Projects
The fluent and flexible use of external representations in statistics: empirical studies on representation use in distributional problem solving. KU Leuven
Representation of concepts in health & neurodegenerative disease: a subject-specific multivariate approach based on representational similarity analysis using fMRI and MEG KU Leuven
During this project, we want to investigate how concrete entities (animals, objects) are represented in the human brain. We will examine healthy controls and patients suffering from neurodegenerative disease. In our previous work, we discovered that when the meaning of words is more alike, the brain response patterns in the left temporal lobe are also more alike. We performed these studies on large groups of healthy young volunteers. Now, we ...
The representation of language in bilinguals: Neural overlap as a function of modality, representational level, language proficiency and context. Ghent University
Bilinguals use their two (or more) languages in their everyday lives and may need to switch back and forth between them frequently. In order for bilinguals to flexibly use their different languages, they need clear representations (lexical, semantical, …) of each language and a language control mechanism to coordinate the continuous interactions between these representations. In this project, we focus on the neuronal representations of the ...
Political representation of ethnic minorities. A national and international comparative analysis of representation of ethnic minorities at the local level in England, France and Belgium. Ghent University
To which degree do citizenship regime, electoral system, party features and interest constellations foster or hinder 1) the election of candidates belonging to ethnic minorities, and 2) group representation (representation of ethnic minorities' interests by elected belonging to these societal groups)? This research is based in in-depth interviews with electoral candidates, elected and selectors in three countries featuring variety regarding ...
Abstraction in category representations KU Leuven
In everyday life, people constantly classify objects, individuals and situations in categories, in order to make the world more comprehensible and predictable. While most researchers agree that an item is categorized based on its similarity to a category representation, they do not agree on the exact nature of the category representation. Some believe that a category is represented by all of the members of the category they have previously ...
Relationship between representations of scenes, whole objects and their constituent parts in the human cortex. KU Leuven
Viewing the world, we are confronted with multiple visual objects, each of which might be composed of multiple parts. How exactly our brain is able to recognize and identify these objects very quickly and easily, and how it constructs a representation of these objects is not yet clear. In this doctoral thesis, we focused on two aspects of visual object representations: (1) how do we learn to recognize objects and (2) what kind of relationship ...
Cerebral Representations of Animate Objects: A Computational Analysis KU Leuven
The Features of Fuzzy Representations: How do language learners specify foreign sounds? University of Antwerp
The automatic generalization of multi-scale map representation: A deep learning-based approach Ghent University
Multi-scale map representation of geographic information has been a persistent research challenge, especially in the era of big data and ubiquitous map services. Methods for automatic generalization of multi-scale maps are still missing. We aim to explore a deep learning-based framework to address this issue, which consists of recognition of map data patterns, scale transformation, and automatic map generalization.