Jyotsna Vaid's Lab

	Vaid, J. (1988). Bilingual memory representation: A further test of dual coding theory. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 42(1), 84-90.
	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.
	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.
	Frenck-Mestre, C. & Vaid, J. (1993). Activation of number facts in bilinguals. Memory & Cognition, 21(6), 809-818. [Paper]
	Ward, T., Smith, S., & Vaid, J. (1997/2001). 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. & Menon, R. (2000). Correlates of bilinguals’ preferred language for mental computations. Spanish Applied Linguistics, 4(2), 325-342.
	Vaid, J. (2000). New approaches to conceptual representations in bilingual memory: The case for studying humor interpretation. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 3(1), 28-30.
	Vaid, J. (2004) Review of A dynamic model of multilingualism: Perspectives of change in psycholinguistics. World Englishes, 23(3), 491-492.
	Ward, T., Chu, A., Vaid, J., & Heredia, R. (2006). Divergence and overlap in bilingual concept representations. Proceedings of the 2005 Cognitive Science Society Meeting.

Conference Presentations

	Frenck, C. & Vaid, J. (1989, Sept.). Numerical thinking in bilinguals: Is language a factor? Paper presentation, Workshop in Cognitive Psychology, Universite de Provence, Aix-Marseille.
	Vaid, J. & Frenck, C. (1989, Nov). On the role of language in bilingual number processing. Poster presentation, Psychonomics Society, Atlanta.
	Frenck-Mestre, C. & Vaid, J. (1991, Nov.) Mental manipulations of numbers by bilinguals. Poster presentation, Psychonomics Society, San Francisco, CA.
	Frenck-Mestre, C. & Vaid, J. (1992, July). Mental addition in bilinguals. Poster presentation, International Congress of Psychology, Brussels.
	Vaid, J., Frenck-Mestre, C. & Balfour, S. (1992, Nov.). Does language figure in numerical fact retrieval? Poster presentation, Psychonomics Society, St. Louis.
	Vaid, J. & Balfour, S. (1993, June). Differential language interference on a Stroop-like counting task in skilled bilinguals. Poster presentation, American Psychological Society, Chicago.
	Vaid, J. (1995, Jan.). Bilingualism and number processing. Psychology Department, Delhi University, India.
	Vaid, J. (1995, March). Bilingualism and number processing. Laboratoire de Traitement du Langage, Universite de Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
	Carr, J. & Vaid, J. (1995, May). Parity judgments across languages. Poster presentation, Texas Regional Conference on Cognition, Armadillo, Austin.
	Carr, J. & Vaid, J. (1996, July). Incidental memory of numerical format in a parity judgment task. Poster presentation, American Psychological Society, San Francisco.
	Vaid, J. (1996, Aug.) Thinking, dreaming and computing in bilinguals. Paper presented at the International Congress of Psychology, Montreal.
	Vaid, J. & Carr, J. (1997, Nov.) Activation of parity in bilinguals. Poster presentation, Psychonomics Society, Philadelphia.
	Vaid, J. & Martinez, F. (2001, April). Figurative language and thought across languages: What transfers? Poster, Third International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of the West of England, Bristol.
	Schrauf, R. & Vaid, J. (2002, April). Older immigrants' self-reported proficiency in English. Poster, Annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Salt Lake City.
	Martinez, F., Vaid, J., & Heredia, R. (2003, Oct.). Preliminary exploration of metaphoric meaning activation in bilinguals. Poster, Southwest Cognition Conference, Texas A&M University.
	Martinez, F., Vaid, J. & Heredia, R. (2003, Nov.) Metaphoric meaning activation: Is there an effect of language status? Poster, Psychonomics Society, Vancouver.
	Vaid, J. (2004, May). Bilinguality and cognition: Emerging perspectives. Chair/Organizer, Invited Featured Colloquium, annual meeting of the Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland.
	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
	Vaid, J., Chen, H.-C., Rao, C., & Manzano, I. (2006, May). Joke detection: Is there a bilingual and/or brokering advantage?* Conference on Language Acquisition and Bilingualism, Toronto
	Tzou, J., Vaid, J., Chen, H.-C, & Eslami, Z. (2007, May). Effects of working memory, language proficiency, and training on simultaneous interpretation performance: Evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals. Poster presented at Sixth International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg.
	Cunningham, D., Vaid, J., & Chen, H.-C. (2007, May). Linguistic Relativity Effects in Perception of Distance and Agency. Poster presented at Sixth International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg.

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BILINGUALISM AND BRAIN FUNCTIONING

Publications

A. Reviews

	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. & Genesee, F. (1980). Neuropsychological approaches to bilingualism: A critical review. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 34, 417-445.
	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. (1983). Bilingualism and brain lateralization. In S. Segalowitz (Ed.), Language functions and brain organization (pp. 315-339). New York: Academic Press.
	Vaid, J. (1984). On Readings on Aphasia in Bilinguals and Polyglots. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 20(4), 372-374.
	Green, A., & Vaid, J. (1986). Methodological issues in the use of the concurrent activities paradigm. Brain and Cognition, 5, 465-476.
	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.
	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. [Chapter]
	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 & A.M.B. de Groot (Eds.), Handbook of Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Approaches (pp. 480-496). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
	Hull, R. & Vaid, J. (2006). Laterality and language experience. Laterality, 11(5), 436-464. [Paper]
	Vaid, J. (in press). The bilingual brain: What’s right? What’s left? In Heredia, R. & Altarriba, J. (Eds.), Introduction to Bilingualism: Principles and Processes. Taylor and Francis.
	Vaid, J. (in press). Neural substrates of language processing in bilinguals: Imagi(ni)ng the possibilities. In Srinivasan, N. & Gupta, A.K. (Eds.). Cognitive Science.
	Vaid, J. (in prep.). The bilingual brain revisited. In Li, P. & Green, D. (Eds.), Neuroscience and bilingualism: A cross-linguistic perspective, special issue of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
	Hull, R. & Vaid, J. (2007). Bilingual language lateralization: A meta-analytic tale of two hemispheres. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1987-2008. [Paper]

B. Test Battery

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

C. Empirical Studies

	Vaid, J. & Lambert, W.E. (1979). Differential cerebral involvement in the cognitive functioning of bilinguals. Brain and Language, 8, 92-110.
	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.
	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(2), 161-183.
	Vaid, J. & Corina, D. (1989). Visual field asymmetries in numerical size comparisons of digits, words, and signs. Brain and Language, 36, 117-126.
	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.
	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. & Pandit, R. (1991). Sentence interpretation in normal and aphasic Hindi speakers. Brain and Language, 41, 250-274.
	Vaid, J. & Park, K. (1997). Hemispheric asymmetries in reading Korean: Task matters. Brain and Language, 58, 115-124.
	Vaid, J. (2001). Lateralization of counting skill in bilinguals: A dual task study. Brain and Cognition, 46 (1-2), 14. [Abstract]
	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.
	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.

Conference Presentations

	Hall, D. G. & Vaid, J. (1989, Feb.). Bilingualism and brain lateralization: A meta‑analysis. Poster presentation, 15^th International Neuropsychological Society meeting, Vancouver.
	Green, A., Schweda Nicholson, N., Vaid, J., & White, N. (1989, Feb.). Hemispheric involvement in shadowing vs. interpreting: A dual task study of simultaneous interpreters and bilingual and monolingual controls. Poster presentation, 15th International Neuropsychological Society meeting, Vancouver.
	Green, A., Vaid, J., & Schweda Nicholson, N. (1989, Mar.). Why task analysis is important in dual task research. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Body for the Advancement of Brain, Behavior and Language Enterprises (BABBLE), Niagara Falls, Ontario.
	Vaid, J. (1989, Oct.). Repercussions of brain maturation on second language functioning. 14th Meeting of the Conference on Language Development, Boston University.
	Corina, D. & Vaid, J. (1990, May). Left hemisphere dominance ‑ linguistic or motoric? Poster presentation, TENNET, Universite de Quebec, Montreal.
	Vaid, J. (1990, June). Task matters more than script: A laterality study with Korean readers. Poster presentation, American Psychological Society, Dallas.
	Vaid, J. & Singh, M. (1991, Oct.). Linguistic scanning biases can affect performance on non‑linguistic neuropsychological tasks. Poster, National Academy of Neuropsychology, Dallas.
	Vaid, J. (1993, July). Left brain, right brain revisited: What we really know about laterality. NSF Summer Institute for Psychology Teachers, Texas A & M University.
	Vaid, J. (1997, Jan.). Brain bases of bilingual language functioning: What's right? What's left? Paper presented at panel on Neurolinguistics at 18th annual meeting of the South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
	Vaid, J. (1997, May). Deconstructing the bilingual brain: What's right? What's left? International Workshop on Psycholinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism, Universite of Provence, Aix.
	Vaid, J. (2000, June). Lateralization of counting skill in bilinguals: A dual task study. Poster presentation, Theoretical and Experimental Issues in Neuropsychology (TENNET), University of Quebec at Montreal.
	Vaid, J. & Hull, R. (2001, April). A tale of two hemispheres: A meta-analytic review of the bilingual brain. Poster, Third International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of the West of England, Bristol.
	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. (2004, Dec.) Neural substrates of language processing in bilinguals: Imagi(ni)ng the possibilities. Invited keynote address, International Cognitive Sciences Conference, University of Allahabad, India.

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WORD RECOGNITION ACROSS ORTHOGRAPHIES

Publications

	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. (1985). Numerical size comparisons in a phonologically transparent script. Perception and Psychophysics, 6, 592-595.
	Vaid, J. (1988). Asymmetries in tachistoscopic word recognition: Scanning effects re‑examined. International Journal of Neuroscience, 253-258.
	Vaid, J. & Singh, M. (1989). Asymmetries in the perception of facial affect: Is there an influence of reading habits? Neuropsychologia, 27(10), 1277-1287.
	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.
	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.
	Sakhuja, T., Gupta, G.C., Singh, M. & Vaid, J. (1996). Reading habits affect asymmetries in facial affect judgments: A replication. Brain and Cognition, 32(2), 162-165.
	Singh, M., Vaid, J. & Sakhuja, T. (2000). Reading/writing vs. handedness influences on line length estimation. Brain and Cognition, 43(1-3), 398-402.
	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 (2/3), 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 (2/3), 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. & Gupta, A. (2002). Exploring word recognition in a semi-alphabetic script: The case of Devanagari. Brain and Language, 81, 679-690.
	Vaid, J. & Padakannaya, P. (2004). (Guest Eds.). Special issue, Reading and Writing in Semi-syllabic Scripts, Reading and Writing: An Interdisiplinary Journal, 17(1-2).
	Vaid, J. & Padakannaya, P. (2004). Reading and writing in semi-syllabic scripts: An introduction. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 17, 1-6.
	Chen, H.-C. & Vaid, J. (2007). Word frequency interacts with the BOSS in orthographic processing of English polysyllable words. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22, 52-82. [Abstract]
	Chen, H.-C., Yamauchi, T., Tamaoka, K., & Vaid, J. (2007, in press). Homophonic and semantic priming of Japanese kanji words: A time course study. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [Abstract]

Conference Presentations

	Singh, M., Vaid, J., & Sakhuja, T. (1987, Oct.). Directional scanning and handedness: Influence on the direction and orientation of free-hand drawing. Poster presentation, National Academy of Neuropsychology, Chicago.
	Vaid, J. (1988, June). Effect of reading direction on nonlinguistic judgments: Evidence from Hindi and Urdu. Conference on Scripts and Literacy, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.
	Park, K. & Vaid, J. (1988, June). The role of script and phonology in lexical representation: Evidence from Korean biscriptals. Conference on Scripts and Literacy, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.
	Vaid, J. & Park, K. (1988, Nov.). The role of script and phonology in lexical representation: Korean data. Poster presentation, Psychonomics Society, Chicago.
	Vaid, J. & Frenck, C. (1990, Nov.). Language recognition in skilled bilinguals. Poster presentation, Psychonomics Society, New Orleans.
	Frenck‑Mestre, C. & Vaid, J. (1991, April). The role of orthographic cues in language identification: A bilingual study. Paper presented at Second Workshop on Language Comprehension, Universite de Provence, Aix-Marseille.
	Vaid, J. (1995, March). Orthographies and reading: A perspective from Devanagari. Psycholinguistics, University of Provence, Aix-Marseille, France.
	Frenck-Mestre, C. & Vaid, J. (1995, Nov.) Lexical processing in a second language. Poster presentation, Psychonomics Society, Los Angeles.
	Vaid, J. (1996, Nov.). Word recognition in a Devanagari script (Hindi). Poster presentation, Psychonomics Society, Chicago.
	Vaid, J. & Gupta, A. (1998, Aug.) Language processing across orthographies: An exploration of Devanagari. Symposium on Bilingualism, 25th International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Bellingham, WA.
	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.
	Gupta, A. & Vaid, J. (2002, June). Reading strategies of Hindi-speaking children with developmental dyslexia. Paper presented at 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. Poster, Multilingual and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Dyslexia, International Dyslexia Association, Washington, DC.
	Vaid, J. (2002, Dec.). Reading across orthographies: Preliminary findings from Hindi/Urdu and English. Poster, 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. Poster, International Association of Applied Linguistics, Singapore.
	Chen, H.-C., Vaid, J., & Choi, H. (2003, May). Orthographic processing of morphemic cued words by native and nonnative English readers. American Psychological Society, Atlanta.
	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.
	Chen, H.-C., Vaid, J., & Choi, H. (2003, May). Orthographic processing of morphemic cued words by native and nonnative English readers. American Psychological Society, Atlanta.
	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.
	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. Fourth International Mental Lexicon Conference, University of Windsor.
	Joshi, M., P. Padakannaya, S. Surendranath, C.N. Samveda, S. Karibasappa, J. Vaid (2004, June). Dissociation between decoding and comprehension: Evidence from a biliterate dyslexic and a biliterate hyperlexic. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Amsterdam.
	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.
	Vaid, J., Rao, C., Chen, H.-C., & Martinez, F. (2005, March). Orthography and the lexicon: Evidence from Hindi-English and Urdu-English biscriptals. 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. [Poster]
	Chen, H.-C., Vaid, J., & Bortfeld, H. (2006, April). Orthography constrains neural substrates involved in phonological processing: An optical imaging study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco. [Poster]
	Chen, H.-C. & Vaid, J. (2006, May). L1 to L2 transfer of syllabification effects by Spanish-English bilinguals. American Psychological Society, New York City. [Poster]
	Vaid, J., Rao, C., & Chen, H.-C. (2006, July). On the psycholinguistic significance of the bar in Hindi word recognition. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Vancouver. [Poster]
	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. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Vancouver. [Poster]
	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. [Poster]
	Chen, H.-C., Vaid, J., Yang, S.-C., & Wu, J.-T. (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. [Poster]
	Chen, H.-C. & Vaid, J. (2006, Nov.). The Syllabic Neighborhood Effect in Polysyllabic English Word Recognition. Poster presented at annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston. [Poster]
	Vaid, J., Rao, C., & Chen, H.-C. (2006, Nov.) Is the MOP the cleanest way? Word segmentation in Hindi-English readers. Psychonomics Society, Houston. [Poster]
	Vaid, J., Rao, C., & Chen, H.-C. (2007, July). Factors Influencing Word Recognition in An Alpha-Syllabic Indic Script: Evidence from Hindi. Poster presented at 14^th Annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Prague

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TASK/LANGUAGE SWITCHING

Conference Presentations

	Vaid, J., Widner, R. & Smith, S. (1994, June). Effect of switching languages on tip of the tongue (TOT) resolution rates. Poster presentation, American Psychological Society, Washington.
	Vaid, J., Widner, R. & Smith, S. (1995, July). Paraphrasing material results in increased tip-of-the-tongue resolution rates. Poster presentation, American Psychological Society, New York.
	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.

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PHRASE AND SENTENCE PROCESSING

Publications

	Vaid, J. (1980). Code-mixing in Indian films: The case of Hindi and English. Indian Linguistics, 41, 37‑44.
	Vaid, J. & Chengappa, S. (1988). Assigning linguistic roles: Sentence interpretation in normal and aphasic bilinguals. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 3(2), 161-183.
	Vaid, J. & Pandit, R. (1991). Sentence interpretation in normal and aphasic Hindi speakers. Brain and Language, 41, 250-274.

Conference Presentations

	Vaid, J. & Singh, M. (1987, March). Reading habits influence asymmetries in nonlinguistic perception and production. Paper presented at tenth annual meeting of BABBLE, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
	Vaid, J., Pandit, R. & Bates, E. (1987, June). 'The ball grab the cats': Sentence interpretation in normal and aphasic bilinguals. Paper presented at South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Cornell University, Ithaca.
	Heredia, R. & Vaid, J. (2002, March). Processing code-switched sentences: Effects of semantic constraint, guest word phonology and guest word frequency. Poster, Fifteenth annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York.
	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.
	Vaid, J., Lichtenberk, F. & Chen, H.-C. (2006, Oct.). On the processing of attributive possessive phrases. Poster, 2006 Mental Lexicon Conference, McGill University, Montreal. [Poster]

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HANDEDNESS, GESTURE AND LANGUAGE

Publications

	Vaid, J. & Stiles-Davis, J. (1989). Mirror-writing ability: An advantage for the left-handed? Brain and Language, 37, 616-627.
	Bates, E., O'Connell, B., Vaid, J., Sledge, P., & Oakes, L. (1986). Language and hand preference in early development. Developmental Neuropsychology, 2, 115.
	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. & Bellugi, U. (1992). The linguistic basis for left hemisphere specialization. Science, 255, 1258-1260. [Paper]
	Stoddard, J. & Vaid, J. (1996). Asymmetries in intermanual transfer of maze learning in right and left-handed adults. Neuropsychologia, 34, 605-608.
	Vaid, J. & Carr, J. (1999). Mirror-writing ability in right- and left-handed adults: Ipsilateral control? Brain and Cognition, 40 (1), 264-268.

Conference Presentations

	Vaid, J. & Stiles, J. (1992, Feb.) Mirror-writing ability: Effects of handedness, hand order and visual feedback. Poster presentation, International Neuropsychological Society, San Diego.
	Stoddard, J. & Vaid, J. (1994, May). Asymmetries in intermanual transfer in maze learning as a function of maze orientation. Poster presentation, TENNET, Universite de Quebec, Montreal.
	Vaid, J. & Carr, J. (1998, June). Mirror writing in right- and left-handed adults. Poster presentation, annual TENNET conference, University of Quebec, Montreal.

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LINGUISTIC INFLUENCES ON AUDITORY PERCEPTION

Conference Presentations

	Chalikia, M., Vaid, J. & Paterakis, L. (1998, Nov.) The tritone paradox as perceived by different linguistic groups. Poster presentation, Psychonomics Society, Dallas.
	Chalikia, M. & Vaid, J. (1999, Nov.) Do bilinguals perceive the tritone paradox as monolinguals do? Poster presentation, Acoustical Society of America annual meeting, Columbus, OH.
	Chalikia, M. & Vaid, J. (1999, Nov.) Perception of the tritone paradox by listeners in Texas: A re-examination of envelope effects. Poster presentation, Acoustical Society of America annual meeting, Columbus, OH.
	Chalikia, M., Miller, K.J., & Vaid, J. (2001, August). The tritone paradox is perceived differently by Koreans and Americans. Paper presented at 109^th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.
	Chalikia, M. & Vaid, J. (2002, Nov.). What confidence judgments reveal about the perception of the tritone paradox. Poster, Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting, Kansas City.

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HUMOR PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION: COGNITIVE, NEURAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS

Publications

	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. & Kobler, J.B. (2000). Laughing matters: Toward a structural and neural account. Brain and Cognition, 42, 139-141. Millenium Issue.
	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). Humor and laughter. In V.S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the human brain, Vol.2. (pp. 505-516). San Diego: Elsevier.
	Vaid, J., Hull, R., Heredia, R., Gerkens, D. & Martinez, F. (2003). Getting a joke: The time course of meaning activation in verbal humor. Journal of Pragmatics, 35(9), 1431-1449. [Paper]
	Hull, R., Chen, H.-C., Vaid, J. & Martinez, F. (2005). Great expectations: Humor comprehension across hemispheres. Brain and Cognition, 57, 281-282. [Abstract]

Conference Presentations

	Vaid, J. (1996, Sept.) The evolution of humor. Conference on Evolution of the Psyche, Texas A & M University.
	Hull, R. & Vaid, J. (1999, June). Generating humorous similarities between concepts: A cognitive experimental inquiry. Paper presented at International Society for Humor Studies, Holy Names College, Oakland.
	Hull, R., Vaid, J., Martinez, F. & Gerkens, D. (2000, Nov.). Favored vs. surprising meaning activation in joke comprehension: A web-based investigation. Poster, 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. Poster presented at the 41^st meeting of the Psychonomics Society, New Orleans.
	Hull, R. & Vaid, J. (2001, July). Cognitive basis of incongruity in verbal humor: An experimental inquiry. Poster, Annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of California, Santa Barbara.
	Vaid, J., Heredia, R., Hull, R., Martinez, F., & Gerkens, D. (2001, Nov.). On getting a joke: Multiple meaning activation in humor comprehension. Poster presented at the 42^nd meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Orlando.
	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, TENNET, University of Quebec, Montreal. (Abstract in press, Brain and Cognition). [Abstract]
	Chen, H.-C. & Vaid, J. (2004, Nov.). Ha ha as Aha: Lateralization of insight in joke processing. Poster, Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis. [Poster]

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HUMOR PERCEPTION ACROSS GENDER, LANGUAGES/CULTURES

Publications

	Vaid, J. (2000). New approaches to conceptual representations in bilingual memory: The case for studying humor interpretation. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 3(1), 28-30.
	Vaid, J. (2006) Joking across languages: Perspectives on humor, emotion, and bilingualism. In A. Pavlenko (Ed.), Bilingual minds: Emotional experience, expression, and representation (pp. 152-182). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
	Vaid, J, Choi, H., Chen, H.-C., & Friedman, M. (forthcoming). Perceiving and responding to embarrassment across languages: Implications for the bilingual mental lexicon. Mental Lexicon.

Conference Presentations

	Quiros, A. & Vaid, J. (1997, March). Male and female perceptions of humor in daily life. Paper presented at annual meeting of South Central Women's Studies, Texas A & M University.
	Quiros, A. & Vaid, J. (1998, Feb.) Gendered perceptions of humor uses and effectiveness. Poster presentation, Eastern Psychological Association, Boston.
	Vaid, J. & Hull, R. (1998, Nov.). Humor appreciation and the status quo: An empirical study. Poster presentation, Psychonomics Society, Dallas.
	Vaid, J. & Hull, R. (1998, May). Perceptions of humor of typical vs. atypical gender role portrayal. Poster presentation, Texas Conference on Cognition, ARMADILLO, Rice University.
	Quiros, A. & Vaid, J. (1999, June). Perceptions of conversational uses of humor by men and women as ascribed to the same vs. the opposite sex. Paper presented at International Society for Humor Studies, Holy Names College, Oakland.
	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.
	Vaid, J., Chen, H-C., Choi, H. & Martinez, F. (2003, Oct.). Cultural identity affects joking across languages: Survey data from Spanish-English speakers in Laredo, Texas. Poster, Southwest Cognition Conference, Texas A&M University.
	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.
	Vaid, J. (2004, July). Playing with and through languages: Bilingual humor as artful transgression Invited Forum Lecture, International Conference on Globalization and World Englishes: Identity and Creativity, Syracuse University.
	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.
	Vaid, J., Chen, H.-C., Rao, C., & Manzano, I. (2006, May). Joke detection: Is there a bilingual and/or brokering advantage? Conference on Language Acquisition and Bilingualism, Toronto. [Poster]
	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.

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CREATIVE THOUGHT

Publications

	Ward, T., Smith, S. & Vaid, J. (Eds.). (1997/2001). Creative Thought: An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
	Ward, T., Smith, S., & Vaid, J. (1997/2001). 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.
	Friedman, M., Chen, H.-C., & Vaid, J. (2006). Proverb preferences across cultures: Dialecticality or poeticality? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 353-359. [Abstract]

Conference Presentations

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.

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LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY

Publications

Vaid, J. (forthcoming). Fair enough? Color and the commodification of self in Indian matrimonials. In E. Nakano (Ed.), Color Hierarchies: Transnational Perspectives on the Social and Cultural Significance of Skin Color.

Conference Presentations

	Menon, R. & Vaid, J. (1987, Nov.). The ideal mate: An analysis of matrimonial advertisements in the Indian immigrant press. Paper presented at annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
	Vaid, J. (1993, June). From sham marriages to innocent divorces: A study of matrimonial ads in the immigrant press. Paper presented at Association for Asian American Studies, Ithaca.
	Vaid, J. & Luthra, R. (1994, April). The ABC(D)s of matrimonial advertisements: Reading between the lines. Paper presented at annual conference on Multi‑Ethnic Literature of the United States, "Contentious Intersections, Still: Race, Gender, Class, Ethnicity." Texas A & M University.
	Vaid, J. (1994, Oct.) Stigmatized or self-actualized? Gendered portrayals of divorce in Indian matrimonials. Paper presented at national South Asian Women's Conference, "Forging New Identities in Cross-Cultural America," Los Angeles.
	Vaid, J. (2005, Dec.). Fair enough? Color and the commodification of self in Indian matrimonials. Invited address, Conference on Hierarchies of Color: Transnational Perspectives on the Social and Cultural Significance of Skin-tone Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley.

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