CV

(Last update: March 24th, 2026)

Appointments

Postdoctoral researcher (2019-present), RWTH Aachen, Germany

 

Education

Ph.D. in Psychology (2013 – 2019), University of Iowa, U.S.A.

M.A. in Psychology (2013-2015), University of Iowa, U.S.A.

Non-degree graduate student as part of Fulbright Scholarship (2012-2013), University of Iowa, U.S.A.

B.A. in Experimental Psychology (2009 – 2012), University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Publications

Published or accepted (peer-reviewed)

(Student authors are underlined.)

You will find a more updated list of my publications on my Google Scholar profile.

Koch, I., Sánchez, L. M., Roembke, T. C., Philipp, A. M., & Declerck, M. (2026). Persistence of situ-ational language balance in bilingual switching: Evidence from carryover of proactive language control. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925100874

Simonetti, M. E., Lorenz, M. G., Koch, I., & Roembke, T. C. (2025). The influence of bilingualism on statistical word learning: A registered report. Royal Society Open Science, 12(12), 251768. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251768

Buchanan, E. M., Cuccolo, K. M., Coles, N., Heyman, T., …, Roembke, T. C., …, Lewis, S. C. (2025). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x

Heyman, T., Pronizius, E., Lewis, S. C., …, Roembke, T. C., …, Buchanan, E. M. (2025). Crowdsourcing multiverse analyses to explore the impact of different data-processing and analysis decisions: A tutorial. Psychological Methods. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000770

Roembke, T. C., & McMurray, B. (2025). Unlearning incorrect associations in word learning: Evidence from eye-tracking. Cognitive Science, 49(6), e70077. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70077

Simonetti, M. E., Koch, I., & Roembke, T. C. (2025). How do multiple meanings affect word learning and remapping? Memory & Cognition, 10.3758/s13421-025-01706-z. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-025-01706-z

Roembke, T. C., & Brown, R. M. (2024). The role of semantic encoding in production-enhanced memory: A registered report. In principle acceptance of Version 3 by Peer Community in Registered Reports. https://osf.io/qc6rz

Brown, R. M., & Roembke, T. C. (2024). Bilingualism influences how articulation enhances verbal encoding. Experimental Psychology, 71(2), 122-133. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000621

Roembke, T. C., Koch, I., & Philipp, A. M. (2024). What makes a cognate? Implications for research on bilingualism. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000233

Brown, R. M., & Roembke, T. C. (2024). Production benefits on encoding are modulated by language experience: Less experience may help. Memory & Cognition, 52(4), 926–943. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-023-01510-7

Roembke, T. C., Koch, I., & Philipp, A. M. (2024). Language switching when writing: The role of phonological and orthographic overlap. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(4), 873–892. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231183706

Roembke, T. C., Simonetti, M. E., Koch, I., & Philipp, A. M. (2023). What have we learned from 15 years of research on cross-situational word learning? A focused review. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1175272. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1175272

Roembke, T. C., Philipp, A. M., & Koch, I. (2022). Assessing proactive language control: Does predictability of language sequences benefit language switching? Journal of Cognition, 5(1), 27. http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.219

Roembke, T. C., Hazeltine, E., Reed, D., & McMurray, B. (2021). Automaticity as an independent reading trait in predicting reading outcomes in middle-school. Developmental Psychology, 57(3), 361–375. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001153

Roembke, T.C., & McMurray, B. (2021). Multiple components of statistical word learning are resource dependent: Evidence from a dual-task learning paradigm. Memory & Cognition, 49, 984–997. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01141-w

Roembke, T. C., Freedberg, M., Hazeltine, E., & McMurray, B. (2020). Overlap among vowels during training augments learning and retention of grapheme phoneme correspondence regularities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 191, 104731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104731

Warren, D. E., Roembke, T. C., Covington, N. V., McMurray, B., & Duff, M. C. (2019). Cross-situational statistical learning of new words despite bilateral hippocampal damage and severe amnesia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13:448. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00448

Roembke, T. C., Hazeltine, E., Reed, D. K., & McMurray, B. (2019). Automaticity of word recognition is a unique predictor of reading fluency in middle-school students. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111(2), 314-330.

McMurray, B., Roembke, T.C., & Hazeltine, E. (2018). How can field tests of principles of learning inform reading pedagogy? Overlap and variability jointly influence sound/letter learning. Journal of Cognition and Development, 20, 222-252.

Roembke, T. C., & Wiggs, K. K., & McMurray, B. (2018). Symbolic flexibility during unsupervised word learning in children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 175,17-36

Roembke, T. C., Wasserman, E. A., & McMurray, B. (2016). Learning in rich networks involves both positive and negative associations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(8), 1062–74.

Roembke, T. C., & McMurray, B (2016). Observational word learning: Beyond propose-but-verify and associative bean counting. Journal of Memory and Language, 87, 105-127.

Roembke, T., Roembke, J., & Russell, D. (2011). Effects of temperature increases on the feeding activity of two species of isopods (Porcellio scaber, Porcellionides pruinosus) in laboratory tests. Soil Organisms, 83 (2), 211–220.

 

Other publications

Simonetti, M. E., & Roembke, T. C. (accepted). Cross-situational word learning. In D. F. Đurđević (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics.

Roembke, T. C., Koch, I., & Philipp, A. M. (accepted). Written language switching. In D. F. Đurđević (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00807-3

Tuosto, K., Johnston, J. T., Connolly, C., Lo, C., Sanganyado, E., Winter, K. A., Roembke, T., … Aamodt, C. M. (2020). Making science accessible. Science, 367(6473), 34 LP – 35.

Roembke, T. C. (2019). Forget me, forget me not: Unlearning incorrect associations during word learning. [Doctoral thesis, University of Iowa]

Organized Symposia

Pastötter, B. & Roembke, T. C. (2026). When and why instruction works: Mechanisms and boundary conditions of interventions in the science of learning. TeaP 2026 (68. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Tübingen, Germany.

Simonetti, M. E. & Roembke, T. C. (2026). New trends in word learning: The role of prior knowledge. TeaP 2026 (68. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Tübingen, Germany.

Roembke, T. C., & Simonetti, M. E. (2026). New directions in the study of bilingual language control. TeaP 2026 (68. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Tübingen, Germany.

Roembke, T. C. (2025). The interplay of orthography and phonology in language production and learning. ESCOP 2025 (24^th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology), Sheffield, UK.

Roembke, T. C., & Schmalz, X. (2025). Statistical learning and its role in language and reading acquisition. TeaP 2025 (67. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Frankfurt, Germany.

Roembke, T. C. & Simonetti, M. E. (2024). The impact of language experience on learning and memory. TeaP 2024 (66. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen), Regensburg, Germany.

Schmalz, X., Roembke, T. C., Logvinenko, T., Mehlhase, H., & Schmitterer, A. (2023). Learning (about) words and their meanings. ESCOP 2023 (23^rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology), Porto, Portugal.

 

Awards, Appointments and Scholarships (selected)

2023              Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Editorial Fellowship

2018              Psychonomic Society J. Frank Yates Student Travel Award

2018              DeLTA Center Interdisciplinary Research Grant, University of Iowa

2018              Spence-Lewis Award, University of Iowa

2018              Ada Louise Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship, University of Iowa

2017              Graduate College Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa

2016              Graduate College Research Post-Comprehensive Award, University of Iowa

2015              J.R. Simon Early Scholarship Potential Award, University of Iowa

2013              DeLTA Center Interdisciplinary Research Grant, University of Iowa

2012              Proxime Accessit Gibbs Award, University of Oxford

2011              Full Fulbright Scholarship for Universities, German Fulbright Commission

Service

Editor

Since 2024    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (Associate Editor)

2023              Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (Editorial Fellowship)

  

Reviewer

Conferences: Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society (meta-reviewer); DGPs Kongress

Journals (selected): Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Language, Memory and Cognition; Cognitive Science; Journal of Cognition; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; Journal of Memory and Language; PLOS One; Scientific Reports; Royal Society Open Science; Peer Community In: Registered Reports; Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; Learning and Individual Differences; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Behavior Research Methods; Learning and Instruction; Second Language Acquisition