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Jyotsna Vaid

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Vaid, J. (1986). (Ed.). Language Processing in Bilinguals: Psycholinguistic and Neuropsychological Perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Paradis, M. & Vaid, J. (1987). The Bilingual Aphasia Test: Hindi/English, Dvibhashai ka Pratikshan. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 

Ward, T., Smith, S. & Vaid, J. (Eds.). (1997). Creative Thought: An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

_________. (2001). Creative Thought: An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Second edition.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Vaid, J. & Lambert, W.E. (1979).  Differential cerebral involvement in the cognitive functioning of bilinguals. Brain and Language, 8, 92-110.

Vaid, J. & Genesee, F. (1980). Neuropsychological approaches to bilingualism: A critical review. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 34, 417-445.

Vaid, J. (1980). Code‑mixing in Indian films: The case of Hindi and English. Indian Linguistics, 41, 37-44.

Obler, L., Zatorre, R., Galloway, L., & Vaid, J.  (1982).  Cerebral lateralization in bilinguals: Methodological issues. Brain and Language, 15, 40-54.

__________. (2000). Reprinted in Wei, L. (Ed.) The Bilingualism Reader (pp. 381-393). London: Routledge.

Vaid, J. & Lecours, A.R. (1982). On writing and thought. A review of The Psychology of Literacy (by S. Scribner & M. Cole), Contemporary Psychology, 27, 759-760.

Vaid, J. (1984). On Readings on Aphasia in Bilinguals and Polyglots. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 20, 372-374.

Vaid, J. (1985).  Numerical size comparisons in a phonologically transparent script. Perception and Psychophysics, 6, 592-595.

Bates, E., O'Connell, B., Vaid, J., Sledge, P., & Oakes, L. (1986). Language and hand preference in early development. Developmental Neuropsychology, 2, 1-15.

Green, A., & Vaid, J. (1986). Methodological issues in the use of the concurrent activities paradigm. Brain and Cognition, 5, 465-476.

Vaid, J. (1987). Visual field asymmetries for rhyme and syntactic category judgments in monolinguals and fluent early and late bilinguals. Brain and Language, 30, 263-277.

Vaid, J. & Chengappa, S. (1988). Assigning linguistic roles: Sentence interpretation in normal and aphasic bilinguals. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 3, 161-183.

Vaid, J. (1988). Asymmetries in tachistoscopic word recognition: Scanning effects re‑examined. International Journal of Neuroscience, 253-258.

Vaid, J. (1988). Bilingual memory representation: A further test of dual coding theory. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 42, 84-90.

Vaid, J. & Corina, D. (1989). Visual field asymmetries in numerical size comparisons of digits, words, and signs. Brain and Language, 36, 117-126.

Vaid, J. & Stiles‑Davis, J. (1989). Mirror-writing ability: An advantage for the left-handed? Brain and Language, 37, 616‑627.

Vaid, J., Bellugi, U., & Poizner, H. (1989). Hand dominance for signing: Clues to brain lateralization of language. Neuropsychologia, 27, 949‑960.

Corina, D. & Vaid, J. (1989). Shadowing words versus signs: A dual task laterality study with ASL‑English interpreters. Investigaciones Psicologicas, 7, 31-42. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Vaid, J., Green, A., Schweda Nicholson, N. & White, N. (1989). Are bilingual interpreters differentially lateralized? A dual task investigation in Spanish‑English interpreters and unilingual controls.  Investigaciones Psicologicas, 7, 43‑54.

Vaid, J. & Singh, M. (1989). Asymmetries in the perception of facial affect: Is there an influence of reading habits?  Neuropsychologia, 27, 1277‑1287.

Green, A., Schweda Nicholson, N., Vaid, J., White, N., & Steiner, R. (1990). Hemispheric involvement in shadowing vs. interpreting: A time‑sharing study of simultaneous interpreters and matched bilingual and unilingual controls. Brain and Language, 39, 107‑133.

Vaid, J. & Frenck, C. (1991). Incidental memory for format of number presentation: Evidence from monolinguals and bilinguals. Brain and Cognition, 17, 272‑284. 

________. (2001). Reprinted in Gupta, G.C. (Ed.). Cognitive Science: Issues and Perspectives (pp. 334-343). New Delhi: Icon Publications. 

Vaid, J. & Pandit, R. (1991). Sentence interpretation in normal and aphasic Hindi speakers. Brain and Language, 41, 250‑274.

Corina, D., Vaid, J. & Bellugi, U. (1992). The linguistic basis for left hemisphere specialization. Science, 255, 1258‑1260.

Frenck‑Mestre, C. & Vaid, J. (1993). Activation of number facts in bilinguals. Memory & Cognition, 21, 809‑818.

Stoddard, J. & Vaid, J. (1996). Asymmetries in intermanual transfer of maze learning in right and left-handed adults.  Neuropsychologia, 34, 605-608.

Sakhuja, T., Gupta, G.C., Singh, M. & Vaid, J. (1996). Reading habits affect asymmetries in facial affect judgments: A replication. Brain and Cognition, 32, 162-165.

Vaid, J. & Park, K. (1997). Hemispheric asymmetries in reading Korean: Task matters. Brain and Language, 58, 115-124.

Vaid, J. (1998). Cultural versus biomechanical influences on a graphic production task. Brain and Cognition, 37, 75-78.

Vaid, J. & Carr, J. (1999). Mirror-writing ability in right- and left-handed adults: Ipsilateral control? Brain and Cognition, 40, 264-268.

Vaid, J. (2000). Beyond a space of our own: South Asian women’s groups in the United States. Amerasia Journal, 25, 111-126.

Vaid, J. & Kobler, J.B. (2000). Laughing matters: Toward a structural and neural account. Brain and Cognition, 42, 139-141.

Singh, M., Vaid, J. & Sakhuja, T. (2000). Reading/writing vs. handedness influences on line length estimation. Brain and Cognition, 43, 398-402.

Vaid, J. & Menon, R. (2000). Correlates of bilinguals’ preferred language for mental computations.  Spanish Applied Linguistics, 4, 325-342.

Vaid, J. (2000). New approaches to conceptual representations in bilingual memory: The case for studying humor interpretation. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 3, 28-30.

Yaden, D., Armendariz, J., Cole, K., Heise-Baigorria, C., Dickinson, D., Rodriguez, G., & Vaid, J. (2000). Current research on bilingual program models and/or best practices: NICHD Panel. National Head Start Association (NHSA) Dialog: A Research to Practice Journal for the Early Intervention Field, 3: 354-360.

Vaid, J. (2001). The bilingual mind. World Englishes, 20, 370-372.

Vaid, J. & Gupta, A. (2002). Exploring word recognition in a semi-alphabetic script: The case of Devanagari. Brain and Language, 81, 679-690.

Vaid, J., Singh, M., Sakhuja, T. & Gupta, G.C.  (2002). Stroke direction asymmetry in figure drawing: Influence of handedness and reading/writing habits. Brain and Cognition, 48, 597-602.

Padakannaya, P., Devi, M.K., Zaveria, B., Chengappa, S.K. & Vaid, J. (2002). Directional scanning effect and strength of reading habit in picture naming and recall. Brain and Cognition, 48, 484-490.

Vaid, J. & Frenck-Mestre, C. (2002). Do orthographic cues aid language identification? A laterality study with French-English bilinguals. Brain and Language, 82, 47-53. 

Vaid, J., Hull, M.R., Heredia, R., Gerkens, D. & Martinez, F. (2003). Getting a joke: The time course of meaning activation in verbal humor.  Journal of Pragmatics, 35, 1431-1449.

Vaid, J. & Padakannaya, P.  (2004). Reading and writing in semi-syllabic scripts: An introduction. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 17, 1-6.

Vaid, J. (2004). Review of A dynamic model of multilingualism: Perspectives of change in psycholinguistics. World Englishes, 23, 491-492.

Frenck-Mestre, C., Anton, J.L., Roth, M., Vaid, J., & Viallet, F. (2005). Articulation in early and late bilinguals’ two languages: Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging. NeuroReport, 16(7), 761-765.

Hull, R., Chen, H.C., Vaid, J., & Martinez, F. (2005). Great expectations: Humor comprehension across hemispheres. Brain and Cognition, 57(3), 281-282.

Friedman, M., Chen, H.C., & Vaid, J. (2006). Proverb preferences across cultures: Dialecticality or poeticality? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 353-359.

Hull, R. & Vaid, J. (2006). Laterality and language experience. Laterality, 11, 436-464.

Chen, H.C. & Vaid, J. (2007). Word frequency modulates the basic orthographic syllable structure effect in English polysyllable word recognition. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22, 52-82.

Chen, H.C., Yamauchi, T., Tamaoka, K., & Vaid, J. (2007). Homophonic and semantic priming of Japanese kanji words: A time course study. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 64-69.

Hull, R. & Vaid, J. (2007). Language lateralization in bilinguals: A meta-analytic tale of two hemispheres. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1987-2008.

Chen, H.C., Vaid, J., Bortfeld, H., & Boas, D. (2008). Optical imaging of phonological processing in two distinct orthographies. Experimental Brain Research, 184, 427-433.

Hull*, R. & Vaid, J. (2008). Bilingual laterality: The matter of degree. Neuropsychologia, 46(5), 1591-1593.

Vaid, J., Choi,* H., Chen*, H.C., & Friedman*, M. (2008). Perceiving and responding to embarrassing predicaments across languages: Cultural influences on the mental lexicon. Mental Lexicon, 3, 122-148.

Chen, H.C.*, Vaid, J. & Wu, J.T. (2009, in press). Homophone density and phonological frequency effects in Chinese visual word recognition. Language and Cognitive Processes.

Book Chapters

Vaid, J. (1983). Bilingualism and brain lateralization. In S. Segalowitz (Ed.), Language functions and brain organization (pp. 315‑339). New York: Academic Press.

Vaid, J. (1984). Visual, phonetic and semantic processing in early and late bilinguals. In M. Paradis & Y. Lebrun (Eds.), Early bilingualism and child development (pp. 175-191). Lisse: Swets and Zeitlinger.

Bellugi, U., Sabo, H., & Vaid, J. (1988). Spatial deficits in children with Williams' Syndrome. In J. Stiles‑Davis, U. Bellugi and M. Kritchevsky (eds.), Spatial cognition: Brain bases and development. (pp. 273-298). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Vaid, J. (1989). Seeking a voice: South Asian women's groups in North America. In Wong, Diane Y-M. (Ed.), Making waves: An anthology by and about Asian-American women (pp. 395‑404). Boston: Beacon Press. [This anthology received the 1990 Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.]

Vaid, J. & Hall, D.G. (1991). Neuropsychological perspectives on bilingualism: Right, left and center. In A. Reynolds (Ed.),  Bilingualism, multiculturalism and second language learning: The McGill conference in honour of Wallace E. Lambert (pp. 81-112). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Frenck‑Mestre, C. & Vaid, J. (1992). Language as a factor in the identification of ordinary words and number words. In R. Harris (Ed.), Cognitive processing in bilinguals (pp. 265‑281). Amsterdam: Elsevier, North Holland Pub.

Green, A., Vaid, J., Schweda Nicholson, N., White, N. & Steiner, R. (1994). Lateralization for shadowing vs. interpretation: A comparison of interpreters with bilingual and monolingual controls. In S. Lambert & B. Moser-Mercer (Eds.), Bridging the gap: Empirical research in simultaneous interpretation. (Pp. 331-355). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Park, K. & Vaid, J. (1995). Lexical representation of script variation: Evidence from Korean biscriptals. In I. Taylor and D. Olson (Eds.), Scripts and literacy: Reading and learning to read alphabets, syllabaries and characters (pp. 327-339). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Vaid, J. (1995). Script directionality influences nonlinguistic performance: Evidence from Hindi and Urdu. In I. Taylor & D. Olson (Eds.), Scripts and literacy: Reading and learning to read alphabets, syllabaries and characters (pp. 295-310). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Ward, T., Smith, S., & Vaid, J. (1997). Conceptual structures and processes in creative thought. In T. Ward, S. Smith & J. Vaid (Eds.), Creative thought: An investigation of conceptual structures and processes (pp. 1-27). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Vaid, J. (1999). The evolution of humor: Do those who laugh last? In D. Rosen & M. Luebbert (Eds.), Evolution of the psyche (pp. 123-138). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Vaid, J. & Ramachandran, V.S. (2001). Laughter and humor. In C. Blakemore and S. Jennett (Eds.), Oxford Companion to the Body (pp. 426-427). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Vaid, J. (2002). Bilingualism. In V.S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the human brain, Vol. 1 (pp. 417-434). San Diego: Elsevier.

Vaid, J. & Hull, R. (2002). Re-envisioning the bilingual brain using functional neuroimaging: Methodological and interpretive issues. In F. Fabbro (Ed.), Advances in the Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism:  Essays in Honor of Michel Paradis (pp. 315-355). Udine Forum: Udine University Press.

Vaid, J. (2002). Humor and laughter. In V.S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the human brain, Vol.2. (pp. 505-516). San Diego: Elsevier.

Hull, R. & Vaid, J. (2005). Clearing the cobwebs from the study of the bilingual brain: Converging evidence from laterality and electrophysiological research.  In J. Kroll and A.M.B. de Groot (Eds.), Handbook of Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Approaches (pp. 480-496).  Oxford: Oxford University Press.   

Vaid, J. (2006). Joking across languages: Perspectives on humour, emotion, and bilingualism. In A. Pavlenko (Ed.), Bilingual minds: Emotional experience, expression, and representation (pp. 152-182). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, Ltd.

Ward, T., Chu, A., Vaid, J., & Heredia, R. (2006). Divergence and overlap in bilingual concept representations. Proceedings of the 2005 Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2342-2346). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Vaid, J. (2008). The bilingual brain: What is right and what is left? In J. Altarriba & R. Heredia (Eds.), An introduction to bilingualism: Principles and processes (pp. 129-144). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Vaid, J. (2008). Neural substrates of language processing in bilinguals: Imagi(ni)ng the possibilities. In Srinivasan, N., Gupta, A.K., & Pandey, J. (Eds.), Advances in cognitive science (pp. 122-136). New Delhi: Sage.

Vaid, J. (2009). Fair enough? Color and the commodification of self in Indian matrimonials. In E. Nakano Glenn (Ed.), Shades of Difference: Why skin color matters (pp. 148-165). Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Cunningham, D., Vaid, J., & Chen, H.C. (forthcoming). Language influences perceptions of agency. In Cook, V. & Bassetti, B. (eds.), Bilingualism and cognition. Psychology Press.

Vaid, J. (forthcoming). Reading/writing directionality as a source of bias in spatial cognition. In Maas, A. & Schubert, T. (eds.), Spatial dimensions of social thought. Mouton de Gruyter.

Monograph

Vaid, J., Miller, B., & Hyde, J. (1984) (Eds.). South Asian Women At Home and Abroad: A Guide to Resources. Research Monograph 2, Committee on Women in Asian Studies.  Syracuse: Syracuse University Metropolitan Studies Program. 90 pp.

Other Publications

Cohen, A. & Vaid, J. (1980) (Eds.). The neurolinguistics of second language learning. Washington, D.C., ERIC Clearinghouse (#202252). 68 pp. (Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Carl and Durga Spiro Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 8-11, 1980).

Vaid, J. (2002). Foreword. In Gupta, G.C. Language and cognition. (pp. v-vi). New Delhi: Icon Publications. [ISBN: 81-88086-01-0]

Vaid, J. & Padakannaya, P. (2004). (Eds.) Reading and writing in semi-syllabic scripts. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

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