Projects
Numerical Analysis and Experimental Assessment of the Dynamic Characteristics of Periodic Structures KU Leuven
Vibrations in the built environment result from road and railway traffic, construction, and industrial activities. In a frequency range between 1 and 80 Hz, these vibrations may cause annoyance to people or disturbance to sensitive equipment, while between 16 and 250 Hz they may lead to structure borne noise. Large buildings such as office, school and residential buildings often have a regular geometry consisting of repeated units. The ...
Understanding and improving elementary learning abilities in children with ADHD: an experimental back-to-basics approach KU Leuven
Reinforcement learning is often assumed to be deficient in children with ADHD, yet elementary learning processes are rarely the subject of research in this population. This doctoral dissertation examined two elementary forms of learning in children with ADHD; 1) the ability to learn to select the most adaptive behavioural option in light of contextual information (conditional discrimination learning) and 2) acquisition and extinction under ...
Experimental setup for research on binocular rivalry KU Leuven
All research in this proposal will be in the area of Experimental Psychology. .Vision science is filled with examples showing that under certain conditions the brain ‘chooses’ the visual input that reaches awareness while other parts of the visual scene do not lead to awareness; they are perceptually suppressed. Identifying the mechanisms that cause such perceptual suppression provides crucial information about the mechanisms behind conscious ...
Role of gene dosage in the acquisition of antimony resistance in L.donovani: experimental evidences Institute of Tropical Medicine
HIPEX: Historical Performance Practices of Experimental Music Orpheus Institute
The HIPEX project traces, reconstructs, and documents historical practices in the performance of experimental post-WWII compositions, deepening our understanding of the role of the performer in the establishing of new repertoire and new performance aesthetics.
The second half of the 20th century saw an exploration of performance practices that was both radical and systematic. The full investigation of extended techniques for each ...
Numerical and experimental study of crowd-structure interaction. KU Leuven
For slender and lightweight structures, vibration serviceability is a matter of growing concern, often constituting the critical design requirement. In recent years, special interest emerged for structures subjected to human-induced loading, in particular for footbridges where the design freedom is restricted by fewer functional and structural demands. Currently, designers are forced to rely on - what are assumed to be conservative - ...
Why pain is not taken seriously by others: an experimental analysis Ghent University
The aim of the project is to investigate how and why pain is underestimated by others. We expect that observers will underestimate the pain in others when contextual information is present about possible secondary benefits of the pain behaviour as well as when more information is available that the pain does not fit whitin a traditional biomedical perspective.