team

Current lab members

• Anouck Matthijs investigates the role of the cerebellum in age-related deficits in motor control (co-promotor is Dante Mantini)
• Anda de Witte investigates the role of the cerebellum in age-related deficits in motor control (co-promotor is Jolien Gooiers
• Frea Deroost works on the effect of aging on bike ability. Co-promotor is Friedl De Groote
• Jef Leplae works on the effect of aging on bike ability. Co-promotor is Friedl De Groote
• Charlotte Heremans focuses on improving sensorimotor impairments in stroke patients withing the ROBUST project (main promotor is Geert Verheyden)
• Ilaria Carrara investigates the effect of aging on proprioception. Her co-promotor is An De Groef
• Danny Kouman investigates the effect of chemotherapy on sensorimotor function. His co-promotor is An De Groef.
• Tim Maurissens the influence of Parkinson’s disease on biking abilities. His main promotor is Moran Gilat. This is an add-on to the bike project (Maestro)
• Siqi Yang investigates the changes in brain function with sensory processing using fNIRS. Her main promotor is Geert Verheyden. This is an add-on to the Robust project.
• Ines Martins will look at the effect of sensory learning on brain activity using fMRI. Her main promotor is Jolien Gooijers.This is an add-on to the Robust project.

Alumni

• Stien Van De Plas will investigate how somatosensory function influence motor control in different clinical and non-clinical populations. She will also use EEG to do so. (co-promotor is Dante Mantini)
• Silke Kerstens focuses on the understanding of the mechanisms of tDCS (co-promotor is Myles Mc Laughlin)
• Britt Vandendoorent looked into the effect of tDCS on sensorimotor control in Parkinson’s Disease (main promotor is Alice Nieuwboer)
• Matheus Maia Pacheco worked on the effect of reward on motor adaptation. He also used EEG to understand the neural substrate of motor adaptation. Collaboration with Dante Mantini
• Mareike Gann investigated motor memory consolidation with TMS and fMRI (main promotor is Genevieve Albouy)
• Manasa Parthasharathy worked on the use of EEG to quantify age-related deficits in sensorimotor control (main promotor is Dante Mantini)
• Guy Rens worked on action observation in the context of object prehension.
• Koen Vandevoorde was the first PhD student of the Lab. He worked on the impact of aging on motor adaptation.
• Veerle De Rond used fNIRS to study weight shifting in young and elderly participants (main promotor is Alice Nieuwboer)
• Leen Saenen developped new techniques to quantify sensorimotor impairments in stroke patients (main promotor is Geert Verheyden)
• Pauline Hermans investigated the effect of aging, Parkinson’s Disease and reward on motor adaptation (co-promotor is Alice Nieuwboer)