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Verbal monitoring in production and perception : a cognitive neuroscience approach Ghent University
The goal of this dissertation is to investigate the process of verbal monitoring. Specifically, this thesis investigates whether internal and external monitoring proceeds via the same, perception-based process, as proposed by the perceptual loop theory. We compare verbal internal and external monitoring with the use of eye-tracking, fMRI and Parkinson patient data. The data obtained suggest that verbal monitoring is not perception based, and ...
The neural substrates of how model-based learning affects risk taking : functional coupling between right cerebellum and left caudate Ghent University
Higher executive control capacity allows people to appropriately evaluate risk and avoid both excessive risk aversion and excessive risk-taking. The neural mechanisms underlying this relationship between executive function and risk taking are still unknown. We used voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis combined with resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) to evaluate how one component of executive function, model-based learning, relates ...
Efficacy of a modern neuroscience approach versus usual care evidence-based physiotherapy on pain, disability and brain structure and function in chronic spinal pain patients: protocol of a randomized clinical trial Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University University of Antwerp
Background
Among the multiple conservative modalities, physiotherapy is a commonly utilized treatment modality in managing chronic non-specific spinal pain. Despite the scientific progresses with regard to pain and motor control neuroscience, treatment of chronic spinal pain (CSP) often tends to stick to a peripheral biomechanical model, without targeting brain mechanisms. With a view to enhance clinical efficacy of existing ...
Among the multiple conservative modalities, physiotherapy is a commonly utilized treatment modality in managing chronic non-specific spinal pain. Despite the scientific progresses with regard to pain and motor control neuroscience, treatment of chronic spinal pain (CSP) often tends to stick to a peripheral biomechanical model, without targeting brain mechanisms. With a view to enhance clinical efficacy of existing ...
Efficacy of a modern neuroscience approach versus usual care evidence-based physiotherapy on pain, disability and brain characteristics in chronic spinal pain patients Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BACKGROUND:
Among the multiple conservative modalities, physiotherapy is a commonly utilized treatment modality in managing chronic non-specific spinal pain. Despite the scientific progresses with regard to pain and motor control neuroscience, treatment of chronic spinal pain (CSP) often tends to stick to a peripheral biomechanical model, without targeting brain mechanisms. With a view to enhance clinical efficacy of existing ...
Among the multiple conservative modalities, physiotherapy is a commonly utilized treatment modality in managing chronic non-specific spinal pain. Despite the scientific progresses with regard to pain and motor control neuroscience, treatment of chronic spinal pain (CSP) often tends to stick to a peripheral biomechanical model, without targeting brain mechanisms. With a view to enhance clinical efficacy of existing ...
In the spine or in the brain? Recent advances in pain neuroscience applied in the intervention for low back pain KU Leuven
Conservative, surgical and pharmacological strategies for chronic low back pain (CLBP) management offer at best modest effect sizes in reducing pain and related disability, indicating a need for improvement. Such improvement may be derived from applying contemporary pain neuroscience to the management of CLBP. Current interventions for people with CLBP are often based entirely on a "biomedical" or "psychological" model without consideration of ...
Connectionist simulation as a tool for understanding social cognition and neuroscience Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Connectionist simulations are a very important and powerful tool for theorizing about how we, as humans, understand and interact with other people, and how these processes operate in the human brain. Although verbal descriptions of these underlying social processes are often necessary in the beginning stages of theoretical development, researchers are well aware that these processes are implemented in a human brain so that verbal interpretations ...
Model-based whole-brain effective connectivity to study distributed cognition in health and disease University of Antwerp KU Leuven
Neuroimaging techniques are now widely used to study human cognition. The functional associations between brain areas have become a standard proxy to describe how cognitive processes are distributed across the brain network. Among the many analysis tools available, dynamic models of brain activity have been developed to overcome the limitations of original connectivity measures such as functional connectivity. This goes in line with the many ...
Value and prediction error estimation account for volatility effects in ACC: a model-based fMRI study Ghent University
Learning where to be flexible : using environmental cues to regulate cognitive control Ghent University
Cognitive flexibility refers to a mental state that allows efficient switching between tasks. While deciding to be flexible is often ascribed to a strategic resource-intensive executive process, people may also simply use their environment to trigger different states of cognitive flexibility. We developed a paradigm where participants were exposed to two environments with different task-switching probabilities, followed by a probe phase to test ...