Heleen A Slagter

Biographic Data

ID7972742
NAMEHeleen A Slagter
GIVEN NAMESHeleen A
FAMILY NAMESlagter
SIGNATURESLAGTER H A
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0002-4180-1483
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Grounding distractor inhibition in action control

    Open AccessLitian Chen, Freek Van Ede et al.ARTICLECognition2026

    Spatial selective attention is typically thought to act as a sensory filter: prioritizing the processing of relevant information at a particular location in space over that of irrelevant information. Research using dynamic setups, rather than standard static laboratory setups with seated observers, however, shows that spatial selective attention does not simply facilitate sensory processing at a particular location (where), but also involves the …

  • Visual working memory representations bias attention more when they are the target of an action plan

    Open AccessCaterina Trentin, Heleen A Slagter et al.ARTICLECognition2023

    Attention has frequently been regarded as an emergent property of linking sensory representations to action plans. It has recently been proposed that similar mechanisms may operate within visual working memory (VWM), such that linking an object in VWM to an action plan strengthens its sensory memory representation, which then expresses as an attentional bias. Here we directly tested this hypothesis by comparing attentional biases induced by VWM r…

  • Subjective visibility report is facilitated by conscious predictions only

    Open AccessJosipa Alilović, Heleen A Slagter et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2021

    Predictions in the visual domain have been shown to modulate conscious access. Yet, little is known about how predictions may do so and to what extent they need to be consciously implemented to be effective. To address this, we administered an attentional blink (AB) task in which target 1 (T1) identity predicted target 2 (T2) identity, while participants rated their perceptual awareness of validly versus invalidly predicted T2s (Experiment 1 & 2)…

  • Control over experience? Magnitude of the attentional blink depends on meditative state

    Marieke K Van Vugt, Heleen A SlagterARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2014

  • Do Horizontal Saccadic Eye Movements Increase Interhemispheric Coherence? Investigation of a Hypothesized Neural Mechanism Underlying EMDR

    Open AccessZoe Samara, Bernet M Elzinga et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2011

    Series of horizontal saccadic eye movements (EMs) are known to improve episodic memory retrieval in healthy adults and to facilitate the processing of traumatic memories in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. Several authors have proposed that EMs achieve these effects by increasing the functional connectivity of the two brain hemispheres, but direct evidence for this proposal is lacking. The aim of this study was to inv…

  • Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation

    Open AccessA Lutz, Heleen A Slagter et al.ARTICLETrends in Cognitive Sciences2008

  • Mental Training Affects Distribution of Limited Brain Resources

    Open AccessHeleen A Slagter, A Lutz et al.ARTICLEPLOS Biology2007

    The information processing capacity of the human mind is limited, as is evidenced by the so-called "attentional-blink" deficit: When two targets (T1 and T2) embedded in a rapid stream of events are presented in close temporal proximity, the second target is often not seen. This deficit is believed to result from competition between the two targets for limited attentional resources. Here we show, using performance in an attentional-blink task and …