Projects
Award 'Robert Oppenheimer' - 2023. University of Antwerp
The role of attentional processes in monolingual and bilingual children who do and do not stutter. Ghent University
Stuttering is a multifactorial speech disorder that can develop in speakers of all languages. Left untreated, stuttering can lead to deleterious academic, emotional, social, and vocational consequences. While stuttering is known to be exhibited by monolingual speakers, stuttering is also exhibited by bilingual speakers. There is no difference in the prevalence of stuttering in speakers of one versus multiple languages, but there is a general ...
“Money for nothing”? Dissociating pro-active, re-active, and automatic reward influences on conflict processing and response inhibition Ghent University
Reward effects on cognitive functions have recently inspired a lot of research, not least because they offer a controllable window into neurocognitive effects of motivation in general, which is disturbed in a wide range of prominent brain-related disorders. Importantly, different traditions exist wherein reward effects on sensory and attentional processing are often ascribed to an automatic process that circumvents active top-down control ...
CLINIC: Children with listening difficulties KU Leuven
Many children face difficulties in listening and processing information despite having normal hearing abilities, especially when there is background noise. The prevalence of these issues is estimated to be around 0.5-1% in the general population (Hind et al., 2011). These difficulties are often linked to common developmental disorders such as specific language impairment (SLI, e.g., Sharma et al., 2009), autism spectrum disorder (ASD, Chinn ...
Psychiatric vulnerability among residents in residential care homes Odisee vzw
Integrated view on disruptions of early brain development - Brainview / The predictive value of early social information processing in infants at risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder Ghent University
Early onset neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are rather common, and affect more than 30 million children in Europe. The disorders carry a huge burden to the patients a