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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jyotsna Vaid is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Psychology, with a special emphasis on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Gender Studies, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Categorization, Perception, and Language
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language Development and Disorders

Jyotsna Vaid has published research in various academic venues. The most frequent publication sources include:

  • Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science
  • International Journal of Bilingualism
  • Frontiers in Sociology
  • International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
  • Journal of Memory and Language

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their work:

  • "Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia" (2022), Frontiers in Sociology
  • "Biscriptality: a neglected construct in the study of bilingualism" (2022), Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science
  • "Who is meritorious? Gendered and racialized discourse in named award descriptions in professional societies of higher education" (2020), International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
  • "Factors influencing bilinguals' speed and accuracy of number judgments across languages: A meta-analytic review" (2021), Journal of Memory and Language
  • "Judgments of Object Size and Distance across Different Virtual Reality Environments: A Preliminary Study" (2021), Applied Sciences

Jyotsna Vaid collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Nafiseh Faghihi
  • Hannah Park
  • Manish Dixit
  • Ann McNamara
  • Karina Febre

Recognition for their professional contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2017 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Creative thought : an investigation of conceptual structures and processes

    Thomas B. Ward;Steven M. Smith;Jyotsna Vaid

  • Conceptual structures and processes in creative thought.

    Thomas B. Ward;Steven M. Smith;Jyotsna Vaid

  • Bilingual language lateralization: A meta-analytic tale of two hemispheres

    Rachel Hull;Jyotsna Vaid

  • The linguistic basis of left hemisphere specialization

    David P. Corina;Jyotsna Vaid;Ursula Bellugi

  • Exploring word recognition in a semi-alphabetic script: the case of Devanagari.

    Jyotsna Vaid;Ashum Gupta

  • Language and hand preference in early development

    Elizabeth Bates;Barbara O'Connell;Jyotsna Vaid;Paul Sledge

  • Neuropsychological approaches to bilingualism: a critical review.

    Jyotsna Vaid;Fred Genesee

  • Asymmetries in the perception of facial affect: Is there an influence of reading habits?

    Jyotsna Vaid;Maharaj Singh

  • Cerebral lateralization in bilinguals: methodological issues.

    Loraine K. Obler;Robert J. Zatorre;Linda Galloway;Jyotsna Vaid

  • Differential cerebral involvement in the cognitive functioning of bilinguals.

    Jyotsna Vaid;Wallace E. Lambert

  • Effect of language proficiency and degree of formal training in simultaneous interpreting on working memory and interpreting performance: evidence from Mandarin–English speakers

    Yeh Zu Tzou;Zohreh R. Eslami;Hsin Chin Chen;Jyotsna Vaid

  • Laterality and language experience

    Rachel Hull;Jyotsna Vaid

  • Language Processing in Bilinguals: Psycholinguistic and Neuropsychological Perspectives

    Sylvia Cavazos Pena;Jyotsna Vaid

  • Bilingualism and Brain Lateralization

    Jyotsna Vaid

  • Getting a joke: the time course of meaning activation in verbal humor

    Jyotsna Vaid;Rachel Hull;Roberto Heredia;David Gerkens

  • Activation of number facts in bilinguals.

    Cheryl Frenck-Mestre;Jyotsna Vaid

  • Neuropsychological Perspectives on Bilingualism: Right, Left, and Center

    Jyotsna Vaid;D. Geoffrey Hall

  • Articulation in early and late bilinguals' two languages: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Cheryl Frenck-Mestre;Jean Luc Anton;Muriel Roth;Jyotsna Vaid

  • Orthographic characteristics speed Hindi word naming but slow Urdu naming: evidence from Hindi/Urdu biliterates

    Chaitra Rao;Jyotsna Vaid;Narayanan Srinivasan;Hsin-Chin Chen

  • Script Directionality Affects Nonlinguistic Performance: Evidence From Hindi and Urdu

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  • Does obligatory linguistic marking of source of evidence affect source memory? A Turkish/English investigation

    Sümeyra Tosun;Jyotsna Vaid;Lisa Geraci

  • Cerebral Involvement in the Cognitive Functioning of Bilinguals.

    Jyotsna Vaid;Wallace E. Lambert

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Corina
David P. Corina University of California, Davis
Steven M. Smith
Steven M. Smith Texas A&M University
Fred Genesee
Fred Genesee McGill University
Ursula Bellugi
Ursula Bellugi Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Wallace E. Lambert
Wallace E. Lambert McGill University
Lisa M. Oakes
Lisa M. Oakes University of California, Davis
Narayanan Srinivasan
Narayanan Srinivasan Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Robert C. Gardner
Robert C. Gardner University of Western Ontario
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Allan Paivio
Allan Paivio University of Western Ontario

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