Projects
Scientific Chair Vandenbunder Baillet Latour Fund for Film Studies and Visual Culture. University of Antwerp
Scientific Chair Vandenbunder InBev-Baillet Latour Fund for Film Studies and Visual Culture. University of Antwerp
Characterizing face processing plasticity using LTP-like visual stimulation: behavioral and neuroimaging studies in typical subjects and in Autism Spectrum Disorders. KU Leuven
It has recently been shown that visual performance can be improved in a longlasting manner with fast passive stimulation, and reduced with slow stimulation. Thus far this effect has only been demonstrated for elementary visual stimuli (black and white bars). We started to explore the translation of this principle to high-level vision, in particular to face processing. Our first results show clear differential performance in a face ...
Stories of multilingualism: Connecting families and schools through visual narratives KU Leuven
Co-lingual-S tackles a well-documented disconnect between family- and school language policies regarding multilingualism by applying innovative visual methods to understand multilingual family life, and develop multilingual pedagogies in schools. Co-lingual-S sets out to 1) understand how family members’ intersected identities (such as the interplay between gender, language and migration status) shapes family roles and actions in creating ...
'Performing with square and compass': 19th-century Belgian masonic music and ritual as performed and studied through re-enactment. University of Antwerp
Perceptual organization and visual attention: Inattention, expectation and Gestalt integration in the visual system KU Leuven
Despite decades of investigation, the relationship between attention and perceptual organization is still unclear. It is largely acknowledged that attention is guided by perceptual organization processes; however, the influence of attention on perceptual organization is much less explored. This thesis aimed to investigate how attention influences perceptual organization. Four studies constitute the thesis. In Study 1, we reviewed how Gestalt ...
The visual narrative: conveying meaning through visual content Hasselt University
The Visual Narrative: Conveying Meaning through Visual Content Hasselt University
Take Signing to the Child. On the Parental Use of Visual Communication Strategies, and Deaf ChildrenU+2019s Visual Communication and Early Flemish Sign Language. Ghent University
This dissertation wants to deliver an original contribution to the existing national and international Sign Language Acquisition and Assessment research, mainly in four domains:
First, the exploratory case study is the first detailed description of a moderately deaf childU+2019s Flemish Sign Language development, with native exposure to Flemish Sign Language (VGT) from birth up to the age of 24 months. Remarkable linguistic and ...