Hypervigilance 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...

EEG101 COST Action

The 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...

EEG101 COST Action

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

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....

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

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...

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 ...

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

Cognitive control is a fundamental ability that enables to detect and resolve conflict. However, this ability is not encapsulated but liable to learni…

ALT: cars are driving down a street in front of a large building called the colosseum

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

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

Two event-related brain potential (ERP) components, the frontocentral feedback-related negativity (FRN) and the posterior P300, are key in feedback pr…

Nature 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....

Doctoral assistant department Experimental psychology

Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks

Hypervigilance 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...