RESEARCH TEAM
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PhD Student
Ayala Denul
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Ayala started her PhD in 2023 on social error monitoring in sports contexts. Gilles Pourtois is co-supervisor. Have a look at her first poster (NVP, December 2023)
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PhD Student
Nicoleta Prutean
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Nicoleta will finish her PhD in 2025. She is investigating how people evaluate and invest mental effort. Nico Böhler is co-supervisor.
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PhD Student
Leslie Held
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Leslie is a PhD study supervised by Senne Braem and co-supervised by Wim Notebaert. In our lab, she is investigating the impact of physical exercise on cognitive processes.
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PhD Student
Daxun Zhu
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Daxun is a PhD student supervised by Senne Braem and co-supervised by Wim Notebaert. Daxun is investigating the specificity/generality of conflict adaptation.
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Postdoctoral researcher
Catherine Culot
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Catherine is a postdoc investigating how bodily subjective feelings (like heart beat) are used to evaluate our performance.
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Postdoctoral researcher
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Master student
Marie Van de Walle
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Marie is a master student doing her internship in our lab. She is investigating the influence of physical exercise (cycling) on cognitive performance in the sports lab.
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Principal Investigator
Wim Notebaert
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Started in Leuven (KUL) with Johan Wagemans, investigating low level perception. Did my PhD in Brussels (VUB) with Eric Soetens on sequential effects in congruency tasks. As a postdoc in Ghent conflict adaptation was my first focus, later error monitoring and effort investment. Now my focus is on metacognition and decision making in sports. I do this with a large team of master students, PhDs, postdocs and (inter)national collaborators.
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Alumni
Luc Vermeylen
Ivan Ivanchei
Marit Ruitenberg
Carsten Bundt
Liesbet Van der Borght
Elger Abrahamse
Marlies Van Bochove
Klaas Bombeke
Wout Duthoo
Senne Braem
Nathalie Schouppe
Femke Houtman