Mind-blanking (MB) is the inability of reporting mental events during unconstraint thinking. Previous work shows that MB is linked to decreased levels of cortical arousal, indicating dominance of cerebral mechanisms when reporting mental states. What remains inconclusive is whether MB can also ensue from autonomic arousal manipulations, pointing to...
peer reviewed / After decades of research suggesting that metacognition-that is, processes whereby people monitor and regulate their cognitive performance-did not emerge and is not related to children's performance until late childhood, recent studies have provided evidence that even preverbal infants can access their internal states. The existence...
During resting conditions spontaneous experience is ongoing, dynamic, and rich in mental content taking the form of mental states. Mental states are transient cognitive or emotional occurrences that are described in terms of particular content (what the state is ‘about’) and the relation we bear to this content (e.g. imagining, remembering, fearing...
peer reviewed / Given the increasing need for residential and economic development and also for the improvement of the living environment, for food and energy production, we should reflect on the use of agricultural lands. Even if the citizens and the regional government are rediscovering the multiple services provided by agricultural lands, we obs...
peer reviewed / To limit the spread of COVID-19, public authorities have recommended sanitary behaviors such as handwashing, mask-wearing, physical distancing, and social distancing. We recruited a large sample of higher education students in Belgium (N = 3201–3441) to investigate the role of sociodemographic variables, mental health, previous COVI...
Cet ouvrage publié en open access (https://e-publish.uliege.be/bilinguisme/) a pour objectif de répondre à une série de questions que les parents et les enseignants se posent à propos du développement bilingue de l’enfant. Il reprend également une série des idées reçues concernant le bilinguisme, ses avantages ou ses inconvénients et les analyser s...