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• Psychologie d’apprentissage
• Les réseaux de neurones
• Contrôle cognitif
• Attention
• Mémoire épisodique

2021-present – Professeur des Universités, Université de Bourgogne

2018-2021 – Associate Professor, UBFC

2009-2018 – Postdoc, Ghent University

2007-2009 – Ph.D., University of Waterloo

2005-2007 – Master’s, University of Waterloo

2001-2005 – B.A., University of Saskatchewan

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human contingency learning, temporal contiguity, temporal learning, the Stroop effect, computational modelling, cognitive control, conflict monitoring and adaptation, attention, episodic memory, unconscious processes, learning goals, evaluative learning, stimulus-response binding, switch costs, human reasoning ability, logic, bilingualism…

• Henry, W., & Schmidt, J. R. (2025). Stroop-like effects in pitch identification training and generalization to untrained timbres: Evidence from a contingency learning task. Music Perception.
• Rothermund, K., Kapinos, L., De Houwer, J., & Schmidt, J. R. (2025). Long-term contingency learning depends on contingency awareness. Journal of Cognition.
• Iorio, C., Bigand, E., & Schmidt, J. R. (2024). Incidentally acquiring pitch-label associations with a musical contingency learning task. Collabra: Psychology.
• Šaban, I., & Schmidt, J. R. (2024). Audio-visual Stroop matching task with first- and second-language color words and color associates. Applied Psycholinguistics.
• Weissman, D. H., & Schmidt, J. R. (2024). Proactive response preparation contributes to contingency learning: Novel evidence from force‑sensitive keyboards. Psychological Research.
• Weissman, D. H., Schmidt, J. R., & Spinelli, G. (2024). Modulations of response activation contribute to block-wide control: Evidence from proportion congruency effects in the prime-probe task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogntion.
• Iorio, C., Šaban, I., Poulin-Charronnat, B., & Schmidt, J. R. (2023). Incidental learning in music reading: The music contingency learning task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 429–449.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2023). Is conflict adaptation adaptive? An introduction to conflict monitoring theory and the ecological problems it faces. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
• Schmidt, J. R., Iorio, C., & Poulin-Charronnat, B. (2023). Automatizing sight reading: Contingency proportion and task relevance in the music contingency learning procedure. Collabra Psychology.
• Šaban, I., & Schmidt, J. R. (2022). Interlinguistic conflict: Word-word Stroop with first and second language colour words. Cognitive Processing, 619–636.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2021). Apprentissage incident des associations simples de stimulus-réponse : revue de la recherche avec la tâche d’apprentissage de contingences couleur-mot. Année Psychologique, 77–127.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2021). CSVDataMerge: A simple and free program for concatenating experimental data files. Journal of Open Research Software, Article 34.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2021). Incidental learning of simple stimulus-response associations: A review of colour-word contingency learning research. L'Année Psychologique, 77–127.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2021). When data transformations are appropriate or even necessary: A response to Cohen-Shikora, Suh and Bugg (2019). Timing & Time Perception, 161–197.
• Šaban, I., & Schmidt, J. R. (2021). Stimulus and response conflict from a second language: Stroop interference in weakly-bilingual and recently-trained languages. Acta Psychologica, Article 103360.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2021). Qu’est-ce que l’apprentissage implicite ?. The Conversation France.
• Schmidt, J. R., Liefooghe, B., & De Houwer, J. (2020). An episodic model of task switching effects: Erasing the homunculus from memory. Journal of Cognition, Article 22.
• Schmidt, J. R., Giesen, C. G., & Rothermund, K. (2020). Contingency learning as binding? Testing an exemplar view of the colour-word contingency learning effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 739-761.
• Schmidt, J. R., Liefooghe, B., & De Houwer, J. (2020). Erasing the homunculus as an ongoing mission: A reply to the commentaries. Journal of Cognition, Article 28.
• Schmidt, J. R., De Houwer, J., & Moors, A. (2020). Learning habits: Does overtraining lead to resistance to new learning?. Collabra: Psychology, Article 21.
• Giesen, C. G., Schmidt, J. R., & Rothermund, K. (2020). The law of recency: An episodic stimulus-response retrieval account of habit acquisition. Frontiers in Psychology, Article 2927.
• Liefooghe, B., Hughes, S., Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2020). Stroop-like effects for derived stimulus-stimulus relations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 327-349.
• Schmidt, J. R., & Lemercier, C. (2019). Context-specific proportion congruent effects: Compound-cue contingency learning in disguise. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1119–1130.
• Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2019). Erratum: Correction to Schmidt and De Houwer (2012). Experimental Psychology, 255–256.
• Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2019). Cue competition and incidental learning: No blocking or overshadowing in the colour-word contingency learning procedure without instructions to learn. Collabra: Psychology, Article 15.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2019). Evidence against conflict monitoring and adaptation: An updated review. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 753–771.
• Braem, S., Bugg, J. M., Schmidt, J. R., Crump, M. J. C., Weissman, D. H., Notebaert, W., & Egner, T. (2019). Measuring adaptive control in conflict tasks. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 769–783.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2018). Best not to bet on the horserace: A comment on Forrin and MacLeod (2017) and a relevant stimulus-response compatibility view of colour-word contingency learning asymmetries. Memory & Cognition, 326-335.
• Schmidt, J. R., Augustinova, M., & De Houwer, J. (2018). Category learning in the color-word contingency learning paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 658-666.
• Schmidt, J. R., Hartsuiker, R. J., & De Houwer, J. (2018). Interference in Dutch-French bilinguals: Stimulus and response conflict in intra- and interlingual Stroop. Experimental Psychology, 13-22.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2017). Time-out for conflict monitoring theory: Preventing rhythmic biases eliminates the list-level proportion congruent effect. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52-62.
• Lemercier, C., Simoës-Perlant, A., Schmidt, J. R., & Boujon, C. (2017). Stroop interference and development: Influence of expectation on color-naming response times. European Review of Applied Psychology, 43-50.
• Schmidt, J. R., & Weissman, D. H. (2016). Congruency sequence effects and previous response times: Conflict adaptation or temporal learning?. Psychological Research, 590-607.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2016). Context-specific proportion congruency effects: An episodic learning account and computational model. Frontiers in Psychology, Article 1806.
• Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2016). Contingency learning tracks with stimulus-response proportion: No evidence of misprediction costs. Experimental Psychology, 79-88.
• Schmidt, J. R., & Liefooghe, B. (2016). Feature integration and task switching: Diminished switch costs after controlling for stimulus, response, and cue repetitions. PLOS ONE, e0151188.
• Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2016). Time course of colour-word contingency learning: Practice curves, pre-exposure benefits, unlearning, and relearning. Learning and Motivation, 15-30.
• Schmidt, J. R., De Houwer, J., & Rothermund, K. (2016). The Parallel Episodic Processing (PEP) Model 2.0: A single computational model of stimulus-response binding, contingency learning, power curves, and mixing costs. Cognitive Psychology, 82-108.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2016). Temporal learning and rhythmic responding: No reduction in the proportion easy effect with variable response-stimulus intervals. Frontiers in Psychology, Article 634.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2016). Proportion congruency and practice: A contingency learning account of asymmetric list shifting effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1496-1505.
• Schmidt, J. R., & Weissman, D. H. (2015). Contingent attentional capture triggers the congruency sequence effect. Acta Psychologica, 61-68.
• Schmidt, J. R., Notebaert, W., & Van den Bussche, E. (2015). Is conflict adaptation an illusion?. Frontiers in Psychology, Article 172.
• Schmidt, J. R., & Weissman, D. H. (2014). Congruency sequence effects without feature integration or contingency learning confounds. PLOS ONE, e0102337.
• Schmidt, J. R., Lemercier, C., & De Houwer, J. (2014). Context-specific temporal learning with non-conflict stimuli: Proof-of-principle for a learning account of context-specific proportion congruent effects. Frontiers in Psychology, Article 1241.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2014). Contingencies and attentional capture: The importance of matching stimulus informativeness in the item-specific proportion congruent task. Frontiers in Psychology, Article 540.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2014). Contingency and congruency switch in the congruency sequence effect: A reply to Blais, Stefanidi, and Brewer (2014). Frontiers in Psychology, Article 1405.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2014). List-level transfer effects in temporal learning: Further complications for the list-level proportion congruent effect. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 373-385.
• Schmidt, J. R., De Schryver, M., & Weissman, D. H. (2014). Removing the influence of feature repetitions on the congruency sequence effect: Why regressing out confounds from a nested design will often fall short. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2392-2402.
• Schmidt, J. R., Cheesman, J., & Besner, D. (2013). You can’t Stroop a lexical decision: Is semantic processing fundamentally facilitative?. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 130-139.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2013). The Parallel Episodic Processing (PEP) model: Dissociating contingency and conflict adaptation in the item-specific proportion congruent paradigm. Acta Psychologica, 119-126.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2013). Temporal learning and list-level proportion congruency: Conflict adaptation or learning when to respond?. Plos One, e0082320.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2013). Questioning conflict adaptation: Proportion congruent and Gratton effects reconsidered. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 615-630.
• Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Adding the goal to learn strengthens learning in an unintentional learning task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 723-728.
• Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Contingency learning with evaluative stimuli: Testing the generality of contingency learning in a performance paradigm. Experimental Psychology, 175-182.
• Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Does temporal contiguity moderate contingency learning in a speeded performance task?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 408-425.
• Schmidt, J. R. (2012). Human contingency learning. Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer.
• Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Learning, awareness, and instruction: Subjective contingency awareness does matter in the colour-word contingency learning paradigm. Consciousness and Cognition, 1754-1768.
• Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2011). Now you see it, now you don’t: Controlling for contingencies and stimulus repetitions eliminates the Gratton effect. Acta Psychologica, 176-186.
• Schmidt, J. R., De Houwer, J., & Besner, D. (2010). Contingency learning and unlearning in the blink of an eye: A resource dependent process. Consciousness and Cognition, 235-250.
• Schmidt, J. R., & Thompson, V. A. (2008). “At least one” problem with “some” formal reasoning paradigms. Memory & Cognition, 217-229.
• Schmidt, J. R., & Besner, D. (2008). The Stroop effect: Why proportion congruent has nothing to do with congruency and everything to do with contingency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 514-523.
• Schmidt, J. R., Crump, M. J. C., Cheesman, J., & Besner, D. (2007). Contingency learning without awareness: Evidence for implicit control. Consciousness and Cognition, 421-435.
• Risko, E. F., Schmidt, J. R., & Besner, D. (2006). Filling a gap in the semantic gradient: Color associates and response set effects in the Stroop task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 310-315.
• Schmidt, J. R., & Cheesman, J. (2005). Dissociating stimulus-stimulus and response-response effects in the Stroop task. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 132-138.

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