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Overview

Margarita Kaushanskaya is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. The scientist's research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, language and linguistics, artificial intelligence, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics including language development and disorders, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, reading and literacy development, speech and dialogue systems, second language acquisition and learning, hearing impairment and communication, as well as language, discourse, and communication strategies.

Frequent publication venues for their research comprise:

  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Languages
  • Language Learning and Development

Selected recent papers include:

  • Is 10 Better than 1? The Effect of Speaker Variability on Children's Cross-Situational Word Learning (2021), published in Language Learning and Development
  • Language and Inhibition: Predictive Relationships in Children With Language Impairment Relative to Typically Developing Peers (2020), published in Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • The effects of bilingualism on children's cross-situational word learning under different variability conditions (2023), published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Planning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Role of Verbal Mediation (2020), published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Cognitive and Linguistic Predictors of Language Control in Bilingual Children (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent coauthors featured in Margarita Kaushanskaya's work include Kimberly Crespo, Emma Libersky, Anne Neveu, Caitlyn Slawny, and Susan Ellis Weismer.

The scientist's main topics of investigation reflect an emphasis on language acquisition processes, bilingualism, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying language control and development. Their interdisciplinary approach connects psychological and neurological perspectives on language and communication across typical and impaired populations.

Best Publications

  • The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q): assessing language profiles in bilinguals and multilinguals.

    Viorica Marian;Henrike K. Blumenfeld;Margarita Kaushanskaya

  • The bilingual advantage in novel word learning.

    Margarita Kaushanskaya;Viorica Marian

  • Self-Construal and Emotion in Bicultural Bilinguals.

    Viorica Marian;Margarita Kaushanskaya

  • Bilingualism reduces native-language interference during novel-word learning.

    Margarita Kaushanskaya;Viorica Marian

  • Bilingual Language Processing and Interference in Bilinguals: Evidence From Eye Tracking and Picture Naming

    Margarita Kaushanskaya;Viorica Marian

  • Conceptual Scoring of Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Measures in Simultaneous and Sequential Bilingual Children

    Megan Gross;Milijana Buac;Margarita Kaushanskaya

  • Cognitive mechanisms of word learning in bilingual and monolingual adults: The role of phonological memory

    Margarita Kaushanskaya

  • The Relationship Between Executive Functions and Language Abilities in Children: A Latent Variables Approach.

    Margarita Kaushanskaya;Ji Sook Park;Ishanti Gangopadhyay;Meghan M. Davidson

  • The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Ten years later

    Margarita Kaushanskaya;Henrike K. Blumenfeld;Viorica Marian

  • Effects of classroom bilingualism on task-shifting, verbal memory, and word learning in children.

    Margarita Kaushanskaya;Megan Gross;Milijana Buac

  • Language context guides memory content.

    Viorica Marian;Margarita Kaushanskaya

  • The relationship between vocabulary and short-term memory measures in monolingual and bilingual speakers.

    Margarita Kaushanskaya;Henrike K. Blumenfeld;Viorica Marian

  • Concreteness effects in bilingual and monolingual word learning.

    Margarita Kaushanskaya;Katrina Rechtzigel

  • Words, feelings, and bilingualism: Cross-linguistic differences in emotionality of autobiographical memories.

    Viorica Marian;Margarita Kaushanskaya

  • Cross-linguistic transfer and borrowing in bilinguals

    Viorica Marian;Margarita Kaushanskaya

  • The role of primary caregiver vocabulary knowledge in the development of bilingual children's vocabulary skills.

    Milijana Buac;Megan Gross;Margarita Kaushanskaya

  • Gender differences in adult word learning.

    Margarita Kaushanskaya;Viorica Marian;Jeewon Yoo

  • Cortical activation during word processing in late bilinguals: similarities and differences as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Viorica Marian;Yevgeniy Shildkrot;Henrike K. Blumenfeld;Margarita Kaushanskaya

  • The role of nonverbal working memory in morphosyntactic processing by children with specific language impairment and autism spectrum disorders

    Susan Ellis Weismer;Meghan M. Davidson;Meghan M. Davidson;Ishanti Gangopadhyay;Heidi Sindberg

  • Executive Function Skills in School-Age Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Association With Language Abilities

    Susan Ellis Weismer;Margarita Kaushanskaya;Caroline Larson;Janine Mathée

  • Voluntary language switching in English–Spanish bilingual children

    Megan Gross;Margarita Kaushanskaya

  • Changes in executive function over time in bilingual and monolingual school-aged children.

    Ji Sook Park;Susan Ellis Weismer;Margarita Kaushanskaya

  • Rehearsal effects in adult word learning

    Margarita Kaushanskaya;Jeewon Yoo

Frequent Co-Authors

Viorica Marian
Viorica Marian Northwestern University
Susan Ellis Weismer
Susan Ellis Weismer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jenny R. Saffran
Jenny R. Saffran University of Wisconsin–Madison
Daniel M. Bolt
Daniel M. Bolt University of Wisconsin–Madison
Joy Hirsch
Joy Hirsch Yale University

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