Projects
Launching awareness and chasing consciousness: Unconscious processing of causality and animacy. KU Leuven
The mystery of conscious visual experience has intrigued many philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists for decades, if not centuries. One of the insights research on this topic has yielded is that there is no one-to-one correspondence between physical visual input and our corresponding perceptual experience. Indeed, in some specific situations visual input can be presented to the observer, while remaining invisible. The ultimate goal ...
How do expectations about future sensory events alter neural processes? A DCM approach of anticipatory EEG activity. KU Leuven
Keeping the fear down: effects of vagal tone and of DCS on the retention and generalization of interoceptive fear extinction. KU Leuven
A formal modeling approach to everyday concepts. KU Leuven
Finding structure in a maze of words: Priming as a guide through the mental lexicon. KU Leuven
It is a well-known finding that the presentation of a related word (e.g., cat) enhances processing of a subsequently presented target (e.g., dog) compared to when the preceding word is unrelated (e.g., car). This phenomenon, called semantic priming, has been studied extensively because it is thought to provide insight into the principles by which the mental lexicon is organized. However, several crucial issues ...