Projects
Neural temporal processing in the aging auditory system: disentangling effects of aging and peripheral hearing loss KU Leuven
Good speech perception skills are important for communication and social integration. Many persons, however, suffer from impaired speech perception in everyday, noisy listening situations, which causes them to avoid or miss out on social events, thereby affecting their quality of life. There is general consensus that difficulties in speech perception result from hearing impairment, age, and cognitive problems. Nevertheless, it remains unclear ...
Towards a multimodal multiple-deficit model of Developmental Dyslexia. Visual and auditory temporal processing in relation to attention and noise exclusion in persons with specific reading disabilities. KU Leuven
Developmental dyslexia (DD) is one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders, generally present in 5-7% of the primary school population. Although DD has been studied intensively over the past decades and there is agreement on the fact that it is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a genetic origin, no scientific consensus has been reached yet about the underlying cognitive and biological causes of this condition. Indeed, currently ...
The contribution of the medial temporal system in humans to semantic processing of words and pictures. KU Leuven
The brain contains several memory systems. Episodic memory deals with episodes in a particular space and time context and is typically associated with structures deep in the temporal lobe (the medial-temporal lobe system). An episodic memory deficit is commonly seen in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Semantic memory refers to our knowledge of the world, the meaning of words and pictures and associations between concepts. Patients with semantic ...
Medial temporal representation of word meaning embedded in natural language processing KU Leuven
Sentence comprehension deficits can arise despite preserved single word comprehension due to a deficit of integrating information into an overall meaning representation. In this proposal, I will leverage the rapid advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in computational sciences to investigate the neurobiology of natural language comprehension. Five fMRI and two eye tracking experiments will be conducted to examine how the brain ...
Towards natural brain-computer interfaces: representation learning for identifying the temporal encoding of realistic video footage in EEG KU Leuven
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) facilitate interaction between the brain and a computer or machine. Electroencephalography (EEG) is by far the most popular non-invasive BCI modality, because it is cheap, mobile, and it has an excellent temporal resolution to track neural responses that are time-locked to a sensory stimulus. However, traditional BCI paradigms heavily rely on synthetic and controlled sensory stimuli and an active participation ...
Dynamic cognitive psychometrics: modeling temporal changes in response processes. KU Leuven
Surviving selective temporal probing: a combined psychophysical/analytical method. KU Leuven
Face-body interactions in the temporal visual cortex. KU Leuven
We perceive a human body as a whole and not as an arbitrary concatenation of a head with a face and a headless body. However, the large majority of cognitive neuroscience studies treat faces and (headless) bodies as separate units. This is also evident in the existence of a large research tradition on face perception and a separate (but less developed) research line on (faceless) body perception. Behavioral and neuroimaging studies in humans ...