Publications

This article discusses the affinity between Kant’s notion of objectivity and Wittgenstein’s view on the limitations of language by addressing both philosophers’ relation to the constitutive space at work in a transcendental logic. For both, the system and conceptual room hosting the activity of subjective conditionality is dynamically connected to what can be seen as an object in response to the heterogeneity between concepts and sensibility. In ...

The prefrontal cortex plays a crucial role in cognitive processes, both during anticipatory and reactive modes of cognitive control. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) can modulate these cognitive resources. How-ever, there is a lack of research exploring the impact of tDCS on emotional material processing in the prefrontal cortex, particularly in regard to proactive and reactive modes of cognitive control. In this study, 35 healthy ...

Novel events catch our attention, which can influence performance of a task. Whether this attentional capture by novelty benefits or impairs performance depends on several factors, such as the relevance of the stimulus, task requirements, and the timing of the event. Additionally, it has been argued that novel stimuli can hold intrinsic reward value, which may directly affect approach motivation, similar to positive valence stimuli. This link ...

Snel met regiotram naar hartje Basel door verhoging tot stadsfrequentie In de ruime regio rond Basel bieden frequent rijdende, eigentijdse regiotrams op eigen baan een, ook voor automobilisten, verleidelijke dienstverlening. Overstappen aan de stadsrand of de rand van de binnenstad, in het zicht van de bestemming, hoeft niet: de regiotrams rijden dwars door het stadshart heen. In tegenstelling tot België, waar een halve eeuw geleden de laatste ...

While strong claims have been made that testosterone increases risk-taking, the existing literature is inconclusive. Thus, our experiment aimed at addressing some shortcomings of previous work. First, risk-taking was assessed using the Columbia Card Task, which allows to decompose overt risk-taking into three task factors-gain amount, loss amount, and the probability of losing-in both a dynamic, more affective ("hot") and a static, more ...

Whereas emotion regulation (ER) in response to distressing events is widely studied, the mechanisms underlying adaptive ER while anticipating these events are still unknown. In this study, we investigated how ER strategies and expectation influence (a) individuals’ anticipatory and online processing of self-relevant events, and (b) their affective response to them. Sixty-one healthy female participants were exposed to bogus positive and negative ...

In many sports, elite players outperform novices on tests for perceptual-cognitive skills, such as anticipation, decision-making and pattern recall. However, the developmental trajectory of these perceptual-cognitive skills has received limited attention. Therefore, this study examined the development of anticipation, decision-making and pattern recall in 202 female volleyball players aged between 7 and 26 years old. Participants were ...

Het Internationaal Verdrag inzake de Rechten van het Kind geeft aan dat elk kind recht heeft deel te nemen aan kunst en cultuur. Voorgaand onderzoek geeft evenwel aan dat dit recht nog lang niet gerealiseerd is voor ieder kind. Kinderen en jongeren met een migratieachtergrond vormen een van de groepen die relatief weinig aan het cultuuraanbod deelnemen. Vooralsnog hebben we in Vlaanderen een weinig genuanceerd zicht op hun ...