CAPLAB

CAPLAB

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Cognitive & Affective Psychophysiology Laboratory (CAPLAB) at Ghent University, led by Gilles Pourtois: https://www.cap-lab.be/

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Don't worry and read our recent publication!! Nan(cy) Wang, @samversc.bsky.social, Aurora Gasparello and Gilles Pourtois have just published a paper in Cognition and Emotion:

tandfonline.comDon't worry: evidence for stable internal shielding during attentional flexibility despite anxious apprehensionAttentional flexibility refers to the ability to switch between external (perception) and internal (memory) attention. This ability is characterised by an internal shielding benefit, i.e. a stronge...
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Meet our new postdoc!! Nellia Bellaert, current PhD graduate from the University of Mons, will investigate how frustration affects the way people regulate their effort when faced with obstacles, combining EEG and computational modeling. Nellia, welcome to CAPLAB!

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Follow up Gilles Pourtois' presentation on Revisited emotional attention during S5-8 session on June 5, 5pm! Colloseo will wait!

ESCAN@escaneu.bsky.social

🧠 ESCAN 2026 begins this week in Rome! June 3–6: almost 900 researchers gather at Sapienza University of Rome for the 8th ESCAN Meeting. Highlights: 🔹 Keynotes: Tallon-Baudry, Sandi & Knapska 🔹 Pre-conference events 🔹 General Assembly 🔹 750+ contributions escan2026.eu #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience

escan2026.euHome - ESCAN 2026ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
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We have a new research intern!! Meet Vladya Tuwo, Indonesian, currently completing a BSc at the City University of Hong Kong. During her my summer traineeship at CAPLAB, she will investigate how attention and prediction shape C1 ERP component. Welcome, Vladya, to Ghent!

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We have a new publication!! Too Alert to Think Straight: Combined Neurophysiological and Modeling Evidence of Impaired Internal Shielding During Hypervigilance by Nan(cy) Wang, @samversc.bsky.social and Gilles Pourtois is now out in Psychophysiology, check it out!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online LibraryHypervigilance is often linked to enhanced external attention, but it could also disrupt attentional balance, the ability to switch between external (perception-based) and internal (memory-based) att...
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2026 Annual Meeting of BAPS is taking place at UGent on May 21-22! Gilles Pourtois will give a talk entitled Attentional flexibility: behavioural manifestation and computational mechanisms on May 22 at 1pm, come and follow!

bapsannualmeeting.com2026 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BELGIAN ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCESThe 2026 Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) will take place on the 21st and 22nd of May 2026 at Ghent University (UGent, campus Dunant). ​The meeting aims...
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CAPLAB is going for @teap2026.bsky.social in Tübingen!! Gilles Pourtois will give a talk within The Relevance of Affective Information for Cognitive Control Processes symposium on March 17th at 9.00. Come and attend if at TeaP! coms.events/teap26/data/...

TeaP 2026@teap2026.bsky.social

📢 SAVE THE DATE for #TeaP2026 in Tübingen 😍 Symposium submissions open on October 1! 🎉 For details, check out our website: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼

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EEG101 COST Action
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👋 Hello World! EEG101 is live! 🚀 🤝Join our global community for open, rigorous EEG science, academia & industry welcome! 🗓️ June 11–13, 2026: EEG101 Meeting at OHBM Brainhack, Bordeaux. 📢 Training & mobility funding coming soon! 🌐 www.eeg101.eu #EEG101 #OpenScience #Neuroscience #OHBM #Brainhack

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ESCAN
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📢 Deadline extended! The submission deadline for single presentations (posters) at ESCAN 2026 has been postponed. 🗓️ New deadline: 25 February 2026 ⏰ 23:59 (CET) Take advantage of the extra time to finalize your proposal and submit your poster. We look forward to your contributions. escan2026.eu

escan2026.euHome - ESCAN 2026ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
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We have a new visiting research intern! Yuanqi (Phin) Gu, who is a MA student at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, will stay at CAPLAB for 6 months to investigate the neural dynamics underlying attention flexibility. Welcome to Ghent!

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We have a new paper out! @maxvanmigem.bsky.social together with @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social and Gilles Pourtois have just published a paper on the dissociable effects of attention and prediction on visual processing, have a read!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online LibraryOur research on the influence of top-down influences on the C1 ERP component highlights the importance of methodical and analytical factors on the detection of attentional effects on the C1, indicati....
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We have a new research intern, Pauline Maelfait! Durng her internship, she will examine how motivational factors influence attention during attention-focused tasks, combining behavioural and EEG methods.

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It has been our real pleasure to host Kamela Cenka at CAPLAB. We enjoyed her smile, curiosity and trust in mirror neurons, neuroplasticity and DMN ;-) We hope that our paths will soon cross again. Meanwhile, we wish Kamela all the best for what comes next, including a PhD defence in 2026 in Bologna!

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#EEGManyLabs
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Cap-E will guide you through related projects, spin-offs, and associated initiatives. This includes EEG100 celebrating 100 years of EEG (see dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...) and the pan-European network EEG101 COST Action (www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...).

dx.doi.orgOne hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research - Nature Human BehaviourOn the centenary of the first human EEG recording, more than 500 experts reflect on the impact that this discovery has had on our understanding of the brain and behaviour. We document their priorities...
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We have a new publication!! Check out recent JoCN paper with @samversc.bsky.social @lucvermeylen.bsky.social @boevesam.bsky.social on how perceptual decoupling contributes to the "internal shielding benefit" during shifts between external and internal attention.

direct.mit.eduPerceptual Decoupling Underlies Internal Shielding Benefit during Switches between External and Internal Attention: Evidence from Early Sensory Event-related Potential ComponentsAbstract. People need to often switch attention between external and internal sources of information, that is, external and internal attention, respectively. There has been a recent surge of research ...

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ESCAN
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One of the top events in cognitive & affective neuroscience is heading to Rome! ESCAN 2026 | June 3–6 Great science, great people, and unforgettable food—in one unforgettable city. More details soon. #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

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We have a new publication! Xiaojuan Xue and Gilles Pourtois have co-authored 'Neurophysiological evidence for emotional attention modulation depending on goal relevance' paper, which has just been published in Scientific Reports. Have a read >>>

nature.comNeurophysiological evidence for emotional attention modulation depending on goal relevance - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Neurophysiological evidence for emotional attention modulation depending on goal relevance
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We have a new visiting PhD student!! Kamela Cenka is following the Joint PhD Program in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bologna, supervised by Prof. Alessio Avenanti. During her research visit at CAPLAB, she will investigate brain-body interactions and early visual attention.

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Matthias Wieser
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The European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience can now also be found here! 🤘 @escaneu.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSkySci @mtsakiris.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social Please spread the word and tag fellow ESCAN members!

ESCAN@escaneu.bsky.social

Hello, BlueSky! 🌟 ESCAN is thrilled to join this growing platform. Follow us for updates, insights, and discussions on cognitive and affective neuroscience! 🚀 #ESCAN #BlueSky #Academia

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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!!

sciencedirect.comRevisiting the electrophysiological correlates of valence and expectancy in reward processing – A Multi-lab replicationTwo event-related brain potential (ERP) components, the frontocentral feedback-related negativity (FRN) and the posterior P300, are key in feedback pr…

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Davide Gheza
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It's out! Our work on multi-dimensional control adaptation landed on @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Free access to the full text here: rdcu.be/d5pt1 Big shout-out to @wouterkool.bsky.social for sharing the venture and for setting the bar that high in mentorship! For a quick recap, linked thread

rdcu.beDistractor-specific control adaptation in multidimensional environmentsNature Human Behaviour - Gheza and Kool show that, in multidimensional environments, people allocate attention to individual distractors on the basis of their interference with the current task....
Davide Gheza@davideghez.bsky.social

With a neural network model, we show that you need multiple, distractor-specific conflict monitors.

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As part of #EEGManyLabs project, a network of collaborators will attempt to replicate Hajcak and Foti’s (2008) findings on the ERN and defensive motivation. Check the preprint: Revisiting Defensive Motivation and the Error-Related Negativity: A Multi-Site Replication Study osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Sam Verschooren
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Now available in fancy copy-edited version, let me know if you'd like a copy but don't have access :) doi.org/10.1037/rev0... We have also started testing this ideomotor hypothesis and just finished a six-week autogenic training pilot study, results will hopefully follow soon!

Sam Verschooren@samversc.bsky.social

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

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CAPLAB
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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 >>>

link.springer.comHypervigilance strikes a balance between external and internal attention: behavioral and modeling evidence from the switching attention task - Psychological ResearchHypervigilance involves increased attentional scanning of the environment to facilitate the detection of possible threats. Accordingly, this state is mostly bound to external attention and as a coroll...

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