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 ...
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 ...
The Features of Fuzzy Representations: How do language learners specify foreign sounds? University of Antwerp
Lost in Representation: Investigating the Material Agency of Media in the Architectural Design Process. University of Antwerp
Lost in Representation: Investigating the Material Agency of Media in the Architectural Design Process. University of Antwerp
Constitutionalism and Deliberative Democratic Representation: A Normative Theory of Constitutional Debates KU Leuven
Citizens are properly represented only insofar as politicians publicly debate and justify their decisions, especially when reforming the constitution. Otherwise, legislators may either subvert the norms granting them their competences, or lessen entrenched fundamental rights and liberties. Given the legal distinctiveness of constitutions, guarantees that politicians discuss and justify their constitutional decisions must be put in place for ...