Preparatory inhibition: Impact of choice in reaction time tasks

Caroline completed a PhD in Psychological Sciences at the University of Liege as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at the department of Addiction Neuroscience of the University-Purdue Indianapolis University, where her research focused on the developmental and neurobiological bases of alcohol abuse and dependence. Caroline joined the CoActions lab in July 2014 and, since then, has been mainly investigating the contribution of deficient motor inhibitory mechanisms in addiction, and especially in alcohol-dependence.

Fanny is a physiotherapist who specializes in Neurological disorders in adults. She joined the CoActions lab during her studies at the Université catholique de Louvain (2014). Her master thesis investigated the impact of the necessity to make a choice on the motor output. She then joined the CoAction Lab in October 2018 to start a PhD. Her goal was to better understand the functional role of motor inhibition, focusing on interactions between cognitive and motor processes.

Research broadly explores a range of questions pertaining to the cognitive neuroscience of human behavior. Conduct experiments to explore the interaction between cognition and action in neurologically healthy and impaired individuals. Use a variety of techniques to characterize the functional role of different parts of the motor pathways, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and electroencephalography (EEG). Recent research investigates the role of the locus coeruleus in various aspects of action control, including reaching movement control, decision making, and behavioral vigor, using transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) to causally probe this neuromodulatory system. More →