🎉New paper out today in Nature Reviews Psychology🎉 with @mjdahl.bsky.social, @mariamaly.bsky.social, and @thiasmittner.bsky.social. We've been working on a unified framework for attentional states and the dynamics of transitions between them. 🧵

Follow up Gilles Pourtois' presentation on Revisited emotional attention during S5-8 session on June 5, 5pm! Colloseo will wait!

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🧠 ESCAN 2026 begins this week in Rome! June 3–6: almost 900 researchers gather at Sapienza University of Rome for the 8th ESCAN Meeting. Highlights: 🔹 Keynotes: Tallon-Baudry, Sandi & Knapska 🔹 Pre-conference events 🔹 General Assembly 🔹 750+ contributions escan2026.eu #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience

We have a new research intern!! Meet Vladya Tuwo, Indonesian, currently completing a BSc at the City University of Hong Kong. During her my summer traineeship at CAPLAB, she will investigate how attention and prediction shape C1 ERP component. Welcome, Vladya, to Ghent!

We have a new publication!! Too Alert to Think Straight: Combined Neurophysiological and Modeling Evidence of Impaired Internal Shielding During Hypervigilance by Nan(cy) Wang, @samversc.bsky.social and Gilles Pourtois is now out in Psychophysiology, check it out!

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Hypervigilance is often linked to enhanced external attention, but it could also disrupt attentional balance, the ability to switch between external (perception-based) and internal (memory-based) att...

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🎉 Grant Round 2 Now Open! Our first grant call was a success: 20 awards totaling €33,000 allocated to advance EEG research! 🚀 Round 2 is open NOW until funds run out. Reviews on a rolling basis, so don’t wait! Apply here: www.eeg101.eu/grants #EEG101 #Neuroscience #OpenScience #Grants

2026 Annual Meeting of BAPS is taking place at UGent on May 21-22! Gilles Pourtois will give a talk entitled Attentional flexibility: behavioural manifestation and computational mechanisms on May 22 at 1pm, come and follow!

2026 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BELGIAN ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The 2026 Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) will take place on the 21st and 22nd of May 2026 at Ghent University (UGent, campus Dunant). ​The meeting aims...

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📢 EEG101 funding calls are now open Available grants: 🔬 Research visits (STSMs) – up to €4000 🎤 Conference dissemination grants – up to €2500 🌐 Virtual mobility grants – up to €1500 🗓 Deadline: 3 April 2026 – 17:00 CET Details & eligibility: www.eeg101.eu/grants #EEG #Neuroscience #OpenScience

CAPLAB is going for @teap2026.bsky.social in Tübingen!! Gilles Pourtois will give a talk within The Relevance of Affective Information for Cognitive Control Processes symposium on March 17th at 9.00. Come and attend if at TeaP! coms.events/teap26/data/...

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📢 SAVE THE DATE for #TeaP2026 in Tübingen 😍 Symposium submissions open on October 1! 🎉 For details, check out our website: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼

👋 Hello World! EEG101 is live! 🚀 🤝Join our global community for open, rigorous EEG science, academia & industry welcome! 🗓️ June 11–13, 2026: EEG101 Meeting at OHBM Brainhack, Bordeaux. 📢 Training & mobility funding coming soon! 🌐 www.eeg101.eu #EEG101 #OpenScience #Neuroscience #OHBM #Brainhack

📢 Deadline extended! The submission deadline for single presentations (posters) at ESCAN 2026 has been postponed. 🗓️ New deadline: 25 February 2026 ⏰ 23:59 (CET) Take advantage of the extra time to finalize your proposal and submit your poster. We look forward to your contributions. escan2026.eu

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ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

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We have a new visiting research intern! Yuanqi (Phin) Gu, who is a MA student at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, will stay at CAPLAB for 6 months to investigate the neural dynamics underlying attention flexibility. Welcome to Ghent!

We have a new paper out! @maxvanmigem.bsky.social together with @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social and Gilles Pourtois have just published a paper on the dissociable effects of attention and prediction on visual processing, have a read!

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Our research on the influence of top-down influences on the C1 ERP component highlights the importance of methodical and analytical factors on the detection of attentional effects on the C1, indicati....

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We have a new research intern, Pauline Maelfait! Durng her internship, she will examine how motivational factors influence attention during attention-focused tasks, combining behavioural and EEG methods.

It has been our real pleasure to host Kamela Cenka at CAPLAB. We enjoyed her smile, curiosity and trust in mirror neurons, neuroplasticity and DMN ;-) We hope that our paths will soon cross again. Meanwhile, we wish Kamela all the best for what comes next, including a PhD defence in 2026 in Bologna!

This 20th anniversary edition marks a special milestone in the long tradition of the gathering of our cognitive neuroscience community in Hotel Zuiderduin in Egmond aan Zee. For more information: www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl/conference-n...

The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience. Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place. More news soon. #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

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ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

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We have a new publication and a new Doctor! Meet Dr. Xue, who is also a co-author of 'Neither exogenous, nor endogenous: Evidence for a distinct role of negative emotion during attentional control' paper just published in PLoS One: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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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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

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 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.

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!

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 ...

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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

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

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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…

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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