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Jeanette Altarriba is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, and Language and Linguistics.

Their work encompasses key topics related to Memory Processes and Influences, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Categorization, Perception, and Language, Reading and Literacy Development, Language, Discourse, and Communication Strategies, as well as Cultural Differences and Values.

Jeanette Altarriba has published multiple papers, including:

  • The Psychology of Communication: The Interplay Between Language and Culture Through Time (2022), Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Divergent Thinking in Survival Processing: Did Our Ancestors Benefit From Creative Thinking? (2021), Evolutionary Psychology

Altarriba has collaborated frequently with several coauthors. Notable frequent collaborators include Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs, Stephanie A. Kazanas, Dana Basnight-Brown, Allison M. Wilck, and Ahmed Masrai.

Their publications have appeared in various academic venues, with multiple papers featured in Languages, International Journal of Bilingualism, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, as well as individual contributions to Memory & Cognition and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Bilingual Language Mixing: Why Do Bilinguals Code-Switch?:

    Roberto R. Heredia;Jeanette Altarriba

  • Concreteness, context availability, and imageability ratings and word associations for abstract, concrete, and emotion words.

    Jeanette Altarriba;Lisa M. Bauer;Claudia Benvenuto

  • The influence of lexical and conceptual constraints on reading mixed-language sentences: Evidence from eye fixations and naming times

    Jeanette Altarriba;Judith F. Kroll;Alexandra Sholl;Keith Rayner

  • Conceptual and Lexical Development in Second Language Acquisition

    Jeanette Altarriba;Katherine M. Mathis

  • Current perspectives on using linguistic and cultural factors in counseling the Hispanic client.

    Jeanette Altarriba;Azara L. Santiago-Rivera

  • The distinctiveness of emotion concepts: a comparison between emotion, abstract, and concrete words

    Jeanette Altarriba;Lisa M. Bauer

  • Depth of spreading activation revisited: Semantic mediated priming occurs in lexical decisions

    Timothy P McNamara;Jeanette Altarriba

  • The role of language in therapy with the Spanish-English bilingual client.

    Azara L. Santiago-Rivera;Jeanette Altarriba

  • Differences in semantic and translation priming across languages: the role of language direction and language dominance.

    Dana M. Basnight-Brown;Jeanette Altarriba

  • Does cariño equal “liking”?: A theoretical approach to conceptual nonequivalence between languages

    Jeanette Altarriba

  • An Introduction to Bilingualism : Principles and Processes

    Jeanette Altarriba;Roberto R. Heredia

  • The Representation of Translation Equivalents in Bilingual Memory

    Jeanette Altarriba

  • Semantic codes are not used in integrating information across eye fixations in reading: Evidence from fluent Spanish-English bilinguals

    Jeanette Altarriba;Gretchen Kambe;Alexander Pollatsek;Keith Rayner

  • The automatic access of emotion: Emotional Stroop effects in Spanish–English bilingual speakers

    Tina M. Sutton;Jeanette Altarriba;Jennifer L. Gianico;Dana M. Basnight-Brown

  • Counseling the Hispanic Client: Cuban Americans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans.

    Jeanette Altarriba;Lisa M. Bauer

  • Methodological considerations in performing semantic- and translation-priming experiments across languages.

    Jeanette Altarriba;Dana M. Basnight-Brown

  • The representation of emotion vs. emotion-laden words in English and Spanish in the Affective Simon Task

    Jeanette Altarriba;Dana M. Basnight-Brown

  • Therapists’ views on working with bilingual Spanish–English speaking clients: A qualitative investigation.

    Azara L. Santiago-Rivera;Jeanette Altarriba;Norma Poll;Normaris Gonzalez-Miller

  • Color associations to emotion and emotion-laden words: A collection of norms for stimulus construction and selection

    Tina M. Sutton;Jeanette Altarriba

  • Bilingual sentence processing

    Roberto R. Heredia;Jeanette Altarriba

  • Differences in semantic and translation priming across languages: The role of language direction and language dominance. Memory & Cognition,

    Jeanette Altarriba;Dana M Basnight-Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Judith F. Kroll
Judith F. Kroll University of California, Irvine
Timothy P. McNamara
Timothy P. McNamara Vanderbilt University
Keith Rayner
Keith Rayner University of California, San Diego
Alexander Pollatsek
Alexander Pollatsek University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mitch Earleywine
Mitch Earleywine University at Albany, State University of New York
Nicholas T. Van Dam
Nicholas T. Van Dam University of Melbourne
Marc Brysbaert
Marc Brysbaert Ghent University

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