CAPLAB

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!

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library Our 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....

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!

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.

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!

This 20th anniversary edition marks a special milestone in the long tradition of the gathering of our cognitive neuroscience community in Hotel Zuiderduin in Egmond aan Zee. For more information: www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl/conference-n...

Home - ESCAN 2026 ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu

Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience.

Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place.

More news soon.
#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

We have a new publication and a new Doctor!

Meet Dr. Xue, who is also a co-author of 'Neither exogenous, nor endogenous: Evidence for a distinct role of negative emotion during attentional control' paper just published in PLoS One: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Emotional attention revisited: modulatory effects of value, goal, and salience on the capture of attention by negative emotion

On September 25th, Xiaojuan (Juan) Xue will be defending the PhD thesis entitled 'Emotional attention revisited: modulatory effects of value, goal, and salience on the capture of attention by negative emotion'.

Good luck, Juan!

Registration for the 20th NVP Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition Winter Conference is open! ✅ You can register and submit your abstract here: www.conftool.pro/nvp2025/. 📅 Early bird registration until Oct 1. ✨For more information: www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl/conference-nvp

One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research - Nature Human Behaviour On 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...

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...).

#EEGManyLabs website is now live: eegmanylabs.org
A home for our global effort to test the replicability of influential EEG findings, share resources, improve methods in cognitive neuroscience, and grow an open, connected community.

CAPLAB is going for Krakow!

If you are attending 22nd World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP 2025), drop by to the talk of Nancy Wang on July 10th, morning session "Attention", starting at 9.00!

Perceptual Decoupling Underlies Internal Shielding Benefit during Switches between External and Internal Attention: Evidence from Early Sensory Event-related Potential Components Abstract. 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 ...

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.

NEUROCOG 2025 is taking place in Brussels Nov 17–18!

The theme: AI and the Human Brain 🤖 🧠

We’re thrilled to welcome 6 amazing invited speakers:
@evfedorenko.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @jeffreybowers.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social & @mtoneva.bsky.social

Social post-error adaptations across four NBA basketball seasons - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Social post-error adaptations across four NBA basketball seasons

And another paper!

Ayala Denul, Gilles Pourtois, Tom Loeys & Wim Notebaert have co-authored the Scientific Reports paper, have a read!

Electrophysiological evidence for flexible adjustments in cognitive control depending on feedback’s contingency Cognitive control is a fundamental ability that enables to detect and resolve conflict. However, this ability is not encapsulated but liable to learni…

We have a new publication!

Jintao Xing, Gilles Pourtois & Qian Yang co-authored a paper just published in Biological Psychology!

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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

Big news. After 48 drafts, Clay Holroyd and I are excited to present a narrative review and new theoretical summary on our favorite sensitive & specific EEG marker of reward receipt - the Reward Positivity: tinyurl.com/yzy98rur

CCN meeting | Nellia Bellaert (University of Mons, Belgium), invited by Gilles Pourtois CCN meeting | Nellia Bellaert (University of Mons, Belgium), invited by Gilles Pourtois

We are hoping for a rewarding afternoon with a talk of Nellia Bellaert (University of Mons) on the mechanisms of irritability and their association with anhedonia during @ghentccn.bsky.social meeting, this Thursday at 3pm!

Neurophysiological evidence for emotional attention modulation depending on goal relevance - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Neurophysiological evidence for emotional attention modulation depending on goal relevance

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 >>>

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.

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!

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

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!!

On the 11th and 12th of April, the Relational Reasoning meeting will take place in the heart of beautiful Ghent ‼️ Check out this link for more details!: liplab.be/relational-r...

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

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...

We have a new opening for a three-year postdoc position in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Ghent University: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Do...

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!

Higher-order interactions Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks

Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks - Aug 25-31, 2025

We're happy to host a course/workshop at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in the incredibly beautiful Erice, Sicily, with amazing speakers

sites.google.com/view/ho2025e...

Wait no further and join!