Projects
Drawing Conclusions: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Observational Drawing. KU Leuven
The drawings of Renaissance artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are paradigms of how to convey natural forms. They became experts of their art by developing explicit and implicit strategies for accurate depiction. This helped them to avoid a common pitfall of drawing: drawing what we know rather than what we see. However, drawing ability is often considered a gift you either have or (as many a frustrated artist will testify) don’t ...
How does experience shape brain representations? An fMRI comparative investigation in human and nonhuman primates KU Leuven
Throughout evolution, our species developed unique cognitive abilities that set us apart from other nonhuman primates. Behavioural and cognitive differences must be reflected in the brain’s functional organization. Yet, accumulating evidence points towards homologues brain organization across species. Do monkeys represent the world the way we do? In a series of functional neuroimaging (fMRI) studies, we will investigate how different types of ...
How does experience shape brain representations? An fMRI comparative investigation in human and nonhuman primates KU Leuven
Throughout evolution, our species developed unique cognitive abilities that set us apart from other nonhuman primates. Behavioural and cognitive differences must be reflected in the brain’s functional organization. Yet, accumulating evidence points towards homologues brain organization across species. Do monkeys represent the world the way we do? In a series of functional neuroimaging (fMRI) studies, we will investigate how different types of ...
Art and the evolution of signalling in a cultural species: a comparative approach. University of Antwerp
Network for comparative research on innovative detention policies and practices Vrije Universiteit Brussel
research focuses on prisons and other detention facilities such as forensic hospitals. They all study
detention facilities from a different perspective: penology, law, social psychology, architecture,
anthropology and sociology. In addition, they are located in different regions: Belgium (Flanders, Wallonia
and ...
The place of university lecturing: a comparative analysis of the practice and experience of lecturing in physical and digital spaces KU Leuven
‟Lecturing‟ is a pedagogic practice that still seems to be at the heart of the university in various parts of the world. Today, it concerns physical as well as digital lectures. However, an educational understanding of the event of lecturing and the (dis)similarities between physical and digital lecturing is missing, and hence the reason why holding to the practice of lecturing, and even more its educational meaning, is unclear. Given the ...
Hemispheric specialization for emotion recognition: a comparative study between human and non-human primates and between right- and left-sided cortical neurodegeneration. KU Leuven
The European landscape of contemporary stepfamily life: a comparative study on the cultural and structural context of stepfamily formation, processes and outcomes. KU Leuven
The recurrent finding that children in stepfamilies do not perform better than children in single-parent families on most wellbeing indicators raises questions about why children do not benefit from the additional parental figure in stepfamilies. While often explanations are sought in the lack of a normative framework for these relationships, cross-national studies on stepfamily dynamics are scarce. Typically, studies make conclusions on the ...
Charismatistic leadership in social movements in Belgium during the interwar years. Hendrik De Man, minister in shirtsleeves, in a comparative perspective. Ghent University
The research project examines ‘charismatic’ leadership in social movements, a subject that has been neglected by historiography since Max Weber’s conceptual notes at the beginning of the twentieth century. The focal point is the Belgian labour movement in the interbellum. After the first generation of charismatic leaders at the end of the nineteenth century, a new generation emerged, which, with its preference for a nationally oriented ...