Projects
Learning and memory in psychopathology KU Leuven
Learning and memory play a central role in various forms of psychopathology. People with depressive complaints are characterized by overgeneral autobiographical memories, flashbacks are a core feature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), avoidance learning is an important factor in the genesis and maintenance of clinical anxiety, and deficits in working memory and other executive functions are central in ADHD, to give but a few examples. ...
About the validity of road user behaviour and near accidents as predictors of the number and the nature of road accidents. Hasselt University
Waking up an Exhausted Brain: The Effects of Cognitive Fatigue on Fear Memory Generalization and Its Modulation by Glucose and Vagus Nerve Stimulation. KU Leuven
Anxiety disorders are costly to both individuals and society and yet, despite their prevalence and impact, the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. Predisposing factors (e.g., genetics) certainly contribute, as do learning processes such as generalization (i.e., making the same response to similar stimuli). The latter is likely sensitive to situational factors such as mental fatigue that impair memory, as poorer memory for a stimulus is ...
Doing good at work, doing good at home? Examining the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and the interface between work and family life. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The nature and determinants of emotional recovery in normal and depressive populations. KU Leuven
Understanding perceptual organization in vision: Exploiting the variability in the integration of parts into wholes in the general population, children with ASD and neuropsychological patients. KU Leuven
Launching awareness and chasing consciousness: Unconscious processing of causality and animacy. KU Leuven
The mystery of conscious visual experience has intrigued many philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists for decades, if not centuries. One of the insights research on this topic has yielded is that there is no one-to-one correspondence between physical visual input and our corresponding perceptual experience. Indeed, in some specific situations visual input can be presented to the observer, while remaining invisible. The ultimate goal ...