How to evaluate your own performance?

In 2025, we launched a new research project funded by FWO focused on embodied metacognition. This concept refers to the ability to evaluate one's own performance, which is essential for adaptive behavior in different situations. Our research will explore how we assess our performance in the absence of immediate visual feedback, testing the hypothesis that this evaluation relies on interoceptive signals like heart rate. This project is mainly supervised by Catherine Culot in close collaboration with Wim Gevers (Brussels) and Sarah Garfinkel (London).

Check out our first publication on this topic.

What does it take to change your mind?

We received a prestigious WEAVE grant to investigate belief updating in relation to cognitive control: "Feeling is believing: a study on the relation between cognitive control and belief updating". Collaboration with Wim Gevers (ULB).

Heated political debates are often based on beliefs. One believes in climate change or one does not, one believes in the effectiveness of vaccines or one does not,… Once beliefs are installed, it seems difficult for people to update their beliefs in accordance to new (scientific) information. The aim of this research project is to study the mechanisms underlying belief updating with a cognitive neuroscience approach.