03-02-2022
The lecture by Ineke van der Ham for the Universiteit van Nederland, a public lecture, was released on YouTube. The lecture can be viewed using this link:
22-11-2021
Ineke van der Ham, Vicky Koutzmpi, Milan van der Kuil and Karin van der Hiele collaborated on a project to assess navigation performance in a large sample of individuals with multiple sclerosis. Their findings have now been published in Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. The full publication can be found here.
11-11-2021
Ineke van der Ham was invited to record a lecture for Universiteit van Nederland, a national initiative to broadcast interesting short lectures by scientists on national television and YouTube. The result will be broadcast in February 2022.
14-10-2021
Jackie Poos and other wrote the paper ‘Short digital spatial memory test detects impairment in alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment’, which as been accepted for publication in Brain Sciences. The full publication is available here.
30-9-2021
Tickets are now for sale for the VR Days Europe. Ineke van der Ham is co-organizing and speaking at the VRLab symposium on November 17th ‘Dance and embodiment in the virtual world’. More information and tickets can be found here.
23-9-2021
Ineke van der Ham has been nominated for the Klokhuis wetenschapsprijs 2021, an annual science award of a national children’s tv show. In 2 weeks it will be possible to vote for one of the nominees and the winner will be announced on the 10th of November. All nominees can be found here.
26-08-2021
Ineke van der Ham contributed to the book Assistive technologies for assessment and recovery of neurological impairments, edited by Fabrizio Stasolla, with the chapter ‘Cognitive performance in immersive environments after acquired brain injury’. The full publication is available here.
19-06-2021
Francesco Ruotolo, Filomena Sbordone and Ineke van der Ham wrote ‘The Influence of Stimuli Valence and Arousal on Spatio-Temporal Representation of a Route’, which has now been accepted for publication in Brain Sciences. The paper can be found here.
24-03-2021
The EREdWeb project on Enriched Reality in Education and digital Wellbeing, funded by EUniWell seed money, was presented today at the Rector’s Assembly of all participating universities in the EUniWell initiative. Our lab contributes to this project by adding a cognitive perspective on the use of enriched reality in education.
17-02-2021
Milan van der Kuil, Ineke van der Ham and colleagues have published their paper ‘Navigation ability in patients with acquired brain injury: a population-wide online study.’ in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. The paper can be found here.
17-02-2021
Students of the TU Delft have worked together with our lab in developing a serious game to train perspective taking skills to enhance performance in augmented reality, for e.g. medical students studying human anatomy. The result is ‘A hole new perspective’, by Glory Studios
https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/serious-game-building-under-lockdown
06-01-2021
Ineke van der Ham is part of the radio show Rabbering Laat on Radio 2. She will elaborate on findings about navigation differences between men and women.
3-12-2020
Milan van der Kuil represents the Human Potential hotspot of the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition at their annual member event.
26-11-2020
Ineke van der Ham, Roos van der Vaart, Anouk Miedema, Anne Visser-Meily, and Milan van der Kuil publish the paper Healthcare Professionals’ Acceptance of Digital Cognitive Rehabilitation in Frontiers in Psychology.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.617886/full
20-11-2020
Ineke van der Ham has joined the board of the Dutch Society of Neuropsychology as a general board member.
20-11-2020
Ineke van der Ham gives a lecture at the bi-annual meeting of the Dutch Society of Neuropsychology ‘Vrouwen kunnen niet kaartlezen’.
https://nvneuropsy.nl/conferenties/najaarsconferentie-2020-online-event
30-10-2020
Ineke van der Ham, Chris Dijkerman, and Haike van Stralen publish the paper Distinguishing left from right: A large scale investigation of left right confusion in healthy individuals in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1747021820968519
14-10-2020
Appearance of the special issue ‘Wayfinding and Navigation: Strengths and Weaknesses in Atypical and Clinical Populations’ in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, with Chiara Meneghetti, Francesca Pazzaglia, Michel Denis and Ineke van der Ham as guest editors.
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/9742/wayfinding-and-navigation-strengths-and-weaknesses-in-atypical-and-clinical-populations
09-08-2020
Milan van der Kuil, Anne Visser-Meily, Andrea Evers and Ineke van der Ham publish the paper Spatial knowledge acquired from first-person and dynamic map perspectives in Psychological Research.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-020-01389-y
10-06-2020
The EUniWell seed grant has been awarded to EREDWeb: Enriched Reality for Education and Digital Wellbeing. In this project Ineke van der Ham will participate on behalf of Leiden University to focus on how cognitive factors contribute to the use of enriched reality in educational applications.
05-05-2020
Hanna Mulder, Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz, Carolien van Houdt, Stefan van der Stigchel and Ineke van der Ham publish the paper Attentional flexibility predicts A-not-B task performance in 14-month-old-infants: a head mounted eye tracking study in Brain Sciences.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/10/5/279
15-04-2020
Ineke van der Ham reflects on recent study on urban vs rural navigation abilities in Belgian magazine Knack (2020)
https://www.knack.be/nieuws/factcheck/factcheck-ja-opgroeien-op-het-platteland-kan-leiden-tot-beter-navigatievermogen/article-longread-1587971.html
01-04-2020
Ineke van der Ham and Michiel Claessen publish the paper Quality of self-reported cognition: Effects of age and gender on spatial navigation self-reports in Aging and Mental Health.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13607863.2020.1742658
17-03-2020
Milan van der Kuil, Anne Visser-Meily, Andrea Evers, and Ineke van der Ham publish the paper The Effectiveness of Home-Based Training Software Designed to Influence Strategic Navigation Preferences in Healthy Subjects in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00076/full
10-03-2020
Ineke van der Ham gives a lecture at Science café Leiden ‘Maken navigatie-apps ons brein lui?’
https://www.scheltemaleiden.nl/cultuuragenda/science-cafe-leiden-mrt-2020/