Projects
Assessing the predictive coding accounts of autism spectrum disorders KU Leuven
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects more than seven million individuals in the European Union. Yet, this neurodevelopmental disorder remains poorly accounted for. ASD is defined by persistent deficits in social interactions and communication, and by restricted interests and repetitive patterns of behaviors. Recent predictive coding theories offer potential accounts of ASD.
The predictive coding framework assumes that the brain ...
YUFE Transforming Research and Innovation through Europe-wide Knowledge Transfer (YUFERING). University of Antwerp
From instructions to actions: characterizing the spatiotemporal neural signatures of instructions following. Ghent University
From air traffic control to large surgery teams, some of the most advanced human collaborative achievements largely rely on our ability to successfully give and follow instructions. Given the combination of novelty, speed, complexity and efficiency, significant effort has been devoted to characterize the mechanisms underlying this ability. However, how the human brain rapidly (i.e. in a matter of seconds) transforms the content of ...
DeLIVER - Super-resolution optical microscopy of nanosized pore dynamics in endothelial cells. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
These skills are applied to reveal ...
Promoting active ageing: functional nanostructures for alzheimer's disease at ultra-early stages KU Leuven
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia and loss of autonomy in the elderly, implying a progressive cognitive decline and limitation of social activities. Progressive aging of EU population will increase the magnitude of this problem in the next decades. Currently, there is not an effective method for the early diagnosis of AD. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop new effective early diagnostic and therapeutic ...
Perceptual representation of Illumination, Shape and Material. KU Leuven
Visual perception provides us with a richly detailed representation of the surrounding world, enabling us to make subtle judgements of:
- 3D shape
- the material properties of objects
- the flow of illumination within a scene
Together, these three factors determine the intensity of a surface in the image. Estimating scene properties is crucial for guiding action and making decisions like whether food is ...
A-DATADRIVE-B: Advanced Data-Driven Black-box modelling. KU Leuven
Making accurate predictions is a crucial factor in many systems (such as in modelling energy consumption, power load forecasting, traffic networks, process industry, environmental modelling, biomedicine, brain-machine interfaces) for cost savings, efficiency, health, safety and organizational purposes. In this project we aim at realizing a new generation of more advanced black-box modelling techniques for estimating predictive models from ...
INnovation in Safety Pharmacology for Integrated cardiovascular safety assessment to REduce adverse events and late stage drug attrition (INSPIRE). University of Antwerp
Entanglement and Renormalisation for Quantum Fields Ghent University
Over the past fifteen years, the paradigm of quantum entanglement has revolutionised the understanding of strongly correlated lattice systems. Entanglement and closely related concepts originating from quantum information theory are optimally suited for quantifying and characterising quantum correlations and have therefore proven instrumental for the classification of the exotic phases discovered in condensed quantum matter. One ...