Projects
EXPLORING THE USE OF VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION IN THE ACQUISITION AND EXTINCTION OF BODILY SYMPTOMS. KU Leuven
Inspired by promising results in rats, researchers have investigated whether vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in humans improves the ability to learn changes in the relationship between stimuli and outcomes. The hypothesized working mechanism is that VNS increases central noradrenergic (NA) activity and, in turn, facilitates learning contingency changes. However, the available evidence is inconclusive, and little is known about the optimal ...
3D super-resolution correlative light and electron microscopy on a dedicated CLEM microscope and development of an automated data acquisition KU Leuven
Fluorescence microscopy can provide information about location of specific protein molecules, by tagging them with fluorescent moieties, or by labeling them with fluorescent antibodies. However, this information is constraint by the limited resolution of the fluorescence microscope as well as by the absence of cellular context on the nano-scale. Therefore it is necessary to employ correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM), which ...
The acquisition of the Hindi case system by Dutch-speaking and German-speaking foreign language learners Ghent University
This project aims to investigate developmental sequences in the foreign language acquisition of the Hindi case system. A qualitative longitudinal study will be conducted among Hindi foreign language learners in an instructed learning environment. The research will be embedded within the framework of Processability Theory, which is a second language acquisition theory that describes and explains stages of morphosyntactic development
Towards a first bird's eye view of the histone code using dataindependent acquisition mass spectrometry. Ghent University
Epigenetic modifications of chromatin are essential in the regulation of many biological processes.The evolutionary conserved histone proteins that are intimately associated with DNA to form the chromatin are pivotal substrates herein. Until recently, research has been very targeted and mainly focused on the amino-terminal tail of these histones that protrude from the nucleosome and can become modified by many different posttranslational ...
Breakthroughs towards high-resolution MR relaxometry within a clinically acceptable acquisition time for improved detection of brain diseases. University of Antwerp
Molecular evolution and cophylogeny of rhabdocoel flatworms as a case study on the acquisition of endosymbiosis Hasselt University
An Empirical Study of Acquisition of English Discourse Markers Among Chinese EFL learners KU Leuven
As a functionally related group of expressions (Schourup 1999), discourse markers (henceforth DMs) are extensively used in daily communications. In general, they are considered as the pragmatic ‘glue’ of conversation (Schiffrin, 1987), indexing the speaker’s attitude toward the listener and the discourse (Aijmer, 2002; Fraser, 1990). Discourse markers have been described and categorized differently by various authors (Aijmer and ...
When input meets output? Empirical investigations into the impact of input and output tasks on L2 vocabulary acquisition and use KU Leuven
There is great consensus that second language (L2) learning is hard to take place without some sort of input (Gass, 1999) and opportunities for output production (Swain, 2005). Despite an extensive body of empirical studies exploring the impact of various types of input (see Webb, 2020) or output tasks (see Plonsky & Kim, 2016) on L2 learning, little research has looked into the effects of input and output tasks on different aspects of ...