Merel Dutry, Alexandra Vereeck, Wouter Duyck, Eva Derous, Stijn Schelfhout, Szmalec, Arnaud, Evy Woumans, Mark Schittekatte, Dries Debeer & Nicolas Dirix (in press). Validation of the Children’s International Cognitive Ability Resource (Ch-ICAR). Behavior Research Methods.
Tahry, Riëm El, Dibué, Maxine, Szmalec, Arnaud, Patel, Roshani, Verner, Ryan, Boffini, Massimiliano, Fahoum, Firas & Tzadok, Michal (2025). Practical Considerations for the rapid titration of VNS. Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, 29, 100734. doi :10.1016/j.ebr.2024.100734
Parmentier, Chloé, Simonis, Morgane, Van Mensel, Luk, Hiligsmann, Philippe, Galand, Benoit, Lefèvre, Nathalie, Ordonez Magro, Laura & Szmalec, Arnaud (2025). Language proficiency and study achievement of pupils with dyslexia enrolled in content and language integrated learning (CLIL). International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-17. doi :10.1080/13670050.2024.2446991
Hauspie, C., Duyck, W., Schelfhout, S., Vereeck, A., Janse, M. & Szmalec, Arnaud (2024). Is studying latin associated with (Non–)linguistic cognitive transfer? A large-scale cross-sectional study. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 79, 102325. doi :10.1016/j.cedpsych.2024.102325
Hauspie, Cathy, Schelfhout, Stijn, Dirix, Nicolas, Fonteyne, Lot, Janse, Mark, Szmalec, Arnaud, Vereeck, Alexandra & Duyck, Wouter (2024). Does studying Latin in secondary education predict study achievement in academic higher education?. Language learning, 74(4), 853-883.
Dedry, Marie, Maryn, Youri, Szmalec, Arnaud, van Lith-Bijl, Julie, Dricot, Laurence & Desuter, Gauthier (2024). Neural correlates of healthy sustained vowel phonation tasks: A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Journal of voice, [1-15]. doi :10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.02.008
Hauspie, Cathy, Schelfhout, Stijn, Dirix, Nicolas, Fonteyne, Lot, Szmalec, Arnaud & Duyck, Wouter (2023). Interactions of gender with predictors of academic achievement. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 74, 102186. doi :10.1016/j.cedpsych.2023.102186
Cocquyt, Elissa-Marie, Depuydt, Emma, Santens, Patrick, van Mierlo, Pieter, Duyck, Wouter, Szmalec, Arnaud & De Letter, Miet (2023). Effects of healthy aging and gender on the electrophysiological correlates of semantic sentence comprehension : the development of Dutch normative data. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(5), 1694-1717.
Rodríguez-Bailón, María, Fernández-Solano, Ana Judit, Vidaña-Moya, Laura, Merchán-Baeza, José Antonio, Cruyt, Ellen, De Letter, Miet, Vlerick, Peter, Calders, Patrick, De Pauw, Robby, Oostra, Kristine, Szmalec, Arnaud, Van de Velde, Dominique & De Vriendt, Patricia (2023). The contribution of participation in meaningful activities on mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown in the Spanish population. Anales de Psicología, 39(2), 176-187. doi :10.6018/analesps.512291
De Rom, Margot, Szmalec, Arnaud & Van Reybroeck, Marie (2023). The involvement of inhibition in word and sentence reading. Reading and Writing, 36(5), 1283-1318 doi :10.1007/s11145-022-10337-8
Vereeck, Alexandra, Janse, Mark, De Herdt, Katja, Szmalec, Arnaud, Hauspie, Cathy & Duyck, Wouter (2023). Why Plato needs psychology. Proposal for a theoretical framework underpinning research on the cognitive transfer effects of studying classical languages. Psihološka obzorja, 32(1), 121-130. doi :10.20419/2023.32.580
Simonis, Morgane, Galand, Benoît, Hiligsmann, Philippe & Szmalec, Arnaud (2023). Attentional abilities of children enrolled in immersion education in French-speaking Belgium. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 26(5), 554-571. doi:10.1080/13670050.2020.1856033
Dedry, Marie, Dricot, Laurence, Van Parys, Vinciane, Boucquey, Donatienne, Delinte, Nicolas, van Lith- Bijl, Julie, Szmalec, Arnaud, Maryn, Youri & Desuter, Gauthier (2022). Brain adaptation following various unilateral vocal fold paralysis treatments: A magnetic resonance imaging based longitudinal case series. Frontiers in neuroscience, 16, 947390 [1-18]. doi :10.3389/fnins.2022.947390
Cocquyt E. M., Santens P., van Mierlo P., Duyck, W., Szmalec, A., & De Letter, M. (2022) Age- and gender-related differences in verbal semantic processing: the development of normative electrophysiological data in the Flemish population. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37(2), 241-267. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2021.1957137
Smalle, E. H. M., Daikoku, T., Szmalec, A., Duyck, W., Möttönen, R. (2021). Unlocking adults' implicit statistical learning by cognitive depletion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(2), e2026011119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2026011119
Smalle, E. H. M., & Szmalec, A. (2021). Quick learning of novel vowel-consonant conjunctions within the mature speech production system – a commentary on Dell et al. (2019). Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37(4), 532-536. doi :10.1080/23273798.2021.1995613
Smalle, E. H. M., Muylle, M., Duyck, W., & Szmalec, A. (2021). Less is more: Depleting cognitive resources enhances language learning abilities in adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(12), 2423–2434. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001058
Cruyt E, De Vriendt P, De Letter M, Vlerick P, Calders P, De Pauw R, Oostra K, Rodriguez-Bailón M, Szmalec A, Merchán-Baeza JA, Fernández-Solano AJ, Vidaña-Moya L, & Van de Velde D. (2021). Meaningful activities during COVID-19 lockdown and association with mental health in Belgian adults. BMC Public Health, 21(1), 622. doi:10.1186/s12889-021-10673-4
De Letter, Miet, Cocquyt, Elissa-Marie, Cromheecke, Oona, Criel, Yana, De Cock, Elien, De Herdt, Veerle, Szmalec, Arnaud & Duyck, Wouter (2021). The Protective Influence of Bilingualism on the Recovery of Phonological Input Processing in Aphasia After Stroke. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, doi :10.3389/ fpsyg.2020.553970
Woumans, E., Van der Linden, L., Hartsuiker, R., Duyck, W., Moerenhout, C., de Partz de Courtray, M.-P., Pistono, A., De Letter, M., & Szmalec, A. (2021). Speech fluency in bilinguals who stutter: Language proficiency and attentional demands as mediating factors. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 69, 105850. doi:10.1016/j.jfludis.2021.105850
Ordonez Magro, L., Majerus, S., Attout, L., Poncelet, M., Smalle, E. H. M., & Szmalec, A. (2021). Do serial order short-term memory and long-term learning abilities predict spelling skills in school-age children? Cognition, 206, 104479. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104479
Ordonez Magro, L., Majerus, S., Attout, L., Poncelet, M., Smalle, E. H. M., & Szmalec, A. (2020). The contribution of serial order short-term memory and long-term learning to reading acquisition: A longitudinal study. Developmental Psychology, 56(9), 1671. doi:10.1037/dev0001043
Attout, L., Ordonez Magro, L., Szmalec, A., & Majerus, S. (2020). The developmental neural substrates of Hebb repetition learning and their link with reading ability. Human Brain Mapping, 41, 3956-3969. doi :10.1002/hbm.25099
Cocquyt, E.-M., Knockaert, N., van Mierlo, P., Szmalec, A., Duyck, W., Santens, P., & De Letter, M. (2020). The phonological Mismatch Negativity and P300 as diagnostic tools in stroke-related aphasia recovery: a longitudinal multiple case study. Aphasiology, 35(10), 1263-1280. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2020.1787946
Cocquyt, E.-M., Lanckmans, E., van Mierlo, P., Duyck, W., Szmalec, Arnaud, Santens, P., & De Letter, M. (2020). The white matter architecture underlying semantic processing: A systematic review. Neuropsychologia, 136, 107182. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107182
Maryn, Youri, Dedry, Marie, Szmalec, Arnaud & Desuter, Gauthier (2020). Logopädische Behandlung unilateraler Stimmlippenparalysen. Sprache · Stimme · Gehör, doi :10.1055/a-0949-7863
Simonis, M., Van der Linden, L., Galand, B., Hiligsmann, P., & Szmalec, A., & et al. (2020). Executive control performance and foreign-language proficiency associated with immersion education in French-speaking Belgium. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16. doi :10.1017/S136672891900021X
Smalle, E. H. M., Szmalec, A., Bogaerts, L., Page, M. P .A., Narang, V., Misra, D., Araújo, S., Lohagun, N., Khan, O., Singh, A., Mishra, R.K., & Huettig, F. (2019). Literacy improves short-term serial recall of spoken verbal but not visuospatial items – Evidence from illiterate and literate adults. Cognition, 185, 144-150. doi :10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.012
Attout, L., Ordonez Magro, L., Szmalec, A., & Majerus, S. (2019). The developmental neural substrates of item and serial order components of verbal working memory. Human Brain Mapping, 40(5), 1541-1553. doi :10.1002/hbm.24466
Cocquyt, E.-M., Coffé, C., van Mierlo, P., Duyck, W., Mariën, P., Szmalec, Arnaud, Santens, P., & De Letter, M. (2019). The involvement of subcortical grey matter in verbal semantic comprehension: A systematic review and meta-analysis of fMRI and PET studies. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 51, 278-296. doi :10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.04.001
Simonis, M., Van der Linden, L., Galand, B., Hiligsmann, P., & Szmalec, A. (2019). Executive control performance and foreign-language proficiency associated with immersion education in French-speaking Belgium. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-16. doi: 10.1017/S136672891900021X
Kever, A., Grynberg, D., Szmalec, A., Smalle, E. H. M., & Vermeulen, N. (2019) “Passion” versus “patience”: the effects of valence and arousal on constructive word recognition, Cognition and Emotion, doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1561419
Smalle, E. H. M., Szmalec, A., Bogaerts, L., Page, M. P. A., Narang, V., Misra, D., . . . & Huettig, F. (2019). Literacy improves short-term serial recall of spoken verbal but not visuospatial items – Evidence from illiterate and literate adults. Cognition, 185, 144-150. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.012
Attout, L., Ordonez Magro, L., Szmalec, A., & Majerus, S. (2018). The developmental neural substrates of item and serial order components of verbal working memory. Hum Brain Mapp. doi:10.1002/hbm.24466
Van Der Linden, L., Van de Putte, E., Woumans, E., Duyck, W., & Szmalec A. (2018). Does extreme language control training improve cognitive control? A comparison of professional interpreters, L2 teachers and monolinguals. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01998
Ordonez Magro, L., Attout, L., Majerus, S., & Szmalec A. (2018). Short -and long-term memory determinants of novel word form learning. Cognitive Development, 47: 146-157. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.06.002
Van Der Linden, L., Dricot, L., De Letter, M., Duyck, W., de Partz, M.-P., Ivanoiu, A., & Szmalec A. (2018). A case study about the interplay between language control and cognitive abilities in bilingual differential aphasia: Behavioral and brain correlates. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 46: 37-68. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2017.12.011
Van Der Linden, L., Verreyt, N., De Letter, M., Hemelsoet, D., Mariën, P., Santens, P., Stevens, M., Szmalec, A., & Duyck, W. (2018). Cognate effects and cognitive control in patients with parallel and differential bilingual aphasia. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 53(3):515-525 . doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12365
Smalle, E. H. M., Page, M. P. A., Duyck, W., Edwards, M., & Szmalec A. (2018). Children retain implicitly learned phonological sequences better than adults: A longitudinal study. Developmental Science, 21(5), e12634. doi: 10.1111/desc.12634
Smalle, E. H. M., Panouilleres, M., Szmalec, A., & Möttönen, R. (2017). Language learning in the adult brain: disrupting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates word-form learning. Scientific Reports, 7(1): 13966. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-14547-x
Smalle, E. H. M., Muylle, M., Szmalec, A., & Duyck, W. (2017). The different time course of phonotactic constraint learning in children and adults: Evidence from speech errors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(11): 1821-1827. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000405
Smalle, E. H. M., Bogaerts, L., Simonis, M., Duyck, W., Page, M. P. A., Edwards, M., & Szmalec, A. (2016). Can Chunk Size Differences Explain Developmental Changes in Lexical Learning? Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 6, no.1925, p. 1-14 (2016). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01925
Verreyt, N., Woumans, E., Vandelanotte, D., Szmalec, A., & Duyck, W. (2016). The influence of language switching experience on the bilingual executive control advantage. Bilingualism: language and cognition, 19(1), 181-190. doi : 10.1017/S1366728914000352
Bogaert, L., Szmalec, A., De Maeyer, M., Page, M. P. A., & Duyck, W. (2016). The involvement of long-term serial-order memory in reading development: A longitudinal study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 145, 139 - 156. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.12.008
Smalle E. H. M., Rogers, J., & Möttönen, R. (2015). Dissociating contributions of the motor cortex to speech perception and response bias by using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Cerebral Cortex, 25(10): 3690-8. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu218
De Visscher, A., Szmalec, A., Van Der Linden, L., & Noël, M.-P. (2015). Serial-order learning impairment and hypersensitivity-to-interference in dyscalculia. Cognition, Vol. 144, no.1, p. 38-48. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.07.007
Woumans, E., Ceuleers, E., Van Der Linden, L., Szmalec, A., & Duyck, W. (2015). Verbal and nonverbal cognitive control in bilinguals and interpreters. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol. 41, no. 5, p. 1579-1586. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000107
Olszanowski, M., Bajo, M.-T., & Szmalec, A. (2015). A conflict monitoring account of the control mechanisms involved in dual-tasking. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27(6), 704-714. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2015.1022553
Bogaerts, L., Szmalec, A., Hachmann, W., Page, M. P. A., Woumans, E., & Duyck, W. (2015). Increased susceptibility to proactive interference in adults with dyslexia? Memory, 23(2), 268-277. doi :10.1080/09658211.2014.882957
Bogaerts, L., Szmalec, A., Hachmann, W. M., Page, M. P. A., &, Duyck, W. (2015). Linking memory and language: Evidence for a serial-order learning impairment in Dyslexia. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 43-44:106-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2015.06.012
Van Reybroeck, M., Schelstraete, M.A., Hupet, M., & Szmalec, A. (2014). Switching between noun and verb agreement rules comes at a cost: Cross-sectional and interventional studies in a developmental sample. Psychology of Language and Communication, 18(3): 226-250. doi: 1032478/pcl-2014-0016
Núñez Castellar, E., Van Looy, J., Szmalec, A., & De Marez, L. (2014). Improving artithmetic skills through gameplay: Assessment of the effectiveness of an educational game in terms of cognitive and affective learning outcomes. Information Sciences, 264, 19-31. doi: 10.1016/j.ins.2013.09.030
Hachmann, W., Bogaerts, L., Szmalec, A., Woumans, E., & Duyck, W. (2014). Short-term memory for order but not for item information is impaired in developmental dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, 64(2), 121-136. doi: 10.1007/s11881-013-0089-5
Timarova, Š., Čenkova, I., Meylaerts, R., Hertog, E., Szmalec, A., & Duyck, W. (2014). Simultaneous interpreting and working memory executive control. Interpreting, 16(2), 19-168. doi: 10.1075/intp.16.2.01tim
Bombeke, K., Van Looy, J., Szmalec, A., & Duyck, W. (2013). Leaving the third dimension: No measurable evidence for cognitive aftereffects of stereoscopic 3D movies. Journal of the Society for Information Display, 21(4), 159-166. doi: 10.1002/jsid.164
Szmalec, A., Page, M. P. A., & Duyck, W. (2012). The development of long-term lexical representations through Hebb repetition learning. Journal of Memory and Language, 67(3), 342-354. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.07.001
Szmalec, A., Verbruggen, F., Vandierendonck, A., & Kemps, E. (2011). Control of Interference During Working Memory Updating. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(1), 137-151. doi: 10.1037/a0020365
Szmalec, A., Loncke, M., Page, M. P. A., & Duyck, W. (2011). Order or Disorder? Impaired Hebb Learning in Dyslexia. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 37(5), 1270-1279. doi: 10.1037/a0023820
Vandamme, K., Szmalec, A., Liefooghe, B., & Vandierendonck, A. (2010). Are voluntary switches corrected repetitions? Psychophysiology : an international journal, 47, 1176-1181. doi :10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01032.x
Szmalec, A., Duyck, W., Notebaert, W., & Brysbaert, M. (2010). Working memory and executive control : a festschrift for André Vandierendonck. Psychologica Belgica, 50, 147-152. doi :10.5334/pb-50-3-4-147
Szmalec, A., Demanet, J., Vandierendonck, A., & Verbruggen, F. (2009). Investigating the role of conflict resolution in memory updating by means of the one-back choice RT task. Psychological Research : an international journal of perception, attention, memory and action, 73, 390-406. doi :10.1007/s00426-008-0149-3
Szmalec, A., Duyck, W., Vandierendonck, A., Mata, A. B., & Page, M. P. A. (2009). The Hebb repetition effect as a laboratory analogue of novel word learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 435-443. doi:10.1080/17470210802386375
Imbo, I., Szmalec, A., & Vandierendonck, A. (2009). The role of structure in age-related increases in visuo-spatial working memory span. Psychologica Belgica, 49, 275-291. doi :10.5334/pb-49-4-275
Duyck, W., Anseel, F., Szmalec, A., Mestdagh, P., Tavernier, A., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2008). Improving Accuracy in Detecting Acoustic Onsets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34(5), 1317-1326. doi :10.1037/0096-1523.34.5.1317
Szmalec, A., Verbruggen, F., Vandierendonck, A., De Baene, W., Verguts, T., & Notebaert, W. (2008). Stimulus ambiguity elicits response conflict. Neuroscience Letters, 435(2), 158-162. doi :10.1016/j.neulet.2008.02.023
Szmalec, A., & Vandierendonck, A. (2007). Estimating the executive demands of a one-back choice reaction time task by means of the selective interference paradigm. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(8), 1116-1139. doi: 10.1080/17470210600896484
Verbruggen, F., Liefooghe, B., Szmalec, A., & Vandierendonck, A. (2005). Inhibiting responses when switching: Does it matter? Experimental Psychology, 52(2), 125-130. doi :10.1027/1618-3169.52.2.125
Szmalec, A., Vandierendonck, A., & Kemps, E. (2005). Response selection involves executive control: Evidence from the selective interference paradigm. Memory and Cognition, 33(3), 531-541. doi :10.3758/BF03193069
Kemps, E., Szmalec, A., Vandierendonck, A., & Crevits, L. (2005). Visuo-spatial processing in Parkinson's disease: Evidence for diminished visuo-spatial sketch pad and central executive resources. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 11(3), 181-186. doi :10.1016/j.parkreldis.2004.10.010
Vandierendonck, A., & Szmalec, A. (2004). An assymetry in the visuo-spatial demands of forward and backward recall in the Corsi blocks task. Imagination, Cognition and Personality : consciousness in theory, research, clinical practice, 23, 225 - 231. doi: 10.2190/MEEH-UYHG-UY9J-MQ04
Vandierendonck, A., Kemps, E., Fastame, M., & Szmalec, A. (2004). Working memory components of the Corsi blocks task. British Journal of Psychology, 95(1), 57-79. doi :10.1348/000712604322779460
Duyck, W., Szmalec, A., Kemps, E., & Vandierendonck, A. (2003). Verbal working memory is involved in associative word learning unless visual codes are available. Journal of Memory and Language, 48(3), 527-541. doi :10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00533-8
Andrade, J., Kemps, E., Werniers, Y., Jon, M., & Szmalec, Arnaud (2002). Insensitivity of visual short-term memory to irrelevant visual information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, 55(3), 753-774. doi :10.1080/02724980143000541