Research and Teaching Fellow
I obtained my master’s degree in Experimental Psychology at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). I then achieved a PhD at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) on binding within working memory. I worked as a post-doc at the University of Geneva, focusing on refreshing in working memory. Currently, I am a senior researcher, doing research on multiple projects concerning working memory development, the underlying representations of working memory, different measures of working memory, practical implications of working memory research, etc.
Research domains: working memory; cognitive development.
Teaching domains: cognitive development; sensory and motor development; critical thinking and open science practices; putting theoretical knowledge into practice
Twitter: @NLangerock
On the cognitive load effect
(in collaboration with Evie Vergauwe, Klaus Oberauer and Elena Throm)
How to improve the retention/execution of instructions in the classroom?
(in collaboration with Evie Vergauwe and Marco Hessels)
Do adults and children rely on the same (domain-specific or domain-general) resources in working memory?
(in collaboration with Evie Vergauwe)
And many more collaborations
14. Langerock, N, Sposito, G., Hautekiet, C., & Vergauwe, E. (2021). Inhibition-of-return-like effects in working memory? A preregistered replication study of Johnson et al. (2013). Royal Society Open Scienc, 8, 1-10.
Doi: 10.1098/rsos.210254
13. Vergauwe, E., Besch, V., Latrèche, C., & Langerock, N. (2021). The use of attention to maintain information in working memory: A developmental investigation of spontaneous refreshing in school-aged children. Developmental Science (online first).
Doi: 10.1111/desc.13104
Link - PDF: on request
12. Vergauwe, E., Ricker, T. J., Langerock, N., & Cowan, N. (2019). What do people typically do between list items? The nature of attention-based mnemonic activities depends on task context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 779-794.
Doi: 10.1037/xlm0000625
11. Langerock, N., Vergauwe, E., Dirix, N., & Barrouillet, P. (2018). Is memory better for objects than for separate single features? The temporal hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 898-917.
Doi: doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000501
10. Vergauwe, E., Langerock, N., Cowan, N. (2018). Evidence for spontaneous serial refreshing in verbal working memory? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25, 674-680.
Doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1387-4
9. Langerock, N., Wisniewski, D., Brass, M., & Vergauwe, E. (2018). An examination of refreshing in between-category sequences. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1424, 190-201.
Doi: 10.1111/nyas.13702
8. Barrouillet, P., Uittenhove, K., Lucidi, A., & Langerock, N. (2017). On the sources of forgetting in working memory: The test of competing hypotheses. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 1714-1733.
Doi: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1358293
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7. Vergauwe, E., & Langerock, N. (2017). Attentional refreshing of information in working memory: Increased accessibility of just-refreshed representations. Journal of Memory and Language, 96, 23-35.
Doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2017.05.001
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6. Lucidi, A., Langerock, N., Horeau, V., Lemaire, B., Camos, V., & Barrouillet, P. (2016). Working memory still needs verbal rehearsal. Memory and cognition, 44, 197-206.
Doi: 10.3758/s13421-015-0561-z
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5. Vergauwe, E., Langerock, N., & Barrouillet, P. (2014). Maintaining information in visual working memory: Memory for bindings and memory for features are equally disrupted by increased attentional demands. Canadian journal of experimental psychology, 68, 68-158.
Doi: 10.1037/cep0000025
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4. Langerock, N., Vergauwe, E., & Barrouillet, P. (2014). The maintenance of cross-domain associations in the episodic buffer. Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory and cognition, 40, 1096 – 1109.
Doi: 10.1037/a0035783
3. Langerock, N., van Hanswijck de Jonghe, L., Bickle Graz, M., Huppi, S., Borradori-Tolsa, C., & Barisnikov, K. (2013). Emotional reactivity in very preterm infants born at < 29 weeks of gestation. Infant behavior and development, 36, 289 – 297.
Doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.02.006
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2. Barrouillet, P., De Paepe, A., & Langerock, N. (2012). Time causes forgetting in working memory. Psychonomic bulletin and review, 19, 87-92.
Doi: 10.3758/s13423-011-0192-8
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1. Vergauwe, E., Dewaele, N., Langerock, N., & Barrouillet, P. (2012). Evidence for a central pool of general resources in working memory. Journal of cognitive psychology, 24, 359-366.
Doi: 10.1080/20445911.2011.640625
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Laboratoire Mémoire de travail, Cognition et Développement
Université de Genève
Faculté de psychologie et Sciences de l'éducation
Bureau 5158
40 Boulevard Pont d'Arve
1205 Genève