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Arturo E. Hernandez

Arturo E. Hernandez

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
7012
World Ranking
9740
National Ranking
5144

Overview

Arturo E. Hernandez is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology and neuroscience, with particular emphasis on developmental and educational psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Kelly A. Vaughn
  • My Viet Ha Nguyen
  • Juliana Ronderos
  • Yinan Xu
  • Hannah Claussenius-Kalman

Hernandez has published regularly in key venues relevant to bilingualism and language processing. The most common publication venues include:

  • Brain and Language
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Selected recent publications by Arturo E. Hernandez include:

  • "Expertise, ecosystem, and emergentism: Dynamic developmental bilingualism," 2021, Brain and Language
  • "Cortical Thickness in bilingual and monolingual children: Relationships to language use and language skill," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "Prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has a domain-specific impact on bilingual language control," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "What does a critical period for second language acquisition mean?: Reflections on Hartshorne et al. (2018)," 2020, Cognition
  • "German in childhood and Latin in adolescence: On the bidialectal nature of lexical access in English," 2021, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

In addition to journal publications, Hernandez has contributed to book literature. One known publication is:

  • ESTÁGIO SUPERVISIONADO E EDUCAÇÃO BÁSICA: TEORIAS, PRÁTICAS E RELATOS DE EXPERIÊNCIAS, 2025, Editora Schreiben eBooks

Best Publications

  • Language switching and language representation in Spanish-English bilinguals: an fMRI study.

    Arturo E. Hernandez;Mirella Dapretto;John C. Mazziotta;Susan Y. Bookheimer

  • In search of the language switch: An fMRI study of picture naming in Spanish-English bilinguals.

    Arturo E. Hernandez;Antigona Martinez;Kathryn Kohnert;Kathryn Kohnert

  • Age of Acquisition: Its Neural and Computational Mechanisms.

    Arturo E Hernandez;Ping Li

  • The emergence of competing modules in bilingualism

    Arturo Hernandez;Ping Li;Brian MacWhinney

  • Balancing bilinguals: lexical-semantic production and cognitive processing in children learning Spanish and English.

    Kathryn J. Kohnert;Elizabeth Bates;Arturo E. Hernandez

  • Bilingual performance on the boston naming test: preliminary norms in Spanish and English.

    Kathryn J. Kohnert;Kathryn J. Kohnert;Arturo E. Hernandez;Arturo E. Hernandez;Elizabeth Bates

  • Gender priming in Italian

    Elizabeth Bates;Antonella Devescovi;Arturo Hernandez;Luigi Pizzamiglio

  • Bilingual Sentence Processing

    Arturo E. Hernández;Eva M. Fernández;Noemí Aznar-besé

  • Language switching in the bilingual brain: What’s next?

    Arturo E. Hernandez

  • Impact of language proficiency and orthographic transparency on bilingual word reading: an fMRI investigation.

    Gayane Meschyan;Arturo E. Hernandez

  • Gender and lexical access in Italian

    Elizabeth Bates;Antonella Devescovi;Luigi Pizzamiglio;Simona D’amico

  • On-line sentence interpretation in Spanish–English bilinguals: What does it mean to be “in between”?

    Arturo E. Hernandez;Elizabeth A. Bates;Luis X. Avila

  • Aging and Language Switching in Bilinguals

    Arturo E. Hernandez;Kathryn J. Kohnert

  • Is native-language decoding skill related to second-language learning?

    Gayane Meschyan;Arturo Hernandez

  • Distinct brain representations for early and late learned words.

    Christian J Fiebach;Angela D Friederici;Karsten Müller;D.Yves von Cramon

  • Processing across the language boundary: a cross-modal priming study of Spanish-English bilinguals.

    Arturo E. Hernandez;Elizabeth A. Bates;Luis X. Avila

  • Executive function is necessary to enhance lexical processing in a less proficient L2: Evidence from fMRI during picture naming

    Arturo E. Hernandez;Gayane Meschyan

  • The Bilingual Brain

    Arturo E. Hernandez

  • Age of acquisition modulates neural activity for both regular and irregular syntactic functions

    Arturo E. Hernandez;Juliane Hofmann;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Neuroemergentism: A Framework for Studying Cognition and the Brain.

    Arturo E. Hernandez;Hannah L. Claussenius-Kalman;Juliana Ronderos;Anny P. Castilla-Earls

  • The handbook of cognitive neuropsychology: What deficits reveal about the human mind

    Arturo E. Hernandez

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Christine Chiarello
Christine Chiarello University of California, Riverside
Elena L. Grigorenko
Elena L. Grigorenko University of Houston
Luigi Pizzamiglio
Luigi Pizzamiglio Sapienza University of Rome
Mirella Dapretto
Mirella Dapretto University of California, Los Angeles
Viorica Marian
Viorica Marian Northwestern University
Brian MacWhinney
Brian MacWhinney Carnegie Mellon University
Sian L. Beilock
Sian L. Beilock Barnard College
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Christian J. Fiebach
Christian J. Fiebach Goethe University Frankfurt

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