Arnaud Szmalec, PhD
Arnaud Szmalec
Ghent University
Department of Experimental Psychology
H. Dunantlaan 2
B-9000 GENT
http://users.ugent.be/~aszmalec/
Tel. (32) 92646439
Fax. (32) 92646496
Research Interests Cognitive (Neuro)Science
My area of expertise is human memory.
Within this area, I have two main lines of research. The first line deals with executive
control processes in working memory, with particular focus on working memory updating.
The second line of research investigates the role of working memory in language
acquisition, using a theoretical framework that integrates findings
from both healthy participants and persons with dyslexia. I use both behavioral
measures as well as neuroscientific methods like ERP.
Publications
1. Papers in Journals
Szmalec, A., Page, M.P.A., & Duyck, W. (in press).
The development of long-term lexical representations through Hebb repetition
learning. Journal of Memory and Language.
Szmalec,
A., Loncke, M., Page,
M.P.A., & Duyck, W. (2011). Order or dis-order? Impaired Hebb learning in
dyslexia. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 37,
1270-1279.
Szmalec, A., Verbruggen, F., Vandierendonck, A., & Kemps, E. (2011).
Control of interference during working memory updating. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception & Performance, 37, 137-151.
Vandamme, K., Szmalec, A., Liefooghe, B, &
Vandierendonck, A. (2010). Are voluntary switches corrected repetitions? Psychophysiology,
47, 1176-1181.
Szmalec, A., Duyck, W., Notebaert, W., & Brysbaert,
M. (2010). Working Memory and Executive Control: A Festschrift for André
Vandierendonck. Psychologica
Belgica, 50, 147-152.
Imbo, I., Szmalec, A., & Vandierendonck, A. (2009). The role of structure on
age-related increases in visuo-spatial span performance. Psychologica Belgica, 49, 275-291.
Szmalec, A., Duyck, W., Vandierendonck, A., Barberá Mata, A., & Page, M.P.A. (2009). The
Hebb repetition effect as a laboratory analogue of novel word learning. Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 435-443.
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, 73, 390-406.
Duyck, W., Anseel, F., Szmalec, A., Mestdagh,
P., Tavernier, A., & Hartsuiker, R. (2008). Improving accuracy in detecting
acoustic onsets. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 34, 1317-1326.
Szmalec, A., Verbruggen, F., Vandierendonck, A., De
Baene, W., Verguts, T., & Notebaert, W. (2008). Stimulus ambiguity elicits
response conflict. Neuroscience Letters, 435, 158-162.
Szmalec, A., Vandierendonck, A. (2007). Estimating the
executive demands of a one-back choice RT task by means of the selective
interference paradigm. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1116-1139.
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, 181-186.
Szmalec, A., Vandierendonck, A., & Kemps, E.
(2005). Response selection involves executive control: Evidence from the
selective interference paradigm. Memory & Cognition, 33, 531-541.
Verbruggen, F., Liefooghe, B., Szmalec, A.,
& Vandierendonck, A. (2005). Inhibiting responses when switching: Does it
matter? Experimental
Psychology, 52, 125-130.
Vandierendonck, A. & Szmalec, A.
(2004). An asymmetry in the visuo-spatial demands of forward and backward
recall in the Corsi blocks task. Imagination, Cognition & Personality, 23, 225-231.
Vandierendonck, A., Kemps, E.,
Fastame, M. C., & Szmalec, A. (2004). Working memory components of the Corsi blocks
task. British
Journal of Psychology, 95, 57–79.
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 & Language, 48,
527-541.
Andrade, J., Kemps, E., Werniers,
Y., May, J., & Szmalec, A. (2002). Insensitivity of visual short-term memory to
irrelevant visual information. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55A, 753-774.
2. Chapters in Books
Szmalec, A., Brysbaert, M., & Duyck, W. (in preparation). Working memory and (second) language processing. In J. Altarriba and L. Isurin (Eds.). Memory, Language, and Bilingualism: Theoretical and Applied Approaches. Cambridge University Press.
Vandierendonck, A., & Szmalec, A. (in press). Progress in
spatial working memory research. In A. Vandierendonck & A. Szmalec (Eds.). Spatial Working
Memory. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Vandierendonck, A., Szmalec, A., Deschuyteneer, M. &
Depoorter, A. (2007). Towards a
multicomponential view of executive control. The case of response selection. In
N. Osaka, R. H. Logie, & M. D'Esposito (Eds.). The cognitive neuroscience of working memory
(pp. 247-259). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Books
Vandierendonck, A. & Szmalec, A. (Eds) (in press). Spatial Working
Memory. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
4. Editorial Work
Szmalec, A., Duyck, W., Notebaert, W., & Brysbaert, M. (Eds) (2010). Working Memory and Executive Control: A Festschrift for André Vandierendonck. Psychologica Belgica, 50, 145-433 (Special Issue).