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Overview

Janet G. van Hell is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work also intersects with language and linguistics, as well as linguistics and language as subfields.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, reading and literacy development, phonetics and phonology research, language development and disorders, creativity in education and neuroscience, linguistic variation and morphology, and language, metaphor, and cognition.

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include Roger E. Beaty, Rafał Jończyk, John Patterson, Dan R. Johnson, and Mathias Benedek.

Janet G. van Hell has published regularly in several academic venues, including:

  • Language Learning
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Brain and Language
  • Journal of Neurolinguistics

Their recent papers encompass a range of studies in language learning, bilingualism, and cognitive processing:

  • Learning Novel Word Meanings: An ERP Study on Lexical Consolidation in Monolingual, Inexperienced Foreign Language Learners (2020, Language Learning)
  • Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages (2023, Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts)
  • Interactive Alignment and Lexical Triggering of Code-Switching in Bilingual Dialogue (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Bilingualism and Processing Speed in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder (2020, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research)
  • Neural signatures of inhibitory control in intra-sentential code-switching: Evidence from fMRI (2020, Journal of Neurolinguistics)

Best Publications

  • Foreign language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts

    Janet G. van Hell;Ton Dijkstra

  • Conceptual representation in bilingual memory: Effects of concreteness and cognate status in word association.

    Janet G. Van Hell;Annette M. B. De Groot

  • The Revised Hierarchical Model: A critical review and assessment

    Judith F. Kroll;Janet G. Van Hell;Natasha Tokowicz;David W. Green

  • Executive functions and inhibitory control in multilingual children: Evidence from second-language learners, bilinguals, and trilinguals

    Gregory J. Poarch;Janet G. van Hell;Janet G. van Hell

  • ERPs reveal individual differences in morphosyntactic processing.

    Darren Tanner;Janet G. Van Hell;Janet G. Van Hell

  • Keyword Mnemonics Versus Rote Rehearsal: Learning Concrete and Abstract Foreign Words by Experienced and Inexperienced Learners

    Janet G. van Hell;Andrea Candia Mahn

  • Sentence context modulates visual word recognition and translation in bilinguals

    Janet G. van Hell;Annette M.B. de Groot

  • Second Language Proficiency and Cross-Language Lexical Activation

    Janet G. van Hell;Darren Tanner

  • Event-related brain potentials and second language learning: syntactic processing in late L2 learners at different L2 proficiency levels

    Janet G. van Hell;Natasha Tokowicz

  • Cross-language activation in children’s speech production: Evidence from second language learners, bilinguals, and trilinguals

    Gregory J. Poarch;Janet G. van Hell;Janet G. van Hell

  • DISENTANGLING CONTEXT AVAILABILITY AND CONCRETENESS IN LEXICAL DECISION AND WORD TRANSLATION

    Janet G. van Hell;Annette M. B. de Groot

  • Syntactic alignment and shared word order in code-switched sentence production: Evidence from bilingual monologue and dialogue

    Gerrit Jan Kootstra;Janet G. van Hell;Janet G. van Hell;Ton Dijkstra

  • Number-of-translation norms for Dutch-English translation pairs: a new tool for examining language production.

    Natasha Tokowicz;Judith F. Kroll;Annette M. B. de Groot;Janet G. van Hell

  • Word recognition in child second language learners: Evidence from cognates and false friends.

    Pascal Brenders;Janet G. van Hell;Janet G. van Hell;Ton Dijkstra

  • Testing the Language Mode Hypothesis Using Trilinguals

    Ton Dijkstra;Janet G. van Hell

  • Priming of code-switches in sentences: The role of lexical repetition, cognates, and language proficiency

    Gerrit Jan Kootstra;Janet G. Van Hell;Ton Dijkstra

  • Tracking lexical consolidation with ERPs: Lexical and semantic-priming effects on N400 and LPC responses to newly-learned words

    Iske Bakker;Atsuko Takashima;Atsuko Takashima;Janet G. van Hell;Janet G. van Hell;Gabriele Janzen

  • Clause packaging in writing and speech: A cross-linguistic developmental analysis

    Ludo Verhoeven;Melina Aparici;Dalia Cahana-Amitay;Janet G. van Hell

  • Richness of information about novel words influences how episodic and semantic memory networks interact during lexicalization

    Atsuko Takashima;Iske Bakker;Janet G. van Hell;Janet G. van Hell;Gabriele Janzen

  • Cognitive Control Ability Mediates Prediction Costs in Monolinguals and Bilinguals

    Megan Zirnstein;Janet G. van Hell;Judith F. Kroll;Judith F. Kroll

  • Conceptual representation in bilingual memory: Effects of concreteness and cognate status in word association

    J.G. Hell;A.M.B. de Groot

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. McQueen
James M. McQueen Radboud University
Ton Dijkstra
Ton Dijkstra Radboud University
Judith F. Kroll
Judith F. Kroll University of California, Irvine
Ludo Verhoeven
Ludo Verhoeven Radboud University
Jelle Jolles
Jelle Jolles Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tamara van Gog
Tamara van Gog Utrecht University
Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer
Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer Maastricht University
Suparna Rajaram
Suparna Rajaram Stony Brook University
David A. Rosenbaum
David A. Rosenbaum University of California, Riverside
Laurie Beth Feldman
Laurie Beth Feldman University at Albany, State University of New York

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