The Cognitive Ability & Plasticity Lab aims at fostering our understanding of individual differences in cognitive abilities and how they can change through experience.
How do people differ in their cognitive abilities?
Understanding cognitive individual differences is essential for identifying good targets for interventions. Given their central role in human cognition, we focus particularly on working memory, executive functions, and reasoning ability.
Most recent publication:
Quality over quantity: Focusing on high-conflict trials to improve the reliability and validity of attentional control measures.
How do everyday life experiences relate to the way we think?
Everyday life experiences shape our thinking. But how? We tackle this question by investigating everyday life factors and experiences such as videogaming, music making, bilingualism, and cognitive ageing.
Most recent publication:
Tackling cognitive decline in late adulthood: Cognitive interventions
How can we boost cognitive performance?
Through identifying the mechanisms and context factors underlying cognitive performance and cognitive change, our goal is to design and implement short-term interventions that have the potential to improve cognitive abilities.
Most recent publication:
TDCS over PPC or DLPFC does not improve visual working memory capacity