Senne Braem

Biographic Data

ID	2335149
NAME	Senne Braem
GIVEN NAMES	Senne
FAMILY NAME	Braem
SIGNATURE	BRAEM S
AFFILIATIONS	Ghent University
ORCID	0000-0002-2619-8225
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	10
TOTAL CITATIONS	1
WORKS AS AUTHOR	10
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	1

Steering through task uncertainty
Open AccessMengqiao Chai, Senne BraemARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2026
Living in a fast-changing environment requires a dynamic updating of task representations. Previous research has shown that people can adaptively prepare and unprepare for a given task, when the likelihood of a task switch varied in time during preparation. However, the underlying mechanism of this process remains unclear. We proposed two potential mechanisms that could support this flexible task control process: people may either downregulate th…
Semantic Anchors Facilitate Task Encoding in Continual Learning
Open AccessMina Habibi, Pieter Verbeke et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2025
Humans are remarkably efficient at learning new tasks, in large part by relying on the integration of previously learned knowledge. However, research on task learning typically focuses on the learning of abstract task rules on minimalist stimuli, to study behavior independent of the learning history that humans come equipped with (i.e., semantic knowledge). In contrast, several theories suggest that the use of semantic knowledge and labels may he…
Does reading an anti-free will text affect beliefs related to free will over time? — A registered report
Open AccessOliver Genschow, John Protzko et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2025References: 1
Dynamic changes in task preparation in a multi-task environment
Open AccessMengqiao Chai, Clay B Holroyd et al.ARTICLECognition2024
The impact of free will beliefs on implicit learning
Open AccessDavid Wisniewski, Davide Rigoni et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2023
The subjective evaluation of task switch cues is related to voluntary task switching
Open AccessLuc Vermeylen, Senne Braem et al.ARTICLECognition2022
Task switching refers to the effortful mental process of shifting attention between different tasks. While it is well-established that task switching usually comes with an objective performance cost, recent studies have shown that people also subjectively evaluate task switching as negative. An open question is whether this affective evaluation of task switching is also related to actual decision making. In this pre-registered study, we therefore…
The impact of implicit and explicit suggestions that ‘there is nothing to learn’ on implicit sequence learning
Open AccessLuc Vermeylen, Elger Abrahamse et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2021
Measuring Adaptive Control in Conflict Tasks
Open AccessSenne Braem, Julie M Bugg et al.ARTICLETrends in Cognitive Sciences2019
Fake feedback on pain tolerance impacts proactive versus reactive control strategies
Open AccessDavide Rigoni, Senne Braem et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2016
Grounding cognitive control in associative learning
Elger Abrahamse, Senne Braem et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2016Cited by: 1
Cognitive control covers a broad range of cognitive functions, but its research and theories typically remain tied to a single domain. Here we outline and review an associative learning perspective on cognitive control in which control emerges from associative networks containing perceptual, motor, and goal representations. Our review identifies 3 trending research themes that are shared between the domains of conflict adaptation, task switching,…

Fake feedback on pain tolerance impacts proactive versus reactive control strategies
Open AccessDavide Rigoni, Senne Braem et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2016
Grounding cognitive control in associative learning
Elger Abrahamse, Senne Braem et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2016Cited by: 1
Cognitive control covers a broad range of cognitive functions, but its research and theories typically remain tied to a single domain. Here we outline and review an associative learning perspective on cognitive control in which control emerges from associative networks containing perceptual, motor, and goal representations. Our review identifies 3 trending research themes that are shared between the domains of conflict adaptation, task switching,…
Measuring Adaptive Control in Conflict Tasks
Open AccessSenne Braem, Julie M Bugg et al.ARTICLETrends in Cognitive Sciences2019
The impact of implicit and explicit suggestions that ‘there is nothing to learn’ on implicit sequence learning
Open AccessLuc Vermeylen, Elger Abrahamse et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2021
The subjective evaluation of task switch cues is related to voluntary task switching
Open AccessLuc Vermeylen, Senne Braem et al.ARTICLECognition2022
Task switching refers to the effortful mental process of shifting attention between different tasks. While it is well-established that task switching usually comes with an objective performance cost, recent studies have shown that people also subjectively evaluate task switching as negative. An open question is whether this affective evaluation of task switching is also related to actual decision making. In this pre-registered study, we therefore…
The impact of free will beliefs on implicit learning
Open AccessDavid Wisniewski, Davide Rigoni et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2023
Dynamic changes in task preparation in a multi-task environment
Open AccessMengqiao Chai, Clay B Holroyd et al.ARTICLECognition2024
Semantic Anchors Facilitate Task Encoding in Continual Learning
Open AccessMina Habibi, Pieter Verbeke et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2025
Humans are remarkably efficient at learning new tasks, in large part by relying on the integration of previously learned knowledge. However, research on task learning typically focuses on the learning of abstract task rules on minimalist stimuli, to study behavior independent of the learning history that humans come equipped with (i.e., semantic knowledge). In contrast, several theories suggest that the use of semantic knowledge and labels may he…
Does reading an anti-free will text affect beliefs related to free will over time? — A registered report
Open AccessOliver Genschow, John Protzko et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2025References: 1
Steering through task uncertainty
Open AccessMengqiao Chai, Senne BraemARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2026
Living in a fast-changing environment requires a dynamic updating of task representations. Previous research has shown that people can adaptively prepare and unprepare for a given task, when the likelihood of a task switch varied in time during preparation. However, the underlying mechanism of this process remains unclear. We proposed two potential mechanisms that could support this flexible task control process: people may either downregulate th…