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Evy Woumans

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Dutry M, Vereeck A, Duyck W, Derous E, Schelfhout S, Szmalec A, et al.
Behav Res Methods . 2025 Jan; 57(2):66. PMID: 39843880
The International Cognitive Ability Resource, abbreviated ICAR, counters some of the practical problems researchers face when using good, but proprietary, licensed intelligence tests like the Wechsler tests, which include unfeasible...
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Planckaert N, Duyck W, Woumans E
Front Psychol . 2023 Jul; 14:1191816. PMID: 37397328
Several studies have pointed to beneficial effects of bilingualism on executive functioning. However, observations of these beneficial effects have at times proven difficult to reproduce. Moreover, findings of studies on...
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Sui L, Dirix N, Woumans E, Duyck W
Behav Res Methods . 2022 Jul; 55(6):2743-2763. PMID: 35896891
The current work presents the very first eye-tracking corpus of natural reading by Chinese-English bilinguals, whose two languages entail different writing systems and orthographies. Participants read an entire novel in...
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Woumans E, Clauws R, Duyck W
Front Psychol . 2021 Jul; 12:647362. PMID: 34290644
Words that share form and meaning across two or more languages (i.e., cognates) are generally processed faster than control words (non-cognates) by bilinguals speaking these languages. This so-called cognate effect...
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Woumans E, Van der Linden L, Hartsuiker R, Duyck W, Moerenhout C, de Partz M, et al.
J Fluency Disord . 2021 May; 69:105850. PMID: 33965883
Purpose: The current study examines how speech disfluencies manifest themselves in the two languages of bilingual persons who stutter, starting from the hypothesis that stuttering is associated with an attentional...
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Woumans E, Van der Cruyssen I, Duyck W
J Exp Psychol Gen . 2020 Jan; 149(8):1597-1602. PMID: 31928022
The current study examined whether use of a foreign language affects the manner in which people evaluate a criminal situation. We employed a range of crime scenarios, for which severity...
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Woumans E, Van Herck S, Struys E
Behav Sci (Basel) . 2019 Aug; 9(8). PMID: 31443154
The bilingual advantage is a heavily debated topic in research on bilingualism. The current study further investigated one specific aspect of bilingualism proposed to be a determining factor for the...
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Woumans E, Ameloot S, Keuleers E, Van Assche E
J Exp Psychol Gen . 2018 Dec; 148(7):1169-1177. PMID: 30550337
We monitored the progress of 40 children when they first started to acquire a second language (L2) implicitly through immersion. Employing a longitudinal design, we tested them before they had...
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Van der Linden L, Van de Putte E, Woumans E, Duyck W, Szmalec A
Front Psychol . 2018 Nov; 9:1998. PMID: 30405488
There is currently a lively debate in the literature whether bilingualism leads to enhanced cognitive control or not. Recent evidence suggests that knowledge of more than one language does not...
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Struys E, Duyck W, Woumans E
Front Psychol . 2018 Oct; 9:1790. PMID: 30319495
Recent meta-analyses have indicated that the bilingual advantage in cognitive control is not clear-cut. So far, the literature has mainly focussed on behavioral differences and potential differences in strategic task...