A Doctor of Psychology, Thiery Meulemans is a professor at the University of Liège, where he directs the Neuropsychology Unit (Department of Cognitive Sciences). The main research paths developed in his Unit are very diverse: they range from the study of executive abilities in children to the altered and preserved memory capabilities in different groups of cerebrally affected patients (amnesiacs, Alzheimer’s patients, patients with cranial trauma).

The work carried out by researchers at the Neuropsychology Unit is inscribed at the same time in a fundamental perspective (seeking to better understand different aspects of cognitive functions – notably memory – through the study of disturbances in these functions displayed by cerebrally affected patients), and in a clinical perspective, through the development of new assessment techniques and taking cognitive disorders in hand. Thierry Meulemans’ main research field nonetheless remains the study of what are called ‘implicit’ (not conscious) forms of learning and memory, as well as new perspectives opened up by a better understanding of these abilities in terms of taking in hand and re-educating patients displaying memory disorders following a cerebral lesion.

Selection of publications

CATALE C. & MEULEMANS T., (in press). T_he Real Animal Size Test (RAST): A new measure of inhibitory control for young children_. European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

MEULEMANS T., Evaluation des troubles de la mémoire : étiologie organique, psychogène ou simulation ? In P. Piolino, C. Thomas-Antérion, & F. Eustache (Eds.), Des amnésies organiques aux amnésies psychogènes : Théorie, évaluation et prise en charge (pp. 269-297). Marseille: Solal, 2008.

MEULEMANS T., Les troubles de la mémoire. In C. Laterre, & X. Seron (Eds.), Sémiologie des maladies nerveuses (pp. 589-609). Bruxelles: De Boeck, 2008.

MEULEMANS T., L’évaluation des fonctions exécutives. In O. Godefroy et GREFEX (Eds.), Fonctions exécutives et pathologies neurologiques (pp. 179-216). Marseille: Solal, 2008.

CECCADI M., CLARKE S., & MEULEMANS T., De la perception à l’apprentissage. Revue Neurologique, 2008, 164, 143-147.

STEANIAK N., WILLEMS S., ADAM S., & MEULEMANS T., What is the impact of the explicit knowledge of sequence regularities on both deterministic and probabilistic serial reaction time task performance? Memory & Cognition, 2008, 36, 1283-1298.