Project:
 
Neuro-computational mechanisms underlying age-related performance changes in goal-directed decisions from experience (http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/203135_en.html)

Five selected publications:
 
Schepens, J., Van der Slik, F., & Van Hout, R. (2016). L1 and L2 distance effects in learning L3 Dutch. Language Learning, 66(1), pp. 224–256. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12150
 
Schepens, J., Van der Slik, F., & Van Hout, R. (2014). Learning Complex Features: A Morphological Account of L2 Learnability. Language Dynamics and Change, 3(2). 218-244. Special issue, "Phylogeny and Beyond: Quantitative Diachronic Approaches to Language Diversity", edited by Michael Dunn. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1163/22105832-13030203
 
Schepens, J., Van der Slik, F., & Van Hout, R. (2013). The effect of linguistic distance across Indo-European mother tongues on learning Dutch as a second language. In L. Borin & A. Saxena (Eds.), Comparing Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, pp 199-230. Mouton de Gruyter.
 
Schepens, J., Dijkstra, T., Grootjen, F., van Heuven, W.J.B. (2013) Cross-Language Distributions of High Frequency and Phonetically Similar Cognates. PLoS ONE, 8(5), e63006. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063006
 
Schepens, J., Dijkstra, A., & Grootjen, F. (2012). Distributions of cognates in Europe as based on Levenshtein distance. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15(1), 157-166. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1017/S1366728910000623