Arnaud Szmalec

Biographic Data

ID1692590
NAMEArnaud Szmalec
GIVEN NAMESArnaud
FAMILY NAMESzmalec
SIGNATURESZMALEC A
AFFILIATIONSGhent University
ORCID0000-0003-3903-3953
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Language proficiency and study achievement of pupils with dyslexia enrolled in content and language integrated learning (CLIL)

    Chloé Parmentier, Morgane Simonis et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025References: 51

    To date, very little research has been conducted on the inclusiveness of CLIL for pupils with learning disorders. The current study investigated whether pupils with dyslexia may also benefit from a CLIL experience or whether reading disorders should rather be considered as a risk factor for attending CLIL. To address this question, 28 5th and 11th-grade pupils with diagnosed dyslexia and 112 matched controls were identified within a sample of ove…

  • Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages

    Open AccessErin M Buchanan, Kelly Cuccolo et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025References: 90

  • Does Studying Latin in Secondary Education Predict Study Achievement in Academic Higher Education

    Open AccessCathy Hauspie, Stijn Schelfhout et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning2024References: 67

    Studying Latin in secondary education is still widespread in Europe and believed to result in cognitive benefits, even beyond the linguistic domain. In this study we explored the relation between such study and later academic achievement in higher education (N = 1,898). First, we demonstrated that Latin students exhibit increased levels of study achievement in higher education, particularly in study programs other than those covering science, tec…

  • Attentional abilities of children enrolled in immersion education in French-speaking Belgium

    Morgane Simonis, Benoît Galand et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    There is currently much controversy surrounding the cognitive advantages that are often associated with bilingualism, especially regarding the so-called executive control advantage. Recently, it has been suggested that bilingualism emerging from immersion education may not lead to an advantage in executive control, but rather to an improvement specifically at the level of attentional abilities. In order to test this hypothesis, the current large …

  • Do serial order short-term memory and long-term learning abilities predict spelling skills in school-age children

    Open AccessLaura Ordonez Magro, Steve Majerus et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • Meaningful activities during Covid-19 lockdown and association with mental health in Belgian adults

    Open AccessEllen Cruyt, Patricia De Vriendt et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The extent of performing meaningful activities during the COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium was positively related to adults' mental health. Insights from this study can be taken into account during future lockdown measures in case of pandemics

  • The contribution of serial order short-term memory and long-term learning to reading acquisition

    Laura Ordonez Magro, Steve Majerus et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2020References: 2

    There is increasing evidence for an association between both serial order short-term memory (STM) and the long-term learning (LTL) of serial order information and reading abilities. In this developmental study, we examined the hypothesis that STM for serial order supports online grapheme-to-phoneme conversion processes during the initial stages of reading acquisition, whereas the LTL of serial order serves reading abilities at later stages, when …

  • The influence of language-switching experience on the bilingual executive control advantage

    Open AccessNELE VERREYT, Evy Woumans et al.ARTICLEBilingualism Language and Cognition2016

    In an ongoing debate, bilingual research currently discusses whether bilingualism enhances non-linguistic executive control. The goal of this study was to investigate the influence of language-switching experience, rather than language proficiency, on this bilingual executive control advantage. We compared the performance of unbalanced bilinguals, balanced non-switching, and balanced switching bilinguals on two executive control tasks, i.e. a fla…

  • Short-term memory for order but not for item information is impaired in developmental dyslexia

    Open AccessWibke M Hachmann, Louisa Bogaerts et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Dyslexia2014

  • Simultaneous interpreting and working memory executive control

    Šárka Timarová, Ivana Čeňková et al.ARTICLEInterpreting International…2014Cited by: 15References: 8

    Working memory is a complex cognitive component responsible for maintenance of information during processing. Interpreting research has so far focused on working memory capacity rather than on the central executive functions. In the study described here, 28 professional interpreters completed a battery of four central executive tasks and three simultaneous interpretations (from English into Czech or Dutch ‘A’). The results show that: (a) certain …

  • Working memory components of the Corsi blocks task

    Open AccessAndré Vandierendonck, Eva Kemps et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Psychology2004Cited by: 6

    A computerized version of the Corsi blocks task (Milner, 1971) was assessed for standard forward-recall order (Experiments 1 and 3) and for reversed-recall order (Experiments 2 and 3) either in a single-task or in a dual-task design combined with articulatory suppression, matrix-tapping, random-interval generation or fixed-interval generation as concurrent tasks during the encoding stage. Concurrent performance of the matrix-tapping task impaired…