Kristof Strijkers
C U R R I C U L U M
V I T A E
DoB. 15 – 03 - 1983
Nationality: Belgium
Current affiliation:
Department of Psychology
Universitat de Barcelona
Vall D’Hebron 171
08035 Barcelona,
Spain
tel . +34 605915733
kristof.strijkers@gmail.com
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
 01/09/2001 - 20/09/2006: Master in the Psychology: Theoretical and Experimental
Psychology (Master Degree with Honour); University of Ghent (Belgium); Coordinator: Dr.
Robert J. Hartsuiker.
 01/11/2006 - 04/12/2007: Master in Cognitive Science and Language (Master Degree with
Highest Honour); University of Barcelona (Spain); Coordinator: Dr. Albert Costa.
 01/04/2007 - 01/04/2011: Pre-doctoral Fellowship of the Spanish Government (FPU); Dept.
Psicologia Básica; Universitat de Barcelona (Spain); Coordinator: Dr. Albert Costa.
SCIENTIFIC INTERNSHIPS
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03/10/2005 - 04/03/2006: Scientific internship at GRNC (Language production group; Dept.
Psicologia Básica; Universitat de Barcelona, España) under the supervision of Dr. Albert
Costa.
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09/10/2008 - 23/12/2008: Scientific internship internship at the NeuroCognition Laboratory
(Dept. of Psychology; Tufts University, Medford, Boston, USA) under the supervision of Dr.
Phillip Holcomb
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26/05/2009 - 26/06/2009: Scientific internship at the NeuroScience Group (School of
Psychology; University of Bangor, Bangor, Wales, UK) under the supervision of Dr. Guillaume
Thierry
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26/09/2009 - 23/12/2009: Scientific internship at the NeuroCognition Laboratory (Dept. of
Psychology; Tufts University, Medford, Boston, USA) under the supervision of Dr. Phillip
Holcomb
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07/09/2010 - 23/12/2010: Scientific internship at the MRC-CBU (University of Cambridge;
Cambridge, UK) under the supervision of Dr. Friedemann Pulvermuller
GRANTS AND AWARDS
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3 month scientific internship grant for going abroad; awarded by the Spanish Government FPU 2008.
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1.5 month Visiting Research Grant; awarded by the ESCR centre, School of Psychology,
Bangor University.
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3 month scientific internship grant for going abroad; awarded by the Spanish Government FPU 2009.
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Graduate Student Award of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2010; awarded at the
Annual CNS meeting 17-19 April, 2010, Montreal, Canada.
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4 month scientific internship grant for going abroad; awarded by the Spanish Government FPU 2010.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Costa A., Strijkers K., Martin C. & Thierry G. (2009). The time-course of word retrieval
revealed by event-related brain potentials during overt speech. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Science, 106, 21442 – 21446.
2. Strijkers K., Costa A. & Thierry G. (2010). Tracking lexical access in speech production:
Electrophysiological correlates of word frequency and cognate effects. Cerebral Cortex, 20,
912 – 928.
3. Strijkers K., Costa A. & Runnqvist. (2010). El curso temporal del acceso a las palabras
revelado por potenciales evocados durante el habla [The time-course of word access
uncovered with event-related brain potentials during speech]. Ciencia Cognitiva.
4.
Costa A., Runnqvist E. & Strijkers K (in press). Spoken word production in second language
acquisition. In: John Williams et al. (editors). The Encyclopaedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford:
Wiley-Blackwell press
5. Strijkers K., Holcomb P. & Costa A (under review). Conscious intention to speak proactively
facilitates lexical access during overt object naming. Journal of Memory and Language.
6.
Runnqvist E., Strijkers K., & Costa A (under review). Bilingual word access. In: Miozzo, M. &
Ferreira, V. & Goldrick, M. (editors). The Oxford handbook of language production. Oxford:
Oxford University Press (Blackwell).
7. Costa A. & Strijkers K. (editors). The NeuroCognition of Language Production. Frontiers in
Language Sciences (Special Issue).(estimated to come out near the end of 2011)
8. Strijkers K., Yum Y. N., Holcomb P. J., & Grainger J. (submitted). Early goal-directed top-down
influences in the production of speech. Frontiers in language sciences (Special Issue: The
neurocognition of language production; eds. Costa & Strijkers).
9. Runnqvist E., Strijkers K., Sadat J., & Costa A. (submitted). On the temporal and functional
origin of an L2 speech disadvantage: A critical review. Frontiers in language sciences (Special
Issue: Neurobilingualism; eds. Martin & Thierry)
REVIEWER ASSIGNMENTS
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Editorial Review Board:
o Language and Cognitive Processes
o Frontiers in Language Sciences
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Occasional Reviewer:
o Psychophysiology
o NeuroReport
o Bilingualism: Language and Cognitive Processes
o Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
o NeuroImage
o Cortex
o Cognition
o Journal of Memory and Language
o Human Brain Mapping
PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES
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Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PIF; Antwerp, Belgium, 2005) (Listener)
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Architecture of Language (ArchLang; Pisa, Italy, 2006) Strijkers, Costa, Santesteban, Escera &
Hartsuiker: "Lexical access in bilingual speech production: ERP correlates from language
switching in highly proficient bilinguals" (Oral presentation)
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Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PIF; Gent, Belgium, 2006) Strijkers, Costa, Santesteban, Escera
& Hartsuiker: "Lexical access in bilingual speech production: ERP correlates from language
switching in highly proficient bilinguals" (Oral presentation)
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Workshop on Bilingualism (Rovereto, Italy, 2006) Mikel Santesteban & Kristof Strijkers: :
Lexical access in bilingual speech production (Poster presentation)
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XVth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (Marseille, France; 2007)
Strijkers, K.; Costa, A.; Santesteban, M.; Hartsuiker, R.; Escera, C. Lexical access in bilingual
speech production: ERP correlates of language switching in highly proficient bilinguals and L2
learners (Poster presentation)
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XVth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (Marseille, France; 2007)
Strijkers, K.; Costa, A. The cognate facilitation effect and the word frequency effect occur
during lemma selection: An ERP study of word frequency and cognates in speech production
(Oral presentation)
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III Annual Rovereto workshop on Bilingualism: Neural and Functional perspectives (Rovereto,
Italy; 2007) Strijkers, K.; Costa, A. Electrophysiological correlates of the word frequency and
cognate effect in speech production (Oral presentation)
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V International workshop on Language Production (Münster, Germany; 2007) Strijkers, K.;
Costa, A. Electrophysiological correlates of the word frequency and cognate effect in speech
production (poster presentation)
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MPI workshop on 'Language Processing in First and Second Language Learners (MPI
Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 2007) Strijkers, K. Indexing lexical access in speech production:
An ERP study (Oral presentation)
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IV Annual workshop on Bilingualism (Gent, Belgium, 2008): Strijkers K., Costa A., Thierry G.:
Electrophysiological correlates of frequency and cognate status in second language
processing (poster presentation)
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IV Annual workshop on Bilingualism (Gent, Belgium, 2008): Strijkers, K. & Costa, A. Bilingual
language control: Evidence from a blocked naming paradigm (poster presentation)
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IV Annual workshop on Bilingualism (Gent, Belgium, 2008): Strijkers, K., Garcia-Castro, Y.,
Costa, A. & Alario, X. When cat competes with dog but not with perro: Evidence from the
semantic competitor paradigm. (poster presentation)
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VI International workshop on Language Production (Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 2008):
Strijkers, K. & Costa A. Bilingual language control: Evidence from a blocked naming paradigm
(poster presentation)
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SEPEX conference in San Sebastian, 2008: Strijkers, K., Costa, A. & Thierry G.
Electrophysiological correlates of word frequency and cognate status of speech production in
second language processing (oral presentation)
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SEPEX conference in San Sebastian, 2008: Strijkers, K. & Costa, A. Bilingual language control:
Evidence from a blocked naming paradigm (poster presentation)
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Taller de la Red de Neurociencia celebrado en Santiago, 2008: Strijkers, K. Is the early P2 in a
production paradigm indicative for lexical processing? (oral presentation)
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International Conference on Models of Interaction in Bilinguals. (Bangor, UK; 2008) Strijkers,
K.; Costa, A. An ERP study of word frequency and cognates in speech production. (oral
presentation)
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The XVI ESCoP Conference. (Cracow, Poland; 2009) K. STRIJKERS, A. COSTA, C. MARTIN.
Evidence from the semantic competitor paradigm for a lexical P component in speech
production (Poster presentation)
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15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
(AMLaP). (Barcelona, Spain; 2009) Kristof Strijkers, Albert Costa, Clara Martin & Guillaume
Thierry. “When the hare goes slower than the tortoise”:from picture to word in 200 ms. (Oral
Presentation)
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NeuroBilingualism Conference (Bangor, UK; 2009) Strijkers K., Costa A., Martin C. & Thierry
G. “When the Hare goes slower than the Tortoise”: Evidence from the semantic competitor
paradigm for a lexical P2 component in speech production (Oral Presentation)
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50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Boston, USA; 2009) Strijkers K., Holcomb P.
& Costa A. Dissociating Frequency from Repetition Effects in Speech Production: An ERP
Study of Overt Picture Naming (Poster Presentation)
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Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting (Montreal, Canada, 2010) Strijkers K.,
Holcomb P. & Costa A. Temporal ERP evidence for an early dissociation between semantic
and lexical representations in function of task demands (Oral Presentation: Graduate Student
Presents Award of the CNS)
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Workshop on NeuroBilingualism (Donostia, Spain, 2010) Strijkers K., Holcomb P. & Costa A.
The intention to speak: Proactive top-down signals drive cortical brain activity related to
words during object naming (Poster Presentation)
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6th International workshop on language production (Edimburgh, UK, 2010) Martin C., Strijkers
K., Thierry G., Costa A. The time course of lexical access in speech production (Poster
Presentation)
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6th International workshop on language production (Edimburgh, UK, 2010) Strijkers K.,
Holcomb P., & Costa A. The intention of speech: Proactive top-down signals drive word
retrieval in object naming (Poster Presentation)
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Human Brain Mapping (Barcelona, Spain, 2010) Strijkers K., Holcomb P., & Costa A. ERP
Evidence for an Early Dissociation Between Meaning and Words in Function of Speech
Intention (Poster Presentation)
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SEPEX and EPS conference (Granada, Spain, 2010) Costa A., Strijkers K., & Holcomb P. The
intention of speech: An early dissociation in electric brain activity between semantics and
words (Poster Presentation)
INVITED TALKS
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The electrophysiology of speech production: A window into the neurobiology of words.
Invited talk at the Neuroscience and Bilingualism seminars; ERSC centre, school of
Psychology, Bangor (Wales; UK, 2009). Invited by Dr. Guillaume Thierry
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The electrophysiology of language production: “It is time, time matters.” Invited talk at the
Language and Cognition seminars; University of California San Diego (UCSD), San Diego (USA,
2009). Invited by Dr. Victor Ferreira
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The electrophysiology of language production: “It is time, time matters.” Invited talk at the
NCL meetings; Tufts University, Department of Psychology, Medford (Boston, USA, 2009).
Invited by Dr. Phillip Holcomb
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The time-course of lexical access in speech production electrified. Invited talk at the weekly
seminars at the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory; Harvard University, Department of
Psychology, Cambridge (Boston, USA, 2009). Invited by Dr. Alfonso Caramazza
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The conscious intention to speak proactively facilitates lexical access in object naming.
Invited talk at the Language and Action seminars at the MRC-CBU; MRC-CBU, Cambridge (UK,
2010). Invited by Dr. Friedemann Pulvermuller
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
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Introduction into electrophysiology (Undergraduate class, University of Barcelona,
September – October, 2008)
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ERPs in linguistics (Master class, University Pompeu Fabra, February – March, 2011)
OTHER MERITS
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Language knowledge
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Flemish/Dutch
English
Spanish
French
German
Catalan
native language
Fluent speech, good writing
Fluent speech, good writing
Basic speech and writing
Basic speech and writing
Basic speech and writing
Specific software
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E-prime, DMDX, EXPE, T-scope (stimulus presentation software)
Brain Vision Analyzer, EEG lab (EEG software)
Freesurfer, MNE, spm Matlab (brain imaging software – basic level knowledge)
Matlab, C-programming (Basic level knowledge)
REFERENCES
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Dr. Albert Costa (universitat de Barcelona)
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Dr. Nuria Sebastian-Galles (universitat de Barcelona)
Dr. Carles Escera (universitat de Barcelona)
Dr. Robert Hartsuiker (universiteit Gent)
Dr. Guillaume Thierry (University of Bangor)
Dr. Philip Holcomb (Tufts University)
Dr. Friedemann Pulvermuller (MRC-CBU, Cambridge)
Dr. Jonathan Grainger (CNRS Marseille, France)