Movement characteristics impact decision-making and vice versa

Thomas completed his PhD in Psychology in 2019 at the University of Gent. As part of his doctoral dissertation, he investigated the motivational properties of rewards and losses on response facilitation. Drawing from his experience with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Electroencephalography (EEG), he joined the CoActions Lab in 2019. His goal was to investigate the integration of sensory evidence into motor plans.

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 →