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About EXPLORA

EXPLORA stands for Experimental Psychological Research on Autism, and is a research group within Ghent University led by prof. dr. Roeljan Wiersema (Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology) and prof. dr. Marcel Brass (Department of Experimental Psychology).

In our studies we want to investigate aspects that are often different in persons with autism, like attention, information processing and social-communicative skills.

Research

• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on autistic adults

• The relation between preference for predictability and autistic traits. Autism Research, 2019.

• Sensory prediction errors are less modulated by global context in autism spectrum disorder, Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2018, 3(8), Pages 667–674.

• Brain activity for spontaneous and explicit mentalizing in adults with autism spectrum disorder: An fMRI study.

• More research

Team

• Prof. dr. Roeljan Wiersema, Ghent University (personal page)
• Prof. dr. Marcel Brass, Ghent University (personal page)
• Prof. dr. Senne Braem, Ghent University (personal page)
• Dr. Emiel Cracco (postdoc), Ghent University (Research Gate)
• Dr. Judith Goris (postdoc), Ghent University (Research Gate)
• Dr. Annabel Nijhof (postdoc), King's College London / Ghent University (Research Gate)
• Letizia Amodeo (PhD student), Ghent University (Research Gate)
• Rachida El Kaddouri (PhD student), Ghent University (LinkedIn)
• Danna Oomen (PhD student), Ghent University (LinkedIn)

Former members

• Dr. Lara Bardi (postdoc), Ghent University (Research Gate)
• Dr. Eliane Deschrijver (postdoc), Ghent University (Research Gate)

Contact

Mail us your credentials and remarks. If you are interested in participating at our future research, please let us know in your message. We will contact you.

• explora@ugent.be