Projects
Baekeland mandate: EEG-based biomarkers for cognitive decline in mild cognitive impairment Vrije Universiteit Brussel
in predicting cognitive decline in patients with mild cognitive impairment,
MCI)
The secrets of cognitive aging: Investigating neural information flows underlying cognitive performance in elderly Ghent University
The aim of the project is to study the causal influences among brain regions that underlie cognitive changes and stability in healthy elderly and elderly suffering from dementia. We aim to apply highly-advanced data-analytical methods that have a high biologically plausibility.
Using EEG to study the temporal dynamics of cognitive processes such as cognitive control, attention and observational learning Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PACTA-study (Physical Activity, CogniTion and Aging): A longitudinal investigation of the relation between type and dose of physical activity and cognitive decline in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment KU Leuven
Dementia currently affects more than 47 million people worldwide, is forecasted to triple by 2050 and is one of the most costly disorders in Belgium. There is good scientific evidence that the cognitive impairments associated with the development of dementia can be lessened or even reversed because of the plasticity of the brain (rewiring). Recent research has shown that engaging in regular physical activity combined with performing ...
Understanding cognitive vulnerability for depression: A network analysis of the role of cognitive control in emotion regulation processes Ghent University
Prevention of recurrence of depression is an important societal challenge. There is need for
fundamental research focusing on mechanisms underlying depression vulnerability. Recent studies
show that cognitive control training (CCT) procedures hold potential in improving emotion
regulation (ER) in at-risk and patient samples, providing evidence for the causal involvement of
cognitive control in depression vulnerability. ...
ACT now!: Auditory Cognitive Testing to optimize hearing aid benefit Ghent University
The goal of the this research is to optimize hearing aid benefit taking into account the interaction between auditory periphery and more high-order cognitive functioning. It is focused on first, hearing outcome measures leading to insights with regard to speech understanding and listening effort, and second, the fitting and users of hearing aids leading to evidence-based
recommendations.
Cognitive Effort in Context KU Leuven
Rapidly and flexibly adapting to conflicting situations is crucial for almost all of our daily activity. When we encounter conflict, we need to exert cognitive effort to overcome it. The state of the art so far has overlooked that we do this in a complex context. This calls for an in-depth exploration of how effort exertion behaves in context. The overarching goal of my project is therefore to study task-related, dynamic, social and ...
Characterizing scientific kinds. The role of generic generalizations in science. KU Leuven
Generics are generalizations that are not explicitly quantified, like ‘Dogs bark’ for example. Although they appear to be very simple generalizations, their semantics are very complex. To see this, consider that a generic can be true even though only a small minority of the kind instantiates the property (e.g. ‘Ticks carry Lyme disease’) and can be false even though the majority does instantiate the property (e.g. ‘Humans are right-handed’). ...
Bilateral Alliance for Translational Science in ADHD (BATSA) Ghent University
Research collaboration between the University of Southampton and Ghent University in the field of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). BATSU is organized around three inter-related research programs (i) genetic and environmental determinants of ADHD (ii) electrophysiological studies of brain attentional mechanisms in ADHD and (iii) reward and delay processing in ADHD: Experimental and imaging approaches.