# overview
I have three lines of research: 1) cognitive and brain bases of knowing multiple languages, 2) the processing of creative language, e.g., jokes, proverbs, metaphors, idioms, and 3) gender and race in relation to indicators of professional recognition and visibility in academia.

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5002 History And Philosophy Of Specific Fields

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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McGill University - (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

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Vassar College - (Poughkeepsie, New York, United States)

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McGill University - (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

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LANGUAGE RECOGNITION IN SKILLED BILINGUALS

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Effect of language proficiency and degree of formal training in simultaneous interpreting on working memory and interpreting performance: Evidence from Mandarin-English speakers

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Assigning linguistic roles: Sentence interpretation in normal and aphasic Kannada-English bilinguals

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Visual field asymmetries in numerical size comparisons of digits, words, and signs.

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Neuropsychological approaches to bilingualism: a critical review.

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Fair enough? Color and the commodification of self in Indian matrimonials

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Activation of number facts in bilinguals.

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Exploring word recognition in a semi-alphabetic script: the case of Devanagari.

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Articulation in early and late bilinguals' two languages: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging.

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Graded category structure in Chinese-English bilinguals

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Bilinguals' Plausibility Judgments for Phrases with a Literal vs. Non-literal Meaning: The Influence of Language Brokering Experience.

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Linking the Figurative to the Creative: Bilinguals' Comprehension of Metaphors, Jokes, and Remote Associates

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Laughing matters: toward a structural and neural account.

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The evolution of humor: Do those who laugh last?

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Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Introduction

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Reading/writing direction as a source of directional bias in spatial cognition: Possible mechanisms and scope.

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Stroke direction asymmetry in figure drawing: Influence of handedness and reading/writing habits

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Asymmetries in tachistoscopic word recognition: scanning effects re-examined.

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Creative Thought An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes

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V. An examination of women's professional visibility in cognitive psychology

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Lexical Representation of Script Variation: Evidence From Korean Biscriptals

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Language and hand preference in early development

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Proverb preferences across cultures: dialecticality or poeticality?

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Sentence interpretation in normal and aphasic Hindi speakers.

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Directional scanning effect and strength of reading habit in picture naming and recall

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Biscriptality: a neglected construct in the study of bilingualism

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BILINGUAL MEMORY REPRESENTATION - A FURTHER TEST OF DUAL CODING THEORY

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Biscriptal bilingualism differentially affects segmentation of cross-language homophones: Evidence from Hindi and English users

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Morphology, orthography, and the two hemispheres: A divided visual field study with Hindi/Urdu biliterates.

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Of black sheep and white crows: Extending the bilingual dual coding theory to memory for idioms

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Does formal training in translation/interpreting affect translation strategy? Evidence from idiom translation

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MENTAL MANIPULATION OF NUMBERS BY BILINGUALS

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Word frequency modulates the Basic Orthographic Syllabic Structure (BOSS) effect in English polysyllable word recognition

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Interdisciplinary approaches to second language writing systems

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Orthographic characteristics speed Hindi word naming but slow Urdu naming: evidence from Hindi/Urdu biliterates

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Asymmetries in the perception of facial affect: is there an influence of reading habits?

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New approaches to conceptual representations in bilingual memory: the case for studying humor interpretation

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Optical imaging of phonological processing in two distinct orthographies.

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DOES LANGUAGE FIGURE IN NUMERICAL FACT RETRIEVAL

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'Meryem (reportedly) missed her flight': Cognitive Implications of the Turkish Evidential

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Cerebral lateralization in bilinguals: Methodological issues

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Thinking, dreaming and computing in bilinguals: Correlates of language preference

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Incidental memory for format of presentation of number stimuli: evidence from monolinguals and bilinguals.

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Perceiving and responding to embarrassing predicaments across languages: Cultural influences on the emotion lexicon

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Bloom Where You Are Planted: Reflections on Effecting Campus Climate Change To Retain Minoritized Faculty Scholars in STEM Fields

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Does obligatory linguistic marking of source of evidence affect source memory? A Turkish/English investigation

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Hand dominance for signing: clues to brain lateralization of language.

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ADVANCE Scholar Program: enhancing minoritized scholars' professional visibility

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What affects facing direction in human facial profile drawing? A meta-analytic inquiry.

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Beyond a space of our own: South Asian women's groups in the US

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The processing cost for reading misaligned words is script-specific: evidence from Hindi and Kannada/Hindi readers

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Getting a joke: the time course of meaning activation in verbal humor

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Not through a glass darkly: refocusing the psycholinguistic study of bilingualism through a bivocal lens

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Visual field asymmetries for rhyme and syntactic category judgments in monolinguals and fluent early and late bilinguals.

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Reading/writing vs handedness influences on line length estimation.

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Mirror writing: an advantage for the left-handed?

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Handedness and Hand Used Differentially Affect Object Facing

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Yo no lo tire, se cayo solito, 'I did not throw it, it just fell down': Interpreting and recounting accidental events in Spanish and English

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Language as a Factor in the Identification of Ordinary Words and Number Words

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The linguistic basis of left hemisphere specialization.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Great expectations: Humor comprehension across hemispheres

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Biscriptality: a neglected construct in the study of bilingualism (Apr, 10.1007/s41809-022-00101-3, 2022)

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Hemispheric asymmetries in reading Korean: task matters.

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Divergence and Overlap in Bilingual Concept Representations

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor

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Script Directionality Affects Depiction of Depth in Representational Drawings

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Asymmetries in intermanual transfer of maze learning in right- and left-handed adults.

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Making a story make sense: Does evidentiality matter in discourse coherence?

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THE ROLE OF SCRIPT AND PHONOLOGY IN LEXICAL REPRESENTATION - KOREAN DATA

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Writing Systems Research: A new journal for a developing field

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On the interpretation of alienable vs. inalienable possession: A psycholinguistic investigation

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Asymmetries in representational drawing: Alternatives to a laterality account

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Who is meritorious? Gendered and racialized discourse in named award descriptions in professional societies of higher education

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Numerical size comparisons in a phonologically transparent script.

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PIGS DONT FLY - CUES IN 1ST-LANGUAGE VERSUS 2ND-LANGUAGE READING

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Hemispheric involvement in shadowing vs. interpretation: a time-sharing study of simultaneous interpreters with matched bilingual and monolingual controls.

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Bilingual laterality and the matter of degree - A response to Paradis (2008)

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Hemispheric asymmetry in word recognition for a right-to-left script: the case of Urdu

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Divergence and overlap in bilingual conceptual representation: does prior language brokering experience matter?

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Script Directionality Affects Nonlinguistic Performance: Evidence From Hindi and Urdu

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Facil or A piece of cake: Does variability in bilingual language brokering experience affect idiom comprehension?

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Examining the phonological neighborhood density effect using near infrared spectroscopy.

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M-24. Cultural vs biomechanical influences on a graphic production task

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ON THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN BILINGUAL NUMBER PROCESSING

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Bilingual language lateralization: a meta-analytic tale of two hemispheres.

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Current Research on Bilingual Program Models and/or Best Practices

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Do orthographic cues aid language recognition? A laterality study with French-English bilinguals.

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Homophone density and phonological frequency in Chinese word recognition

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Michel Paradis, ed. Readings on aphasia in bilinguals and polyglots. Montreal: Didier, 1983. xvii + 832 pp

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Reading habits affect asymmetries in facial affect judgments: A replication

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Differential cerebral involvement in the cognitive functioning of bilinguals.

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Methodological issues in the use of the concurrent activities paradigm.

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Spatial bias in figure placement in representational drawing: Associations with handedness and script directionality.

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Mirror writing ability in right- and left-handed adults: Ipsilateral control?

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Homophonic and semantic priming of Japanese Kanji words: a time course study.

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What's so funny? Modelling incongruity in humour production.

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Lateralization of counting skill in bilinguals: A dual task study.

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Language Processing in Bilinguals (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)

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Does literacy knowledge in first language matter in second language reading? An investigation of biliterate readers' word parsing strategy in English.

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American Psychological Association - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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FW-HTF-RM: Augmenting Spatial Cognition Capabilities of Future Workforce to Enhance Work Performance in Altered Environments Using Virtual Reality

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Acquisition of a Biosemi Event Related Potentials Active Two Acquisition System to Enhance Research and Training at Texas A&M International University.

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Literacy and script influences on bilinguals' cognitive and neural processing

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Fulbright Canada - (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

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Conceptual structures and processes: Emergence, discovery, and change

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American Psychological Association - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Psychology; 4235 TAMU

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Tzou, Yeh-Zu (2009-05). The roles of working memory, language proficiency, and training in simultaneous interpretation performance: evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Rao, Chaitra (2011-08). Morphology in Word Recognition: Hindi and Urdu. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Liew, Keen Seong (2014-01). Directional Bias in Representational Drawings of Graspable Objects by Right and Left Handers: The Contribution of Affordances vs. Biomechanical Principles. Master's Thesis.

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Hull, Rachel Gayle (2004-09). How does bilingualism matter?  A meta-analytic tale of two hemispheres. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Martinez, Francisco Emigdio (2005-02). Exploring figurative language processing in bilinguals: the metaphor interference effect. Master's Thesis.

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Chen, Hsin-Chin (2009-05). Mapping orthographic and phonological neighborhood density effects in visual word recognition in two distinct orthographies. Doctoral Dissertation.