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Overview

Christine Chiarello is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional subfields of study include Developmental and Educational Psychology, Linguistics and Language, Artificial Intelligence, and Education.

The main topics explored in their work encompass Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Language Development and Disorders, Multilingual Education and Policy, Speech and Dialogue Systems, Child Development and Digital Technology, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Christine Chiarello's publication record includes papers addressing diverse aspects of language experience, cognitive processes, and social psychological perspectives. Recent papers include:

  • Assessing language background and experiences among heritage bilinguals (2022) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Using the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) to Capture the Day-to-Day Linguistic Experiences of Young Adults (2022) published in Collabra Psychology
  • Evidence for cognitive and brain reserve supporting executive control of memory in lifelong bilinguals (2021) published in Neuropsychologia
  • Are women really (not) more talkative than men? A registered report of binary gender similarities/differences in daily word use (2025) published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Issue Information (2023) published in European Journal Of Haematology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Alessandra Macbeth, Natsuki Atagi, Michelle Bruni, Jessica L. Montag, and Megan L. Robbins. The venues in which Christine Chiarello commonly publishes reflect an interdisciplinary approach, including Frontiers in Psychology, Collabra Psychology, Neuropsychologia, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and European Journal Of Haematology.

Best Publications

  • Semantic and associative priming in the cerebral hemispheres: Some words do, some words don't … sometimes, some places

    Christine Chiarello;Curt Burgess;Lorie Richards;Alma Pollock

  • Right hemisphere language comprehension: Perspectives from cognitive neuroscience.

    Mark Jung Beeman;Christine Chiarello

  • Complementary Right- and Left-Hemisphere Language Comprehension

    Mark Jung Beeman;Christine Chiarello

  • Size matters: cerebral volume influences sex differences in neuroanatomy.

    Christiana M. Leonard;Stephen Towler;Suzanne Welcome;Laura K. Halderman

  • A house divided? Cognitive functioning with callosal agenesis.

    Christine Chiarello

  • Hemisphere dynamics in lexical access: automatic and controlled priming.

    Christine Chiarello

  • Adult age differences in implicit and explicit memory: time course and encoding effects.

    Christine Chiarello;William J. Hoyer

  • Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying Metaphor Comprehension and Other Figurative Language

    Curt Burgess;Christine Chiarello

  • Varieties of interhemispheric inhibition: or How to keep a good hemisphere down.

    Christine Chiarello;Lisa Maxfield

  • Another look at categorical priming in the cerebral hemispheres.

    Christine Chiarello;Lorie Richards

  • Sentence context and lexical ambiguity resolution by the two hemispheres

    Miriam Faust;Christine Chiarello

  • Interpretation of Word Meanings by the Cerebral Hemispheres: One is Not Enough

    Christine Chiarello

  • Lateralization of Lexical Processes in the Normal Brain: A Review of Visual Half-field Research

    Christine Chiarello

  • Semantic priming with abstract and concrete words: differential asymmetry may be postlexical.

    Christine Chiarello;Jessica Senehi;Sarah Nuding

  • Understanding metaphors: Is the right hemisphere uniquely involved?

    Natalie A. Kacinik;Christine Chiarello

  • Right Hemisphere Contributions to Lexical Semantics

    Christine Chiarello

  • Visual cerebral lateralization over phases of the menstrual cycle: a preliminary investigation.

    Christine Chiarello;Monica A McMahon;Kim Schaefer

  • Imageability and distributional typicality measures of nouns and verbs in contemporary English.

    Christine Chiarello;Connie Shears;Kevin Lund

  • Semantic Priming in the Intact Brain: Separate Roles for the Right and Left Hemispheres?

    Christine Chiarello

  • Right Hemisphere Language Comprehension

    Antonia Chandrasegaran;Mark Beeman;Christine Chiarello

  • Priming of strong semantic relations in the left and right visual fields: a time-course investigation.

    Christine Chiarello;Stella Liu;Connie Shears;Nancy Quan

Frequent Co-Authors

Christiana M. Leonard
Christiana M. Leonard University of Florida
Miriam Faust
Miriam Faust Bar-Ilan University
Nina F. Dronkers
Nina F. Dronkers University of California, Davis
Arturo E. Hernandez
Arturo E. Hernandez University of Houston
Mark A. Eckert
Mark A. Eckert Medical University of South Carolina
William J. Hoyer
William J. Hoyer Syracuse University
Virginia W. Berninger
Virginia W. Berninger University of Washington
Judith F. Kroll
Judith F. Kroll University of California, Irvine
Joel B. Talcott
Joel B. Talcott Aston University
Laurie E. Cutting
Laurie E. Cutting Vanderbilt University

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