEDINGS

1. Beckers, T. (2002). Extinction in human associative learning. Unpublished

doctoral dissertation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. 2. De Houwer, J., Vandorpe, S., & Beckers, T. (2005). On the role of

controlled cognitive processes in human associative learning. In A. J. Wills (Ed.), New directions in human associative learning (pp. 41-63). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

3. Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., & Matute, H. (Eds.) (2007). Human contingency learning [Special Issue of Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology]. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

4. Lu, H., Rojas, R. R., Beckers, T., & Yuille, A. (2008). Sequential causal learning in humans and rats. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 185-190). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

5. Kerkhof, I., Vansteenwegen, D., Beckers, T., Dirikx, T., Baeyens, F., D'Hooge, R., & Hermans, D. (2009). The role of negative affective valence in return of fear. In H. D. Friedman & P. K. Revera (Eds.), Abnormal psychology: New research (pp. 121-138). New York: Nova Science.

6. Blaisdell, A. P., & Beckers, T. (Eds.) (2009). Causal cognition [Special Issue]. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 22(1).

7. Boddez, Y., Baeyens, F., Hermans, D., & Beckers,. T. (2014). A learning theory approach to anxiety disorders: Human fear conditioning and the added value of complex acquisition procedures. In P. M. G. Emmelkamp & T. W. A. Ehring (Eds.), International handbook of anxiety disorders: Theory, research and practice, Vol. II (pp. 83-103). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

8. Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., & Dwyer, D. M. (2016). Reasoning versus association in animal cognition: Current controversies and possible ways forward [Special Section]. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130(3).

9. Boddez, Y., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (in press). The inferential reasoning theory of causal learning: Towards a multi-process propositional account. In M. R. Waldmann (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

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