Wouter Durnez
Ghent University
27 Papers
58 Citations
Wouter Durnez is an academic researcher from Ghent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Virtual reality & Attentional bias. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 21 publications.
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Papers
Staying Informed and Bridging "Social Distance": Smartphone News Use and Mobile Messaging Behaviors of Flemish Adults during the First Weeks of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jakob Ohme,Mariek Vanden Abeele,Kyle Van Gaeveren,Wouter Durnez,Lieven De Marez +4 more
- 03 Sep 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore patterns of smartphone use during the first weeks following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in Belgium, focusing on citizens' use of smartphones to consume news and to communicate and interact with others.
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The anticipation of pain at a specific location of the body prioritizes tactile stimuli at that location
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the anticipation of pain at a particular location of the body resulted in the prioritization in time of somatosensory sensations at that location, indicating biased attention towards the threatened body part.
MobileDNA: Relating Physiological Stress Measurements to Smartphone Usage to Assess the Effect of a Digital Detox
Sarah Anrijs,Klaas Bombeke,Wouter Durnez,Kristin Van Damme,Bart Vanhaelewyn,Peter Conradie,Elena Smets,Jan Cornelis,Walter De Raedt,Koen Ponnet,Lieven De Marez +10 more
- 15 Jul 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether a digital detox is associated with a decrease in stress in the short-term and whether this could be measured with objective markers of both smartphone usage and physiological stress.
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Trying to fix a painful problem: the impact of pain control attempts on the attentional prioritization of a threatened body location.
Wouter Durnez,Stefaan Van Damme +1 more
TL;DR: The impact of attempts to control pain on somatosensory processing at the pain location is investigated, providing further insight into the motivational mechanisms of pain-related attention and points to the negative consequences of trying to control uncontrollable pain.
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Is attentional prioritization on a location where pain is expected modality-specific or multisensory?
TL;DR: The anticipation of pain results in multisensory prioritization of information at the threatened body location, and this effect was not different between the tactile and visual conditions.
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