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Arnaud Szmalec
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2025
Does studying Latin make pupils smarter? Presenting the field of classical language impact studies
Alexandra Vereeck
Mark Janse
Katja De Herdt
Cathy Hauspie
Arnaud Szmalec
Evy Woumans
A1
Journal Article
in
CLASSICAL JOURNAL
2025
Non scholae sed vitae? The cognitive transfer effects of studying classical languages in flemish secondary education
Alexandra Vereeck
Evy Woumans
Katja De Herdt
Wouter Duyck
Arnaud Szmalec
Dissertation
2025
Validation of the children’s international cognitive ability resource (Ch-ICAR)
Merel Dutry
Alexandra Vereeck
Wouter Duyck
Eva Derous
Stijn Schelfhout
Arnaud Szmalec
Evy Woumans
Mark Schittekatte
Dries Debeer
Nicolas Dirix
A1
Journal Article
in
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
2025
2024
Attentional control and sublexical speech perception in bilingual adults with developmental stuttering
Annelien Dorme
Yana Criel
Kurt Eggers
Evy Woumans
Arnaud Szmalec
Miet De Letter
C3
Conference
2024
Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) : dual objective, dual gain?
Arnaud Szmalec
Morgane Simonis
Cathy Hauspie
Laura Ordonez Magro
Philippe Hiligsmann
Luk Van Mensel
Benoit Galand
Preprint
2024
Does studying Latin in secondary education predict study achievement in academic higher education?
Cathy Hauspie
Stijn Schelfhout
Nicolas Dirix
Lot Fonteyne
Arnaud Szmalec
Mark Janse
Alexandra Vereeck
Wouter Duyck
A1
Journal Article
in
LANGUAGE LEARNING
2024
Does studying Latin produce cognitive transfer effects? A cross-sectional and longitudinal approach
Cathy Hauspie
Wouter Duyck
Stijn Schelfhout
Alexandra Vereeck
Mark Janse
Arnaud Szmalec
C3
Conference
2024
Is studying Latin associated with (non–)linguistic cognitive transfer? A large-scale cross-sectional study
Cathy Hauspie
Wouter Duyck
Stijn Schelfhout
Alexandra Vereeck
Mark Janse
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
2024
Spraakperceptie en aandachtscontrole bij bilinguale volwassen personen die stotteren : een elektrofysiologische en gedragsmatige studie
Annelien Dorme
Yana Criel
Kurt Eggers
Evy Woumans
Arnaud Szmalec
Miet De Letter
C3
Conference
2024
2023
Attentional abilities of children enrolled in immersion education in French-speaking Belgium
Morgane Simonis
Benoit Galand
Philippe Hiligsmann
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUALISM
2023
Cognitive control in bilingual adults with developmental stuttering : a behavioral and electrophysiological study
Annelien Dorme
Yana Criel
Kurt Eggers
Evy Woumans
Arnaud Szmalec
Miet De Letter
C3
Conference
2023
Cognitive control of speech perception in bilingual adults with developmental stuttering : a behavioral and electrophysiological study
Annelien Dorme
Yana Criel
Kurt Eggers
Evy Woumans
Miet De Letter
Arnaud Szmalec
C3
Conference
2023
Contribución de la participación en actividades significativas sobre la salud mental en población española durante el confinamiento por COVID-19
Maria Rodriguez-Bailón
Ana Judit Fernández-Solano
Laura Vidaña-Moya
Jose Antonio Merchán-Baeza
Ellen Cruyt
Miet De Letter
Peter Vlerick
Patrick Calders
Robby De Pauw
Kristine Oostra
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
ANALES DE PSICOLOGIA
2023
Effects of healthy aging and gender on the electrophysiological correlates of semantic sentence comprehension : the development of Dutch normative data
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
Emma Depuydt
Patrick Santens
Pieter van Mierlo
Wouter Duyck
Arnaud Szmalec
Miet De Letter
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
2023
How does studying Latin in secondary education predict study achievement in academic higher education?
Cathy Hauspie
Stijn Schelfhout
Nicolas Dirix
Lot Fonteyne
Mark Janse
Arnaud Szmalec
Alexandra Vereeck
Wouter Duyck
C3
Conference
2023
Interactions of gender with predictors of academic achievement
Cathy Hauspie
Stijn Schelfhout
Nicolas Dirix
Lot Fonteyne
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
A1
Journal Article
in
CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
2023
The involvement of inhibition in word and sentence reading
Margot De Rom
Arnaud Szmalec
Marie Van Reybroeck
A1
Journal Article
in
READING AND WRITING
2023
The transfer effects of the study of Latin on language competence and cognition : a study in Flemish secondary education
Cathy Hauspie
Wouter Duyck
Mark Janse
Arnaud Szmalec
C3
Conference
2023
Why Plato needs psychology : proposal for a theoretical framework underpinning research on the cognitive transfer effects of studying classical languages
Alexandra Vereeck
Mark Janse
Katja De Herdt
Arnaud Szmalec
Cathy Hauspie
Wouter Duyck
A2
Journal Article
in
PSIHOLOŠKA OBZORJA = HORIZONS OF PSYCHOLOGY
2023
2022
A debate in need of data : report of an empirical study on the cognitive transfer effects of studying classical languages
Alexandra Vereeck
Mark Janse
Katja De Herdt
Arnaud Szmalec
Cathy Hauspie
Wouter Duyck
C3
Conference
2022
Age- and gender-related differences in verbal semantic processing : the development of normative electrophysiological data in the Flemish population
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
Patrick Santens
Pieter van Mierlo
Wouter Duyck
Arnaud Szmalec
Miet De Letter
A1
Journal Article
in
LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE
2022
Brain adaptation following various unilateral vocal fold paralysis treatments : a magnetic resonance imaging based longitudinal case series
Marie Dedry
Laurence Dricot
Vinciane Van Parys
Donatienne Boucquey
Nicolas Delinte
Julie van Lith-Bijl
Arnaud Szmalec
Youri Maryn
Gauthier Desuter
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
2022
Effects of healthy aging and gender on the electrophysiological correlates of semantic sentence comprehension : the development of Dutch normative data
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
Emma Depuydt
Patrick Santens
Pieter van Mierlo
Wouter Duyck
Arnaud Szmalec
Miet De Letter
C3
Conference
2022
Evaluation of the cognitive impact of Flemish CL programmes through electronic pupil assessment
Alexandra Vereeck
Mark Janse
Katja De Herdt
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
C3
Conference
2022
Het effect van leeftijd en geslacht op verbaal-semantische verwerking : de ontwikkeling van elektrofysiologische normen
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
Patrick Santens
Pieter van Mierlo
Wouter Duyck
Arnaud Szmalec
Miet De Letter
C3
Conference
2022
Interactions of gender with predictors of academic achievement
Cathy Hauspie
Stijn Schelfhout
Nicolas Dirix
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
C3
Conference
2022
Interactions of gender with predictors of academic achievement
Cathy Hauspie
Stijn Schelfhout
Nicolas Dirix
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
C3
Conference
2022
Quick learning of novel vowel-consonant conjunctions within the mature speech production system : a commentary on Dell et al. (2019)
Eleonore Smalle
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE
2022
Unlocking adults’ implicit statistical learning by cognitive depletion
Eleonore Smalle
Tatsuya Daikoku
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
Riikka Möttönen
A1
Journal Article
in
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
2022
Why study classical languages? Updated portrait of a study option under pressure in light of empirical data on pupil characteristics
Alexandra Vereeck
Mark Janse
Katja De Herdt
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
C3
Conference
2022
2021
Do serial order short-term memory and long-term learning abilities predict spelling skills in school-aged children?
Laura Ordonez Magro
Steve Majerus
Lucie Attout
Martine Poncelet
Eleonore Smalle
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
COGNITION
2021
Less is more : depleting cognitive resources enhances language learning abilities in adults.
Eleonore Smalle
Merel Muylle
Wouter Duyck
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
2021
Meaningful activities during COVID-19 lockdown and association with mental health in Belgian adults
Ellen Cruyt
Patricia De Vriendt
Miet De Letter
Peter Vlerick
Patrick Calders
Robby De Pauw
Kristine Oostra
Maria Rodriguez-Bailón
Arnaud Szmalec
Jose Antonio Merchán-Baeza
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
BMC PUBLIC HEALTH
2021
Meaningful activities during COVID-19 lockdown and association with mental health in Belgian adults (vol 21, 622, 2021)
Ellen Cruyt
Patricia De Vriendt
Miet De Letter
Peter Vlerick
Patrick Calders
Robby De Pauw
Kristine Oostra
Maria Rodriguez-Bailon
Arnaud Szmalec
Jose Antonio Merchan-Baeza
et al.
Correction
2021
Speech fluency in bilinguals who stutter : language proficiency and attentional demands as mediating factors
Evy Woumans
Lize Van der Linden
Robert Hartsuiker
Wouter Duyck
Caroline Moerenhout
Marie-Pierre de Partz
Aurelie Pistono
Miet De Letter
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS
2021
The phonological Mismatch Negativity and P300 as diagnostic tools in stroke-related aphasia recovery : a longitudinal multiple case study
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
Nils Knockaert
Pieter van Mierlo
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
Patrick Santens
Miet De Letter
A1
Journal Article
in
APHASIOLOGY
2021
The protective influence of bilingualism on the recovery of phonological input processing in aphasia after stroke
Miet De Letter
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
Oona Cromheecke
Yana Criel
Elien De Cock
Veerle De Herdt
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
2021
2020
De impact van tweetaligheid op het herstel van fonologisch begrip bij personen met afasie
Miet De Letter
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
Oona Cromheecke
Yana Criel
Elien De Cock
Veerle De Herdt
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
A2
Journal Article
in
LOGOPEDIE (HERENTALS)
2020
Executive control performance and foreign-language proficiency associated with immersion education in French-speaking Belgium
Morgane Simonis
Lize Van Der Linden
Benoit Galand
Phillippe Hiligsmann
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
2020
The contribution of serial order short-term memory and long-term learning to reading acquisition : a longitudinal study
Laura Ordonez Magro
Steve Majerus
Lucie Attout
Martine Poncelet
Eleonore Smalle
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2020
The developmental neural substrates of Hebb repetition learning and their link with reading ability
Lucie Attout
Laura Ordonez Magro
Arnaud Szmalec
Steve Majerus
A1
Journal Article
in
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
2020
The white matter architecture underlying semantic processing : a systematic review
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
Ellen Lanckmans
Pieter van Mierlo
Wouter Duyck
Arnaud Szmalec
Patrick Santens
Miet De Letter
A1
Journal Article
in
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
2020
2019
'Passion' versus 'patience' : the effects of valence and arousal on constructive word recognition
Anne Kever
Delphine Grynberg
Arnaud Szmalec
Eleonore Smalle
Nicolas Vermeulen
A1
Journal Article
in
COGNITION & EMOTION
2019
Age-related differences in auditory semantic priming : the development of normative electrophysiological data in the Dutch population
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
Patrick Santens
Pieter van Mierlo
Wouter Duyck
Arnaud Szmalec
Miet De Letter
C3
Conference
2019
Literacy improves short-term serial recall of spoken verbal but not visuospatial items : evidence from illiterate and literate adults
Eleonore Smalle
Arnaud Szmalec
Louisa Bogaerts
Mike P.A. Page
Vaishna Narang
Deepshikha Misra
Susana Araújo
Nishant Lohagun
Ouroz Khan
Anuradha Singh
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
COGNITION
2019
Phonologically related EEG as a more reliable diagnostic tool in the recovery of aphasia in the different stages after stroke
Miet De Letter
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
Nils Knockaert
Pieter van Mierlo
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
Patrick Santens
C3
Conference
2019
The developmental neural substrates of item and serial order components of verbal working memory
Lucie Attout
Laura Ordonez Magro
Arnaud Szmalec
Steve Majerus
A1
Journal Article
in
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
2019
The involvement of subcortical grey matter in verbal semantic comprehension : a systematic review and meta-analysis of fMRI and PET studies
Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
Camille Coffé
Pieter van Mierlo
Wouter Duyck
Peter Mariën
Arnaud Szmalec
Patrick Santens
Miet De Letter
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
2019
2018
A case study about the interplay between language control and cognitive abilities in bilingual differential aphasia : behavioral and brain correlates
Lize Van der Linden
Laurence Dricot
Miet De Letter
Wouter Duyck
Marie-Pierre de Partz
Adrian Ivanoiu
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
2018
Children retain implicitly learned phonological sequences better than adults : a longitudinal study
Eleonore Smalle
Mike P. A. Page
Wouter Duyck
Martin Edwards
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
2018
Cognate effects and cognitive control in patients with parallel and differential bilingual aphasia
Lize Van der Linden
Nele Verreyt
Miet De Letter
Dimitri Hemelsoet
Peter Mariën
Patrick Santens
Michaël Stevens
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
A1
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
2018
Does extreme language control training improve cognitive control? A comparison of professional interpreters, l2 teachers and monolinguals
Lize Van der Linden
Eowyn Van de Putte
Evy Woumans
Wouter Duyck
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
2018
Short-and long-term memory determinants of novel word form learning
Laura Ordonez Magro
Lucie Attout
Steve Majerus
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
2018
2017
Language learning in the adult brain: disrupting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates word-form learning
Eleonore Smalle
Muriel Panouilleres
Arnaud Szmalec
Riikka Möttönen
A1
Journal Article
in
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
2017
The different time course of phonotactic constraint learning in children and adults : evidence from speech errors
Eleonore Smalle
Merel Muylle
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
2017
2016
Can chunk size differences explain developmental changes in lexical learning?
Eleonore Smalle
Louisa Bogaerts
Morgane Simonis
Wouter Duyck
Michael PA Page
Martin G Edwards
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
2016
The influence of language switching experience on the bilingual executive control advantage
Nele Verreyt
Evy Woumans
Davy Vandelanotte
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
A1
Journal Article
in
BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
2016
The involvement of long-term serial-order memory in reading development: a longitudinal study
Louisa Bogaerts
Arnaud Szmalec
Marjolijn De Maeyer
MPA Page
Wouter Duyck
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
2016
2012
Leaving the third dimension: cognitive aftereffects of stereoscopic 3D movies
Klaas Bombeke
Arnaud Szmalec
Jan Van Looy
Wouter Duyck
Malte Elson
C3
Conference
2012
The development of long-term lexical representations through Hebb repetition learning
Arnaud Szmalec
Mike PA Page
Wouter Duyck
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
2012
Working memory and (second) language processing
Arnaud Szmalec
Marc Brysbaert
Wouter Duyck
Bookchapter
in
Memory, language, and bilingualism : theoretical and applied approaches
2012
2011
Control of interference during working memory updating
Arnaud Szmalec
Frederick Verbruggen
André Vandierendonck
Eva Kemps
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
2011
Order or dis-order? Impaired hebb learning in dyslexia
Arnaud Szmalec
Maaike Loncke
Mike Page
Wouter Duyck
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
2011
Progress in spatial working memory research
André Vandierendonck
Arnaud Szmalec
Bookchapter
in
Spatial working memory
2011
Spatial working memory
Book editor
2011
2010
Brief reports: are voluntary switches corrected repetitions?
Kimberley Vandamme
Arnaud Szmalec
Baptist Liefooghe
André Vandierendonck
A1
Journal Article
in
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
2010
Secondary generalisation in categorisation: an exemplar-based account
Yves Rosseel
Maarten De Schryver
A1
Journal Article
in
PSYCHOLOGICA BELGICA
2010
Working memory and executive control: a festschrift for Andre Vandierendonck
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
Wim Notebaert
Marc Brysbaert
A1
Journal Article
in
PSYCHOLOGICA BELGICA
2010
2009
Investigating the role of conflict resolution in memory updating by means of the one-back choice RT task
Arnaud Szmalec
Jelle Demanet
André Vandierendonck
Frederick Verbruggen
A1
Journal Article
in
Psychological Research
2009
The Hebb repetition effect as a laboratory analogue of novel word learning
Arnaud Szmalec
Wouter Duyck
André Vandierendonck
Ariadna Barbera Mata
Mike P.A. Page
A1
Journal Article
in
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2009
The role of structure in age-related increases in visuo-spatial working memory span
Ineke Imbo
Arnaud Szmalec
André Vandierendonck
A1
Journal Article
in
Psychologica Belgica
2009
2008
Improving accuracy in detecting acoustic onsets
Wouter Duyck
Frederik Anseel
Arnaud Szmalec
Pascal Mestdagh
Antoine Tavernier
Robert Hartsuiker
A1
Journal Article
in
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance
2008
Stimulus ambiguity elicits response conflict
Arnaud Szmalec
Frederick Verbruggen
André Vandierendonck
Wouter De Baene
Tom Verguts
Wim Notebaert
A1
Journal Article
in
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
2008
2007
Estimating the executive demands of a one-back choice reaction time task by means of the selective interference paradigm
Arnaud Szmalec
André Vandierendonck
A1
Journal Article
in
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2007
Towards a multicomponential view of executive control: the case of response selection
André Vandierendonck
Arnaud Szmalec
Maud Deschuyteneer
Ann Depoorter
Bookchapter
in
The cognitive neuroscience of working memory
2007
2005
Functional unity and diversity within executive control: A study by means of parametrical variations of executive involvement in reaction time tasks
Arnaud Szmalec
A Vandierendonck
Dissertation
2005
Inhibiting responses when switching: Does it matter?
Frederick Verbruggen
Baptist Liefooghe
Arnaud Szmalec
André Vandierendonck
A1
Journal Article
in
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2005
Response selection involves executive control: Evidence from the selective interference paradigm
Arnaud Szmalec
André Vandierendonck
E KEMPS
A1
Journal Article
in
MEMORY & COGNITION
2005
Visuo-spatial processing in Parkinson's disease: evidence for diminished visuo-spatial sketch pad and central executive resources
E KEMPS
Arnaud Szmalec
André Vandierendonck
Luc Crevits
A1
Journal Article
in
PARKINSONISM & RELATED DISORDERS
2005
2004
An asymmetry in the visuo-spatial demands of forward and backward recall in the Corsi blocks task
André Vandierendonck
Arnaud Szmalec
A2
Journal Article
in
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
2004
Working memory components of the Corsi blocks task
André Vandierendonck
E KEMPS
MC FASTAME
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
2004
2003
Verbal working memory is involved in associative word learning unless visual codes are available
Wouter Duyck
Arnaud Szmalec
Eva Kemps
André Vandierendonck
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
2003
2002
Functional dissociation between visual imagery and visual short-term memory.
Eva Kemps
J ANDRADE
J MAY
Arnaud Szmalec
C3
Conference
2002
Insensitivity of visual short-term memory to irrelevant visual information.
J ANDRADE
Eva Kemps
Y WERNIERS
J MAY
Arnaud Szmalec
A1
Journal Article
in
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. A, HUMAN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2002
2001
Visuo-spatial working memory deficits in medicated patients with Parkinson's disease.
Arnaud Szmalec
E KEMPS
A VANDIERENDONCK
Luc Crevits
A2
Journal Article
in
Annals of the Belgian Psychological Society
2001