Projects
The fluent and flexible use of external representations in statistics: empirical studies on representation use in distributional problem solving. KU Leuven
Representative democracy in crisis? An analysis of citizens' expectations toward representation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Representation of concepts in health & neurodegenerative disease: a subject-specific multivariate approach based on representational similarity analysis using fMRI and MEG KU Leuven
During this project, we want to investigate how concrete entities (animals, objects) are represented in the human brain. We will examine healthy controls and patients suffering from neurodegenerative disease. In our previous work, we discovered that when the meaning of words is more alike, the brain response patterns in the left temporal lobe are also more alike. We performed these studies on large groups of healthy young volunteers. Now, we ...
The representation of language in bilinguals: Neural overlap as a function of modality, representational level, language proficiency and context. Ghent University
Bilinguals use their two (or more) languages in their everyday lives and may need to switch back and forth between them frequently. In order for bilinguals to flexibly use their different languages, they need clear representations (lexical, semantical, …) of each language and a language control mechanism to coordinate the continuous interactions between these representations. In this project, we focus on the neuronal representations of the ...
Democratic respresentation and political participation. A philosophical inquiry into the meaning and scope of political agency with representative democracy. KU Leuven
Representation or Responsibilization? Metamodeling the Institution with Félix Guattari Vrije Universiteit Brussel
pluralist, rapidly changing society, which is characterised by the centrality of media and technology
as well as by social segmentation, we cannot rely on such an overarching belief system any longer.
For this reason, this project proposes to examine how (cultural, educational and media) institutions
should organize social ...
From Hashtag to Hollywood: Fourth-Wave Feminism and the Representation of Women in Biopics. University of Antwerp
Lobbying and litigation for policy change - Assessing compliance and congruence of the EU framework on interest representation KU Leuven
In the EU, litigation has increasingly become an essential part of interest representation and, ever more, the lines characterizing political and legal strategies of interest representation are blurring. The role of lawyers is only one of normative considerations that arise. Legal ethics rules come into play where lobbying ends and legal advice begins. Be that as it may, empirical analysis suggests that the glass wall between lobbying and ...
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 ...