Research Themes
Cerebellum & Higher Cognition
We investigate the cerebellum’s role in higher cognition using multimodal neuroimaging to map cerebellar-cortical networks. This work aims to identify precise neural targets for interventions that may improve cognitive and affective outcomes in neuropsychiatric conditions.
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Higher Cognition & the CerebellumWe study cerebro-cerebellar pathways and their roles in higher cognition.
- Individual-fMRI-approaches reveal cerebellum and visual communities to be functionally connected in obsessive compulsive disorder
- Cerebro-cerebellar pathways for verbal working memory
- Modality specificity in the cerebro-cerebellar neurocircuitry during working memory
- Temporal dynamics of visual working memory
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Cerebellum & LanguageWe study cerebro-cerebellar pathways and their roles in language.
Active Ageing
Our previous work in ageing neuroscience provides the foundation for our current focus on active ageing and neuroplasticity. We draw on these findings to develop evidence-based strategies that promote brain health, cognitive vitality, and meaningful engagement in later life.
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Improving Cognition through Dance in Older Filipinos with MCIImproving Cognition through Dance in Older Filipinos with Mild Cognitive Impairment
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Active Ageing LifestyleA development of an intervention program ExCITE for aging population.
- Autonomic and respiratory changes in young and old adults with non-clinical depression and anxiety
- Age-Related Changes in Episodic Processing of Scenes: A Functional Activation and Connectivity Study
- Associations between brain structure, HRV, and depression and anxiety in a non-clinical sample
- HRV mediates the relationship between isthmus cingulate thickness and inhibitory control
Science of Learning
Our research examines learning and cognition across the lifespan through behavioural, cognitive, and neural approaches. We aim to uncover the processes that support learning in order to describe, understand, and enhance learning across developmental stages and diverse real-world contexts.
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Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised CognitionFrom neuroscience to the practice of learning: an in-depth investigation into cognitive flexibility.
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Understanding Brain Networks of Reading and MathWe study brain networks of reading and math.
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Bilingual Reading NetworksAn investigation of the neural reading networks for bilingual readers.
- Reading proficiency influences the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation: Evidence from selective modulation of dorsal and ventral pathways of reading in bilinguals
- i-SATA: A MATLAB based toolbox to estimate current density generated by transcranial direct current stimulation in an individual brain
- Simulation analyses of tDcS montages for the investigation of dorsal and ventral pathways
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Promoting Effective BiliteracyA project that aims at promoting effective biliteracy in early childhood.
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Translating neuroscience for educatorsAn attempt to increase accessibility of cognitive neuroscience findings.
Socioaffective Neuroscience
We use neuroimaging to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying social experience and social cognition. Our work focuses on how the brain processes deception, evaluates real versus false information, and represents ingroup and outgroup distinctions within broader superordinate identities, such as national identity. Through this research, we aim to better understand the biological bases of trust, bias, social belonging, and collective identity.
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Perception of Real vs. Fake InformationInvestigating the neurocognitive processes underlying the belief in fake/real information.
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Behavioural and Neural Correlates of DeceptionAn investigation of deception and trust.
- A Closer Look at Cardiac Contraction and the Effect of Cardiac Timing on Cognitive Control
- Fractal Dimensions of EEG Activity is Linked to Distinct Facets of Resting-State Cognition
- Brain Entropy, Fractal Dimensions and Predictability: A Review of Complexity Measures for EEG in Healthy and Neuropsychiatric Populations
- Heart Rate Variability in Psychology: A Review of HRV Indices and an Analysis Tutorial