Projects
The role of automatic and deliberate mental imagery in multi-sensory digital consumer environments. Hasselt University
The role of automatic and deliberate mental imagery in multi-sensory digital consumer environments. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
carefully approaching the pandemic aftermath, it becomes clear that the pandemic containment
measures have instilled long-lasting habit changes in the sense that many interactions in society will
remain more digital or technology-mediated than before. One of the shortcomings that are currently
still inherent to digital ...
Using Mental Imagery to Rescript Emotional Memories in a Fear Conditioning Paradigm KU Leuven
In classical fear conditioning, a neutral stimulus (for example, a red car) becomes associated with a fearful event (for example, being in a car crash). Because of this association, the original fear response becomes associated with the neutral stimulus. A reduction of this fear response can be achieved by extinction learning: repeated exposure to the neutral stimulus in the absence of the fearful event. A new memory trace is created where ...
The effects of mental imagery on consumers’ wanting and liking. Ghent University
This project studies the impact of imagination on two related yet separable forces that guide human reward-seeking behavior: wanting and liking [1]. Wanting is felt as a desire prior to consumption which ultimately leads to a motivational state to interact with a product or service (i.e., purchase, consume). Liking involves a post-consumption evaluation of the experienced pleasure and facilitates an emotional state [1, 7]. Over the past ...
Field versus observer perspective in mental imagery: an investigation of the effects on mood and behaviour, and of the efficacy of a clinical application in the prevention of depressive relapse. KU Leuven
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determines the outcome, for instance on positive affect. This is especially of
interest in the context of depression. Depression is characterised by increased
negative affect, but also by reduced positiveaffect</>. Our aim
was to investigate mechanisms that ...
The diversity of unconscious mental processes. University of Antwerp
The puzzle of imagistic cognition University of Antwerp
Real-time multiway decoding of performed, observed and imagined movement electrocorticography supported by avatar-based user training KU Leuven
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) decode brain activity with the aim to establish a communication channel that does not rely on muscular control. BCIs usually rely on EEG signals acquired from the subject's scalp or on electrophysiological signals from brain implants. The latter yield a superior decoding performance, but as the implant damages the cortical tissue, long-term signal stability is a concern. EEG does not require surgery but the ...
Real-time motor brain-computer interface based on electrocorticography in humans. KU Leuven
Disabled patients can be assisted in their communication needs with a BCI: a device that decodes brain activity directly, bypassing the need for muscular activity. The journal Science selected in 2012 BCI as one of ten runner-ups for “Breakthrough of the year”. However, the main thrust of current BCI research is with the decoding of EEG recordings acquired from the subject’s scalp or invasive ones obtained from deep brain implants. Both have ...