Projects
Distributed wireless EEG sensor patches for auditory attention decoding in hearing technology KU Leuven
Over 400 million people worldwide suffer from disabling hearing loss. While the majority can be helped with a hearing aid, users still experience major difficulties in situations where multiple people talk simultaneously, leading to social isolation. Although algorithms exist to extract a single speaker from such a speech mixture, the current bottleneck is that a hearing aid does not know which of these speakers the user aims to attend. ...
CHaT - Changing Tactics? Changing treatment technique in case of early nonresponse during ECT for major depression: a randomized trial. KU Leuven
Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects one in six adults in their lifetime and imposes a considerable burden of disease on the patient. Despite the widespread use of antidepressant medication, after several treatment steps, at least a third of patients will fail to achieve remission. For patients with so-called difficult-to-treat depression, not responding to several augmentation or combination attempts, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has ...
PhD on ESG reporting (environmental reporting and social impact reporting) KU Leuven
This PhD focuses on improving the way firms need to report about ESG reporting, both environmental reporting as well as social impact reporting. In particular, this PhD will use advanced analytics such as machine learning and network analytics to map out the multiple dimensions across an entire value chain.
Data-driven ESG risk governance in international business KU Leuven
Personalised stimulation strategies for cochlear implants using EEG source analysis KU Leuven
Cochlear implants (CIs) are successful in restoring hearing in people with severe hearing loss and the benefit CI recipients gain from their device are often life-changing. However, in adverse listening environments speech perception with a CI is highly challenging and there is a high variability in performance across CI users. Currently, there is limited knowledge on how the individual’s auditory pathway processes the electrical CI ...
Measuring cognitive activity via EEG and eye tracking during language processing Ghent University
The psycholinguistic nature of many research lines in linguistics, translation, and experimental psychology requires systems that measure the cognitive processes underlying the use of (multiple) languages. Such equipment is very valuable and much on demand, as is clear from the number of researchers that would like to employ the combination of EEG and eye tracking. Various research goals are envisaged, such as the creation of freely available ...
Pinpointing obsessive-compulsive symptom severity: Assessing hypersensitivity for symptom-eliciting visual cues using (frequency-tagging) EEG, eye tracking and stress physiology responses KU Leuven
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disabling psychiatric disorder affecting 2-2.5% of the population. It is characterized by anxiety-provoking obsessions and time-consuming compulsions. The clinical expression of OCD is highly heterogenous and available assessment tools entail many limitations. In addition, OCD is associated with numerous comorbidities, which complicate diagnosis and personalized treatment. Against this background, ...
Localizing Cortical Reward Prediction Error Signals Using Combined EEG and fMRI Ghent University
ACC may be involved in reward processing, which is reflected in EEG as 'reward positivity' . We aim to eatablish which part of the brain is producing the reward positivity. A novel design--a combined fMRI/EEG study with a modified time-estimation task will be conducted to explore this question, which will also help clear the role of ACC in reinforcement learning.
Changing Tactics? Optimizing ECT in difficult-to-treat depression KU Leuven
This project entails the first-ever RCT comparing antidepressant efficacy and cognitive effects of an- ongoing treatment technique (unilateral ECT) with a change of treatment technique (from unilateral
to bitemporal ECT). This project will have an impact on the clinical practice, guiding clinical decision making. The project addresses a clinical conundrum ECT clinicians are faced with on a daily basis: what
to do in case a severely ...