Wim Gevers

Wim Gevers is a faculty member at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and leads the CS4S – Cognitive Control & Sleep laboratory within the CRCN research centre. His work bridges cognitive psychology, neuroscience and sleep research to understand how the brain exerts control over thoughts and actions and how sleep contributes to these processes.

Research Interests

• Cognitive Control & Metacognition: Investigating how subjective experiences such as confidence and the "urge-to-err" guide strategic adjustments in behaviour.
• Working Memory & Ordinal Cognition: Examining how order information is maintained and manipulated, and how these processes relate to mathematical competence.
• Sleep, Memory & Decision Making: Exploring how sleep-dependent consolidation influences motor learning and decision strategies.

Across his 2022–2025 publications a clear trend emerges: a focus on metacognitive monitoring—how humans evaluate their own cognitive states—and the role of emotional and temporal context in shaping those evaluations. Studies range from reaction-time introspection and confidence judgements in perceptual tasks to the impact of aging and depression on metacognitive accuracy.

Doctoral Supervision & Mentoring

• Whitney Stee (PhD 2024) – Sleep-dependent structural brain reorganization & motor learning
• Gaia Corlazzoli (PhD 2024) – Subjective experience in decision-making
• Myrtille Dewulf (PhD 2023) – Ordinal coding mechanisms in working memory
• Rebeca Sifuentes-Ortega (PhD 2023) – REM sleep and memory reactivation

All dissertations were defended at ULB, Faculté des Sciences psychologiques et de l’éducation, with Wim Gevers formally listed as Promotor.

Laboratory & Collaborative Networks

As head of CS4S, Gevers coordinates a multidisciplinary team that combines behavioural experimentation, EEG/MEG, computational modelling and sleep polysomnography. The lab is embedded in the larger CRCN ecosystem, fostering collaborations with groups such as CO3 (consciousness), LCLD (language & deafness), and UR2NF (neurofunctional imaging).