2018

• Buc Calderon C, Van Opstal F, Peigneux P, Verguts T, Gevers W. (2018). Task-relevant information modulates primary motor cortex activity before movement onset. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12: 93.
• Questienne L, Van Opstal F, Van Dijck J-P, Gevers W. (2018). Metacognition and cognitive control: Behavioural adaptation requires conflict experience. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,71, 411-423.
• De Loof E, Ergo K, Naert L, Talsma D, Van Opstal F, Verguts T (2018). Signed reward prediction errors drive declarative learning. PLoS ONE, 13: e0189212 .

2017

• Desender K, Van Opstal F, Van Den Bussche E. (2017). Subjective experience of conflict depends on multiple cues. Scientific Reports, 7: 44222.
• Desender K, Buc Calderon C, Van Opstal F, Van Den Bussche E. (2017). Avoiding the conflict: Metacognitive awareness drives the selection of low-demand contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 1397-1410.

2016

• Van Opstal F, De Loof E, Verguts T, Cleeremans A. (2016). Spontaneous eyeblinks during breaking continuous flash suppression are associated with increased detection times. Journal of Vision, 16, 21:1-10.
• De Loof E, Van Opstal F, Verguts T. (2016). Predictive information speeds up visual awareness in an individuation task by modulating threshold setting, not processing efficiency. Vision Research, 121, 104-112.
• Desender K, Van Opstal F, Hughes G, Van Den Bussche E. (2016). The temporal dynamics of metacognition: Dissociating task-related activity from later metacognitive processes. Neuropsychologia, 82, 54-64.

2015

• De Loof E, Poppe L, Cleeremans A, Gevers W, Van Opstal F. (2015). Different effects of executive and visuospatial working memory on visual consciousness. Attention Perception & Psychophysics, 77, 2523–2528.

2014

• Schouppe N, de Ferrerre E, Van Opstal F, Braem S, Notebaert W. (2014). Conscious and unconscious context-specific cognitive control. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 539.
• Van Opstal F, Van Laeken N, Verguts T, De Vos F, Goethals I, Van Dijck J-P, Fias W. (2014). Correlation between individual differences in striatal dopamine and in visual consciousness. Current Biology, 24, R265-266.
• Verguts T, Van Opstal F. (2014). A delta-rule model of numerical and non-numerical order processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 1092-1102.
• Desender K, Van Opstal F, Van Den Bussche E. (2014). Feeling the conflict: the crucial role of conflict experience in adaptation. Psychological Science, 25, 675-683.

2013

• De Loof E, Verguts T, Fias W, Van Opstal F. (2013). Opposite effects of working memory on subjective visibility and priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 39, 1959-1965.
• Van Opstal F, Verguts T. (2013). Is there a generalized magnitude system in the brain? Behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 4: 435.
• Charles L, Van Opstal F, Marti S, Dehaene S. (2013). Distinct brain mechanisms for conscious versus subliminal error detection. Neuroimage, 73, 80-94.

2012

• Van Opstal F, Santens S, Ansari D. (2012). The numerate brain : recent findings and theoretical reviews on the neurocognitive foundations of number processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6: 201.

2011

• Van Opstal F, de Lange FP, Dehaene S. (2011). Rapid parallel semantic processing of numbers without awareness. Cognition, 120(1), 136–47.
• Van Opstal F, Calderon C, Gevers W, Verguts T. (2011). Setting the stage subliminally : unconscious context effects. Consciousness and Cognition, 20(4), 1860–4.
• Van Opstal F, Verguts T. (2011). The origins of the numerical distance effect : the same-different task. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23(1), 112–20.
• Gheysen F, Van Opstal F, Roggeman C, Van Waelvelde H, Fias W. (2011). The neural basis of implicit perceptual sequence learning. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5: 137.

2010

• Van Opstal F, Gevers W, Osman M, Verguts T. (2010). Unconscious task application. Consciousness and Cognition, 19(4), 999–1006.
• Gheysen F, Van Opstal F, Roggeman C, Van Waelvelde H, Fias W. (2010). Hippocampal contribution to early and later stages of implicit motor sequence learning. Experimental Brain Research, 202(4), 795–807.

2009

• Notebaert W, Houtman F, Van Opstal F, Gevers W, Fias W, Verguts T. (2009). Post-error slowing: An orienting account. Cognition, 111(2), 275–9.
• Van Opstal F, Fias W, Peigneux P, Verguts T. (2009). The neural representation of extensively trained ordered sequences. NeuroImage, 47(1), 367–75.

2008

• Van Opstal F, Verguts T, Orban G, Fias W. (2008). A hippocampal - parietal network for learning an ordered sequence. NeuroImage, 40(1), 333–41.
• Verguts T, Van Opstal F. (2008). A colorful walk, but is it on the mental number line? Reply to Cohen Kadosh, Tzelgov, and Henik. Cognition, 106, 558–63.
• Hubbard E, Diester I, Cantlon J, Ansari D, Van Opstal F, Troiani V. (2008). The Evolution of Numerical Cognition: From Number Neurons to Linguistic Quantifiers. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(46), 11819–24.
• Van Opstal F, Moors A, Fias W, Verguts T. (2008). Offline and online automatic number comparison. Psychological Research, 72(3), 347–52.
• Van Opstal F, Gevers W, De Moor W, Verguts T. (2008). Dissecting the symbolic distance effect : comparison and priming effects in numerical and nonnumerical orders. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(2), 419–25.

2007

• Van Opstal F. (2007). Labeled-line coding and summation coding of numerosities in prefrontal and parietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 9535–6.

2005

• Van Opstal F, Reynvoet B, Verguts T. (2005). How to trigger elaborate processing? A comment on Kunde, Kiesel, and Hoffmann (2003). Cognition, 97(1), 89–97.
• Verguts T, Van Opstal F. (2005). Dissociation of the distance effect and size effect in one-digit numbers. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12(5), 925–30.
• Van Opstal F, Reynvoet B, Verguts T. (2005). Unconscious semantic categorization and mask interactions: An elaborate response to Kunde et al. (2005). Cognition, 97, 107–13.