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Kathleen Vancleef
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Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience. Improving diagnosis and rehabilitation of visual perception problems after brain injury. Stroke. CVI. She/her
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🧠 Big welcome to Jackie Ferraro, who’s joining our team as a doctoral researcher! Jackie explores how kids with Cerebral Visual Impairment experience cluttered spaces like classrooms and shops. She’s got a cool mix of neuroscience, psychology, and creative arts in her background.🎉 #CVI #AcademicLife
October 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Still buzzing 🐝 after a fantastic day at #OTAUS2025 My #PosterSkirt was a great conversation starter 👗 Such a warm welcome from OT Australia. Sharing behind-the-scenes with you here.

Massive thanks to astroradioleah.bsky.social‬ as sewing teacher and to Imy (10) for making video “less cringe”
June 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Looking forward to learn about OT stroke services. We were off to a great start with Ellen Druce on supporting patients with their independent practice, Tayla Grant on activity based rehab in in-patient settings, and Natasha Lannin and Sally Day on falls prevention #OTA2025
June 25, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Getting ready for conferences and lab visits in Brisbane. If you're attending
🧠 #OHBM2025
👀 #IOC2025
🤯 #PacificRim2025
or you're just in Brisbane between 28th June and 5th July, get in touch! I would love to talk all things brains, eyes, and neuropsychology.
June 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Started a slightly different project recently with Leah Morabito! It has everything I love: learning something new, creative problem solving, and a high nerdiness level 🤓 Result will be revealed in a few weeks.
May 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
👩‍⚕️ OTs and Orthoptists 👨‍⚕️ New survey about current practice of visual perception difficulties after a brain injury: tinyurl.com/mpbebbmt.
Results will inform new training and clinical tools. ⏳ 5-10 min 🏆 15 free posters about visual perception difficulties + rehab advice, see 🔽. Thank you!!
January 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Reading difficulties after a stroke are common. One type is neglect dyslexia. People misread words because they are not aware of the first or last letters of the word. Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20714712/ Infographic by Bella Belbali
December 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Excellent first day at #uksf24. Dr Kate Cowen did an excellent job presenting our poster. Lots of interest. Sessions on health inequality and co-production already gave me some ideas on how we can improve our research.
December 4, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Getting ready for #UKSF24 Dr Kate Cowen will be presenting her poster this afternoon in Tour 5.
December 3, 2024 at 10:13 AM
After a stroke survivors can have difficulties with global attention. They can't see the wood for the trees. Infographic by Bella Belbali.
December 2, 2024 at 4:48 PM
When losing part of their visual field stroke patients can sometimes still have unconscious vision on that side: they say they can't see anything, but still react to things in their blind field. This is blindsight. Read more: tinyurl.com/3j7raksw
November 29, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Getting ready for my first ever keynote at the #OTShow
November 27, 2024 at 3:23 PM
In associative agnosia, people can see a picture clearly, describe it in detail and even make an accurate drawing of it, but they don't know what it is a picture of. Read more: tinyurl.com/4jk337jw
November 26, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Newest and oldest addition to my library: a monograph from 1917. Gaps in treatment of visual perception issues are still here 100 years later. Should we look back more often to great ideas of pioneers in our field that did not have the evidence base at the time and have therefore been forgotten?
November 21, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Just returned from an inspiring few days with other NIHR Academy members talking about how to maximise impact of our research. Thanks to #nihramc24 organisers for an excellent programme and delegates from all careers levels and professional backgrounds for the inspiring conversations
November 21, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Apperceptive agnosia is a hard one to understand: difficulties with integrating features into a complex whole.
There are alternative definitions and closely related labels like visual form agnosia and integrative agnosia.
November 21, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Difficulties with recognising objects is not unusual after a stroke. It can help to think of the visual system as an hierarchical process to understand what exactly is challenging for a patient, but the debate is ongoing.
November 20, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Today is about Alexia. There are many types. Pure alexia is a rare but devastating condition after stroke. People are unbale to read even though they can see the text clearly.
More details: tinyurl.com/46ktxrhu or tinyurl.com/yth7arv3
November 19, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Motion blindness or akinetopsia is a rare condition after brain injury. People have difficulties seeing motion. You can imagine it as seeing the world as a series of static pictures. Infographic by Bella Belbali.
November 18, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Did you know >20% of stroke survivors with a posterior stroke struggle with seeing colours? Their difficulties vary from just mixing up red and purple to full distortion of the colour space. More details in tinyurl.com/2dwwe2h5
November 17, 2024 at 4:21 PM