Projects
Sabbatical Lukas Van Oudenhove: scientific stay at the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab of Dartmouth College KU Leuven
With the proposed scientific stay in the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab (CANlab) of Prof. dr. Tor Wager (University of Colorado, Boulder, from July 1, 2019 Dartmouth College), a world authority in the use of functional brain imaging to study the neurobiological basis of subjective perception of pain and emotions, I aim to connect with the world top in these scientific disciplines. My own human research on gut-brain communication ...
Special Research Fund Professorship in cognitive control Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
The role of cognitive effort in motivated behaviour: a neurocognitive approach Ghent University
Although investing cognitive effort is key to success in daily life, its mechanistic understanding is thus far minimal. We will use a multimethod neurocognitive approach to better understand how cognitive effort is evaluated, implemented, adjusted, and maintained, both in healthy participants and in a highly relevant clinical population (ADHD).
The Cognitive Modulation of Nociceptive Hypersensitivity KU Leuven
Secondary hyperalgesia is a common symptom in certain chronic pain conditions, contributing to major psychological, social, and economical consequences. It can be experimentally induced in healthy participants using specific protocols of low, middle, and high frequency electrical stimulation.
The main objective of this doctoral research is to examine the effect of cognitive interventions on the development of experimentally induced ...
Erroneous additive or proportional reasoning in word problems: Unraveling the underlying cognitive mechanisms of preference KU Leuven
A follow-up study on cognitive, behavioural and emotional functioning of school-aged children at increased risk of autism spectrum disorder Ghent University
The current project addresses school-age outcomes of prospectively followed children at increased
risk of autism spectrum disorder. Besides stability and reliability of early diagnosis and IQ, multiinformant
measures of depression and anxiety, adaptive and challenging behaviour, self-perception,
peer relations, self-control and quality of life will be investigated. Furthermore, we’ll attempt to
detect early markers of ...
Cognitive biases in how managers and politicians use performance information: differences between actors and moderation by the hard or soft nature of performance management KU Leuven
Worldwide, governments have devoted resources to the introduction of performance management systems. At the core of those systems is performance information. Whereas a lot of studies have examined "why" managers and politicians use available performance information, knowledge gaps remain with regard to "how" they exactly use it. In other words, we do not yet know enough about how they concretely process and respond to that information. Such ...