Projects
Memory distortion and emotion: the effects of mood, arousal and affective valence on the occurrence of false memories. KU Leuven
Validating a mental lexicon derived from a large-scale word association project KU Leuven
Semantics is at the core of any language-based activity in our society but arguably one of the most complex aspects to study. To gain a deeper knowledge in how word meaning is processed and stored in human memory, several lexico-semantic models have been proposed. These models have been proven to be instrumental in a number of lines of research, ranging from purely theoretical questions, such as atypical word processing, the structure and ...
When Lies Become the Truth: The Impact of Lying on Memory in the Courtroom KU Leuven
Victims, witnesses, and offenders often lie in the legal field to, for example, avoid conflict or responsibility. A understudied question is whether we might come to believe our lies or not. Hence, this research proposal will study what the effects of lying will have on memory when people eventually come forward with the truth. In experimental settings we will examine the impact of deceptive strategies such as false denials, feign amnesia, ...
You’ll never know if you never try: Pathways to the generalization of pain-related avoidance behavior KU Leuven
Pain-related avoidance is adaptive when averting bodily harm, but excessive spreading to safe behavior becomes maladaptive, culminating into chronic pain disability. Avoidance behavior is also self-reinforcing, making it difficult to treat. This project aims to investigate the mechanisms underlying (altering) (over)generalization and persistence of avoidance. We will employ an innovative operant pain-related avoidance paradigm: a robotic ...
Horizontal Inequalities and Food Riots in Africa. KU Leuven
In recent years, protest events in a range of African countries have attracted widespread interest and public debate. The sharp increase in world food prices in 2007 and 2008, for example, was associated with the occurrence of a wave of food riots on the continent. In a number of countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, protests erupted against high costs of living and frequently escalated into ...
Personalised Treatment For Cystic Fibrosis Patients With Ultra-rare CFTR Mutations (and beyond). KU Leuven
In our HIT-CF project, we aim to bring personalised disease modifying therapies to cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with ultra-rare CFTR mutations, who could otherwise never get access to such treatment. Once we have proven our unique concept, the CF community can easily extend our state-of-the-art methodology to all CF patients such that HIT-CF will impact the entire CF field.
We will achieve our goals by means of a randomised, ...
Traveling the prostate cancer timeline in chase of treatment paradigms Can we cure the incurable? KU Leuven
Summary
In this thesis, we travelled the PCa timeline in search for treatment paradigms, and re-introduced radiotherapy in different disease settings.
In Chapter 3 we investigated the benefit of adding elective para-aortic lymph node irradiation to the prostate (bed), pelvic lymph nodes irradiation and long-term hormonal treatment in the PART study, a multicentre single-arm phase 2 trial. We tried to answer to the ...
Neural Basis of Interlimb Coordination during Walking in Children KU Leuven
Upper limb sensory processing: development of a robotic paradigm KU Leuven
Stroke is the third leading cause of death and disability in the world. Following stroke, upper limb motor and somatosensory impairments are frequently present. In the acute stage after stroke, up to 50% of survivors show exteroceptive impairments, and up to 63% show proprioceptive and sensory processing impairments. Exteroception is the detection of touch, pain, and temperature on the skin. Proprioception is the detection of joint position ...