Vanessa A. van Ast

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences — Netherlands

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

17h-index1.2kcitations46works1.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Stress Responses and Cortisol(25), Memory and Neural Mechanisms(22), Memory Processes and Influences(14), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior(9), Identity, Memory, and Therapy(9)

Publications46 total

‘Episodic Threat Conditioning’: a novel approach to simultaneously measure Pavlovian threat conditioning and episodic memory
Behaviour Research and Therapy·2025
Amygdala Hyperactivity in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Disentangling Predisposing From Consequential Factors Using a Prospective Longitudinal Design
Biological Psychiatry·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Integration of conditioned threat with pre-existing memories
Learning & Memory·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
No evidence that arousal affects reactivated memories
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory·2024Open Access
Can neutral episodic memories become emotional? Evidence from facial expressions and subjective feelings
Behaviour Research and Therapy·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Bayesian evaluation of diverging theories of episodic and affective memory distortions in dysphoria
Nature Communications·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Context reexposure to bolster contextual dependency of emotional episodic memory
Scientific Reports·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Modification of episodic memory valence through retrieval-update mechanisms requires a narrative link between events
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Modification of episodic memory valence through retrieval-update mechanisms requires a narrative link between events
2023Open Access
Can neutral episodic memories become emotional? Evidence from facial expressions and subjective feelings
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Manipulating expectancy violations to strengthen the efficacy of human fear extinction
Behaviour Research and Therapy·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Affective integration: episodic mechanisms underlying preconditioned threat responses
2023Open Access
‘Episodic Conditioning’: a novel approach to study the intersection of Pavlovian threat conditioning and episodic memory.
2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Context reexposure to bolster contextual dependency of emotional episodic memory
2022Open Access
Threat learning impairs subsequent associative inference
Scientific Reports·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Time-dependent emotional memory transformation: Divergent pathways of item memory and contextual dependency.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
Pupil dilation and skin conductance as measures of prediction error in aversive learning
Behaviour Research and Therapy·2022· 20 citedOpen Access
Acute-stress-induced change in salience network coupling prospectively predicts post-trauma symptom development
Translational Psychiatry·2022· 40 citedOpen Access
Demarcating the boundary conditions of memory reconsolidation: An unsuccessful replication
Scientific Reports·2022· 16 citedOpen Access
Postural freezing relates to startle potentiation in a human fear‐conditioning paradigm
Psychophysiology·2021· 17 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Merel Kindt(30), Sascha Béla Duken(12), Floris Klumpers(8), Karin Roelofs(8), Martijn Meeter(7), Sandra Cornelisse(6), Marian Joëls(6), Wouter R. Cox(6), Nadža Džinalija(6), Angelos‐Miltiadis Krypotos(5), Olivier T. de Vries(5), Reinoud Kaldewaij(4), Mahur M. Hashemi(4), Saskia B.J. Koch(4), Renée M. Visser(4), Wei Zhang(3), Lotte Stemerding(3), Raoul P. P. P. Grasman(3), Franziska Neumayer(3), Olivier de Vries(3)