Degree:
I have a Master’s degree of Science in Experimental Psychology and Clinical Psychology, and a PhD in Psychology. Now, I am a postdoc t here at the Neuropsychologylab of KU Leuven.
Interest in neuropsychology:
I developed an interest in clinical neuropsychology during my bachelor and further specialized in this topic. During my education, I completed a clinical internship in an acute neurology ward and a research internship at KU Leuven supervised by Prof. Dr. Johan Wagemans. During my PhD I developed a special interest in psychometrics, computational modelling and Bayesian statistics. I plan to further investigate the potential of computational modelling and Bayesian statistics for clinical neuropsychological diagnosis.
PhD project:
Shifting priorities: Precise assessment and immersive rehabilitation for hemispatial neglect
During my PhD project I worked on several research topics. A first project was to develop the Dutch version of the Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS-NL). The OCS-NL is a short stroke-specific screening tool to evaluate the cognitive domains that are most often affected by stroke. We collected age- and version-specific normative data and data in stroke patients to validate the OCS-NL.
A second goal was to gain more insight in how to assess hemispatial neglect. We studied different psychometric questions with a novel method relying on modeling and Monte Carlo simulations. Using these simulation techniques we demonstrated that the currently used measures of neglect may not optimally differentiate between spatial and non-spatial errors and may increase false positive rates.
A third goal of my PhD project was to explore the potential of immersive virtual reality using the newest generation of head-mounted displays for rehabilitation of hemispatial neglect. We performed a systematic review to obtain an overview of how the term “virtual reality” has been defined in stroke rehabilitation, studied the attitudes of older adults towards immersive virtual reality and developed a new rehabilitation game for hemispatial neglect. We plan to evaluate the efficacy and feasibility of our new rehabilitation approach in a clinical trial in the next years.
Publication list:
Journal articles
Huygelier, H., van Ee, R., Lanssens, A., Wagemans, J., & Gillebert, C.R. (in press). Audiovisual looming signals are not always prioritized: evidence from exogenous, endogenous and sustained attention. Journal of Cognition.
Huygelier, H., Schraepen, B., Lafosse, B., Vaes, N., Schillebeeckx, F., Michiels, K., Note, E., Vanden Abeele, V., van Ee, R., & Gillebert, C.R. (2020). An immersive virtual reality game to train spatial attention orientation after stroke: a feasibility study. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. (DOI)
Huygelier, H., Moore, M., Demeyere, N., & Gillebert, C.R. (2020) Non-spatial impairments affect false positive neglect diagnosis based on cancellation tasks. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 26(7):668-678. (DOI)
Huygelier, H., Schraepen, B., Demeyere, N., & Gillebert, C.R. The Dutch version of the Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS-NL): Normative Data and their Association with Age and Socio-economic Status. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 27(5):765-786. (DOI) (PDF) (Nederlandstalige samenvatting).
Huygelier, H., & Gillebert, C.R. (2020) Quantifying egocentric spatial neglect with cancellation tasks: a theoretical validation. Journal of Neuropsychology, 14(1):1-19 (DOI).
Huygelier, H., Schraepen, B., van Ee, R., Vanden Abeele, V., & Gillebert, C.R. (2019). Acceptance of immersive head-mounted virtual reality in older adults. Scientific Reports, 9, 4519. (PDF)
Huygelier, H., Van der Hallen, R., Wagemans, J., Chamberlain, R. (2018). The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): measuring perception, intelligence or executive function? PeerJ, 6, Art.No. e4524, 1-22. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4524 Open Access
de-Wit, L., Huygelier, H., Van der Hallen, R., Chamberlain, R., Wagemans, J. with de-Wit, L. (joint first author), Huygelier, H. (joint first author) (2017). Developing the Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L -EFT): testing the stimulus features that influence embedding. PEERJ, 5, e2862. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2862
Chamberlain, R., Van der Hallen, R., Huygelier, H., Van de Cruys, S., Wagemans, J. (2017). Local-global processing bias is not a unitary individual difference in visual processing. Vision Research, 141, Art.No. 2842789, 247-257.
Moors, P., Huygelier, H., Wagemans, J., de-Wit, L., van Ee, R. with Moors, P. (joint first author), Huygelier, H. (joint first author) (2015). Suppressed visual looming stimuli are not integrated with auditory looming signals: Evidence from continuous flash suppression. I-PERCEPTION, 6 (1), 48-62.
Conference Proceedings
Huygelier, H., Gillebert, C., van Ee, R., Vanden Abeele, V. (2017). The design of a virtual reality game for stroke-induced attention deficits. In: CHI PLAY ’17 Extended Abstracts Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, (223-230). Presented at The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 15 Oct 2017-18 Oct 2017. ISBN: 9781450351119. doi: 10.1145/3130859.3131308
Abstracts/Presentations/Posters
Huygelier, H., Schraepen, B., van Ee, R., Vanden Abeele, V., Gillebert, C.R. (2020). Immersive virtual reality bij ouderen: positieve attitudes en gebruikservaring. Presented at the Symposium “Technologie in onderzoek en ontwikkeling voor Veerkrachtig Ouder worden”, Leuven, Belgium, 01 Feb 2020-01 Feb 2020.
Huygelier, H., Gillebert, C. (2019). New insights on how to quantify spatial biases on cancellation tasks. Presented at the 7th scientific meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology, Milan, Italy, 05 Sep 2019-07 Sep 2019.
Huygelier, H., Schraepen, B., van Ee, R., Vanden Abeele, V., Gillebert, C. (2019). How do older adults respond to head-mounted virtual reality? Presented at the 7th scientific meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology, Milan, Italy, 05 Sep 2019-07 Sep 2019. Open Access
Huygelier, H., Wagemans, J., van Ee, R., Gillebert, C. (2019). Synchronous audiovisual looming signals are not prioritized. Presented at the the 42nd edition of the European Conference on Visual Perception, Leuven, Belgium, 25 Aug 2019-29 Aug 2019.
Huygelier, H., van Ee, R., Vanden Abeele, V., Gillebert, C. (2018). The efficacy and feasibility of an immersive virtual reality rehabilitation game for post-stroke attention deficits. Presented at the Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation Summer School, Leuven, Belgium, 19 Sep 2018-21 Sep 2018.
Huygelier, H., Lanssens, A., Wagemans, J., van Ee, R., Gillebert, C. (2018). Attentional engagement for synchronous audiovisual signals. Presented at the 41st European Conference on Visual Perception, Trieste, Italy, 26 Aug 2018-30 Aug 2018.
Huygelier, H., Schraepen, B., van Ee, R., Vanden Abeele, V., Gillebert, C. (2018). Head-mounted virtual reality in older adults: positive attitudes after a first user experience. Presented at the Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Ghent, Belgium, 18 May 2018-18 May 2018.
Schraepen, B., Huygelier, H., van Ee, R., Vanden Abeele, V., Gillebert, C. (2018). Attitudes towards and usability of head-mounted virtual reality in older adults. Presented at the Symposium on Games for Mental Health (G4MH) in the Lowlands, Leuven, Belgium, 26 Feb 2018-26 Feb 2018.
Huygelier, H., van Ee, R., Vanden Abeele, V., Gillebert, C. (2018). Validating game mechanics through Monte Carlo simulations: a solution to consider for your serious game development? Presented at the Games for mental health in the lowlands, Leuven, Belgium, 26 Feb 2018-26 Feb 2018.
Huygelier, H., van Ee, R., Gillebert, C., Vanden Abeele, V. (2017). Developing Adaptive Mental Health Games using Player-Patient Modeling. Presented at the CHI PLay 2017 Workshop Games for the Assessment and Treatment of Mental Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 15 Oct 2017-15 Oct 2017. Open Access
Schraepen, B., Huygelier, H., Van Ee, R., Vanden Abeele, V., Gillebert, C. (2017). Attitudes towards and Usability of Head-mounted Virtual Reality in Older Adults. Presented at the CHI PLAY, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 15 Oct 2017-18 Oct 2017. Open Access
Huygelier, H., Schraepen, B., Demeyere, N., Gillebert, C. (2017). Normative data of the Dutch Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS-NL): a stroke-specific instrument. Presented at the Federation of the European societies of Neuropsychology, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 13 Sep 2017-15 Sep 2017.
Huygelier, H., van Ee, R., Wagemans, J., Gillebert, C. (2017). Can synchronous multisensory looming stimuli bias attentional weights? (Abstract No. 36.4035). Presented at the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach (FL), USA, 19 May 2017-24 May 2017. Open Access
Huygelier, H., Demeyere, N., Gillebert, C. (2016). The Dutch version of the Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS-Nederlands): A stroke-specific cognitive screening tool. In: The Leuven Neuropsychology Workshop, (Abstract No. 1). Presented at The Leuven Neuropsychology Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, 15 Sep 2016-16 Sep 2016. Open Access
Huygelier, H., Chamberlain, R., Van der Hallen, R., de-Wit, L., Wagemans, J. (2015). The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): Measuring Perception or Cognition? Presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Liverpool, UK, 23 Aug 2015-28 Aug 2015.
Van der Hallen, R., Chamberlain, R., Huygelier, H., de-Wit, L., Wagemans, J. (2015). The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): Re-embedding the EFT into vision sciences. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, 15 May 2015-20 May 2015. Open Access
Huygelier, H., Moors, P., Wagemans, J., de-Wit, L., van Ee, R. (2013). Can audiovisual looming stimulation improve attention towards a field suppressed from awareness by continuous flash suppression? Presented at The Leuven Neuropsychology Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, 09 Sep 2013-11 Sep 2013.