Prof. Dr. Mathieu Declerck

I got my Bachelor and Master degree at Ghent University (Belgium). After graduating in 2009, I spent several months at the Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary), where I did research into speech monitoring during second language production together with Judit Kormos. Following this internship, I was accepted at the RWTH Aachen University (Germany), where I obtained my doctoral degree under the supervision of Andrea Philipp and Iring Koch. After obtaining my doctorate, I was a post-doc at Aix-Marseille University (France), where together with Jonathan Grainger I further explored bilingual language control and the reading process. This was followed by a post-doc at San Diego State University (USA), where I explored the domain generality of language control with bimodal and unimodal bilinguals together with Karen Emmorey and Ardi Roelofs. I am currently a senior research fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), where my focus is on (multilingual) language processing.

Selected publications

• Declerck, M., & Koch, I. (in press). The concept of inhibition in bilingual control. Psychological Review. 
• Declerck, M., Meade, G., Midgley, K. J., Holcomb, P. J., Roelofs, A., & Emmorey, K. (2021). Language control in bimodal bilinguals: Evidence from ERPs. Neuropsychologia, 161, 108019. 
• Declerck, M., Wen, Y., Snell, J., Meade, G., & Grainger, J. (2020). Unified syntax in the bilingual mind. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 149-154. 
• Declerck, M., Kleinman, D., & Gollan, T. (2020). Which bilinguals reverse language dominance and why? Cognition, 204, 104384. 
• Kirk, N. W., Kempe, V., Scott-Brown, K., Philipp, A. M., & Declerck, M. (2018). Can monolinguals be like bilinguals? Evidence from dialect switching. Cognition, 170, 164-178.