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The research group IDNS started at the end of 2007 as a non-binding collaboration with the aim of developing the postmodern, social-constructionist perspective that developed within different psychological and orthopedagogical research projects theoretically and methodologically, and to develop a theoretical and methodological framework to further study psychological and orthopedagogical themes. The collaboration led to the development of its ...

Learning and memory processes in psychological function and dysfunction, in particular in relation to anxiety, depression and substance use, including:

• - Basic and applied research on emotional changes, especially with regard to anxiety and depression.
• - The role of classical (Pavlovian) conditioning in evaluative processes.
• - Psychophysiological measurements with computer-assisted data processing.
• - Basic ...

The CIP&T investigates learning and teaching in specific subject domains, esp. in mathematics. Emphasis is put on the role of cognitive, metacognitive as well as affective variables in the teaching/learning process. This research takes place in ecologically valid settings and uses a diversity of quantitative and qualitative methods, including design experiments aimed at the construction and validation of powerful learning environments. In ...

Social and cultural psychology studies how people interactand how they think and feel about one another and about the world, both as individuals and as groups. It starts from the premise that all behavior is contextualized, and conversely, that individuals' and groups' behaviors constitute the social and cultural landscape. Our research spans a wide range of different methods and contexts, varying from controlled laboratory experiments that ...

* Problems concerning knowlegde-based visual information processing: visual extraction of information in situations where much information is available. Equipement for monitoring the eye-movements of a viewer in a free visual field, at a 50 or 1000 Hertz sampling rate. * Artificial intelligence and vision: research on object recognition as embedded in a visual scene. Computational approaches of perception where low and high-level vision are ...

The research unit School Psychology and Child and Adolescent Development is dedicated to the study of child and adolescent development within schools and other social contexts, that is, family and peer systems. Our main aim is to gain more insight into developmental processes and the factors affecting them by conducting longitudinal research, intervention research, and experimental studies. In most of the studies conducted, a longitudinal ...

EXTO conducts research in four focused research groups 1) BIPS: Physiology & neuropsychology of sleep, sleeplessness and cognitive performance 2) SOSP: Social cognitive neuroscience The way our brain builds up impressions about other people is a major topic of research at the V.U.B. We make use of the most modern techniques using brain imaging to study this, including ERP and fMRI. 3) COPS: Attention and implicit learning, including: * ...

The main research topics of the department COPS are the following: 1. New paradigms for hypnotic treatment in insomnia and depression; 2. Quality of life assessment in chronic insomnia and narcolepsy; 3. Psychoneuroimmunology in insomnia and sleep apnea syndrome; 4. Shift work as a contributor to occupational stress; 5. Development of neuropsychological assessment procedures for children; 6. Neuropsychological screening of ALTE and SIDS ...