monday, 11 may 2026—12:15
Research Seminar Students - Speech in noise, Subjective Effort and Disagreement: take home messages from the student of the Research Seminar class
Master Students - Speech in noise, Subjective Effort and Disagreement, Université libre de Bruxelles
During this CONNEX seminar the Master students from the course Research Seminar will present the research projects that they developed during this academic year. Divided in three groups, they explored different fields of cognitive neurosciences by designing a research experiment, collecting, and analyzing data.
The "speech in noise group" investigated the effects of bilingualism on speech perception in noise development at adolescence. Specifically, they employed High density EEG to investigate the neural correlates of speech perception in silence and in different noise conditions in bilingual and monolingual teenagers.
The “effort cost group” investigated how subjective mental effort is affected by mental cost manipulation, and how this is mediated by the need for cognition. By using a Stroop task with a short response time limit, they manipulated mental cost through different levels of incongruency and measured participants’ perceived effort after each trial.
The “Outnumbered and Overruled” group employed an experimental design involving participants and confederates to investigate whether disagreement and mind-changing shakes our confidence in decision making.