Laboratory of Biological Psychology
@biopsylbp.bsky.social
🔬 The Laboratory of Biological Psychology investigates the biological underpinnings of learning, memory, emotions, & perception since 2003 🧠
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Super excited to share a new preprint!
We asked a simple-but-big question:
What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert?
Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask:
1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded?
2️⃣ HOW is it structured?
3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed?
1/n
We asked a simple-but-big question:
What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert?
Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask:
1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded?
2️⃣ HOW is it structured?
3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed?
1/n
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Super excited to share a new preprint!
We asked a simple-but-big question:
What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert?
Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask:
1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded?
2️⃣ HOW is it structured?
3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed?
1/n
We asked a simple-but-big question:
What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert?
Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask:
1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded?
2️⃣ HOW is it structured?
3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed?
1/n
Another LBP story has reached the end: yesterday Laura Vercammen from Bram Vervliet’s lab successfully defended her PhD! Congrats, Laura! @tombeckers.bsky.social @lauraluyten.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Another LBP story has reached the end: yesterday Laura Vercammen from Bram Vervliet’s lab successfully defended her PhD! Congrats, Laura! @tombeckers.bsky.social @lauraluyten.bsky.social
There is always a bit of time for fun! Last week we had a LBP social event with a customised quiz about our colleagues and faculty, pizza and..
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
There is always a bit of time for fun! Last week we had a LBP social event with a customised quiz about our colleagues and faculty, pizza and..
🚨New paper in LBP! Check it out below 👇🏼
New paper (and thread) on the representational dynamics of the main dimensions of object space: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... 1/n
Representational dynamics of the main dimensions of object space: Face/body selectivity aligns temporally with animal taxonomy but not with animacy | JOV | ARVO Journals
jov.arvojournals.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨New paper in LBP! Check it out below 👇🏼
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New paper (and thread) on the representational dynamics of the main dimensions of object space: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... 1/n
Representational dynamics of the main dimensions of object space: Face/body selectivity aligns temporally with animal taxonomy but not with animacy | JOV | ARVO Journals
jov.arvojournals.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New paper (and thread) on the representational dynamics of the main dimensions of object space: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... 1/n
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Our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents is growing, rapidly – and actually a lot faster than I manage to post about it. Nine new manuscripts got accepted since my last post. Quite impressive work. Check it out:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents is growing, rapidly – and actually a lot faster than I manage to post about it. Nine new manuscripts got accepted since my last post. Quite impressive work. Check it out:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Two #comment articles with opposite perspectives about the role of #animals in #biomedical #research have been featured in the scientific journal #Nature, fueling a polarised discourse that can confuse and misinform the public and decision-makers. #NAM #SciencePolicy
www.eara.eu/post/eara-co...
www.eara.eu/post/eara-co...
EARA COMMENT: Nature highlights polarised discourse over the value of animal research
Two comment articles with opposite perspectives about the role of animals in biomedical research have been featured in Nature.
www.eara.eu
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Two #comment articles with opposite perspectives about the role of #animals in #biomedical #research have been featured in the scientific journal #Nature, fueling a polarised discourse that can confuse and misinform the public and decision-makers. #NAM #SciencePolicy
www.eara.eu/post/eara-co...
www.eara.eu/post/eara-co...
‼️ New paper alert in LBP! Check this recently published paper from @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social group below 👇🏼
It's finally out! Our work with @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social & @costantinoai.bsky.social is published.
We went looking for dissociations between types of recurrence in DNNs, but we found something quite different.. hopefully that can tell us somehting about our models!
rdcu.be/eLwBA
We went looking for dissociations between types of recurrence in DNNs, but we found something quite different.. hopefully that can tell us somehting about our models!
rdcu.be/eLwBA
October 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
‼️ New paper alert in LBP! Check this recently published paper from @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social group below 👇🏼
Congrats @matilda-gordon.bsky.social ! You’ve got this! ✨ @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Congrats @matilda-gordon.bsky.social ! You’ve got this! ✨ @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social
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📣 Calling all early career #neuroscientists!
@thetransmitter.bsky.social & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support #EarlyCareer Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you.
➡️ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
@thetransmitter.bsky.social & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support #EarlyCareer Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you.
➡️ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
October 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
📣 Calling all early career #neuroscientists!
@thetransmitter.bsky.social & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support #EarlyCareer Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you.
➡️ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
@thetransmitter.bsky.social & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support #EarlyCareer Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you.
➡️ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
📢 Big news in LBP! Congratulations to our PhD students who won the prestigious @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social fellowship!
October 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
📢 Big news in LBP! Congratulations to our PhD students who won the prestigious @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social fellowship!
‼️New Dr. in town! Huge congrats to @fcerpelloni.bsky.social from @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social lab for successfully defending his PhD! Well done!
October 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
‼️New Dr. in town! Huge congrats to @fcerpelloni.bsky.social from @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social lab for successfully defending his PhD! Well done!
It’s that time of the year again: LBP retreat! Rudi D’Hooge and @markuswohr.bsky.social labs gathered together for 2 full days of science. A special thank you to Dr. Elodie Ey for bringing her expertise on animal research to this event!
September 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
It’s that time of the year again: LBP retreat! Rudi D’Hooge and @markuswohr.bsky.social labs gathered together for 2 full days of science. A special thank you to Dr. Elodie Ey for bringing her expertise on animal research to this event!
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It was great reconnecting with friends and colleagues at #CCN2025 in Amsterdam and presenting our latest #expertise work.
We 👀 into how #chess experts represent the board, and how the content, structure, and location of these repr shift w/ expertise.⬇️
We 👀 into how #chess experts represent the board, and how the content, structure, and location of these repr shift w/ expertise.⬇️
August 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It was great reconnecting with friends and colleagues at #CCN2025 in Amsterdam and presenting our latest #expertise work.
We 👀 into how #chess experts represent the board, and how the content, structure, and location of these repr shift w/ expertise.⬇️
We 👀 into how #chess experts represent the board, and how the content, structure, and location of these repr shift w/ expertise.⬇️
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The 2nd VSS is even better than the first one, look how serious I was presenting my poster
#VSS2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social
#VSS2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The 2nd VSS is even better than the first one, look how serious I was presenting my poster
#VSS2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social
#VSS2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social
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You like behavioral neuroscience? Time to register for IBNS @ibnsconnect.bsky.social meeting in Tromsø (June 24-29, 2025)! www.ibnsconnect.org/annual-meeting
May 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
You like behavioral neuroscience? Time to register for IBNS @ibnsconnect.bsky.social meeting in Tromsø (June 24-29, 2025)! www.ibnsconnect.org/annual-meeting
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❤️ Verliefdheid vergelijkbaar met dopinggebruik, commentaar door LBI lid professor biologische psychologie Rudi D'Hooge.
🚗 “Eigenlijk kan je het vergelijken met een nieuwe auto kopen, elke keer als je erin stapt, ben je gelukkig. Maar een jaar later is dat al een oude auto.”
@biopsylbp.bsky.social
🚗 “Eigenlijk kan je het vergelijken met een nieuwe auto kopen, elke keer als je erin stapt, ben je gelukkig. Maar een jaar later is dat al een oude auto.”
@biopsylbp.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
❤️ Verliefdheid vergelijkbaar met dopinggebruik, commentaar door LBI lid professor biologische psychologie Rudi D'Hooge.
🚗 “Eigenlijk kan je het vergelijken met een nieuwe auto kopen, elke keer als je erin stapt, ben je gelukkig. Maar een jaar later is dat al een oude auto.”
@biopsylbp.bsky.social
🚗 “Eigenlijk kan je het vergelijken met een nieuwe auto kopen, elke keer als je erin stapt, ben je gelukkig. Maar een jaar later is dat al een oude auto.”
@biopsylbp.bsky.social
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Theresa Kisko & Fábio Sousa had such a great visit to the IGBMC in Strasbourg to work hard on our exciting collaboration using the Live Rat Tracker with Dr Elodie Ey! The trip was supported by FWO/TOURNESOL mobility grant awarded to Dr Elodie Ey and Dr Theresa Kisko.
May 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Theresa Kisko & Fábio Sousa had such a great visit to the IGBMC in Strasbourg to work hard on our exciting collaboration using the Live Rat Tracker with Dr Elodie Ey! The trip was supported by FWO/TOURNESOL mobility grant awarded to Dr Elodie Ey and Dr Theresa Kisko.
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Hi Bluesky, quick question.
Which passive avoidance setup for rats do you like best? 🐀
Thanks!
Which passive avoidance setup for rats do you like best? 🐀
Thanks!
May 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Hi Bluesky, quick question.
Which passive avoidance setup for rats do you like best? 🐀
Thanks!
Which passive avoidance setup for rats do you like best? 🐀
Thanks!
🚨 Paper alert! Check Elahe’s work below 👇🏼
Are Visual areas representing the emotional valence?
What about AI models, visual or multi-modal?
Find the solutions in our new preprint www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@hansopdebeeck.bsky.social
What about AI models, visual or multi-modal?
Find the solutions in our new preprint www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@hansopdebeeck.bsky.social
Alignment of human behavior, brain, and AI models in the high-level valence processing of complex social scenes
Humans can evaluate the emotional meaning of complex social scenes in real-life settings. Recent evidence from the human brain and AI models pointed to visual processing as a core substrate for repres...
www.biorxiv.org
May 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🚨 Paper alert! Check Elahe’s work below 👇🏼
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Join us for the KU Leuven Open Science Day on 6 May 2025!
The KU Leuven Open Science Day is an event for and by researchers. Don't miss this chance to deepen insights, share experiences and engage with fellow researchers! #OpenScience #Research #KULeuven
More info: www.kuleuven.be/open-science...
The KU Leuven Open Science Day is an event for and by researchers. Don't miss this chance to deepen insights, share experiences and engage with fellow researchers! #OpenScience #Research #KULeuven
More info: www.kuleuven.be/open-science...
March 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Join us for the KU Leuven Open Science Day on 6 May 2025!
The KU Leuven Open Science Day is an event for and by researchers. Don't miss this chance to deepen insights, share experiences and engage with fellow researchers! #OpenScience #Research #KULeuven
More info: www.kuleuven.be/open-science...
The KU Leuven Open Science Day is an event for and by researchers. Don't miss this chance to deepen insights, share experiences and engage with fellow researchers! #OpenScience #Research #KULeuven
More info: www.kuleuven.be/open-science...
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𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠. A series of raw, unfiltered conversations that highlights the voices of researchers, their challenges, breakthroughs, and what drives them every day.
Authentic, personal and powerful.
📅 Launch: April 29
#DrivenByScience
Authentic, personal and powerful.
📅 Launch: April 29
#DrivenByScience
April 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠. A series of raw, unfiltered conversations that highlights the voices of researchers, their challenges, breakthroughs, and what drives them every day.
Authentic, personal and powerful.
📅 Launch: April 29
#DrivenByScience
Authentic, personal and powerful.
📅 Launch: April 29
#DrivenByScience
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Last day(s) to apply!
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience! Join us, & investigate how we can endow domain-specific models of vision (eg DNNs) with domain-general processes such as metacognition or working memory.
All details => www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
All details => www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
www.kuleuven.be
April 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Last day(s) to apply!
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