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Jyotsna Vaid

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PhD Psychology Stanford University
Masters Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Jyotsna Vaid is a Professor of Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience and Women's and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University. Vaid's research examines the impact of multiple language experience by considering properties of specific languages and variability in when and how multiple languages were acquired by bilinguals. Her research has examined the processing of evidentiality in Turkish, the processing of the impersonal se construction in Spanish, and word recognition in biscriptal readers of Hindi and Urdu. She has published extensively on the cognitive and neural bases of bilingualism. Most notably, Vaid's research in neuropsychology has clarified the role of the two cerebral hemispheres in bilingual language processing; her work shows that early onset of bilingualism is associated with more bilateral involvement in language, in contrast to the greater left hemisphere dominance for language among single language users. Recently she has examined cognitive and psycholinguistic aspects of informal translation experience among bilinguals, or language brokering. Other topics on which she has published include number processing in bilinguals, creative thought , cognitive bases of humor, spatial biases in cognition arising from directional reading habits , self presentation in personal ads, and gender and race disparities in professional visibility in academia.

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Jyotsna Vaid's Published Works

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Published Works

Creative Thought: An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes (2001) (476)
Bilingual language lateralization: A meta-analytic tale of two hemispheres (2007) (186)
Conceptual structures and processes in creative thought. (1997) (173)
The linguistic basis of left hemisphere specialization. (1992) (126)
Asymmetries in the perception of facial affect: Is there an influence of reading habits? (1989) (120)
Language Processing in Bilinguals: Psycholinguistic and Neuropsychological Perspectives (1989) (104)
Exploring Word Recognition in a Semi-Alphabetic Script: The Case of Devanagari (2002) (101)
Language and hand preference in early development (1986) (93)
Bilingualism and Brain Lateralization (1983) (92)
Neuropsychological approaches to bilingualism: a critical review. (1980) (90)
Effect of language proficiency and degree of formal training in simultaneous interpreting on working memory and interpreting performance: Evidence from Mandarin–English speakers (2012) (90)
Laterality and language experience (2006) (85)
Activation of number facts in bilinguals (1993) (80)
Differential cerebral involvement in the cognitive functioning of bilinguals (1979) (78)
Cerebral lateralization in bilinguals: Methodological issues (1982) (70)
Getting a joke: the time course of meaning activation in verbal humor (2003) (64)
Articulation in early and late bilinguals' two languages: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging (2005) (61)
Stroke Direction Asymmetry in Figure Drawing: Influence of Handedness and Reading/Writing Habits (2002) (59)
Do orthographic cues aid language recognition? A laterality study with French–English bilinguals (2002) (56)
Sentence interpretation in normal and aphasic Hindi speakers (1991) (53)
Orthographic characteristics speed Hindi word naming but slow Urdu naming: evidence from Hindi/Urdu biliterates (2011) (50)
Does obligatory linguistic marking of source of evidence affect source memory? A Turkish/English investigation (2013) (45)
Homophone density and phonological frequency in Chinese word recognition (2009) (44)
Asymmetries in intermanual transfer of maze learning in right- and left-handed adults (1996) (43)
Directional Scanning Effect and Strength of Reading Habit in Picture Naming and Recall (2002) (43)
6. Joking Across Languages: Perspectives on Humor, Emotion, and Bilingualism (2006) (41)
Hand dominance for signing: Clues to brain lateralization of language (1989) (41)
Methodological issues in the use of the concurrent activities paradigm (1986) (37)
Homophonic and semantic priming of Japanese kanji words: A time course study (2007) (36)
Script Directionality Affects Nonlinguistic Performance: Evidence From Hindi and Urdu (1995) (34)
Visual field asymmetries in numerical size comparisons of digits, words, and signs (1989) (32)
New approaches to conceptual representations in bilingual memory: the case for studying humor interpretation (2000) (31)
Hemispheric involvement in shadowing vs. interpretation: A time-sharing study of simultaneous interpreters with matched bilingual and monolingual controls (1990) (30)
Bilingual memory representation: A further test of dual coding theory. (1988) (29)
Visual field asymmetries for rhyme and syntactic category judgments in monolinguals and fluent early and late bilinguals (1987) (28)
On the interpretation of alienable vs. inalienable possession: A psycholinguistic investigation (2011) (24)
Bilingual Figurative Language Processing: Linking the Figurative to the Creative: Bilinguals’ Comprehension of Metaphors, Jokes, and Remote Associates (2015) (24)
Optical imaging of phonological processing in two distinct orthographies (2007) (23)
Lexical Representation of Script Variation: Evidence From Korean Biscriptals (1995) (23)
Reading/writing vs handedness influences on line length estimation. (2000) (22)
Numerical size comparisons in a phonologically transparent script (1985) (21)
Asymmetries in representational drawing: Alternatives to a laterality account (2011) (20)
Script Directionality Affects Depiction of Depth in Representational Drawings (2011) (20)
Mirror writing: An advantage for the left-handed? (1989) (19)
Proverb preferences across cultures: Dialecticality or poeticality? (2006) (17)
What's so funny? Modelling incongruity in humour production† (2017) (15)
Neuropsychological Perspectives on Bilingualism: Right, Left, and Center (2014) (15)
Incidental memory for format of presentation of number stimuli: Evidence from monolinguals and bilinguals (1991) (14)
Reading and writing in semi-syllabic scripts: An introduction (2004) (14)
Is an Ideal Sense of Humor Gendered? A Cross-National Study (2018) (14)
Fácil or A piece of cake: Does variability in bilingual language brokering experience affect idiom comprehension? (2017) (13)
Does formal training in translation/interpreting affect translation strategy? Evidence from idiom translation* (2016) (13)
What Affects Facing Direction in Human Facial Profile Drawing? A Meta-Analytic Inquiry (2014) (13)
V. An examination of women's professional visibility in cognitive psychology (2016) (13)
Word frequency modulates the Basic Orthographic Syllabic Structure (BOSS) effect in English polysyllable word recognition (2007) (12)
Asymmetries in tachistoscopic word recognition: scanning effects re-examined. (1988) (12)
Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia (2022) (11)
Of black sheep and white crows: Extending the bilingual dual coding theory to memory for idioms (2016) (11)
Hemispheric Asymmetries in Reading Korean: Task Matters (1997) (10)
Not through a glass darkly: refocusing the psycholinguistic study of bilingualism through a 'bivocal' lens (2016) (10)
Divergence and overlap in bilingual conceptual representation: does prior language brokering experience matter? (2016) (10)
Language as a factor in the identification of ordinary words and number words (1992) (10)
Lateralization for shadowing vs. interpretation: A comparison of interpreters with bilingual and monolingual controls (1994) (10)
Beyond a Space of Our Own: South Asian Women's Groups in the U.S. (1999) (9)
Examining the phonological neighborhood density effect using near infrared spectroscopy (2011) (9)
The Form and Functions of Code-Mixing in Indian Films: The Case of Hindi and English (1980) (9)
ADVANCE Scholar Program: enhancing minoritized scholars’ professional visibility (2019) (9)
Biscriptality: a neglected construct in the study of bilingualism (2022) (8)
Writing Systems Research: A new journal for a developing field (2009) (8)
Bilinguals' Plausibility Judgments for Phrases with a Literal vs. Non-literal Meaning: The Influence of Language Brokering Experience (2017) (8)
Psycholinguistic approaches to humor (2017) (8)
Laughing Matters: Toward a Structural and Neural Account (2000) (8)
Language Processing in Bilinguals : Psycholinguistic and Neuropsychological Perspectives (2013) (7)
Assigning linguistic roles: Sentence interpretation in normal and aphasic Kannada-English bilinguals (1988) (7)
Of “men” and metaphors: Shakespeare, embodiment, and filing cabinets (1997) (7)
Languages without borders: Reframing the study of the bilingual mental lexicon (2017) (7)
The processing cost for reading misaligned words is script-specific: evidence from Hindi and Kannada/Hindi readers (2017) (6)
Interdisciplinary approaches to second language writing systems (2012) (6)
Introduction: Reading and writing in semi-syllabic scripts (2004) (5)
Who is meritorious? Gendered and racialized discourse in named award descriptions in professional societies of higher education (2020) (5)
Perceiving and responding to embarrassing predicaments across languages: Cultural influences on the emotion lexicon (2008) (5)
Morphology, orthography, and the two hemispheres: A divided visual field study with Hindi/Urdu biliterates (2017) (5)
Seeking a voice: South Asian women's groups in north America (1989) (4)
Symbol/Meaning Paired-Associate Recall: An “Archetypal Memory” Advantage? (2013) (4)
Divergence and overlap in bilingual concept representations (2005) (3)
Source vs. Stance: On the Relationship between Evidential and Modal Expressions (2018) (3)
The Influence of Phonological Neighborhood on Visual Word Recognition in English: An Optical Imaging Study (2009) (3)
Factors influencing bilinguals’ speed and accuracy of number judgments across languages: A meta-analytic review (2021) (3)
Lateralization of counting skill in bilinguals: A dual task study (2001) (3)
Lateralization for shadowing words versus signs: A study of ASL-English interpreters (1994) (3)
Judgments of Object Size and Distance across Different Virtual Reality Environments: A Preliminary Study (2021) (3)
Perception of the tritone paradox by listeners in Texas: A re‐examination of envelope effects (1999) (3)
Spatial bias in figure placement in representational drawing: Associations with handedness and script directionality (2019) (3)
‘Meryem (reportedly) missed her flight’: Cognitive Implications of the Turkish Evidential (2010) (2)
Biscriptal bilingualism differentially affects segmentation of cross-language homophones: Evidence from Hindi and English users (2021) (2)
Making a story make sense: Does evidentiality matter in discourse coherence? (2016) (2)
Language Processing in Bilinguals (2014) (2)
Lateralization for shadowing words versus signs (1994) (2)
South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics: Hemispheric asymmetry in word recognition for a right-to-left script: the case of Urdu (2013) (2)
Laughter and humour (2001) (2)
Mirror writing ability in right- and left-handed adults: Ipsilateral control? (1999) (2)
Current Research on Bilingual Program Models and/or Best Practices (2000) (1)
Humor and Laughter (2002) (1)
Handedness and Hand Used Differentially Affect Object Facing (2010) (1)
Sources of Directional Spatial Biases in Hemi-Image Drawing (2019) (1)
What affects facing direction in profile drawing? A meta-analytic inquiry. (2014) (1)
Bloom Where You Are Planted: Reflections on Effecting Campus Climate Change To Retain Minoritized Faculty Scholars in STEM Fields (2019) (1)
Language Brokering Experience Affects Phrase Interpretation and Sound Segmentation: Evidence from Spanish-English Bilinguals (2011) (1)
Language Processing in Bilinguals (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics) : Psycholinguistic and Neuropsychological Perspectives (2014) (1)
Graded Category Structure in Chinese-English Bilinguals (2009) (1)
Do bilinguals perceive the tritone paradox as monolinguals do (1999) (1)
Activation of Source and Stance in Interpreting Evidential and Modal Expressions in Turkish and English (2018) (1)
BRAIN FUNCTIONAL ASYMMETRY : WHY MIGHT LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE MATTER ? (2006) (0)
The processing cost for reading misaligned words is script-specific: evidence from Hindi and Kannada/Hindi readers (2017) (0)
Understanding Spatial Abilities and Spatial Strategy under Extreme Visual and Gravitational Environments (2021) (0)
The writing system at play (2012) (0)
Spatial Biases in Depiction of Scenes With Implied Movement: Does Script Direction Matter?: (633262013-542) (2014) (0)
Neuropsychological Approaches toBilingualism : A Critical Review (2005) (0)
Examining the Chinese Homophone Density Effect Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy (2009) (0)
A Processing Advantage for Inalienable Possession: Evidence from English Phrase Plausibility Judgments (2019) (0)
Mental manipulation of numbers by bilinguals (1991) (0)
2012 Volume Contents (2012) (0)
On writing and thought (1982) (0)
In appreciation and recognition (1987) (0)
Bilingual laterality and the matter of degree A response to Paradis (2008) (2008) (0)
Lateralization for shadowing vs. interpretation (1994) (0)
Reading/writing direction as a source of directional bias in spatial cognition: Possible mechanisms and scope. (2023) (0)
Orientation Preferences for Photographed Objects: Effects of Handedness and Object Type (2011) (0)
Michel Paradis, ed. Readings on aphasia in bilinguals and polyglots. Montreal: Didier, 1983. xvii + 832 pp (1984) (0)

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