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.