Job alert: Together with Jan Crusius and Emiel Cracco, I am looking for a PhD (75%; 3 years) on a DFG public | @[email protected] funded project on the topic of imitative behavior at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. The position starts in February 2025. leuphana.de/en/university/…

2-year postdoc on arousal and attention regulation in ADHD in our team. Spread the word! Details: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Post…

We zijn op zoek naar koppels om deel te nemen aan onze studie die de dynamiek tussen partners onderzoekt! Deelnemers krijgen 50 EUR :) Zie ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bK…

Good times at last week's 'Hello, goodbye' drinks! We said goodbye to visiting PhD student Tomokatsu Kono (but he'll be back!) AND welcomed PhD student Emma Asselman to our lab 🥳

If you are looking for an EEG Post Doc position, and have both a clinical and fundamental interest, the Explora Gent lab is the place to be. tinyurl.com/3bncerx4 Deadline is Monday 25-11, so be quick! #EEG

(Slowly) moving away from this platform... Find us at bsky.app/profile/explor… !

Very grateful for the opportunity to present our research at the Social Cognition Workshop as a blitz talk (and a poster)! Thank you for the interesting questions and discussions. I’m already looking forward to next year’s edition! 😄

The preprint of our questionnaire study is out now! The title already gives away our main finding: “Adults with autism prefer to communicate with others who also have autism: a mixed-method study”. You can find it here: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… w/ Dr Annabel Nijhof and JRW

Eos Wetenschap vzw Spektrum Lastly, an English translation of the blog can be found here: ugent.be/pp/en/research… Explora Gent FWO

New paper out! The title says what we found 🙃: "Intact Neural Responding to Hearing One’s Own Name in Children with Autism" (ages 7-13, ERP analysis). Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… (by Rachida El Kaddouri, myself, Roeljan Wiersema and Marcel Brass)

Op 13 februari presenteer ik voor Breinwijzer in de Zebrastraat te Gent: 'Allemaal Anders: Wat we (niet) weten over autisme en het brein'! breinwijzer.be/evenementen/al…

TWO new papers Explora Gent: 'Self-Bias and Self-Related Mentalizing are Unaltered in Adolescents with Autism', Amodeo et al: link.springer.com/article/10.100… and: 'Intact Neural Responding to Hearing One’s Own Name in Children with Autism', El Kaddouri et al: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We're thrilled that NeuroNarratives project has been launched and we are opening the call for Artist and Scientist. Looking forward to seeing many of you and Spread the word for us! 🧠🙌🥰 #opencall #artandscience #art #science #artscienceresidency #neuroscience

Mareike Westfal recently developed and validated an online version of the imitation-inhibition task. This allows even researcher with few programming experiences to assess imitative behavior online. Together with Jan Crusius Emiel Cracco link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758/s…

Finally, the hard copy version of the book on automatic imitation, Emiel Cracco and I edited, has arrived. We're glad the book is also available as open access via the following link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Was happy to present on Autism and the Brain (and Neurodiversity!) for a full house at Breinwijzer vzw yesterday! Thanks to the organisers and enthusiastic audience :)

Last week I was invited to present on 'Autism and the Predictive Brain', alongside Prof Floris De Lange, at the Science Cafe Nijmegen. Thanks to Floris, the organizers, the amazing audience that made for a lively discussion afterwards, the live musicians... I had a great time!

During the Inclusive Autism Research Day, people with autism shared with researchers what needs to change in research! The day started with presentations and continued with engaging round table discussions. Immensely proud of what we organized! Maura Nevejans Explora Gent

Excited to be presenting my poster later today at #INSAR2025! It dives into the theory of the double empathy problem, with a focus on how well people with and without autism can understand each other’s thoughts when they share (or don’t share) the same neurotype. Come say hi!

We are opening a self-funded trainee/intern position of 3-6 months (starting at September 2025). For more information see internship #2 here: bardilab.com/join-us/ (and please reshare!)