BrainComm
Background and research focus
Background
There is a longstanding collaboration between the department of Neurology (P. Santens) and the department of Logopaedics and Audiological Sciences (J. Van Borsel and M. De Letter), which resulted in the initiation of a research group on the neuroscience of speech and language disorders in 2006. After a number of years of expansion, the research group was transformed to BrainComm at the occasion of the inaugural symposium early 2018.
Research focus
- Clinical and experimental neurophysiology in language and language disorders
- Clinical and experimental neurophysiology in speech and speech disorders
- Rehabilitation in aphasia following acute and chronic brain disorders
- Fundamental research of subcortical involvement in speech and language
- Clinical and experimental aspects of interaction between language and cognition
- Communication and society/impact of stressors and emotional variables
Members
Professors and Guest Professors
Miet De Letter (Department of Rehabilitation Sciences)
Marijke Miatton (Department of Head and Skin)
Patrick Santens (contact person)
Pieter van Mierlo (Department of Electronics and information systems)
PhD candidates
National and international collaborations
Interdisciplinary interfacultary collaborations with department of experimental psychology at UGent and UCL: neurophysiology, bilingualism, aphasia, development.
Collaboration with Thomas More College: aphasia, rehabilitation, neurophysiology.
International collaboration with University of Groningen and University of Central Florida
National network on degenerative aphasia (PRIPRAS) (afasievlaanderen.be)
Defended PhDs (last 5 years)
Advances in the Analysis of Language Event-Related Potentials : From Simulations to Real-Life Evidence.
Emma Depuydt (2025)
Functional Connectivity of Language Perception Networks in Individuals with Acquired Brain Injuries.
Yana Criel (2024)
The Story of a Lifetime : A Linguistic Approach to Studying Changes in Spontaneous Written Language Due to Ageing.
Lise Paesen (2022)
Evelien De Groote (2021)
The role of linguistic event-related potentials in the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia
Jara Stalpaert (2021)
Cortical and subcortical electrophysiology of verbal semantic processing
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt (2021)