Publications

PostDoc - Balancing shared versus separated representations for continual learning.

Verbeke, P., Verguts, T. Humans adaptively select different computational strategies in different learning environments. Psychological Review (2024).https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000474.

Verbeke, P., Verguts, T. Reinforcement learning and meta-decision making. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (2024).https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101374.

Beeckmans, M., Huycke, P., Verguts, T., Verbeke, P.How much data do we need to estimate computational models of decision making? The COMPASS toolbox. Behavior Research Methods(2023). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02165-7.

Verbeke, P., Verguts, T. Using top-down modulation to optimally balance shared versus separated task representations. Neural Networks (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2021.11.030.

PhD - Learning to synchronize: Computational and EEG investigations of human flexibility.

Liu, M., Dong, W., Wu, Y., Verbeke, P., Verguts, T., Chen, Q. Modulating hierarchical learning by high-definition transcranial alternating current stimulation at theta frequency. Cerebral Cortex (2022). https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac352

Senoussi, M., Verbeke, P., Desender, K., De Loof, E., Talsma, D., Verguts, T. Theta oscillations shift towards optimal frequency for cognitive control. Nature Human behavior (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01335-5

Senoussi M., Verbeke, P., Verguts, T. Time-based binding as a solution to and limitation for flexible cognition. Frontiers in Psychology (2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.798061.

Verbeke, P., Verguts T. Neural synchrony for adaptive control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2021). https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01766.

Huycke, P., Verbeke, P., Boehler, C.N., Verguts, T. Theta and alpha power across fast and slow time scales in cognitive control. European Journal of Neuroscience (2021). https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15320.

Verbeke, P., Ergo, K., De Loof, E., Verguts, T. Learning to synchronize: Midfrontal theta dynamics during rule switching. Journal of Neuroscience (2021). https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1874-20.2020.

Verbeke, P., Verguts, T., Learning to synchronize: How biological agents can couple neural task modules for dealing with the stability-plasticity dilemma., PLOS Computational Biology (2019). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006604.

Internship - Social cognition

Genshow, O., Cracco, E., Verbeke, P., Westfal, M., Crusius, J., A direct test of the similarity assumption — Focusing on differences as compared with similarities decreases automatic imitation. Cognition (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104824.

Fini, C., Verbeke, P., Sieber, S., Moors, A., Brass, M., Genschow, O., The influence of threat on perceived spatial distance to out-group members. Psychological Research (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1091-7.

Presentations

Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen in Regensburg (Germany):
Changes for learning symposium.

Invited talk at the Transcontinental Computational Psychiatry workgroup (available on their website).

Seminar at CENIA (National Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research) in Chili (2022).(available on youtube).

Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CNN) in San Francisco, USA (2022):
Poster presentation.

SFN global connectome: A virtual event (2021)
Poster presentation.

CNS virtual meeting (2021):
Poster presentation (available on youtube).

Neurocog (2021):
Poster presentation.

Annual meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) in Liege, Belgium (2019):
Dynamics of learning symposium.

25th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) in Boston, USA (2018):
Data blitz talk and poster presentation.

Annual meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) in Ghent, Belgium (2018):
Computational modelling symposium (replacement of Stijn Verdonck) and poster presentation.

Invited talks at lab meetings of Matt Nassar (Brown), Michael Frank (Brown) and Christopher Summerfield (Oxford).

Awards and funding

2020: Early career publication award for PhD students from the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP).

2018: FWO PhD fellowship grant for 4 years (ranked 1st).

2018: Best master thesis award from the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS).

2018: Faculty mobility funds for travel to conference abroad (CNS in Boston)