September 10th, Ghent, Belgium
We are pleased to announce a seminar organized by the first PhD students from the CoCoFlex Lab,
led by Senne Braem, to celebrate their public defenses. This seminar also aims to bring together different international experts
investigating cognitive flexibility from diverse perspectives and approaches (behavioral, neural and computational). The program consists of
six keynote talks, a few selected short talks, as well as a poster session. Abstracts of shorts talks and posters can
be found here. The symposium is free to attend,
but registration is required as seats are limited. It will take place on September 10th in the Sint-Baafshuis, Room 1.05, Biezekapelstraat 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Mark your calendar, and we look forward to meeting all of you!
- Senne Braem, Mengqiao Chai, Leslie Held, and Shengjie Xu
8:45 am: Welcome & Arrival
9:00 am: Opening remarks by Senne Braem
9:15 am: Short talk: Luca Moretti*, Iring Koch, Tobias Egner – Evidence for a stability-flexibility trade off when using valency, and not congruency, as a measure of cognitive stability
9:30 am: Short talk: Jeshua Tromp, Sander Nieuwenhuis, Jonathan Cohen, Bryant Jongkees* – The stability-flexibility trade-off at different levels of analysis
9:45 am: Maria Ruz – Flexibility in novel instructions
10:30 am: Coffee break
11:00 am: Paul Muhle-Karbe - Flexible representations for adaptive behaviour
11:45 am: Mona Garvert - Hippocampal and prefrontal representations enabling flexible decision-making
12:30 pm: Lunch break + poster sessions
13:30 pm: Yana Fandakova - Cognitive flexibility development across childhood and adolescence
14:15 pm: Short talk: Mangat Guntash, Gaia Molinaro, Tom Verguts, Irene Cogliati Dezza* – From phone notifications to browsing social media: how reinforcement learning explains digital information consumption
14:30 pm: Markus Spitzer – Curiosity and human decision making
15:15 pm: Coffee Break
15:45 pm: Vlada Aslanov*, Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida, Tomas Knapen, Simon van Gaal, Johannes J. Fahrenfort - The Effect of Conscious Control on the Automatic Reading Response & the Link Between Suggestibility and Metacognitive Efficiency
16:00 pm: Nick Yeung - Flexible metacognitive control
17:00 pm: Drinks + poster session
from left to right: Senne Braem, Shengjie Xu, Mengqiao Chai and Leslie Held