Very proud to announce that Alan successfully defended his PhD at Tartu University (an official double degree with KU Leuven, so I guess that makes him a drdr). From now on, Alan shall be addressed as dr. Voodla! Alan is currently staying a bit longer at Tartu University as a post-doc, but will soon transition to Leiden University for a post-doc in the lab of Prof. Eiko Fried. Congrats Alan!

With the start of the new academic year, new people have joined the lab. Stien Mommen will carry out her PhD in our lab, investigating how evidence accumulation models can help us to better understand response control. In addition, Insaf Boulite has joined the lab for her 6-months research internship. A very warm welcome to both, and good luck!

Very proud to announce that one of our oldest (and at the same time youngest) lab member has successfully defended her PhD. Hélène can now officially be addressed as dr. Van Marcke! Hélène will stay around for (at least) one more year as a post-doc as part of Neurospace to solve the intricacies of domain-general and domain-specific processing. Congrats, Hélène!

I’m giving a workshop at the CuttingEEG local Garden in Brussels (at the ULB). If you’re interested in the course material (or even better, if you are one of the researchers taking part in this) you can find the slides here and the codebook here.

With the start of the new academic year, new people have joined the lab. Yifan Luo will carry out his PhD (in collaboration with Hans Op de Beeck), implementing domain-general capacities (like metacognition) into domain-specific computational models (like DNNs). In addition, Jasper has joined the lab for his 6-months research internship, and both Jérémie and Francesca are visiting the lab for a couple of months. A very warm welcome to all, and good luck!

Very proud to announce that two lab members have successfully defended their PhDs. Both Gaia Corlazzoli and Pierre Le Denmat are now officially doctors—congratulations to both, dr Corlazzoli and dr Le Denmat! Their hard work, creativity, and dedication have made a lasting mark on the lab. We’re excited to see what comes next for each of them. Well done, Gaia and Pierre!

With the start of the new academic year new people have joined the lab. Yvonne Visser has joined the lab as a post-doc, Alexandre Lietard and Emily Van Hove have joined the lab as PhD students. Apart from that, Hanne, Helena and Tom have joined the lab for their 6-months internship. If you want to figure out what they are all doing, check their personal pages on the lab website. A very warm welcome to all, and good luck!

The lab is exploding! With the start of the new academic year five new people have joined the lab. Luc Vermeylen has joined the lab as a post-doc, Stef Herregods, Jintao Xing and Alikemal Karasu have joined the lab as PhD students, and finally Yue Yin has joined the lab for a one year visit. If you want to figure out what they are all doing, do visit their personal pages on the lab website. A very warm welcome to all, and good luck!

The first paper of Gaia her PhD has been published in Cognition! You can read the full paper here or read a brief summary in this post.

Desender, K., Vermeylen, L., & Verguts, T. (2022). Dynamic influences on static measures of metacognition. Nature Communications. [pdf] [data & code]

Are we mistaking response caution for metacognition? In our new paper, published in Nature Communications, we show that this might be the case, because measures of metacognitive accuracy that are based on signal detection theory (such as M-ratio) are confounded with response caution. Instead, we propose a novel dynamic measure of metacognitive accuracy, v-ratio, based on evidence accumulation models. Read the tweeprint here.