Why is testing good for you(r memory)? Because it forces you(r brain) to predict. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We moved our symposium to a bigger room so we have a few more extra seats available now! Join us September 10th for our symosium on "Flexible Definitions of Cognitive Flexibility" shengjiexu.ugent.be/CoCoFlex_Sem.... Poster or talk submission deadline is in two weeks: July 31st!

The study suggests a few metacognitive states correlate with rational behavioural adjustments; this might help steering behaviour towards optimality. @lucvermeylen.bsky.social @sebraem.bsky.social @kobedesender.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @mruz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The Learning and Cognitive Control Laboratory at Ghent University (Belgium), led by Clay Holroyd, is recruiting two highly motivated postdoctoral fellows to apply a control-theoretic approach to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms of cognitive effort ( doi.org/10.1037/rev0... )

The Learning and Cognitive Control Laboratory at Ghent University (Belgium), led by Clay Holroyd, is recruiting two highly motivated postdoctoral fellows to apply a control-theoretic approach to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms of cognitive effort ( doi.org/10.1037/rev0... )

NEUROCOG 2025 is taking place in Brussels Nov 17–18! The theme: AI and the Human Brain 🤖 🧠 We’re thrilled to welcome 6 amazing invited speakers: @evfedorenko.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @jeffreybowers.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social & @mtoneva.bsky.social

New publication in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) with @guillaumepech.bsky.social ! We investigated the influence of conformity and obedience on intentions to help a child whose relative had caused harm to the participant’s family. academic.oup.com/scan/article...

Hear hear! 👇 @ghentccn.bsky.social @frosas.bsky.social @massimost.bsky.social

We're organizing a symposium in Ghent on "Flexible Definitions of Cognitive Flexibility" on Wednesday, September 10th, with six exciting speakers: shengjiexu.ugent.be/CoCoFlex_Sem.... Registration is free, but seats are limited. You can also submit poster or talk abstracts by July 31st!

PhD fellowship to work with me and Benedetta Franceschiello on the analysis and modelling of fast sampled fMRI data! www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

We are hoping for a rewarding afternoon with a talk of Nellia Bellaert (University of Mons) on the mechanisms of irritability and their association with anhedonia during @ghentccn.bsky.social meeting, this Thursday at 3pm!

🥳 Happy to share that another chapter from my PhD dissertation has now been published: 👉 Bouncy bands do not improve academic performance: an ecologically valid classroom study on the role of ADHD traits 👈 rdcu.be/ehUs1

We are pleased to invite you to the first edition of the Social & Moral Brain seminar: Emotions, Others, and Morality, October 16–17, 2025, at the Ghent University Museum (GUM) Forum Belgium. Call for abstracts until May 19th 🔗 Submission : thesmbseminar.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

Our lab finally just joined #BlueSky! --> moralsocialbrain.com Don't hesitate to follow for open positions (Ph.D. or postdoc), research internships, or new publications! #Academia #Neuroscience #Social #Moral #Cognition #DecisionMaking PI : @emiliecaspar.bsky.social In the @ghentccn.bsky.social

Save-the-date for the 2025 edition of the Neurocog conference. The topic this year is AI and the human brain: neurocog.be

Why is testing better for learning than studying? We propose because testing makes you actively predict: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🌿 Hello, Bluesky! 🌿 We’re EcoBird—a passionate research group from Ghent University, dedicated to exploring the lives of birds and their ecosystems. 🐦✨ Our goal is to advance scientific knowledge and tackle environmental challenges impacting bird populations worldwide. ecobird.ugent.be

💬🙇🏼‍♀️💬🙇🏼‍♀️💬🙇🏼‍♀️ The advantage of spaced studying is well documented for explicit learning, but is there such an advantage for incidental #StatisticalLearning of novel #Language? Jasper de Waard from @jthee.bsky.social’s lab tested it! Find out what we found here : 🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Is it valence, or is it expectancy? Within the #EEGManyLabs project, across 13 labs we aimed to replicate Hajcak et al. (2005) findings on FRN & P300 modulation during feedback processing. Check the outcomes of this replication just published in Cortex!!

New year new paper! Now out in Psychophysiology: Reward and Efficacy Modulate the Rate of Anticipatory Pupil Dilation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are organizing a meeting on Relational Reasoning on April 11 and 12 in Ghent. All info, submissions and registration here: event.ugent.be/registration....

New paper out! The title says what we found 🙃: "Intact Neural Responding to Hearing One’s Own Name in Children with Autism" (ages 7-13, ERP analysis). Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... (by Rachida El Kaddouri, myself, Roeljan Wiersema and Marcel Brass)

Empathy can be a motivated phenomenon. But can (will?) people increase or decrease their neural empathic responses when witnessing members of an "outgroup" as well? With @guillaumepech.bsky.social, Eva Nicolay and Félix Banderembaho. 🧪 New paper out! --> www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This starter pack is still developing, so if you, or someone you know, looks after the social media in your school or dept of psychology, give them an early Xmas present of the opportunity of being added to a starter pack. Please share. go.bsky.app/FmgYgVj

Thanks @sebraem.bsky.social, for inviting me as part of the 'Growing up in Science' series. Sharing the often untold aspects of becoming and being a scientist (doubts, difficulties, rejections and imposter experiences) felt very meaningful.

We have a new opening for a three-year postdoc position in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Ghent University: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Do...

We have a new opening for a three-year postdoc position in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Ghent University: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Do...

Some great news to start the week: our paper on ideomotor theory and voluntary control over autonomic processes inside the body (“interoactions”) was accepted in Psych Review!🧠💓🥳 With @mgblr.bsky.social and Marcel Brass Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #cogpsych #interoception

History and experimental research have shown that resisting orders from authority is rare. In this new #fMRI paper in Imaging #Neuroscience, we studied the neural correlates of the brain's decision to #disobey. With L. Tricoche & A. Rovai @ghentccn.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

We have a new publication! Nan (Nancy) Wang, @samversc.bsky.social, @lucvermeylen.bsky.social, Ivan Grahek, and Gilles Pourtois co-authored a paper published in Psychological Research. Have a read >>>

Excited to share my new perspective paper in Journal of Neuroscience! I outline practical steps for conducting research projects like those described below 👇, focusing on how to do so correctly and respectfully. Link: www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

If you are looking for an EEG Post Doc position, and have both an applied and fundamental interest, Roeljan Wiersema's lab is the place to be. Deadline is Monday 25-11, so be quick! #EEG #neuroskyence

In this new paper, Bram De keersmaecker, Aurélie Pistono, and I investigate eye contact and disfluencies as cues for talkers' veracity and listeners' perception of veracity, using a so-called treasure hunt paradigm (1st 50 downloads free; not free? just email me). www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HM9Z8...

Hi BlueSky! We are an interdepartmental research group in Ghent, led by Roeljan Wiersema. To better understand autism (+ related features), we use a multimethod approach (quantitative, including neural measures, but also qualitative), also aiming to give space to the voices of experienced experts.

@craccoemiel.bsky.social and I are excited that our edited book on #AutomaticImitation is now published online as open access @SpringerPsych. The chapters cover sections on measures, processes, and consequences of diverse forms of automatic imitation. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...