Cognition and Actions Lab - Université Catholique Louvain - Neurosciences

Ronan received a 3-year fellowship from FNRS, July 2024 Thursday, 25 July 2024 Congratulations to Ronan who was awarded a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship grant by Le Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique! Ronan’s project is concerned with identifying neural sources of preparatory inhibition. The use... More detail

Professor Jonathan Tsay was invited to give a talk on "Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning", June 4th 2024 Tuesday, 04 June 2024 Professor Jonathan Tsay was invited to give a talk on June 4th at 12:30pm, which was held at Auditoire Maisin, Louvain-en-Woluwe. He is a distinguished young scientist in the field of motor control. After completing his PhD... More detail

Two PhD students in CoActions Lab presented their work in IoNS Young Researchers’ Day, 30th of April 2024, Brussels Woluwe campus Tuesday, 30 April 2024 Mantosh and Clara from the CoActions Lab made a notable impact with their presentations at the IoNS Young Researchers’ Day, held at the Brussels Woluwe campus of UCLouvain. The event brought together promising young postdoc... More detail

Fanny Fievez's PhD defence: "How urgency shapes motor behavior". April 2024 Thursday, 25 April 2024 Congratulations to Fanny Fievez, who successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “How urgency shapes motor behavior”. Her achievement is a testament to years of hard work, determination, and dedication. We wish all the best... More detail

Cognition and Action workshop, 24th and 25th April 2024, Brussels Wednesday, 24 April 2024 CoActions Lab jointly with ULB organized a 2-day Cognition and Action workshop on the interdependence of cognition and action in the context of decision making, learning and movement, bringing together experts and researchers... More detail

Pierre got the Prize of the best thesis at EPFL! Thursday, 14 March 2024 On the 14th of March 2024, Pierre received the Biaggi de Blasys award 2024 at the Brain awareness week in Lausanne. This prize is attributed once a year to the author of an outstanding PhD thesis in translational neuroscience... More detail

Master's student Manon Chauvaux successfully defended her thesis! Thursday, 22 February 2024 Master's student Manon Chauvaux successfully defended her thesis this month! Her research involved studying the role of contralateral primary motor cortex in interlimb generalisation of newly learned motor skills. We wish her... More detail

Ronan obtained a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship from the FSR funds. February 2024 Wednesday, 14 February 2024 Congratulations to Ronan who got a postdoctoral grant from the Belgian Fonds Spéciaux de Recherche (FSR) involving 3 years of funding. HIs project focused on the neural source of preparatory inhibition. The use of... More detail

Clara got a Fonds Spécial de Recherche (FSR) grant from the UCLouvain for 2024 Tuesday, 19 December 2023 Congratulations to Clara who got a Fonds Spécial de Recherche (FSR) grant from the UCLouvain for 2024. This will allow her to work on her project while securing fundings for the rest of her thesis.Her research project aims to... More detail

The CoActions Lab participated to the workshop “Neurophysiological Bases of Human Movement” in London on December 12-13, 2023 Saturday, 16 December 2023 The CoActions Lab participated in the workshop “Neurophysiological Bases of Human Movement” in London on December 12-13, 2023, presenting four abstracts and earning a poster award for Shiyong Su. The event provided a unique... More detail

Thibault obtained a 4-year FRIA grant to complete his PhD. October 2023 Thursday, 19 October 2023 Congratulations to Thibault Fumery who has been awarded a 4-year FRIA grant starting from October 2023 !His project focuses on how motivation by reward interacts with cognitive inhibitory control to shape urgency during decision... More detail

Talks in Fall 2023 ! Friday, 13 October 2023 Julie was invited to give a talk on the neural substrates of urgency during human decision making at the Bordeaux Neurocampus international conference, NeuroCompare (Comparative Neuronal Circuits For Adaptive Behaviour),... More detail

Indian evening at Bombay BBQ in Brussels during the visit of Ronan Denyer in september 2023 Tuesday, 05 September 2023 Ronan Denyer visited our lab in September 2023 before he officially joins us as a postdoc in 2024. We had a very nice evening at Bombay BBQ in Brussels. Welcome Ronan! More detail

Su obtained a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship from the Belgian FNRS. June 2023 Wednesday, 21 June 2023 Congratulations to Su who got a postdoctoral grant from the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) involving 3 years of funding.This proposal aims to understand the causal role of pupil-linked arousal (PLA),... More detail

Mantosh obtained a 4-year doctoral fellowship from the Belgian FNRS. June 2023 Wednesday, 21 June 2023 Congratulations to Mantosh on being awarded a 4-year prestigious FNRS FRS Aspirant fellowship to complete his PhD in the CoActions Lab. The proposed research aims to investigate the causal role of sensorimotor mu-alpha phases... More detail

Emmanuelle Wilhelm's PhD defence: "Investigating corticospinal dynamics underlying movement preparation: lessons from and for Parkinson's disease". June 2023 Tuesday, 13 June 2023 Congratulations to Emmanuelle for successfully defending her doctoral thesis on 13th June. Her research explored the neurophysiological abnormalities in the primary motor cortex (M1) that contribute to bradykinesia in Parkinson's... More detail

15th National Congress of the Belgian Society for Neuroscience (BSN), Brussels, Belgium, June 2023 Wednesday, 07 June 2023 Most of the team members of the CoActions Lab attended the 15th National Congress of the Belgian Society for Neuroscience (BSN) taking place at Halles des Tanneurs in Brussels, Belgium, on June 6, 2023. Fanny Fievez, Goldy Yadav... More detail

Welcome to Clara, a new PhD in the lab ! May 2023 Monday, 15 May 2023 Clara graduated in 2022 from a master degree in biomedical engineering. She then worked in a pharmaceutical industry but, after few months, she decided to switch to fundamental research and joined the CoActions lab in June 2023... More detail

Congratulations to Emmanuelle who won the local selection of UCLouvain for the "3 Minute Thesis" ! Tuesday, 21 March 2023 "My thesis in 180 seconds" competition of UCLouvain was held on 21th March. Participants had 3 minutes to popularize their thesis and convince the public with a single illustration. Emmanuelle Wilhelm won the local selection... More detail

Julie gave a talk in the 8th CiNet Conference in Osaka, Japan Beyond Motor Control: Bridging the gap between action and perception, March 7 ‒ 9, 2023 Friday, 10 March 2023 Julie was invited to give a talk in the 8th CiNet Conference in Osaka, Japan (March 7 ‒ 9, 2023) Beyond Motor Control: Bridging the gap between action and perception. The goal of the 8th CiNet Conference is to bring together... More detail

Su obtained a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship from the FSR funds. February 2023 Wednesday, 15 February 2023 Congratulations to Su who got a postdoctoral grant from the Belgian Fonds Spéciaux de Recherche (FSR) involving 2 years of funding.The goal of her research project is to explore the hypothesis that the co-regulation... More detail

Pierre Vassiliadis PhD defence. “Mechanisms underlying reinforcement learning of motor skills”. February 2023 Wednesday, 08 February 2023 Congratulations to Pierre who successfully defended his PhD ! On the 7th of February, Pierre successfully defended his PhD entitled "Mechanisms underlying reinforcement learning of motor skills". Pierre performed this work... More detail

Welcome to Fostine, a new PhD in the lab ! February 2023 Thursday, 02 February 2023 Fostine completed her Master in Behavioral Neuroscience at Université Caen Normandie, where she focused on the atypical visual processing of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as an explanation of their difficulty... More detail

Julie obtained a “Projet de Recherche” (PDR) grant from the Belgian FNRS to launch on new project on the sources of urgency during decision making. January 2023 Sunday, 08 January 2023 Julie was awarded a grant from the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) involving 4 years of funding and the possibility to hire new research fellows. The grant involves an amount of 330 kEuros and the project... More detail

Christmas party with the Coactions Lab team! Sunday, 25 December 2022 The end of the year celebrations are approaching, the opportunity for the team to get together to celebrate Christmas (in advance!) and share a good time all together. Christmas was not the only thing to celebrate as Mantosh just... More detail

Article on altered corticospinal dynamics during movement preparation in Parkinson’s disease received enthusiastically by the Belgian press Thursday, 08 December 2022 Our recent paper on altered corticospinal suppression during movement preparation in Parkinson’s disease, published in Movement Disorders (online, September 2022), has been featured in this nice science vulgarisation article... More detail

Gerard Derosiere has obtained a permanent researcher position at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) Tuesday, 18 October 2022 We are very pleased to share that Gerard Derosiere, postdoc in the lab for 8 years, has obtained a permanent researcher position at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). Gerard has been part of... More detail

Welcome to Thibault, a new PhD in the lab ! October 2022 Saturday, 15 October 2022 Thibault is an MD currently specializing in neurology at UCLouvain since 2020. After 2 years of clinical training, he joined the coactions lab on October 1st 2022 to start a PhD. He intends to focus on how reward, which induces... More detail

Goldy obtained a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship from the Belgian FNRS. June 2022 Friday, 10 June 2022 Congratulations to Goldy who got a postdoctoral grant from the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) involving 3 years of funding.The project is aimed at exploring neural oscillatory mechanisms underlying... More detail

Gerard Derosiere has been nominated as 1 of the 9 "Faces of the Future" by the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR). May 2022 Tuesday, 17 May 2022 Gerard Derosiere has been nominated as 1 of the 9 "Faces of the Future" by the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR). He will give an invited talk in Vancouver about his work at the CoActions lab on September 30, 2022.... More detail

Fanny has been awarded a WBI-World Excellence Grant 2022. April 2022 Sunday, 17 April 2022 Fanny has recently been awarded a WI-World Excellence Grant 2022 which will fund a three-months research exchange in Prof. Ignasi Cos lab at the Universitat de Barcelona, in Barcelona (Spain). Fanny will be investigating the ... More detail

Welcome to Su, a new postdoc in the lab ! March 2022 Saturday, 26 March 2022 Shiyong Su joined the CoActions Lab shortly after finishing her PhD in Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. During her Ph.D., she was granted by an International Exchange Program to work in the lab of Prof. André... More detail

Teambuilding at “Pyla sur Mer”, France. December 2021 Friday, 17 December 2021 Such a great teambuilding ! We had a wonderful time in this beautiful area: nice walks along the beach and dunes, relaxing time on the deck with Gérard playing the guitar, a lunch at an oyster farm … And of course also hours... More detail

Work from CoActions Lab featured on the website of UCLouvain. July 2021 Sunday, 25 July 2021 Our new paper on the effect of reward on motor learning has been featured in this nice science vulgarisation article published on the website of the UCLouvain!.https://uclouvain.be/fr/chercher/actualites/l-impact-determinant-... More detail

Farewell Summer Party in honour of our postdoc Caroline. June 2021 Wednesday, 30 June 2021 On 13th June, after some long months of Covid-19 related restrictions, we finally had the chance to get together on a sunny afternoon to celebrate Caroline Quoilin’s farewell party! Goodbyes are never easy, especially since... More detail

Welcome to Goldy, new postdoc in the lab ! May 2021 Sunday, 20 June 2021 Goldy Yadav joined the CoActions Lab shortly after finishing her PhD in Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. During her PhD, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to work at the NIH. As a postdoc... More detail

Welcome to Cécilia, a visiting postdoc fellow from Dijon (France) ! April 2021 Saturday, 01 May 2021 Cécilia Neige has recently joined the team of the CoActions Lab as a visiting postdoc researcher for a period of three months (April-June 2021). Cécilia is interested in using TMS to mechanistically understand the brain, with... More detail

Oleg Solopchuk PhD defence. “Information theoretic approach to decision making in continuous domains”. March 2021 Sunday, 28 March 2021 Oleg Solopchuk successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Information theoretic approach to decision making in continuous domains” on March 17th, 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this defence was held online.Oleg did... More detail

Julien Grandjean PhD defence. “Using a new double-coil TMS method to study vulnerability markers in addictions”. September 2020 Thursday, 19 November 2020 Julien Grandjean (third from the left) defended his PhD thesis entitled: “Using a new double-coil TMS method to study vulnerability markers in addictions” on September 7th, 2020. If you are interested in reading his work,... More detail

Emmanuelle has been awarded a WBI-World Excellence Grant 2020. September 2020 Friday, 09 October 2020 Emmanuelle has recently been awarded a WBI-World Excellence Grant 2020 which will fund a three-months research exchange at the HM CINAC in Madrid (Spain). This institution is headed by Prof. J. A. OBESO., an international expert... More detail

Thomas obtained a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship from the Belgian FNRS. June 2020 Monday, 29 June 2020 Congratulations to Thomas who got a postdoctoral grant from the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) involving 3 years of funding.The goal of his research project is to unravel the contributions of decision... More detail

Professors Leonardo G. Cohen and Francesco Lacquaniti were awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Health Science Sector of UCLouvain. March 2020 Tuesday, 10 March 2020 Congratulations to Professor Leonardo G. Cohen (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA) and Professor Francesco Lacquaniti (University of Tor Vergata and IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Italy) who were awarded the title of... More detail

Pierre was awarded a Gustave Boel-Sofina grant for his fellowship at EPFL. February 2020 Monday, 17 February 2020 Pierre just got great news! He has been awarded a Gustave Boel-Sofina mobility grant to fund his stay in Prof. Friedhelm Hummel lab at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Pierre will be investigating the interplay... More detail

Annual Christmas Dinner of the Lab. December 2019 Tuesday, 17 December 2019 We recently celebrated the annual Christmas gathering of our lab! This year, Gérard invited us over for a walking dinner full of delicacies, followed by a secret Santa with loads of gifts! We had a great night! The CoActions... More detail

Congratulations to Fanny who has received a 3-year FRIA grant to complete her PhD. December 2019 Thursday, 05 December 2019 Fanny Fievez got a grant from the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) involving 3 years of funding and the possibility to complete her thesis. Her goal is to better understand the functional role of motor... More detail

Welcome to Thomas, new postdoc in the lab! November 2019 Friday, 01 November 2019 Thomas Carsten joined the CoActions Lab shortly after finishing his PhD in Psychology at the University of Ghent. With his experience in TMS and EEG, he aims to investigate the interplay between motor preparation and propensity... More detail

49th Annual Congress of the International Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Chicago, USA, October 2019 Saturday, 19 October 2019 Emmanuelle, Pierre and Gerard presented their posters on action preparation and action selection at SfN 2019 in Chicago. They had lots of insightful discussions and received great feedback! More detail

23rd Annual Congress of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS), Nice, France, September 2019 Sunday, 22 September 2019 Emmanuelle Wilhelm took part, for the first time, in the 23rd Annual Congress of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS) held at the Palais des Expositions - Nice Acropolis, France, from September 22 -... More detail

17th Congress of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA), Lille, France, September 2019 Saturday, 21 September 2019 Caroline Quoilin took part in the 17th Congress of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA), held at Lille, France, during September 21 - 24, 2019. There, she had the occasion to give a talk regarding... More detail

Stay of Gerard in Berkeley and collaboration with Rich Ivry’s lab, July-October 2019 Monday, 01 July 2019 Gerard Derosiere spent three months in Berkeley (from July 2019 to October 2019), working in the Lab of Pr Rich Ivry. They are currently working together on a collaborative project related to the role of the cerebellum in action... More detail

9th International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making (SBDM), Oxford, United Kingdom, May 2019 Monday, 27 May 2019 Most of the team members of the CoActions Lab attended the 9th International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making (SBDM), Oxford, United Kingdom, May 2019. Caroline Quoilin, Gérard Derosière, Emmanuelle Wilhelm, Pierre Vassiliadis... More detail

13th National Congress of the Belgian Society for Neuroscience (BSN), Brussels, Belgium, May 2019 Friday, 24 May 2019 Most of the team members of the CoActions Lab attended the 13th National Congress of the Belgian Society for Neuroscience (BSN) taking place at the Royal Academy for Arts and Sciences in Brussels, Belgium, on May 24, 2019. Gérard... More detail

29th Annual meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Toyama, Japan, April 2019 Wednesday, 24 April 2019 Gerard and Pierre were in beautiful Japan to present their latest data at the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. Gerard presented his study on the impact of urgency on corticospinal excitability during action selection.... More detail

Julie obtained a “Projet de Recherche” (PDR) grant from the Belgian FNRS to launch on new project on the function of inhibition in the motor system. January 2019 Tuesday, 01 January 2019 Julie got a grant from the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) involving 4 years of funding and the possibility to hire new postdoctoral fellows. The grant involves an amount of 300 kEuros and the project... More detail

Vincent defend his PhD entitled “From intelligent animals to intelligent machines: learning, decision and action”, November 2018 Friday, 16 November 2018 Vincent Moens (on the right on the picture below) defended his PhD thesis entitled “From intelligent animals to intelligent machines: learning, decision and action” on November 16th 2018. His scientific achievements are impressive.... More detail

Belgian Brain Congress 2018, by the Belgian Brain Council (BBC), Liège, Belgium, October 2018 Friday, 19 October 2018 Most of the team members of the CoActions Lab attended the Belgian Brain Congress by the Belgian Brain Council (BBC), held in Liège, Belgium, on October 19, 2018. Pierre Vassiliadis, Fanny Fievez, Caroline Quoilin, Julien Grandjean... More detail

Monika defend her PhD entitled Multidimensional investigation of the link between mental fatigue and motivation, Octobre 2018 Friday, 12 October 2018 Monika Gergelyfi (3rd from the left) presented her PhD thesis entitled “Multidimensional investigation of the link between mental fatigue and motivation”. Congratulations to her! More detail

Pierre and Fanny are starting their PhDs! October 2018 Monday, 01 October 2018 We welcome Pierre Vassiliadis and Fanny Fievez, both new PhD students in the lab! Not that new though: before starting their PhD, they both did internships in the lab as part as their Master studies. Go on their page and discover... More detail

Julie Duque becomes a scholar of the FENS-Kavli Network of excellence. July 2018 Tuesday, 31 July 2018 The FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence is a dynamic and prestigious network of 30 outstanding early to mid-career European neuroscientists. The multidisciplinary Network was established in 2014 through a collaboration by the Federation... More detail

CoActions got together and went to Walibi, a crazy, Belgian amusement park, June 2018 Wednesday, 27 June 2018 The whole lab was out at an amusement park to end the academic year (2017-2018). The day was followed by a BBQ party at Simon’s place! We had great fun! From right to left: Julie, Emmanuelle, Pierre, Caroline, Julien, Gerard... More detail

E. WILHELM, Laureate 2017 of a L’Oréal-UNESCO “For Women in Science” Grant, October 2017 Friday, 06 October 2017 For 19 years, the L'Oréal Foundation has been committed, alongside UNESCO, to increasing the presence of women in scientific research. Every two years, this funding program awards three young female researchers, working in the... More detail

Public defence A. ALAMIA, September 2017 Monday, 11 September 2017 Andrea Alamia (1st from the left) presented his PhD thesis entitled “Unconscious learning: behavioral evidence, relationship with attention and physiological markers” on September 11th 2017. His scientific achievements are... More detail

Celebration of 3 new FRS-FNRS grants in the CoActions Lab, June 2017 Friday, 30 June 2017 Emmanuelle Wilhelm (2nd on the left) received a 4-year FNRS grant to complete her PhD in the CoActions Lab, under the supervision of Julie Duque (3rd on the left). Gerard Derosiere (1st on the right) and Caroline Quoilin (1st... More detail

2èmes Journées de Neurophysiologie Clinique (JNC). Paris, France, June 2017 Friday, 30 June 2017 Julie Duque’s presentation Julie Duque and Emmanuelle Wilhelm at the Gala Dinner More detail

12th National Congress of the Belgian Society for Neuroscience (BSN), Ghent, Belgium, May 2017 Wednesday, 31 May 2017 Dr. Alexandre Zénon discussing with Dr. Michael Andres during the poster sessions Dr. Charles-Etienne Benoit and Emmanuelle Wilhelm at the lunch break Some members of the IoNS during the conference ta More detail

The CoActions Lab, IoNS, UCL, Belgium, May 2017 Monday, 15 May 2017 In May 2017, J.Duque and A.Zénon were awarded the Solvay Prize by the “Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation for Neurosciences” for the CoActions’ work on Parkinson’s disease. This video was realized for the official ceremony... More detail

J.DUQUE & A.ZENON, Laureates 2017 of the Solvay Prize by the “Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation for Neurosciences”, May 2017 Wednesday, 10 May 2017 Julie Duque and Alexandre Zénon were awarded the Solvay Prize 2017 for their research in the CoActions Lab on the Parkinson’s disease entitled “Parkinson's disease revisited: a new vision of basal ganglia functions in the... More detail

27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Dublin, Ireland, May 2017 Saturday, 06 May 2017 Most of the team members of the CoActions Lab attended the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) held at the Clayton Hotel Burlington Road in Dublin, Ireland, from May 2-5, 2017. Charles-Etienne... More detail

2nd International Brain Stimulation Conference. Barcelona, Spain, March 2017 Friday, 31 March 2017 Free time discovering Barcelona and its beach Julien Grandjean, Julie Duque (middle) and Hannah Craik (right) tasting typical Spanish food Gala Dinner for the 2nd International Brain Stimulation Confer... More detail

Lab team building holidays. Normandie, France, July 2016 Thursday, 30 June 2016 Julie Duque, Julien Grandjean and Gerard Derosiere playing pool Caroline Quoilin showing her pool abilities Julien Grandjean and Gerard Derosiere preparing the barbecue Julien... More detail

25th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Charleston, South Carolina, USA, April 2015 Thursday, 30 April 2015 Caroline and Julie having a walk on the beach in South Carolina during the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Charleston, South Carolina, USA, April 2015. Julie (right) and Caroline... More detail

Rapid prediction of biomechanical costs during action decisions Saturday, 02 August 2014 When given a choice between actions that yield the same reward, we tend to prefer the one that requires the least effort. Recent studies have shown that humans are remarkably accurate at evaluating the effort of potential reaching... More detail

Dissociating loss of resources from loss of motivation during mental fatigue Wednesday, 30 July 2014 Few studies have looked at the relation between mental fatigue (MF) and motivation. In particular, it remains unclear whether the reduced performance sometimes observed following MF is caused by a progressive loss of cognitive... More detail

Implicit learning: a stimulus-response framework Wednesday, 30 July 2014 Several aspects of implicit learning have already been explored since Reber first defined it in 1967, from sequence to statistical learning and from artificial grammar learning to contextual cueing in visual search. In the current... More detail

Welcome to Caroline, Gerard and Emanuele, our new postdoc researchers Wednesday, 30 July 2014 More detail

Counterproductive effect of saccadic suppression during attention shifts Tuesday, 29 July 2014 During saccadic eye movements, the processing of visual information is transiently interrupted by a mechanism known as "saccadic suppression" [1] that is thought to ensure perceptual stability [2]. If, as proposed in the premotor... More detail

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