Projects
Delineation of effector-specific representations in motor cortex and their structural/functional connectivity. KU Leuven
In many daily activities such as tying your shoelaces, driving a car or playing a musical instrument, a high degree of collaboration between the hands and fingers is critically important. Although it is well known that a dynamic network of various brain areas, including the corpus callosum (CC), is involved in the control of such bilateral movements, its exact neural organization remains a relatively unknown territory. Therefore, I will ...
Relationship between representations of scenes, whole objects and their constituent parts in the human cortex. KU Leuven
Viewing the world, we are confronted with multiple visual objects, each of which might be composed of multiple parts. How exactly our brain is able to recognize and identify these objects very quickly and easily, and how it constructs a representation of these objects is not yet clear. In this doctoral thesis, we focused on two aspects of visual object representations: (1) how do we learn to recognize objects and (2) what kind of relationship ...
Antigen presentation and memory-like responses by porcine natural killer cells and their potential for alphaherpesvirus vaccine design. Ghent University
Herpesviruses are highly successful pathogens of man and animal. Over 4 billion people worldwide are infected with the best-known herpesvirus in man, herpes simplex virus (HSV). However, there is still no HSV vaccine. A successful HSV vaccine will need to activate several parts of the immune system. The immune system protects the body against infections, including by viruses, and is composed of several players. Concerning virus infections, ...
To Distance the Near Past: The Representation of The Frencj Revolution in English and Dutch Texts (1785-95) Ghent University
This research deals with the representation of the French Revolution in English and Dutch literary texts from 1785-1795. I want to investigate what markts these literary texts in their ways of representing historical ecerpience. Despite their chronological and geographical proximity to the event they relate, their representation of reality happens with narratologocal markers of distance.
The literary representation of the economic in the German novel, 1855 # 1901 KU Leuven
This dissertation presents a new perspective for the study of the German bourgeois realistic prose, by parallelizing literary poetics, financial epistemology, commercial procedures of observation and registration. Based on a corpus of literary programmes, economic studies, commercial and financial manuals, a poetology of credit-economic knowledge is first established. The nexus of these apparently very different paradigms of aesthetics and ...
Early modern poethood and selfhood. The representation of the urban individual in Eduard de Dene's 'Testament Rhetoricael' Ghent University
This project offers a reading of the Testament Rhetoricael [Rhetorical Testament] (1562) of the Bruges poet and playwright Eduard de Dene (1505- between 1576 and 1579) as a representation of its authorU+2019s individuality and U+2018selfhoodU+2019. It will do this by confronting the collection to a number of theories about the U+2018selfU+2019.
Contested past: the representation of the past and the construction of cultural memory in the Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian literature of the 1990s Ghent University
The aim of this project is to analyse the scope and role of the post-Yugoslav prose of the 1990s in the transformation of the 'cultural memory' in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia.
Integration in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In order to successfully apply these methods to practical problems, it is important to keep an overview of the various language. In this project, we aim at developing the tools that facilitate the possibility to keep such an overview. ...