VITA

Jyotsna Vaid

Research Interests

Cognitive and neuropsychological aspects of bilingualism

Verbal creativity - cognitive and psycholinguistic aspects of humor  

Cross-linguistic studies of literacy, numeracy and language processing

Teaching Interests

Psychology of Language

Cognitive Processes

Bilingualism

Research Methods

Gender, Culture and Language

Brain Bases of Language

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate 

PSYC 107 Introduction to Psychology

PSYC 204 Experimental Psychology

PSYC 204 Experimental Psychology – Honors

PSYC 345 Human Cognitive Processes

PSYC 346 Psychology of Language

PSYC 345 Human Cognitive Processes – Honors

PSYC 346 Psychology of Language - Honors

PSYC 489 Special Topics in the Psychology of Language  

PSYC 489 Special Topics in Language and Gender - Honors

PSYC 489 Special Topics in Language and Gender Across Cultures 

PSYC 489 The Bilingual Mind (University Scholar Mentor Group) 

Graduate

PSYC 689 Current Problems in Bilingualism

PSYC 689 Special Topics in Psycholinguistics

PSYC 690 Seminar on Current Issues in Cognitive Psychology - Cognoscenti

Visiting Scholars Sponsored/Mentoring Activities

Visiting Scholars: Dr. Maharaj Singh (Meerut University, India), Dr. Prakash Padakannaya (University of Mysore, India) , Dr. K.C. Shyamala, (All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, India)

Magdalene Chalikia (Moorhead State University), Dr. Cheryl Frenck-Mestre (LPL, University of Provence, Aix), Dr. Renata Meuter (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane)

Current Doctoral Students: Chaitra Rao, Hsin-Chin Chen, Juliet Tzou, Francisco Martinez, Gowri Iyer (San Diego State U.)

Former Doctoral Students: Hyun Choi, Rachel Hull, Jason Carr, Meryl Wilkenfeld Patterson, Jean Griffith, Nicole Canzoneri, Deborah Tindell, Steve Balfour, Dipika Mukherjee, Robert Widner, Angela Becker, Alex Darkwah, Kwonsaeng Park, Edward Vela

Former Masters Students: Francisco Martinez, Shelley Christie-Blair, Josh Bias, Dan Baumgardt, Rachel Hull, Eric Wruck, Sujayanthi Dasgupta, Robert Airhart, Eunkyung Kim, Monica Puri, Steven Holliday, Jay Schumacher, Steve Balfour

Undergraduate Honors Research Fellows: Manisha Parikh, Alex Quiros

Undergraduate Honors Students: Jamie Stoddard, Lindsey Wilkinson

External Examiner for Doctoral Dissertations in Psychology

Punjab University

United States International University, San Diego

University of Delhi

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

National University of Singapore

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