Projects
Understanding species’ invasions: a mechanistic view on the invasion success of the common waxbill, a prolific avian invader. Ghent University
Invasive species are among the main global threats to biodiversity, economy and human well-being. Preventing their introduction is paramount but requires being able to reliably predict invasion risks. Currently, forecasts of where introduced species can invade strongly rely on extrapolating native-range realized niche characteristics onto new areas. Frequent mismatches between predicted and actual invasive occurrences however raise concern ...
Inside the expert's brain. The neural basis of visual expertise KU Leuven
Experience and learning shape human behavior and alter brain functioning. To investigate the effects of learning on visual object representations in the brain, real-world visual experts are studied.
Many different domains of visual expertise (e.g. bird expertise, car expertise, radiology etc.) have been linked to changes in neural processing, and these neural effects of expertise have been found in a wide variety of brain regions. In ...