Projects
Effects of brain-derived estrogens on behaviourally relevant auditory perception and song learning (memory) in the adult songbird brain. University of Antwerp
Temporal analysis in the macaque and the songbird auditory system using fMRI. University of Antwerp
Unraveling the interaction between testosterone and thyroid hormones and their impact on seasonal changes inthe songbird brain. University of Antwerp
Temporal analysis in the macaque and the songbird auditory system using fMRI. University of Antwerp
Reversible inactivation of the mirror neuron system in non-human primates using pharmacogenetics: in search for a causal role of mirror neurons in social cognition. KU Leuven
Few discoveries in cognitive neurosciences over the last decades have had such an impact on the field as the discovery of mirror neurons. Initially discovered in a single premotor region in the monkey brain, research in the past 25 years have uncovered the existence of mirror neurons in numerous brain regions in different species (songbirds, monkeys and humans). While few people still doubt the existence of these neurons in the brain, the ...
Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity Effect KU Leuven
Chirality is often considered as a structural properties of molecules, but the concept also applies to elementary particles having a non-zero spin, i.e. electrons at rest are achiral but they acquire a helicity (chirality) in the direction of motion. Consequently, electrons are filtered according to their spin when crossing chiral materials. This newly uncovered chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect is surprisingly large. Spin ...