Research interests

Numerical cognition, more specifically, the cognitive mechanisms of symbolic numbers: How their representations are acquired, how they are grounded, whether and how they change, how they interact among each other and with other representations, and how all of this affects our mathematical skills in everyday life.

Automatic detection of changes in the environment and its relation to predictive coding. The main focus is on using the visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) component of the event-related potential (ERP) to investigate how our brain builds and modifies a model of our environment, based on immediate perceptual input, short-term goals (e.g., task), and long-term representations (e.g., categories).

Cognitive aging, i.e. how cognitive processes change with age, what changes the brain processes involved in different tasks may undergo, and whether and how older people may compensate for the decreased engagement of some brain processes, especially when behavioural performance remains similar in younger and older adults.