Congratulations to Dr. Armien Lanssens!

Congratulations to Dr. Armien Lanssens!

  • On 10/12/2022
On December 9, Armien Lanssens successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Feature-based attention in a dynamically changing and ageing world. Congratulations!!
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NAH Congres

  • On 04/11/2022
Op 11 oktober hadden wij het genoegen te mogen spreken op het eerste NAH congres in Beveren. Hanne Huygelier presenteerde over aandachtsrevalidatie na een beroerte en Hella Thielen over prikkelverwerking na een hersenletsel. Via de posters (van Hanne Huygelier, Hella Thielen en Elise Palmans) konden we 1-op-1 onze projecten verder uitdiepen aan andere deelnemers van […]
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Welcome to Sofie Weyn

  • On 15/10/2022
Sofie Weyn joined our lab as a post-doctoral researcher in October 2023, after successfully defending her doctoral dissertation entitled For Better and/or for Worse: Examining Environmental Sensitivity at Multiple Levels of Analysis in Children and Adolescents.  With a post-doctoral mandate of the KU Leuven, she will focus on individual differences in sensory sensitivity in both neurotypical […]
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Dag van de Overprikkeling

  • On 23/06/2022
Vandaag, 23 juni, is de Dag van de Overprikkeling. Overprikkeling komt vaak bij mensen met niet-aangeboren hersenletsel.   Onderzoekers van de KU Leuven, Universiteit van Maastricht en Universiteit van Utrecht hebben samen een overzicht gemaakt van de kennis die we op dit moment hebben over overprikkeling, inclusief adviezen van ervaringsdeskundigen voor mensen die last hebben […]
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Mentoring during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

  • On 13/06/2022
Mentoring during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond Céline Gillebert and Hanne Huygelier are co-organizers of a Special Interest Event at the FENS Forum 2022 in Paris (France) (July 12, 18:45-20:30, Paris)      How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected mentorship? This session will feature a panel of speakers of both principal investigators (junior and senior, […]
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Elise Palmans presenting at BAPS 2022

  • On 03/06/2022
PhD student Elise Palmans presented her first poster  at the conference of the Belgian Society for Psychological Sciences (BAPS). Elise discussed her research internship project on the added value of immersive Virtual Reality in the assessment of hemispatial neglect after stroke. Well-done Elise! You can see the poster here.
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Job vacancy: visual recognition problems after stroke

  • On 27/05/2022
  The department of Brain & Cognition at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the KU Leuven has a position for a PhD student jointly supervised by profs. Hans Op de Beeck and Céline Gillebert. Our research groups belongs to the department of Brain & Cognition that contains almost 100 scientists, many of […]
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First OPSYRIS symposium in the Lowlands

  • On 06/05/2022
Interested in the latest research on the psychological consequences of stroke? The programme of the 1st OPSYRIS symposium in the Lowlands is now out! This symposium is a joint initiative of the Neuropsychology Lab at KU Leuven (Prof. Céline Gillebert and Dr. Hanne Huygelier) and the SMARTneurolab at Utrecht University (Prof. Tanja Nijboer). We welcome everyone with […]
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OCS-NL voor Kinderen

  • On 23/03/2022
Wat is de OCS-NL? De Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS) is een korte en efficiënte cognitieve screeningstool die kan worden afgenomen bij volwassen patiënten met een hersenaandoening. De OCS screent de cognitieve domeinen die het meest getroffen worden door een hersenaandoening, namelijk: aandacht, geheugen, taal, numerieke cognitie en praxis. Doel van het huidige onderzoek Wij willen met dit […]
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