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CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · 19d

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!

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

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Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition @brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social · 23d

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

Conference – Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition

www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl

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#EEGManyLabs @eegmanylabs.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...).

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...

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#EEGManyLabs @eegmanylabs.bsky.social · Aug 20

#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.

eegmanylabs

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CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · Jul 6

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!

International Organization of Psychophysiology 2025

iop2025.pl

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CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · Jun 18

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.

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 ...

direct.mit.edu

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BogaertsLab @bogaertslab.bsky.social · Jun 4

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

NeuroCog » November 17-18, 2025

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CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · Jun 1

And another paper!

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

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

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

www.nature.com

CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · Jun 1

We have a new publication!

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

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…

www.sciencedirect.com

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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · May 28

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

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

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

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Jim Cavanagh @jimfcav.bsky.social · May 13

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

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CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · May 19

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!

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

www.ugent.be

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CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · Apr 13

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 >>>

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

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

www.nature.com

CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · Mar 27

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 @mjwieser.bsky.social · Jan 21

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 · Jan 21

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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CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · Jan 12

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!!

Revisiting the electrophysiological correlates of valence and expectancy in reward processing – A Multi-lab replication

www.sciencedirect.com

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LIPLab at UGent @liplab.bsky.social · Jan 9

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...

Relational Reasoning Meeting 2025 | liplab.be

liplab.be

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Davide Gheza @davideghez.bsky.social · Jan 6

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

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CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · Jan 5

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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CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · Dec 25

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Ghent Center for Cognitive Neuroscience @ghentccn.bsky.social · Dec 13

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...

Doctoral assistant department Experimental psychology

jobs.ugent.be

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Sam Verschooren @samversc.bsky.social · Dec 13

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!

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Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · Dec 12

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!

Higher-order interactions

Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks

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Sam Verschooren @samversc.bsky.social · Dec 2

New preprint with @lucvermeylen.bsky.social, @boevesam.bsky.social, and @caplab.bsky.social!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Perceptual decoupling underlies internal shielding benefit during switches between external and internal attention: Evidence from early sensory ERP components

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CAPLAB @caplab.bsky.social · Dec 1

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 >>>

Hypervigilance strikes a balance between external and internal attention: behavioral and modeling evidence from the switching attention task - Psychological Research

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...

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