• Social neuroscience and social cognition
• Social prediction and predictive processing
• Loneliness and Social conformity
• Magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI);
• Non-invasive brain stimulation (e.g., tDCS)

Haihambo, N., Ma, Q., Baetens, K., Pu, M., Deroost, N., Baeken, C., & van Overwalle, F. (2023). To Do or Not to Do: The cerebellum and neocortex contribute to predicting sequences of social intentions. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 23(2), 323-339.

Haihambo, N., Ma, Q., Baetens, K., Bylemans, T., Heleven, E., Baeken, C., ... & Van Overwalle, F. (2023). Two is company: The posterior cerebellum and sequencing for pairs versus individuals during social preference prediction. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-18.

Haihambo, N., Li, M., Ma, Q., Baeken, C., Deroost, N., Baetens, K., & Van Overwalle, F. (2024). Exciting the social butterfly: Anodal cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation modulates neural activation during predictive social mentalizing. (Under review). Available as preprint at SSRN 4585855.

Haihambo, N., & Van Overwalle, F. (2024). Crus control: Effective connectivity in cerebellar and cerebral mentalizing areas during social action sequence prediction using dynamic causal modeling. (Under review).

Haihambo, N., Ma, Q., Baeken, C., Deroost, N., Baetens, K., Heleven, E., & Overwalle, F. V. (2021). Social thinking is for doing: the posterior cerebellum supports predictions of social actions based on personality traits. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(2), 241-251.

Van Overwalle, F., Ma, Q., Haihambo, N., Bylemans, T., Catoira, B., Firouzi, M., ... & Deroost, N. (2023). A Functional Atlas of the Cerebellum Based on NeuroSynth Task Coordinates. The Cerebellum, 1-20.

Ma, Q., Pu, M., Li, M., Haihambo, N., Baetens, K., Heleven, E., ... & Van Overwalle, F. (2023). Can transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the cerebellum improve implicit social and cognitive sequence learning?. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 23(2), 100355.

Ma, Q., Pu, M., Haihambo, N., Baetens, K., Heleven, E., Deroost, N., ... & Van Overwalle, F. (2023). Effective cerebello–cerebral connectivity during implicit and explicit social belief sequence learning using dynamic causal modeling. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 18(1), nsac044.

Pu, M., Ma, Q., Haihambo, N., Li, M., Baeken, C., Baetens, K., ... & Van Overwalle, F. (2023). Dynamic causal modeling of cerebello-cerebral connectivity when sequencing trait-implying actions. Cerebral Cortex, 33(10), 6366-6381.

Van Overwalle, F., Pu, M., Ma, Q., Li, M., Haihambo, N., Baetens, K., ... & Heleven, E. (2022). The involvement of the posterior cerebellum in reconstructing and predicting social action sequences. The Cerebellum, 21(5), 733-741.