Due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak this workshop will be postponed until further notice. Together with Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt (UGent) and Eva Dierckx (VUB), and with…
Since October 2018 our lab has moved to KU Leuven, where Eva Van den Bussche has accepted an associate research professorship (BOFZAP). At the same…
Abstract: To efficiently deal with quickly changing task demands, we often need to organize our behaviour on different time scales. For example, to ignore irrelevant…
Previous COPS member, Kobe Desender, won the best PhD award of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science (BAPS).
Abstract: An important aspect of cognitive control is to direct attention towards relevant information and away from distracting information. This attentional modulation is at the…
Abstract: In the human category of learning, learning is studied in a supervised, an unsupervised, or a semisupervised way. The rare human semisupervised category of…
Abstract: Despite the abundance of recent publications about mind wandering (i.e., off-task thought), its interconnection with metacognition and cognitive control has not yet been examined.…
“The current study shows that the subjective experience of difficulty depends on multiple cues that are indicative of performance. It is shown that response conflict,…
“In this study, the autors have successfully applied a novel method to identify the time scale of cognitive control. Shorter time scales of control were…
“In three experiments, the authors provided evidence that the subjective experience that a task is difficult to perfom in a high-demand context plays a role…