Projects
Structuring perceptual organization: An individual differences perspective. KU Leuven
People can perceive the same world in radically different ways. #TheDress, the photograph of a dress of which the color was perceived either as black and blue or as white and gold, went viral and provided a stir precisely because it illustrates how individuals differ in their perception of what we generally consider to be objective aspects of the world. It is much less well appreciated that individuals also differ considerably in how they ...
Readers as statistical learners: an individual differences approach Ghent University
Individual differences in statistical learning (SL), defined as the ability to learn regularities from sensory input, are a promising avenue for understanding why some of us (learn to) read with greater ease than others. This project entertains a novel three-dimensional (3D) approach to individual differences in SL that considers: I. sensitivity to patterns, II. retention of learned patterns, and III. adaptability to changing environments. ...
Maximising benefit, minimising harm: how individual differences impact the effects of mindfulness meditation KU Leuven
Despite large interindividual differences in efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs), it is unknown for whom mindfulness is beneficial, for whom it may be harmful, and why this is the case. Therefore, and given the increasing popularity of mindfulness, personalised effects of mindfulness meditation are not only a timely subject for future research but also a general concern for public health. This project aims to investigate how ...
Adaptive behavior uncovered. Measuring and understanding individual differences KU Leuven
Adaptive behavior uncoveredMeasuring and understanding individual differences
Adaptive behavior is not a new or trendy construct. On the contrary, it has been recognized in the field of intellectual disability since the beginning of the twentieth century. Initially, there was no clear distinction between intellectual and adaptive skills, but gradually they were described as two distinct constructs, both of which ...
The neural mechanisms underlying individual differences in arithmetic fact learning: exploring the role of sensitivity-to-interference KU Leuven
A major building block for the successful development of mathematical competencies is the ability to acquire and retrieve arithmetic facts such as the multiplication table. There are large individual differences in this ability, and individuals with mathematical learning disorders or dyscalculia display deficits in this ability. However, the mechanisms underlying these individual differences are poorly understood. Recently, a new hypothesis ...
Heterogeneity in post-stroke attention: a computational approach to capture individual differences, their impact on daily life and lesion neuroanatomy KU Leuven
Hemispatial neglect, a syndrome characterized by spatial and non-spatial attention deficits is a common sequela after stroke. Research has revealed a detrimental impact of hemispatial neglect on independence in daily life and has failed to identify a critical lesion site underlying neglect. Most studies relied on pen-and-paper tests which are unable to dissociate spatial from non-spatial deficits. For this reason, studies have likely included ...
Cognitive correlates of individual differences in children's strategy use in single-digit addition and subtraction. KU Leuven
Psychophysics of perceptual organization and aesthetics of visual patterns: general principles and individual differences KU Leuven
In spite of a century-long research tradition of research on perceptual organization, psychophysical experiments on the principles of perceptual grouping and figure-ground organization are still relatively scarce. And yet, it is of crucial importance to establish quantitative relationships between the relevant stimulus properties and the equivalent characteristics of their perception. A similar gap is present in the long tradition of ...
Individual differences in evaluation difficulty and their consequences for consumer behavior Ghent University
This project focuses on the difficulties people experience when forming attitudes, and on differences between people in the extent to which they experience those difficulties. Therefore, we will validate an evaluation difficulty scale that measures individual-level differences, and investigate how this uncertainty about the extent to which one likes or dislikes something affects a wide range of consumer behaviors.