Ineke van der Ham
Professor Technological innovations in Neuropsychology
- Name
- Prof.dr. C.J.M. van der Ham
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 6746
- c.j.m.van.der.ham@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2520-7422
Ineke van der Ham specialises in spatial cognition in real and immersive environments, combining fundamental neurocognitive and applied clinical research. She is a professor of Technological Innovations in Neuropsychology at the unit of Health, Medical, and Neuropsychology.
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Ineke van der Ham specialises in spatial cognition in real and immersive environments, combining fundamental neurocognitive and applied clinical research. She is a professor of Technological Innovations in Neuropsychology at the unit of Health, Medical, and Neuropsychology.
Research on spatial cognition and technological innovation
Van der Ham has dedicated her research to human spatial cognition (how humans interact with their spatial environment), pursuing it both from a cognitive neuroscientific and an experimental neuropsychological perspective. She conducts inter- and transdisciplinary research by implementing fundamental research in an applied and clinical context, and vice versa. Her research has been funded by e.g. NWO Veni, Revalidatiefonds, STW Take-off, and Wetenschapscommunicatie: Gewaardeerd!
Through technological advances, virtual space is increasingly becoming part of our spatial environment. Van der Ham examines how virtual environments are experienced across individuals and in comparison to the real world. Her work is characterized by numerous cross-disciplinary and societal partnerships across a wide range of scientific and applied domains such as healthcare, technology, humanities, education, and arts. This has resulted in the creation of theoretical insights within the field of spatial cognition, as well as clinical products that utilize virtual environments and serious gaming technology.
Short CV
Ineke van der Ham has a background in Clinical psychology (BSc, Erasmus University Rotterdam), Cognitive neuroscience (MSc, Utrecht University), and Experimental psychology (PhD, Utrecht University, judicium: cum laude). She completed her dissertation "Thinking left and right, neurocognitive studies on spatial relation processing" with distinction in 2010.
She worked as an assistant professor of neuropsychology at Utrecht University from 2010 to 2015, after which she joined Leiden University. In 2023, she was appointed as a professor.
Van der Ham is daily board member and education coordinator of the department of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology, and the chairperson of the Master Education Committee of the Institute of Psychology. She is the coordinator of the master specialization Clinical Neuropsychology.
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Teaching
- Chairperson of the Master Education Committee of the Institute of Psychology
- Coordinator Master specialisation Clinical Neuropsychology
- Coordinator innovations in Clinical Neuropsychology
- Supervisor internship Clinical Neuropsychology
- Supervisor thesis Clinical Neuropsychology
- Supervisor bachelorthesis Psychology
- Lecturer in Clinical Neuropsychology
- Lecturer in Neurocognition
- Lecturer in Methods in Clinical Neuropsychology
Awards
Dissertation Award 2009-2010, Netherlands Society for Neuropsychology
Grants
- Science communication: Gewaardeerd! (2021) Muziek en ruimte in de neurowetenschap (10.000 Euro, with Rebecca Schaefer).
- EUniWell seed funding (2020) Enriched reality for education and digital wellbeing (25.000)
- Onderwijsinnovatie subsidie (2019) Stressless met behulp van Virtual Reality (50.652 Euro, with Nadira Saab)
- LUF (2019) The Leiden navigation test for internationally standardized assessment of navigation ability (22.530, with Michiel Claessen)
- STW start up grant (2015) Wayfinder: Serious game voor navigatievermogen (40.000 Euro, with Michiel Claessen, Anne Visser-Meily, and Albert Postma)
- ELS grant (2013) Selective attention and motor skills: A central mechanism in cognitive development? (15.000 Euro), co-applicant
- Revalidatiefonds grant (2012) Ontwikkeling van training van navigatievaardigheden in CVA patiënten (20.998 Euro), co-applicant
- Veni grant (2012) Keeping track of where you are: Order memory in spatial navigation (250.000 Euro), personal grant
- ELS grant (2012) The early roots of developing visuospatial cognition: An embodied dynamic systems study in young children (55.000 Euro), co-applicant
- Meerwaarde NWO grant (2011) Training navigation skills in virtual environments (40.000 Euro), primary applicant
- NCU collaboration grant (2011) The Drum Languages of Senegal – a Neurolinguistic Perspective (68.000 Euro), co-applicant
(former) PhD candidates
- Michiel Claessen, PhD
- Miranda Smit, MSc
- Milan van der Kuil, MSc
- Anne Cuperus, PhD
Professor Technological innovations in Neuropsychology
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Gezondheids, Medische- Neuropsychologie
- Mulder H., Oudgenoeg-Paz O., Verhagen J., Ham C.J.M. van der & Stigchel S. van der (2022), Infant walking experience is related to the development of selective attention, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 220: 105425.
- Ham C.J.M. van der & Claessen M.H.G. (2022), A clinical guide to assessment of navigation impairment: : standardized subjective and objective instruments and normative data, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 44(7): 487-498.
- Ham C.J.M. van der & Claessen M.H.G. (2022), A clinical guide to assessment of navigation impairment: standardized subjective and objective instruments and normative data, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 44(7): 487-498.
- Ham I.J.M. van der, Koutzmpi V., Kuil M.N.A. van der & Hiele K. van der (2022), Spatial navigation performance in people with multiple sclerosis-a large-scale online study, Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders 58: 103423.
- Van der Ham I.J.M. & Claessen M.H.G. (2022), A clinical guide to assessment of navigation impairment: standardized subjective and objective instruments and normative data, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 44(7): 487-498.
- Kuil M.N.A. van der, Visser-Meily J., Evers A.W.M. & van der Ham C.J.M. (2022), Navigation ability in patients with acquired brain injury: a population-wide online study, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 32(7): 1405-1428.
- Ham C.J.M. van der, Dijkerman C.H. & Stralen H.E. van (2021), Distinguishing left from right: a large-scale investigation of left–right confusion in healthy individuals, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 74(3): 497-509.
- Ham C.J.M. van der, Kuil M.N.A. van der & Claessen M.H.G. (2021), Quality of self-reported cognition: effects of age and gender on spatial navigation self-reports, Aging and Mental Health 25(5): 873-878.
- Kuil M.N.A. van der, Evers A.W.M., Visser-Meily J. & Ham C.J.M. van der (2021), Spatial knowledge acquired from first-person and dynamic map perspectives, Psychological Research 85(6): 2137-2150.
- Poos J.M., Ham C.J.M. van der, Leeuwis A.E., Pijnenburg Y., Flier W.M. van der & Postma A. (2021), Short digital spatial memory test detects impairment in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment, Brain Sciences 11(10): 1350.
- Ruotolo F., Sbordone F.L. & Ham C.J.M. van der (2021), The influence of stimuli valence and arousal on spatio-temporal representation of a route, Brain Sciences 11(6): 814.
- Bogomolova K., Ham I.J.M. van der, Dankbaar M.E.W., Broek W.W. van den, Hovius S.E.R., Hage J.A. van der & Hierck B.P. (2020), The effect of stereoscopic Augmented Reality visualization on learning anatomy and the modifying effect of visual-spatial abilities: a double-center randomized controlled trial, Anatomical Sciences Education 13(5): 558-567.
- Ham I.J.M. van der & Claessen M.H.G. (2020), How age relates to spatial navigation performance: functional and methodological considerations, Ageing Research Reviews 58: 101020.
- Ham I.J.M. van der, Kuil M.N.A. van der, Evers A.W.M. & Claessen M.H.G. (2020), Large-scale assessment of human navigation ability across the lifespan, Scientific Reports 10: 3299.
- Hamami Y.: Van der Kuil M.N.A.: Mumma J.: Van der Ham I.J.M. (2020), Cognitive processing of spatial relations in Euclidean diagrams, Acta Psychologica 205: 103019.
- Kuil M.N.A. van der, Evers A.W.M., Visser-Meily J.M.A. & Ham I.J.M. van der (2020), The effectiveness of home-based training software designed to influence strategic navigation preferences in healthy subjects, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14: 76.
- Meneghetti C., Ham C.J.M. van der, Pazzaglia F. & Denis M. (2020), Editorial: Wayfinding and navigation: Strengths and weaknesses in atypical and clinical populations, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14: 588199.
- Mulder H., Van Houdt C., Van der Ham C.J.M., Van der Stigchel S. & Oudgenoeg-Paz O. (2020), Attentional flexibility predicts A-not-B task performance in 14-month-old-infants: A head-mounted eye tracking study, Brain Sciences 10(5): 279.
- Ham I.J.M. van der, Klaassen F., Schie K. van & Cuperus A.A. (2019), Elapsed time estimates in virtual reality and the physical world: The role of arousal and emotional valence, Computers in Human Behavior 94: 77-81.
- Claessen M.H.G., Van Zandvoort M.J.E., Leijten F.S.S. & Van der Ham I.J.M. (2019), Memory for novel and familiar environments relies on the hippocampus: A case study on a patient with a right anteromesial temporal lobectomy, Hippocampus 29(9): 869-875.
- Cuperus A.A., Disco R.T., Sligte I.G., Kuil M.N.A. van der, Evers A.W.M. & Ham I.J.M. van der (2019), Memory-related perceptual illusions directly affect physical activity in humans, PLoS ONE 14(5): e0216988.
- De Rooij N.K., Claessen M.H.G., Van der Ham I.J.M., Post M.W.M. & Visser-Meily J.M.A. (2019), The Wayfinding Questionnaire: A clinically useful self-report instrument to identify navigation complaints in stroke patients, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 29(7): 1042-1061.
- Ruotolo F., Ruggiero G., Raemaekers M., Iachini T., Van der Ham I.J.M., Fracasso A. & Postma A. (2019), Neural correlates of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference combined with metric and non-metric spatial relations, Neuroscience 409: 235-252.
- Cuperus A.A., Keizer A., Evers A.W.M., Houten M.M.L. van der, Teijink J.A.W. & Ham I.J.M. van der (2018), Manipulating spatial distance in virtual reality: Effects on treadmill walking performance in patients with intermittent claudication, Computers in Human Behavior 79: 211-216.
- Claessen M.H.G., Van der Ham I.J.M., De Rooij N.K. & Visser-Meily J.M.A. (2018), De weg kwijt na een beroerte: Screening, diagnostiek en behandeling, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Revalidatiegeneeskunde 2: 48-51.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Brummelman J., Aerts M.E., De Haan A.M. & Dijkerman H.C. (2018), Lateralized pointing does not cause a cognitive bias, Cognitive Processing 19(1): 17-25.
- Van der Kuil M.N.A., Visser-Meily A.M., Evers A.W.M. & Van der Ham I.J.M. (2018), A usability study of a serious game in cognitive rehabilitation: a compensatory navigation training in acquired brain injury patients, Frontiers in Psychology 9: e846.
- Smit M., Kooistra D.I., Ham C.J.M. van der & Dijkerman H.C. (2017), Laterality and body ownership: effect of handedness on experience of the rubber hand illusion, Laterality 22(6): 703-724.
- Ham C.J.M. van der, Hamami Y. & Mumma J. (2017), Universal intuitions of spatial relations in elementary geometry, Journal of Cognitive Psychology 29(3): 269-278.
- Claessen M.H.G. & Ham I.J.M. van der (2017), Classification of navigation impairment: A systematic review of neuropsychological case studies, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 73: 81-97.
- Claessen M.H.G., Visser-Meily J.M.A., Meilinger T., Postma A., Rooij N.K. de & Ham I.J.M. van der (2017), A systematic investigation of navigation impairment in chronic stroke patients: Evidence for three distinct types, Neuropsychologia 103: 154-161.
- Ham C.J.M. van der, Martens M.A.G., Claessen M.H.G. & Berg E. van den (2017), Landmark agnosia: Evaluating the definition of landmark-based navigation impairment, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 32(4): 472-482.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., De Zeeuw S. & Braspenning M. (2017), Is order memory of routes temporal or spatial? An individual differences study. Barkowsky T., Burte H., Hölscher C. & Schultheis H. (Eds.), Spatial Cognition X. Spatial Cognition 2016 2 August 2016 - 5 August 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG. 86-101.
- Oudgenoeg-Paz O., Mulder H., Jongmans M.J., Van der Ham I.J.M. & Van der Stigchel S. (2017), The link between motor and cognitive development in children born preterm and/or with low birth weight: A review of current evidence, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 80: 382-393.
- Claessen M.H., Visser-Meily J.M., De Rooij N.K., Postma A. & Van der Ham I.J. (2016), A direct comparison of real-world and virtual navigation performance in chronic stroke patients, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 22(4): 467-477.
- Claessen M.H., Ham I.J. van der, Jagersma E. & Visser-Meily J.M. (2016), Navigation strategy training using virtual reality in six chronic stroke patients: A novel and explorative approach to the rehabilitation of navigation impairment, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 26(5-6): 822-846.
- Claessen M.H.G., Visser-Meily J.M.A., Rooij N.K. de, Postma A. & Ham C.J.M. van der (2016), The Wayfinding Questionnaire as a self-report screening instrument for navigation-related complaints after stroke: internal validity in healthy respondents and chronic mild stroke patients, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 31(8): 839-854.
- Van der Ham C.J.M. (2016), Getting back on track: Navigation aids in neuropsychological rehabilitation. In: Groes S. (Ed.), Memory in the twenty-first century: New critical perspectives from the arts, humanities, and sciences. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 103-107.
- Postma A. & Van der Ham C.J.M. (2016), Keeping track of where things are in space – the neuropsychology of object location memory. In: Postma A. & Ham C.J.M. van der (Eds.), The neuropsychology of space. Spatial Functions of the Human Brain. Cambridge, MA: Elsevier Academic Press.
- Postma A. & Van der Ham C.J.M. (Eds.) (2016), The Neuropsychology of Space. Spatial Functions of the Human Brain. Cambridge: Elsevier Academic Press.
- Van der Ham C.J.M. & Ruotolo F. (2016), On inter and intra hemispheric differences in visuospatial perception. In: Postma A. & Ham C.J.M. van der (Eds.), The neuropsychology of space. Spatial Functions of the Human Brain. Cambridge, MA: Elsevier Academic Press.
- Van der Ham C.J.M. & Claessen M.H.G. (2016), Navigation ability. In: Postma A. & Ham C.J.M. van der (Eds.), The Neuropsychology of Space. Spatial Functions of the Human Brain. Cambridge, MA: Elsevier Academic Press.
- Cuperus A.A. & Van der Ham I.J.M. (2016), Virtual reality replays of sports performance: effects on memory, feeling of competence, and performance, Learning and Motivation 56: 48-52.
- Ruotolo F., Iachini T., Ruggiero G., Van der Ham I.J.M. & Postma A. (2016), Frames of reference and categorical/coordinate spatial relations in a “what was where” task, Experimental Brain Research 234(9): 2687-2696.
- Claessen M.H., Visser-Meily J.M., Jagersma E., Braspenning M.E. & Ham I.J. van der (2016), Dissociating spatial and spatiotemporal aspects of navigation ability in chronic stroke patients, Neuropsychology 30(6): 697-708.
- Claessen M.H.G., Van der Ham I.J.M. & Van Zandvoort M.J.E. (2015), Computerization of the standard corsi block-tapping task affects its underlying cognitive concepts: A pilot study, Applied Neuropsychology: Adult 22(3): 180-188.
- Ruis C., Postma A., Bouvy W. & Van der Ham I. (2015), Cognitive disorders after sporadic ecstasy use? A case report, Neurocase: The Neural Basis of Cognition 21(3): 351-357.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Baalbergen H., Van der Heijden P.G.M., Postma A., Braspenning M. & Van der Kuil M.N.A. (2015), Distance comparisons in virtual reality: effects of path, context, and age, Frontiers in Psychology 6: e1103.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Faber A.M.E., Venselaar M., Van Kreveld M.J. & Loffler M. (2015), Ecological validity of virtual environments to assess human navigation ability, Frontiers in Psychology 6: e637.
- Ruotolo F., Van der Ham I., Postma A., Ruggiero G. & Iachini T. (2015), How coordinate and categorical spatial relations combine with egocentric and allocentric reference frames in a motor task: Effects of delay and stimuli characteristics, Behavioural Brain Research 284: 167-178.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Postma A. & Laeng B. (2014), Lateralized perception: The role of attention in spatial relation processing, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 45: 142-148.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Van Zandvoort M.J.E. & Postma A. (2013), Lateralization of spatial relation processing in natural scenes, Behavioural Neurology 26(3): 175-177.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Dijkerman H.C. & Van den Berg E. (2013), The effect of attentional scope on spatial relation processing: A case study, Neurocase: The Neural Basis of Cognition 19(5): 505-512.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Kant N., Postma A. & Visser-Meily J.M.A. (2013), Is navigation ability a problem in mild stroke patients? Insights from self-reported navigation measures, Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 45(5): 429-433.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Van Wezel R.J.A., Oleksiak A., Van Zandvoort M.J.E., Frijns C.J.M., Kappelle L.J. & Postma A. (2012), The effect of stimulus features on working memory of categorical and coordinate spatial relations in patients with unilateral brain damage, Cortex 48(6): 737-745.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Duijndam M.J.A., Raemaekers M., Van Wezel R.J.A., Oleksiak A. & Postma A. (2012), Retinotopic mapping of categorical and coordinate spatial relation processing in early visual cortex, PLoS ONE 7(6): e38644.
- Oleksiak A., Postma A., Van der Ham I.J.M., Klink P.C. & Van Wezel R.J.A. (2011), A review of lateralization of spatial functioning in nonhuman primates, Brain research reviews 67(1-2): 56-72.
- Ruotolo F., Iachini T., Postma A. & Van der Ham I.J.M. (2011), Frames of reference and categorical and coordinate spatial relations: a hierarchical organisation, Experimental Brain Research 214(4): 587-595.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Van Zandvoort M.J.E., Frijns C.J.M., Kappelle L.J. & Postma A. (2011), Hemispheric differences in spatial relation processing in a scene perception task: A neuropsychological study, Neuropsychologia 49(5): 999-1005.
- Ruotolo F., Van der Ham I.J.M., Lachini T. & Postma A. (2011), The relationship between allocentric and egocentric frames of reference and categorical and coordinate spatial information processing, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 64(6): 1138-1156.
- Van der Ham I.J.M. & Borst G. (2011), The nature of categorical and coordinate spatial relation processing: An interference study, Journal of Cognitive Psychology 23(8): 922-930.
- Van der Knaap L.J. & Van der Ham I.J.M. (2011), How does the corpus callosum mediate interhemispheric transfer? A review, Behavioural Brain Research 223(1): 211-221.
- Van der Ham I.J.M. & Borst G. (2011), Individual differences in spatial relation processing: Effects of strategy, ability, and gender, Brain and Cognition 76(1): 184-190.
- Oleksiak A., Klink P., Postma A., Van der Ham I.J.M., Lankheet M.J.M. & Van Wezel R.J.A. (2011), Spatial summation in macaque parietal area 7a follows a winner-take-all rule, Journal of Neurophysiology 105(3): 1150-1158.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Van Zandvoort M.J.E., Meilinger T., Bosch S.E., Kant N. & Postma A. (2010), Spatial and temporal aspects of navigation in two neurological patients, Neuroreport 21(10): 685-689.
- Van der Ham I.J.M. & Postma A. (2010), Lateralization of spatial categories: A comparison of verbal and visuospatial categorical relations, Memory and Cognition 38(5): 582-590.
- Oleksiak A., Manko M., Postma A., Van der Ham I.J.M., Van den Berg A.V. & Van Wezel R.J.A. (2010), Distance estimation is influenced by encoding conditions, PLoS ONE 5(3): e9918.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Van Strien J.W., Oleksiak A., Van Wezel R.J.A. & Postma A. (2010), Temporal characteristics of working memory for spatial relations: An ERP study, International Journal of Psychophysiology 77(2): 83-94.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Raemaekers M., Van Wezel R.J.A., Oleksiak A. & Postma A. (2009), Categorical and coordinate spatial relations in working memory: An fMRI study, Brain Research 1297: 70-79.
- Oleksiak A., Postma A., Van der Ham I.J.M. & Van Wezel R.J.A. (2009), Temporal dynamics of decisions on spatial categories and distances do not differ, Brain and Cognition 69(1): 209-217.
- Van der Ham I.J.M., Van Wezel R.J.A., Oleksiak A. & Postma A. (2007), The time course of hemispheric differences in categorical and coordinate spatial processing, Neuropsychologia 45(11): 2492-2498.
- Kammers M.P.M., Van der Ham I.J.M. & Dijkerman H.C. (2006), Dissociating body representations in healthy individuals: Differential effects of a kinaesthetic illusion on perception and action, Neuropsychologia 44(12): 2430-2436.