EXPLORA
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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.
Research
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on autistic adults
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A publication on the relation between preference for predictability and autistic traits
- A publication on sensory prediction errors in autism
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A publication on brain activity during spontaneous and explicit mentalizing in autism
- More on our research
- For news about our studies, you can also always check our Twitter (or Facebook, usually in Dutch)
Team
- Prof. dr. Roeljan Wiersema (personal page)
- Prof. dr. Marcel Brass (personal page)
- Prof. dr. Senne Braem (personal page)
- Dr. Emiel Cracco (postdoc) (more about his research; ResearchGate)
- Dr. Judith Goris (postdoc) (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)
- Danna Oomen (PhD student) (LinkedIn)
- Wouter van Leeuwen (external advisor)
Former members
- Dr. Lara Bardi (postdoc) (ResearchGate)
- Dr. Eliane Deschrijver (postdoc) (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.