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Jyotsna Vaid
Peer-reviewed Conference Papers: 2000-present
Vaid, J. (2000, June). Lateralization of counting skill in
bilinguals: A dual task study. Theoretical and Experimental Issues in
Neuropsychology (TENNET), University
of Quebec at Montreal.
Hull, R., Vaid, J., Martinez, F. & Gerkens, D. (2000,
Oct.). The time course of script-activation in humor. Texas
Regional Conference on Cognition (ARMADILLO), Texas A & M University.
Vaid, J. & Gupta, A. (2000, Oct.). Processing vowels versus
consonants in a semi-alphabetic script: Evidence from Hindi. Second
International Mental Lexicon Conference, University
of Montreal and McGill University.
Hull, R., Vaid, J., Martinez, F. & Gerkens, D. (2000,
Nov.). Favored vs. surprising meaning activation in joke
comprehension: A web-based investigation. Society for Computers in
Psychology, New Orleans.
Vaid, J., Hull,
R., Gerkens, D. & Heredia, R. (2000, Nov.). The time course of script
activation in verbal humor processing: Preliminary evidence. Psychonomics
Society, New Orleans.
Vaid, J.
& Hull, R. (2001, April). A tale of two hemispheres: A meta-analytic
review of the bilingual brain. Third International Symposium on
Bilingualism, University of the West of England, Bristol.
Vaid, J., Singh,
M., Sakhuja, T. & Gupta, G.C. (2001, June). Stroke direction asymmetry
in figure drawing: Influence of handedness and reading/writing habits.
Theoretical and Experimental Issues in Neuropsychology (TENNET), University of Quebec,
Montreal.
Hull,
R. & Vaid, J. (2001, July). Cognitive basis of incongruity in verbal
humor: An experimental inquiry. Annual meeting of the Society for
Text and Discourse, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Chalikia, M.,
Miller, K.J., & Vaid, J. (2001, August). The tritone paradox is
perceived differently by Koreans and Americans. American
Psychological Association, San Francisco.
Hull, R. & Vaid, J. (2001, Oct.). What
is right? A meta-analysis of monolingual vs. bilingual language lateralization.
Texas Regional Conference on Cognition, University of Texas,
Arlington.
Vaid, J.,
Heredia, R., Hull, R., Martinez, F., & Gerkens, D. (2001, Nov.). On
getting a joke: Multiple meaning activation in humor comprehension.
Psychonomics Society, Orlando.
Heredia, R.
& Vaid, J. (2002, March). Processing code-switched sentences: Effects of
semantic constraint, guest word phonology and guest word frequency. CUNY
Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New
York.
Schrauf, R.
& Vaid, J. (2002, April). Older immigrants' self-reported proficiency in
English. Annual meeting of the American Association for Applied
Linguistics, Salt Lake City.
Gupta, A. &
Vaid, J. (2002, June). Reading strategies of Hindi-speaking children with
developmental dyslexia. Multilingual and Cross-cultural Perspectives
on Dyslexia, International Dyslexia Association, Washington, DC.
Vaid, J. &
Gupta, A. (2002, June). How do spatial characteristics affect reading?
Evidence from Hindi. Multilingual and Cross-cultural Perspectives on
Dyslexia, International Dyslexia Association, Washington, DC.
Chalikia, M.
& Vaid, J. (2002, Nov.). What confidence judgments reveal about the
perception of the tritone paradox. Auditory Perception, Cognition and
Action Meeting, Kansas City.
Vaid, J. (2002,
Dec.). Reading
across orthographies: Preliminary findings from Hindi/Urdu and English.
International Association of Applied Linguistics,
Singapore.
Prakash, P., D. Rekha, Vaid, J., & Joshi, M. (2002, Dec.). Simultaneous acquisition of literacy skills in English and Kannada: a longitudinal study. International Association of Applied Linguistics, Singapore.
Hull, R. & Vaid, J. (2003, April). A (continuing) tale of two hemispheres: A meta-analysis of bilingual language lateralization research. Panel on Recent Investigations of the Bilingual Brain, Fourth International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Arizona.
Frenck-Mestre,
C. Anton, J.L., Roth, M., Massion, J., N'Gyuen, N., Vaid, J., J.F. Viallet,
& M. Habib (2003, April). Functional imaging of the bilingual brain
during speech production. Panel on Recent Investigations of the Bilingual
Brain, Fourth International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Arizona.
Vaid, J. (2003,
April). Joking across languages: Towards a theory of humor
interpretation in bilinguals. Panel on Bilingualism and Emotions, Fourth
International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Arizona.
Chen,
Hsin-Chin, Vaid, J., & Choi, H. (2003, May). Orthographic
processing of morphemic cued words by native and nonnative English
readers. Poster, American
Psychological Society, Atlanta.
Friedman, M., Vaid, J., Chen, H-C, Martinez, F., &
Choi, H. (2003, Nov.) Cognitive vs. aesthetic influences on cultural
differences in proverb evaluation. Poster, Psychonomics Society, Vancouver.
Vaid, J.,
Choi, H., Martinez,
F., & Chen, H.C. (2004, May). Perceptions
of humor uses for self vs. culture across four groups. Poster, American Psychological Society, Chicago.
Chen, H.C.,
Vaid, J., & Choi, H. (2004, May). Native
language matters in orthographic processing of non-native English polysyllabic
words. Poster, American Psychological Society, Chicago.
Martinez, F., Choi, H., Vaid,
J., & Chen, H.C. (2004, May). Joke
appreciation as a function of repetition of elements in the joke structure.
Poster, American Psychological Society, Chicago.
Hull, R., Chen, H.C., Vaid, J., & Martinez, F. (2004, June). Great expectations: Humor comprehension
across hemispheres. Poster, Theoretical and Experimental Issues in
Neuropsychology (TENNET), University
of Quebec, Montreal.
Chen, H.C.,
Vaid, J., & Wu, J.T. (2004, June). Phonology
is not universal: Phonological frequency and phonological neighborhood size
effects in Chinese single character recognition and naming. Poster, Fourth
International Mental Lexicon Conference, University
of Windsor, Ontario.
Joshi, M.,
Padakannaya, P., Surendranath, S., Samveda, C.N., Karibasappa, S., & Vaid,
J. (2004, June). Dissociation between
decoding and comprehension: Evidence from a biliterate dyslexic and a bilterate
hyperlexic. Paper, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading,
Amsterdam.
Lichtenberk, F., Vaid, J., & Chen, H.C. (2004,
June). Alienable/inalienable possession in
grammar and in the lexicon: Evidence from possessive phrase interpretation in
English. Paper presented at Fourth International
Mental Lexicon Conference, University
of Windsor, Ontario.
Martinez, F., Chen, H.C., Vaid, J., Wilkinson, L. &
Price, E., (2004, Oct.). Joke
comprehension and detection: Is there a bilingual advantage? Poster, annual
Southwest Cognition Conference (ARMADILLO), University
of Texas at Arlington.
Chen, H.C.
& Vaid, J. (2004, Nov.). Haha as Aha: Lateralization of insight in
joke processing. Poster, Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis.
Vaid, J., Chen, H.C., Martinez, F., & Rao,
C. (2004, Nov.). Does prior orthographic
experience influence L1 and L2 word segmentation? Poster, Psychonomics
Society, Minneapolis.
Meuter, R., Vaid, J., &
Chen, H.C. (2005, March). Does multiple
language experience enhance task switching ability? Paper presented at
panel on Bilingual Language Competency at Fifth International Symposium on
Bilingualism, Barcelona.
Vaid, J., Rao, C., Chen,
H.C., & Martinez,
F. (2005, March). Orthography and the
lexicon: Evidence from Hindi-English and Urdu-English biliterates. Poster,
International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona.
Chen, H.C., Yamauchi, T.,
Tamaoka, K., & Vaid, J. (2005, May). Word
recognition depends on script type: A
comparison of Japanese kanji and hiragana. Poster, American Psychological
Society, Los Angeles.
Ward, T., Chu,
A., Vaid, J., & Heredia, R. (2005, July). Divergence and overlap in bilingual concept representations.
Poster, Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy.
Chen, H.C., Vaid, J., &
Bortfeld, H. (2006, April). Orthography
constrains neural substrates involved in phonological processing: An optical
imaging study. Poster, Cognitive
Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.
Vaid, J., Choi, H., Chen,
H.C., & Friedman, M. (2006, June). Bilinguals’
perceptions of and responses to embarrassing situations. Panel on Emotion
Words in the Mental Lexicon: Processing, Representation and Implications for
Teaching and Translation, American Association for Applied Linguistics annual
conference, Montreal.
Vaid, J., Rao, C., &
Chen, H.C. (2006, July). On the
psycholinguistic significance of the bar in Hindi word recognition. Poster,
Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Vancouver.
Chen, H.C., Vaid, J., Yang,
H.C., & Wu, J.T. (2006, July). Orthographic
and phonological neighborhood density effects in word recognition in Chinese
vs. English readers. Poster, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Vancouver.
Vaid, J., Lichtenberk, F. & Chen, H.C. (2006,
Oct.). On
the processing of attributive possessive phrases. Poster, 2006 Mental
Lexicon Conference, McGill University, Montreal.
Rao,
C., Vaid*, J., & Chen, H.C. (2006, Oct.). Cognate lexical access:
Evidence from Hindi-Kannada bilinguals. Poster, 2006 Mental Lexicon
Conference, McGill University, Montreal
Chen*,
H.C. & Vaid, J. (2006, Oct.). Is there a cross-code consistency
effect?: A re-examination of
orthographic
and phonological neighborhood density in English and Chinese. Fifth
International Mental Lexicon Conference, McGill
University, Montreal.
Chen,
H.C. & Vaid, J. (2006, Nov.). The syllable neighborhood effect in
polysyllabic English word recognition. Poster, Psychonomics Society, Houston.
Vaid,
J., Rao, C., & Chen, H.C.* (2006, Nov.) Is
the MOP the cleanest way? Word segmentation in Hindi-English readers.
Psychonomics Society, Houston.
Tzou,
J.*, Vaid, J., Eslami, Z., & Chen, H.C.* (2007, May). Effects of working
memory, language proficiency, and training on simultaneous interpretation
performance. Poster, International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg.
Cunningham,
D.*, Vaid, J., & Chen, H.C.* (2007, May). Linguistic relativity effects
in perception of distance and agency. The 6th International
Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg.
Vaid,
J., Rao*, C., & Chen*, H.C. (2007, July). Factors influencing word recognition in an alpha-syllabic script:
Evidence from Hindi. Annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study
of Reading, Prague.
Chen*,
H.C. & Vaid, J. (2008, May). Does neighborhood density facilitate or
inhibit word recognition? A perspective from Chinese. Association for
Psychological Science, Chicago.
Tzou*,
J., Chen*, H.C., & Vaid, J. (2008, May). Verifying literal vs.
figurative translations: Does formal training in translation matter?
Association for Psychological Science, Chicago.
Vaid,
J., Rao*, C., Chen*, H.C., Kar, B., & Sharma*, D.R. (2008, May). Frequency
and length effects in Hindi vs. Urdu lexical decision: Orthographic depth
matters. Association for Psychological Science, Chicago.
Vaid,
J. & Meuter, R. (2008, July). Humoring gender or gendering humor? The
transformative potential of humor for gender role norms. Poster,
International Gender and Language Association, Victoria
University, Wellington, NZ [unable to present]
Vaid,
J., Rao*, C. & Chen*, H.C. (2008, October). Complicating the
orthographic depth hypothesis. Evidence from Hindi. Mental Lexicon
Conference, Banff.
Chen*,
H.C., Vaid, J., Bortfeld, H., & Boas, D. (2008, October). Examining the
phonological neighborhood density effect using near infrared spectroscopy.
Mental Lexicon Conference, Banff.
Vaid,
J., Rao*, C., Chen*, H.C., & Narayanan, S. (2008, Nov.). Phonological
priming in Hindi and Urdu: A preliminary investigation. Psychonomic Society, Chicago.
Vaid,
J., Rao, C., Chen, H.C., & Narayanan, S. (2009, June). Orthographic and
morphological priming in Hindi and Urdu: A preliminary investigation. Society
for the Scientific Study of Reading, Boston.
Milliken,
K., Vaid, J., Rao, C., Chen, H.C., & Galindo, J. (2009, July). Does
prior language brokering experience affect ambiguity monitoring and conceptual
organization in bilingual adults? Poster, Seventh International Symposium
on Bilingualism, Utrecht.
Koola*, C., Vaid, J., Tosun*, S., & Rao*, C. (2009,
Oct.) Poster, ARMADILLO, Rice University.
Rao*,
C. & Vaid, J. (2009, Nov.). Poster, Psychonomics Society, Boston.
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