People
Nicola Ballhausen
Affiliation
- Associate Professor Developmental Psychology Department, Tilburg University
Research Focus
- Cognitive aging, particularly prospective memory development, studied in the laboratory and in real life
- Stress and stress recovery in younger and older adults and stress effects on cognition
- Contextual factors supporting well-being and healthy aging
Sara Bartels
Affiliations
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology and Alzheimer Centrum Limburg, Mental Health and Neuroscience Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Research Focus
- Experience Sampling studies and interventions for family carers of people with dementia
- Smartphone-based cognition tasks in people with mild cognitive impairment/ healthy older adults
- Co-creating digital diary approaches with people affected by front-temporal dementia
M. E. Best
Affiliation
- Centre for Clinical Neuroscience and Cognition, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Research Focus
- Understanding cognitive and affective mechanisms underlying the vulnerability to depressive relapse
- Combining subjective and objective measurements at various time windows (ESM, actigraphy, ECG, EEG)
Stefan Debener
Affiliation
- Neuropsychology Lab, University of Oldenburg
Research Focus
- In my lab we use portable devices to monitor physiological processes as they occur in everyday settings, with the aim to examine how behaviour unfold naturally, outside the laboratory. We also run experiments on off-the-shelf smartphones.
- We develop solutions for unobtrusive multi-sensor streaming, including ear-EEG
- We are interested in monitoring speech, gait patterns, and signatures of auditory attention in real-world settings
Marco Giurgiu
Affiliation
- Institute of Movement Therapy and movement-oriented Prevention and Rehabilitation, German Sport University Cologne
Research Focus
- Focus on links between 24-hour physical behaviour (i.e., physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep) and affective/cognitive states in daily life
- Combining EMA assessments with wearable technology
- Developing just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) for movement-related health promotion
Rogier Kievit
Affiliation
- Donders Institute/RadboudUMC
Research Focus
- Cognitive ability develops across the lifespan, improving during childhood and declining in old age. However, this seemingly smooth developmental curve obscures the insights that can be gained by zooming in on how our cognitive performance varies across seconds, sessions, days and even seasons. I am interested in studying how we can leverage modern tools (smartphones, sensors and statistics) to measure and model the internal (e.g. mood, fatigue, strategy) and external (e.g. noise, temperature) impacts on how we learn and develop in the short and longer term.
Rose (Rosie) Lin
Affiliation
- School of Nursing, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Research Focus
- Investigates positive emotion and psychological well-being in older adults at risk for dementia, focusing on the links between emotional processes, cognitive health, and daily functioning.
- Develop non-pharmacological interventions, including music-based activities such as piano training, to enhance emotional and cognitive well-being in individuals with mild cognitive impairment.
- Adopt smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment to capture real-time psychological and behavioural processes among older adults with mild cognitive impairment
Sofia Marcolini
Affiliation
- German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands
Research interest
- Digital cognitive assessment in aging and neurodegeneration
- Interaction between cognitive and psychological well-being (focus on psychological trauma)
Charlotte Sleurs
Affiliations
- Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Tilburg University
- Department of Oncology, KU Leuven
Research Focus
- Neuropsychological functioning in cancer survivors
- Multimodal integration of neuropsychological assessment, patient-reported outcomes, and neuro-physiological/imaging measures, including intensive longitudinal and wearable technologies capturing neuropsychological and -physiological signals to study processes in real-world contexts
- Network modelling and data-driven analyses of behavioral and neuroimaging data, to understand dynamic symptom interactions and inform intervention strategies in oncology survivorship
Marieke van Vugt
Affiliation
- Bernoulli Institute of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Groningen.
Research Focus
- trying to understand when, how and why we mind-wander
- how can we influence mind-wandering in a more productive direction, especially through contemplative practices
- neural biomarkers of mind-wandering