CAP LAB

28/09/2026

‼️ We have a new Doctor ‼️
Meet Dr. Nan(cy) Wang 🎉

28/08/2026

On September 24th, Nan (Nancy) Wang will be defending the PhD thesis entitled 'Internal shielding during attentional flexibility: behavioral manifestation, neurophysiological signature and computational mechanisms'.

Good luck, Nancy!!! 🍀🤞

Internal shielding during attentional flexibility: behavioral manifestation, neurophysiological signature and computational mechanisms https://www.ugent.be/nl/agenda/doctoraten/20260924-PP05 https://www.ugent.be/++resource++plone-logo.svg Internal shielding during attentional flexibility: behavioral...

01/06/2026

CAPLAB is going for Rome 🇮🇹 for ESCAN 2026 meeting! Follow up Gilles Pourtois' presentation on Revisited emotional attention during S5-8 session on June 5, 5pm! Colloseo will wait!

Detailed program Click here to open the program in a new tab

25/05/2026

❗️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!

25/05/2026

❗️ We have a new publication 🥳 Too Alert to Think Straight: Combined Neurophysiological and Modeling Evidence of Impaired Internal Shielding During Hypervigilance by Nan Wang, Sam Verschooren and Gilles Pourtois is now out in Psychophysiology, check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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...

20/05/2026

2026 Annual Meeting of BAPS is taking place at UGent - Faculteit Psychologie en Pedagogische Wetenschappen 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!

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...

03/03/2026

CAPLAB is going for TeaP 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!
https://coms.events/teap26/data/sessions/en/session_267.html

26/01/2026

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!

26/01/2026

We have a new paper out!

Max van Migem, Daniele Marinazzo and Gilles Pourtois have just published a paper on the dissociable effects of attention and prediction on visual processing, have a read!

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...

08/01/2026

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.