Projects
Democratic representation beyond the nation-state. The debate on European democracy as a test case for a French liberal model. KU Leuven
Politics of interest representation and agenda-setting in multi-level political systems. University of Antwerp
Reclaiming Identity: The Potential of Autistic (Self-) representation in Life Writing and Literary Fiction for New Forms of Subjectivity. KU Leuven
Autism in Plural focuses on the contemporary proliferation and popularity of published self-narratives by people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. These self-narratives, also called autie-biographies or autie-narratives, are all concerned with the question: what does autism mean for me as a subject? The research therefore focuses on the way in which people deal with the label of autism spectrum disorders, rather than on the ...
Representation and Democratic Resentment KU Leuven
Existing democracies are challenged by critics such as Trump, Brexiteers and populists claiming that democracy is not representative anymore. RepResent takes these claims serious by empirically examining the relationship between popular democratic resentment and the functioning of representation. Is representation failing? And, is democratic resentment driven by failing representation? Democratic representation consists of several dimensions, ...
A comparative research on the substantive representation of migrants, seniors and women. University of Antwerp
Integration in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning KU Leuven
In the field of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, many different logics are developed to represent knowledge in. Furthermore, for several of those languages tools for automatic reasoning are developed. 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. We ...
Breaking it down to build it up: Hierarchical task learning and representation in the anterior cingulate cortex Ghent University
The function of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has been well-studied but little understood by cognitive neuroscientists over the last decades. Lesions of the ACC can lead to a wide variety of mental disorders including depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia. A novel theory of the computational function of the ACC proposes that it is involved in learning and executing hierarchically structured tasks according to the ...
The development and representation of Dutch syntax in learners of Dutch as a foreign language and learners of Dutch as a second native language. University of Antwerp
From representing actions to representing interactions: What is the role of motor simulation in interaction representation? Ghent University
Research indicates that we process others’ actions by simulating them in our own motor system. This means that we represent observed actions as if we executed them ourselves. However, in social life, we not only have to process actions but also interactions. Could this rely on motor simulation as well? In my PhD, I was able to show that we can simultaneously represent multiple observed actions in our motor system. However, representing ...