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In peer-reviewed international journals

  • Total number of citations (Scopus): 917
  • H-index: 10

 

Stawarczyk, D., Wahlheim, C. N., Etzel, J. A., Snyder A. Z., & Zacks, J. M. (In Press). Aging and the encoding of changes in events: The role of neural activity pattern reinstatement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Stawarczyk, D., François, C., Wertz, J., & D’Argembeau, A. (In Press). Drowsiness or mind-wandering? Fluctuations in ocular parameters during attentional lapses. Biological Psychology.

Stawarczyk, D., Bezdek, M. A., & Zacks, J. M. (In press). Event Representations and Predictive Processing: The Role of the Midline Default Network Core. Topics in Cognitive Science.

Stawarczyk, D., & D’Argembeau, A. (2019). The dynamics of memory retrieval for internal mentation. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 13927.

Jeunehomme, O., Folville, A., Stawarczyk, D., Van der Linden, M., & D’Argembeau, A. (2018). Temporal compression in episodic memory for real-life events. Memory, 26(6), 759–770.

Martial, C., Stawarczyk, D., & D’Argembeau, A. (2018). Neural correlates of context-independent and context-dependent self-knowledge. Brain and Cognition, 125, 23–31.

Stawarczyk, D. (2018). Phenomenological Properties of Mind-Wandering and Daydreaming: A Historical Overview and Functional Correlates. In K. R. C. Fox & K. Christoff (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought (pp. 193–214). New York: Oxford University Press.

Stawarczyk, D., Jeunehomme, O., & D’Argembeau, A. (2018). Differential Contributions of Default and Dorsal Attention Networks to Remembering Thoughts and External Stimuli From Real-Life Events. Cerebral Cortex, 28(11), 4023–4035.

Stawarczyk, D., & D'Argembeau, A. (2016). Conjoint influence of mind-wandering and sleepiness on task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(10), 1587-15600.

Stawarczyk, D., & D'Argembeau, A. (2015). Neural correlates of personal goal processing during episodic future thinking and mind-wandering: An ALE meta-analysis. Human Brain Mapping, 36(8), 2928-2947.

Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., Catale, C., & D'Argembeau, A. (2014). Relationships between mind-wandering and attentional control abilities in young adults and adolescents. Acta Psychologica, 148, 25-36.

Stawarczyk, D., Cassol, H., & D'Argembeau, A. (2013). Phenomenology of future-oriented mind-wandering episodes. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 225.

Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., & D'Argembeau, A. (2013). Concern-induced negative affect is associated with the occurrence and content of mind-wandering. Consciousness & Cognition, 22, 442-448.

Majerus, S., Attout, L., D'Argembeau, A., Degueldre, C., Fias, W., Maquet, P., Martinez Perez, T., Stawarczyk, D., Salmon, E., Van der Linden, M., Phillips, C., & Balteau, E. (2012). Attention supports verbal short-term memory via competition between dorsal and ventral attention networks. Cerebral Cortex, 22, 1086-1097

Stawarczyk, D., Grandjean, J., Salmon, E., & Collette, F. (2012). Perceptual and motor inhibitory abilities in normal aging and Alzheimer disease (AD): A preliminary study. Archives of Gerontology & Geriatrics, 54, e152-161.

Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., Van der Linden, M., & D'Argembeau, A. (2012). Using the daydreaming frequency scale to investigate the relationships between mind-wandering, psychological well-being, and present-moment awareness. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 363.

Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., Maj, M., Van der Linden, M., & D'Argembeau, A. (2011). Mind-wandering: phenomenology and function as assessed with a novel experience sampling method. Acta Psychologica, 136, 370-381.

Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., Maquet, P., & D’Argembeau, A. (2011). Neural correlates of ongoing conscious experience: both task-unrelatedness and stimulus-independence are related to default network activity. PLoS ONE, 6, e16997.

D'Argembeau, A., Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., Collette, F., Van der Linden, M., Feyers, D., Maquet, P., & Salmon, E. (2010). The neural basis of personal goal processing when envisioning future events. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1701-1713.

D'Argembeau, A., Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., Collette, F., Van der Linden, M., & Salmon, E. (2010). Modulation of medial prefrontal and inferior parietal cortices when thinking about past, present, and future selves. Social Neuroscience, 5, 187-200.

Other scientific productions (first author only)

Stawarczyk, D., Etzel, J. A., Tanenbaum, A., B., Snyder A. Z., Wahlheim, C. N., & Zacks, J. M. (2019). Memory reinstatement in posteromedial cortex and event comprehension in healthy aging. Oral Presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory: The Recollection, Familiarity, and Novelty Detection conference, 2nd edition, Liège (Belgium), October 3rd.

Stawarczyk, D., Kahle, R., Wahlheim, C. N., & Zacks, J. M. (2018). Age related differences in using memory to predict the course of new events. Poster presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New-Orleans (La, USA), November 17th.

Stawarczyk, D., Jeunehomme, O., & D'Argembeau, A. (2017). Involvement of default and dorsal attention networks in the episodic remembrance of self-generated thoughts and external elements from real-life events. Oral Presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory: The Recollection, Familiarity, and Novelty Detection conference, 1st edition, Liège (Belgium), March 23rd.

Stawarczyk, D., & D'Argembeau, A. (2016).  Relationships between mind-wandering, personal goals processing, and future thinking.  Oral Presentation at the 50th Conference of the German Society for Psychology, Leipzig (Germany), September 20th.

Stawarczyk, D., Jeunehomme, O., & D'Argembeau, A. (2016).  Neural correlates of memory for internal thoughts versus external stimuli experienced in natural settings.  Poster presented at the 6th International Conference on Memory, Budapest (Hungary), July 19th.

Stawarczyk, D., & D’Argembeau, A. (2015). An ALE meta-analysis on the neural correlates of personal goal processing during episodic future thoughts and mind-wandering. Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Brussels (Belgium), May 28th.

Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., & D’Argembeau, A. (2012). Mind-wandering and attentional control: two sides of the same coin or independent processes? Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Liège (Belgium), May 10th and 11th.

Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., & D’Argembeau, A. (2012). Neural correlates of impulsivity: lack of perseverance is associated with decreased activity in the dorsal attention network during mind-wandering. Poster presented at Symposium on the Social Brain, Brussels (Belgium), November 14th.

Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., & D’Argembeau, A. (2011). Phenomenology, function, and neural correlates of mind-wandering. Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Ghent (Belgium), May 27th.

Stawarczyk, D., Grandjean, J., Salmon, E., & Collette, F. (2010). Déficits d’inhibition dans le vieillissement normal et la maladie d’Alzheimer: pas d’atteinte spécifique aux niveaux de traitement perceptif ou moteur. Poster presented at the XIème Colloque International sur le Vieillissement Cognitif, Liège (Belgium). September 23rd and 24th.

Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., & D’Argembeau, A. (2010). Using phenomenology and mindset induction to assess the prospective function of mind-wandering. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Brussels (Belgium), May 28th.

Stawarczyk, D., Blanchy, S., & D’Argembeau, A. (2010). Le rôle du vagabondage de l’esprit dans le maintien d’un état anxiété. Poster presented at the 1ère journée du GREPACO : "Fonctions exécutives et psychopathologies: approches théoriques et cliniques", Lille (France), May 25th.

Stawarczyk, D., Grandjean, J., Salmon, E., & Collette, F. (2010). Impaired inhibitory abilities in normal aging and Alzheimer disease: are deficits limited to specific stages of processing? Oral presentation at the WORKSHOP of the IUAP/PAI P6/29 - INHIBITION and COGNITIVE CONTROL, Ghent (Belgium). May 4th.

Popular science and media

Research featured in Bergonzat A. (2012). Somnolence, quand le cerveau n'en fait qu'à sa tête [TV Documentary]. Issy-les-Moulineaux, France: Arte France. Broadcasted by Arte on March 1st 2012.

 

EDUCATION

2008 – 2013

PhD in Psychological Sciences – University of Liège (ULiège)

- Thesis project supervised by Dr. Steve Majerus and Dr. Arnaud D’Argembeau on the cognitive, affective, and neural features of mind-wandering

- Funded by a research fellow grant of the National Fund for Scientific Research (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS, Belgium)

2008 – 2011

Doctoral Training Programme – Uliège

- Training in functional neuroimaging techniques, multivariate and multilevel statistical analyses,  structural equation modeling, scientific productions

2003 – 2008

Master in Psychological Sciences – ULiège

- Cognitive neurosciences and neuropsychological orientation

POSITIONS

Sep 2019 – Present

- Postdoctoral Researcher (H2020 MSCA Global Fellowship) at the Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit - ULiège

Apr 2017 – Aug 2019

- Postdoctoral Research Associate (NIH grant and H2020 MSCA Global Fellowship) at the Dynamic Cognition Lab - Washington University in St. Louis (Mo, USA)

Oct 2014 – Mar 2017

- Postdoctoral Researcher F.R.S.-FNRS at the Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit - ULiège

Oct 2013 – Sept 2014

- Postdoctoral Research assistant at the Cognitive Psychopathology and Neuroscience Research Unit - ULiège

Oct 2009 – Sept 2013

- FNRS research fellow at the Cognitive Psychopathology and Neuroscience Research Unit  - ULiège

Oct 2008 – Sept 2009

- PhD student (non-FRIA grant) at the Cognitive Psychopathology and Neuroscience Research Unit - ULiège

SOFTWARE AND TEACHING SKILLS

Software skills

- Microsof Office Suite (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)

- Quantitative data analysis (Statistica, SPSS, LISREL, Mplus, MLwiN, R, Sigmaplot)

- Programming of experimental tasks (E-Prime, Cogent toolbox for Matlab)

- Neuroimaging data analysis (SPM software package, AFNI, PLS, Caret, Ginger ALE for quantitative meta-analysis, and Pattern Recognition for Neuroimaging Toolbox for Multivariate Pattern Analysis in Matlab)

Teaching Skills

- Development and management of student projects (master’s theses and group research)
 
- Supervision of research internships and training courses in cognitive psychology