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Overview

Paul M. Smeets is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their research encompasses a range of topics within behavioral and psychological studies, autism spectrum disorder research, and the cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Statistics and Probability

Paul M. Smeets has contributed scholarly articles to venues such as Behavioural Processes and Arabixiv (OSF Preprints). Recent publications include:

  • "Children's emergent relations of equivalence using stimuli with opposite verbal labels: Exclusion and minimal training conditions" (2021, Behavioural Processes)
  • "Food-related fMRI tasks" (2021, Arabixiv (OSF Preprints))

Collaborative efforts are evident through frequent co-authorship with researchers including Jacqueline J. Schenk, Mickey Keenan, Harrie Boelens, and Simon Dymond.

Publication venues where their work frequently appears include:

  • Behavioural Processes
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)

Best Publications

  • ESTABLISHING EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS USING A RESPONDENT-TYPE TRAINING PROCEDURE III

    Geraldine Leader;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • Establishing Relational Responding in Accordance with More-than and Less-than as Generalized Operant Behavior in Young Children

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets;Paul Strand

  • DERIVED RELATIONAL RESPONDING AS GENERALIZED OPERANT BEHAVIOR

    Olive Healy;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • Derived Stimulus Relations, Semantic Priming, and Event-Related Potentials: Testing a Behavioral Theory of Semantic Networks

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Carmel Staunton;Robert Whelan;Robert Whelan;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes

  • DERIVED RELATIONAL NETWORKS AND CONTROL BY NOVEL INSTRUCTIONS: A POSSIBLE MODEL OF GENERATIVE VERBAL RESPONDING

    Denis O'Hora;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M. Smeets

  • A Transfer of Functions and a Conditional Transfer of Functions through Equivalence Relations in Three- to Six-Year-Old Children

    Dermot Barnes;Mary Browne;Paul Smeets;Bryan Roche

  • Contextual Control over the Derived Transformation of Discriminative and Sexual Arousal Functions

    Bryan Roche;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • Relational Frame Theory and Stimulus Equivalence: Conceptual and Procedural Issues

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets;Veronica A. Cullinan

  • Relating equivalence relations to equivalence relations: A relational framing model of complex human functioning.

    Dermot Barnes;Neil Hegarty;Paul M. Smeets

  • Exemplar Training and a Derived Transformation of Function in Accordance with Symmetry

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M. Smeets

  • Establishing stimulus classes in adults and children using a respondent-type training procedure: A follow-up study

    Paul M. Smeets;Geraldine Leader;Dermot Barnes

  • Response Latencies to Multiple Derived Stimulus Relations: Testing Two Predictions of Relational Frame Theory

    Denis O'Hora;Bryan Roche;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • Generating Derived Relational Networks Via The Abstraction of Common Physical Properties: A Possible Model of Analogical Reasoning

    Ian Stewart;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M. Smeets

  • A functional-analytic model of analogy: a relational frame analysis.

    Ian Stewart;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M Smeets

  • Procedures and Parameters of Errorless Discrimination Training with Developmentally Impaired Individuals

    Giulio E. Lancioni;Paul M. Smeets

  • Exemplar Training and a Derived Transformation of Function in Accordance with Symmetry: II

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M. Smeets

  • A Derived Transfer of Emotive Functions as a Means of Establishing Differential Preferences for Soft Drinks

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;John Keane;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • A Derived Transfer of Mood Functions through Equivalence Relations.

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets;Carmen Luciano

  • Matching functionally same relations: Implications for equivalence-equivalence as a model for analogical reasoning

    Franck Carpentier;Paul M. Smeets;Dermot Barnes-Holmes

  • Relating Derived Relations as a Model of Analogical Reasoning: Reaction Times and Event-Related Potentials

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Donal Regan;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Sean Commins

Frequent Co-Authors

Dermot Barnes-Holmes
Dermot Barnes-Holmes University of Ulster
Giulio E. Lancioni
Giulio E. Lancioni University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bryan Roche
Bryan Roche National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes Ireland Consulting Psychologists Ltd
Simon Dymond
Simon Dymond Swansea University
Robert Whelan
Robert Whelan Trinity College Dublin
Geraldine Leader
Geraldine Leader University of Galway

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