NeuroSPACE

How tightly is visual brain activity in category-selective regions linked to our categorisation behaviour?

This new preprint shows that even simple FFA activation can predict face categorisation speed 👇

Networks for expertise in the chess players' brain Chess can be an important way of investigating how learning and expertise are manifest in the nervous system

After a rather long delay, I've finally got a new Science of #Chess post up on lichess! This time I'm looking at a very neat #neuroscience paper (co-authored by @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social) using chess as a model for studying expertise. Enjoy! #cogneuro #PsychSciSky

Very cool study showing that short-term interventions can boost quantitative language in preschoolers! 👇

Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!

Don’t miss this paper showing how wearables and AI are reshaping attention research, moving us from controlled tasks to the rich, beautifully messy reality of everyday life. And be honest, what's messier than eating spaghetti? 🍝

Low-Dimensional and Optimised Representations of High-Level Information in the Expert Brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688012v1

👇 When neuroscience meets computational modeling: check out the paper below for converging evidence revealing how early visual experience (or the lack of it) shapes - yet does not fully define - human object recognition. 👁️

New EEG + drift-diffusion modeling study reveals the computations that give rise to our subjective sense of mental effort 👇

Check out this paper from @kobedesender.bsky.social for new insights into how confidence is computed in decision-making 👇

New preprint demonstrating that expertise emerges when the brain uncovers a domain’s latent structure and reshapes its representational space to express it efficiently. 👇

EEG + fMRI + smart design = deeper insight into the spatiotemporal dynamics of object representations 👇

Exciting DNN work from our colleagues at @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social’s lab 👇

Just landed here 👋

We’re NeuroSPACE, a KU Leuven Methusalem project bringing together 4 labs to explore how the brain combines domain-specific knowledge with domain-general cognitive abilities to shape human behavior.

Excited to share our science and to connect with other curious minds here!