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Overview

Julia L. Evans is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology as well as Cognitive Neuroscience. Their work addresses topics related to language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, and the neurobiology of language and bilingualism.

The scientist has published research on child language comprehension, neurodevelopmental disorders, and language impairment. Some of their recent papers include:

  • A New Memory Perspective on the Sentence Comprehension Deficits of School-Age Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Implications for Theory, Assessment, and Intervention (2021), published in Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
  • Neural patterns elicited by lexical processing in adolescents with specific language impairment: support for the procedural deficit hypothesis? (2022), published in Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Consistency of a Nonword Repetition Task to Discriminate Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder in Catalan-Spanish and European Portuguese Speaking Children (2021), published in Children
  • Statistical word learning in Catalan-Spanish and English-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder (2021), published in International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
  • Tracking Changes in Frontal Lobe Hemodynamic Response in Individual Adults With Developmental Language Disorder Following HD tDCS Enhanced Phonological Working Memory Training: An fNIRS Feasibility Study (2020), published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Frequent coauthors that collaborate with Julia L. Evans include James W. Montgomery, Ronald B. Gillam, Amy Berglund-Barraza, Nadia Ahufinger, and Laura Ferinu.

Their work often appears in publication venues such as Frontiers in Psychology, Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, and Children.

Topics central to their research include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies

Their subfields within psychology and neuroscience consist mainly of developmental and educational psychology and cognitive neuroscience, with minor involvement in molecular biology, cardiology, cardiovascular medicine, and social psychology.

Best Publications

  • An examination of verbal working memory capacity in children with specific language impairment.

    Susan Ellis Weismer;Julia Evans;Linda J. Hesketh

  • Can Infants Map Meaning to Newly Segmented Words?: Statistical Segmentation and Word Learning

    Katharine Graf Estes;Julia L. Evans;Martha W. Alibali;Jenny R. Saffran

  • Differences in the Nonword Repetition Performance of Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment: A Meta-Analysis

    Katharine Graf Estes;Julia L. Evans;Nicole M. Else-Quest

  • Statistical Learning in Children With Specific Language Impairment

    Julia L. Evans;Jenny R. Saffran;Kathryn Robe-Torres

  • Uses and interpretations of non‐word repetition tasks in children with and without specific language impairments (SLI)

    Jeffry A. Coady;Julia L. Evans

  • Complex Sentence Comprehension and Working Memory in Children With Specific Language Impairment

    James W. Montgomery;Julia L. Evans

  • Utility of the MacArthur—Bates Communicative Development Inventory in Identifying Language Abilities of Late-Talking and Typically Developing Toddlers

    John Heilmann;Susan Ellis Weismer;Julia Evans;Christine Hollar

  • THE ROLE OF GESTURE IN CHILDREN'S COMPREHENSION OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE: NOW THEY NEED IT, NOW THEY DON'T

    Nicole M. McNeil;Martha W. Alibali;Julia L. Evans

  • The Role of Processing Limitations in Early Identification of Specific Language Impairment

    Susan Ellis Weismer;Julia L. Evans

  • Longitudinal relationships between lexical and grammatical development in typical and late-talking children.

    Maura Jones Moyle;Susan Ellis Weismer;Julia L. Evans;Mary J. Lindstrom

  • Language sample collection and analysis: interview compared to freeplay assessment contexts.

    Julia L. Evans;Holly K. Craig

  • Lexical leverage: category knowledge boosts real-time novel word recognition in 2-year-olds

    Arielle Borovsky;Erica M. Ellis;Erica M. Ellis;Julia L. Evans;Julia L. Evans;Jeffrey L. Elman

  • Divergence of Verbal Expression and Embodied Knowledge: Evidence from Speech and Gesture in Children with Specific Language Impairment.

    Julia L. Evans;Martha W. Alibali;Nicole M. McNeil

  • Beyond capacity limitations: determinants of word recall performance on verbal working memory span tasks in children with SLI.

    Elina Mainela-Arnold;Julia L. Evans

  • Lexical representations in children with SLI: evidence from a frequency-manipulated gating task.

    Elina Mainela-Arnold;Julia L. Evans;Jeffry A. Coady

  • Pragmatics and SLI: within-group variations in discourse behaviors.

    Holly K. Craig;Julia L. Evans

  • Explaining lexical-semantic deficits in specific language impairment: the role of phonological similarity, phonological working memory, and lexical competition.

    Elina Mainela-Arnold;Julia L. Evans;Jeffry A. Coady

  • Turn Exchange Characteristics of SLI Children's Simultaneous and Nonsimultaneous Speech

    Holly K. Craig;Julia L. Evans

  • Relation of auditory attention and complex sentence comprehension in children with specific language impairment: A preliminary study

    James W. Montgomery;Julia L. Evans;Ronald B. Gillam

  • An emergent account of language impairments in children with SLI: implications for assessment and intervention.

    Julia L Evans

  • Specific Language Impairment

    Julia L. Evans;Julia L. Evans;Timothy T. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald B. Gillam
Ronald B. Gillam Utah State University
Martha W. Alibali
Martha W. Alibali University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susan Ellis Weismer
Susan Ellis Weismer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jeffrey L. Elman
Jeffrey L. Elman University of California, San Diego
Lyn S. Turkstra
Lyn S. Turkstra McMaster University
Jamison D. Fargo
Jamison D. Fargo Utah State University
Jenny R. Saffran
Jenny R. Saffran University of Wisconsin–Madison
Nicole M. McNeil
Nicole M. McNeil University of Notre Dame
Hervé Abdi
Hervé Abdi The University of Texas at Dallas
Denise C. Park
Denise C. Park The University of Texas at Dallas

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