A5048639441- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mind wandering and attention
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Fault Detection and Control Systems
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
Ghent University
2016-2025
Ghent University Hospital
2005-2023
Leiden University
2013
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1970-2004
The conflict monitoring model of M. Botvinick, T. S. Braver, D. Barch, C. Carter, and J. Cohen (2001) triggered several research programs investigating various aspects cognitive control. One problematic aspect the Botvinick et al. is that there no clear account how system knows where to intervene when detected. As a result, recent findings task-specific context-specific (e.g., item-specific) adaptation are difficult interpret. difficulty with item-specific was recently pointed out by Blais,...
Over the last two decades, congruency sequence effect (CSE) –the finding of a reduced following incongruent trials in conflict tasks– has played central role advancing research on cognitive control. According to influential conflict-monitoring account, CSE reflects adjustments selective attention that enhance task focus when needed, often termed adaptation. However, this dominant interpretation been called into question by several alternative accounts stress episodic memory processes:...
Humans can up- or downregulate the degree to which they rely on task information for goal-directed behaviour, a process often referred as cognitive control. Adjustments in control are traditionally studied response experienced expected task-rule conflict. However, recent theories suggest that people also learn adapt settings through reinforcement. Across three preregistered switching experiments (n = 415), we selectively rewarded correct performance trials with either more (incongruent) less...
Adaptive control refers to flexible adjustments in settings response conflicting situations. There has been a long-standing debate as whether this adaptation relies on domain-general or domain-specific process. Recent models predict U-shaped relation where only highly similar dissimilar tasks show across tasks, because those can be represented activated parallel. While there an abundance of evidence for within and some recent studies have reported with failures replicate. In order further...
An influential theory of ACC function argues that this brain region plays a crucial role in the affective evaluation performance monitoring and control demands. Specifically, control-demanding processes such as response conflict are thought to be registered aversive signals by ACC, which turn triggers processing adjustments support avoidance learning. In being treated an event, recent behavioral studies demonstrated incongruent (i.e., inducing), relative congruent, stimuli can speed up...
In two studies, a vocal Stroop task with eight different colours was employed in order to put core assumptions of the original interpretation Gratton effect test. We verified whether top-down control processes can elicit conflict adaptation when episodic memory effects are controlled for and what extent proactive adjustments driven by subjects' expectancy congruency level repetition contribute this effect. Therefore, we presented stimuli without feature repetitions investigated induced...
Conflict has been hypothesized to be aversive, triggering avoidance behaviour (Botvinick, 2007). To test this hypothesis, a standard Stroop task was modified such that avoiding part of the response set. More precisely, participants were asked move manikin towards or away from stimuli, depending on colour words. Results showed type (approach versus avoidance) modulated congruency effect. Specifically, reaction time analysis revealed stimulus effect disappeared with responses, contrary...