Dr Nele Demeyere PhD

Honorary Research Fellow

School of Psychology

Contact details

Telephone +44 121 414 8550

Email n.demeyere@bham.ac.uk

School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

About

My main research interests lie in Cognitive Neuropsychology, Visual Attention and Numerical Cognition.

Qualifications

  • Bsc (University of Leuven, Belgium)
  • MSc (University of Leuven, Belgium)
  • PhD (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Biography

I did my first degree in Psychology and Masters in Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Leuven, Belgium. I then completed my PhD (“Visual Enumeration and Estimation: Brain mechanisms , Attentional demands and Number representations”) at the University of Birmingham under supervision of Prof. Glyn Humphreys. I’m currently working as a postdoctoral Research Fellow on a Stroke Association funded project (BUCS - Birmingham University Cognitive Screen). The BUCS aims to develop a new and standardized way of measuring if people have cognitive problems after stroke or brain injury.

Teaching

  • Project supervision (Year 3 UG),
  • BioBases C workshop on Numerical Cognition (Year 2 UG),
  • Yearly VBM and lesion analysis workshop (for research students and staff)

Research

Research Group

Visual cognition

Research Interests

  • Visual enumeration – subitizing and counting
  • Visual estimation and attention
  • Numerical cognition
  • Lesion to function mapping – using VLSM and VBM methods
  • Cognitive Neuropsychology screening
  • Cognitive rehabilitation after stroke

Other activities

I’m responsible for assembling and editing the labs newsletters, sent to volunteering stroke patients and older controls. (See the BUCS links page)

Publications

Demeyere, N., Lestou, V. & Humphreys, G.W. (2010.) Neuropsychological evidence for a dissociation in counting and subitizing. Neurocase, 16, 219-137.

Demeyere, N., Rzeskiewicz, A., Humphreys, K., & Humphreys, G.W. (2008). Automatic statistical processing of visual properties in simultanagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 46 (11), 2861-2864.

Demeyere, N., & Humphreys, G.W. (2007). Distributed and focused attention: Neuropsychological evidence for separate attentional mechanisms when counting and estimating. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(5), 1076-1088.

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