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Debra Titone

Debra Titone

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Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
8608
World Ranking
6674
National Ranking
448

Overview

Debra Titone is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and neuroscience. Their work focuses on bilingualism, language development, and cognitive processes, with a substantial number of publications exploring the neurobiology of language and bilingualism as well as language acquisition and cognition.

Their main fields of study include Psychology and Neuroscience, with significant engagement in these subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, and Linguistics and Language.

Research topics addressed by Titone include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research

Frequent co-authors with whom Titone has collaborated are:

  • Mehrgol Tiv
  • Jason W. Gullifer
  • Pauline Palma
  • Shari R. Baum
  • Esteban Hernández-Rivera

Titone has published regularly in several key venues, including:

  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
  • Applied Psycholinguistics
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Recent papers include:

  • Rethinking multilingual experience through a Systems Framework of Bilingualism, 2022, Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Bilingual language experience as a multidimensional spectrum: Associations with objective and subjective language proficiency, 2020, Applied Psycholinguistics
  • Engaging proactive control: Influences of diverse language experiences using insights from machine learning, 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Does race impact speech perception? An account of accented speech in two different multilingual locales, 2022, Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • The Quest for Signals in Noise: Leveraging Experiential Variation to Identify Bilingual Phenotypes, 2021, Languages

Best Publications

  • Human relational memory requires time and sleep

    Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen;Peter T. Hu;Jessica D. Payne;Debra Titone

  • On the compositional and noncompositional nature of idiomatic expressions

    Debra A. Titone;Cynthia M. Connine

  • Bilingual lexical access in context: evidence from eye movements during reading.

    Maya R. Libben;Debra A. Titone

  • Do the Beginnings of Spoken Words Have a Special Status in Auditory Word Recognition

    Cynthia M. Connine;Dawn G. Blasko;Debra Titone

  • Hippocampal activation during transitive inference in humans.

    Stephan Heckers;Martin Zalesak;Anthony P. Weiss;Tali Ditman

  • Characterizing the social diversity of bilingualism using language entropy

    Jason W. Gullifer;Debra Titone

  • The multidetermined nature of idiom processing

    Maya R. Libben;Debra A. Titone

  • Moving toward a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging

    Shari Baum;Debra Titone

  • Making Sense of Word Senses : The Comprehension of Polysemy Depends on Sense Overlap

    Ekaterini Klepousniotou;Debra Titone;Carolina Romero

  • Descriptive Norms for 171 Idiomatic Expressions: Familiarity, Compositionality, Predictability, and Literality

    Debra A. Titone;Cynthia M. Connine

  • Bilingual experience and resting-state brain connectivity: Impacts of L2 age of acquisition and social diversity of language use on control networks

    Jason W. Gullifer;Jason W. Gullifer;Xiaoqian J. Chai;Veronica Whitford;Irina Pivneva

  • Comprehension of idiomatic expressions: Effects of predictability and literality.

    Debra A. Titone;Cynthia M. Connine

  • Bilingual Lexical Access during L1 Sentence Reading: The Effects of L2 Knowledge, Semantic Constraint, and L1-L2 Intermixing.

    Debra Titone;Maya Libben;Julie Mercier;Veronica Whitford

  • Similarity mapping in spoken word recognition

    Cynthia M. Connine;Debra Titone;Thomas Deelman;Dawn Blasko

  • Second-language experience modulates first- and second-language word frequency effects: Evidence from eye movement measures of natural paragraph reading

    Veronica Whitford;Debra Titone

  • Transitive inference in schizophrenia: impairments in relational memory organization.

    Debra Titone;Tali Ditman;Philip S Holzman;Howard Eichenbaum

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation coregistered with MRI: a comparison of a guided versus blind stimulation technique and its effect on evoked compound muscle action potentials

    Laverne Dennis Gugino;J Rafael Romero;Linda Susan Aglio;Debra Titone

  • Idiom processing in schizophrenia: literal implausibility saves the day for idiom priming.

    Debra Titone;Philip S. Holzman;Deborah L. Levy

  • Contextual insensitivity in schizophrenic language processing: Evidence from lexical ambiguity.

    Debra Titone;Deborah L. Levy;Philip S. Holzman

  • Executive control modulates cross-language lexical activation during L2 reading: evidence from eye movements

    Irina Pivneva;Julie Mercier;Debra Titone

  • Hemispheric Differences in Context Sensitivity During Lexical Ambiguity Resolution

    Debra Titone

Frequent Co-Authors

Shari R. Baum
Shari R. Baum McGill University
Natalie A. Phillips
Natalie A. Phillips Concordia University
Gina R. Kuperberg
Gina R. Kuperberg Tufts University
Arthur Wingfield
Arthur Wingfield Brandeis University
Philip S. Holzman
Philip S. Holzman Harvard University
Penny M. Pexman
Penny M. Pexman University of Calgary
Michael J. Coleman
Michael J. Coleman Brigham and Women's Hospital
Corinne Cather
Corinne Cather Harvard University
Caroline Palmer
Caroline Palmer McGill University
Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University

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