Projects
Learning and memory in anxiety KU Leuven
Learning and memory processes play a key role in the development and persistence of anxiety-related disorders as well as in their treatment. Improved insight of those processes is crucial for a better understanding of anxiety disorders and for the development of more effective interventions. The proposed research program focuses on the role of excessive avoidance, along with impairments in extinction and generalization of fear, as a core ...
The contribution of the medial temporal system in humans to semantic processing of words and pictures. KU Leuven
The brain contains several memory systems. Episodic memory deals with episodes in a particular space and time context and is typically associated with structures deep in the temporal lobe (the medial-temporal lobe system). An episodic memory deficit is commonly seen in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Semantic memory refers to our knowledge of the world, the meaning of words and pictures and associations between concepts. Patients with semantic ...
An empirical investigation into the acquisition and processing of L2 formulaic sequences through audiovisual input KU Leuven
To achieve high levels of proficiency and fluency in a second language (L2), learners need to acquire a large number of formulaic sequences, or frequently recurring words, phrases and word combinations assumed to be familiar and conventional to native speakers (Siyanova-Chanturia and Pellicer-Sánchez, 2019). In second language acquisition (SLA) research, the term formulaic sequence is commonly used to cover a wide range of multiword ...
Severe reading problems in blind children. Similarities with developmental dyslexia? KU Leuven
Anneli Veispak, Perceptual and Cognitive Underpinnings of Braille Reading.</></> Dissertation submitted to obtain the degree of Doctor in Educational Sciences 2012. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Pol Ghesquière, Dr. Bart Boets</>
Learning to read is a complex task requiring the translation of written symbols, or graphemes, into speech forms, or phonemes. Given that the brain evolved to understand communicative messages ...
First as Treachery, Then as Parse: a media study on the role of (written) language in (visual) arts . KU Leuven
This project aims to develop a comprehensive body of work (both theoretical and practical) based on an extensive historical analysis of art and language’s relationship. To do so, the research methodology chosen resembles the Media Archaeology/Studies, specifically if applied to the three mayor stages of conceptual art and (it’s) current media technological development:
1) European/American Conceptual Art (“Linguistic turn” against the ...
Fast and precise automatic measurement of speech understanding on multiple diagnostic levels. KU Leuven
Can we determine, from someone's brain activity, whether speech is heard or understood? This is the central question of this doctoral thesis. Speech is way more than a random collection of sounds. It consists of specific sounds, making up words that form sentences to convey a message that one can understand.
To find the answer to this question, we focused on a phenomenon called neural speech tracking. When someone hears speech, their ...
Termwise: Creating resources specialised language use. KU Leuven
Autobiographical memory specificity and rumination in depression: The role of self-discrepancy KU Leuven
Acquiring social meaning of language variation: an experimental exploration Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This project studies how people learn this type of sociolinguistic meaning. More concretely, the project ...