Adelaide Heering PhD

Dr. Adelaide De Heering, Ph.D. is a Faculty Member at the Centre for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences (CRCN) and a Professor at the faculty of psychology and education at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in Belgium. She considers herself a neuro-developmental interested in brain plasticity. So far, this interest has taken the forms of experimental investigations and theoretical conceptualization, touching on the question of the origin, development, and plasticity of the brain.

She examines brain plasticity from two complementary perspectives. The first perspective is typical development with a special interest in infant research and the lifespan approach. The second perspective is atypical development with the investigation of the impact of visual deprivation on the brain (blindness, cataract-reversal patients) and braille reading.