About EXPLORA

EXPLORA stands for EXperimental PsychoLOgical Research on Autism, and is a research group within Ghent University that started as a joint collaboration between prof. dr. Roeljan Wiersema (Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology) and prof. dr. Marcel Brass (Department of Experimental Psychology), and is led by prof. dr. Roeljan Wiersema.

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

Blog

Blog 1, The importance of considering familiarity when studying the ‘self’, by Letizia Amodeo.

Blog 2, "Person with autism," "autistic person", or does it not matter?, by Hannah de Laet.

Research

• Articles and information about our research
• For up-to-date news about our studies, you can also always check our Twitter (or Facebook and Instagram, usually in Dutch)

Team

• Prof. dr. Roeljan Wiersema (personal page)
• Prof. dr. Marcel Brass (personal page)
• Prof. dr. Senne Braem (personal page)
• Prof. dr. Lara Bardi (ResearchGate)
• Dr. Emiel Cracco (postdoc) (more about his research; ResearchGate)
• Dr. Annabel Nijhof (postdoc) (more about her research; personal page)
• Dr. Roma Siugzdaite (postdoc) (ResearchGate)
• Letizia Amodeo (PhD student) (more about her research; ResearchGate)
• Hannah De Laet (PhD student) (more about her research)
• Anouk Matthys (PhD student) (more about her research)
• Maura Nevejans (PhD student) (more about her research; ResearchGate)
• Wouter van Leeuwen (external advisor)

Former members

• Dr. Eliane Deschrijver (ResearchGate)
• Dr. Rachida El Kaddouri (ResearchGate)

Contact

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

• explora@ugent.be