Browsing by Author "Vaid, Jyotsna"
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Vaid, Jyotsna (Mouton de Gruyter, 2011)When drawing familiar objects there is a bias in starting location, stroke direction, and object orientation or facing. Directional biases are also apparent in the speed and accuracy with which rightward vs. leftward facing ...
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Vaid, Jyotsna; Singh, Maharaj (Elsevier, 1989)Perceptions of happy facial effect from asymmetric composite faces presented in free vision were compared in four groups: left-to-right readers (Hindi), right-to-left readers (Arabic), left-to-right and right-to-left readers ...
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Yu, Na-Yung (2011-10-21)Labels are one source of our judgments. By assigning labels to objects, we not only create references but we also group prior and current experiences together. The goal of this research is to investigate how labels influence ...
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Hull, Rachel; Vaid, Jyotsna (Elsevier, 2007-03)Two meta-analyses of 66 behavioral studies examined variables influencing functional cerebral lateralization of each language of brain-intact bilingual adults. Functional lateralization was found to be primarily influenced ...
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Ward, Thomas B.; Smith, Steven M.; Vaid, Jyotsna (American Psychological Association, 1997)
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Vaid, Jyotsna; Lambert, Wallace E. (1979)The cognitive processing strategies of two groups of French-English bilinguals were studied by means of an auditory Stroop test designed to evaluate cerebral hemispheric involvement. An “early bilingual” group were bilingual ...
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Liew, Keen Seong (2014-01-03)This study investigated the orientation of representational drawings of everyday, graspable objects by right- and left-handed adults. Two competing hypotheses were examined. One was an affordance-based hypothesis which ...
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Ward, Thomas B.; Chu, Amy H.; Vaid, Jyotsna; Heredia, Roberto R. (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005)Chinese-English bilingual participants listed exemplars of 10 common categories on two occasions. Half responded in the same language in both sessions (Chinese or English) and half responded in one language in one session ...
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Ward, Thomas B.; Chu, Amy H.; Vaid, Jyotsna; Heredia, Roberto R. (2005)Chinese-English bilingual participants listed exemplars of 10 common categories on two occasions, one week apart. Half responded in the same language in both sessions (Chinese or English) and half responded in one language ...
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Vaid, Jyotsna; Frenck-Mestre, Cheryl (2002)Sixteen French–English late bilinguals performed a speeded language recognition task on lateralized words that were either marked or unmarked for language on the basis of digram frequency. Response latencies were faster ...
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Kim, Kayoung (2015-05-07)It has been claimed that skilled readers of English syllabify written words using morphological and orthographic knowledge (e.g., the Basic Orthographic Syllable Structure, or BOSS) rather than phonological considerations ...
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Drake, Amanda (2016-06-28)The purpose of this study is three-fold. First, it investigated the evidence of a three-factor model of executive functioning (EF), which includes inhibition, shift, and working memory, using ratings on the Behavior Rating ...
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Febre, Karina (2021-08-17)Emotion-laden words elicit varying degrees of emotionality in bilinguals, with a stronger reaction typically occurring in the first language. Less known is how emotion-laden situations presented in one language or the other ...
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Martinez, Francisco Emigdio (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)While studies suggest that figurative, or non-literal, meanings are automatically activated in single language users, little is known about how language proficiency may influence the automaticity of non-literal meaning ...
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Vaid, Jyotsna; Gupta, Ashum (2002)Unlike other writing systems that are readily classifiable as alphabetic or syllabic in their structure, the Indic Devanagari script (of which Hindi is an example) has properties of both syllabic and alphabetic writing ...
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Stephenson, Kittredge (2009-10-28)Haiku poetry was investigated in the context of the narrative writing paradigm to evaluate its healing potential. Participants, 98 introductory psychology students at a large southwestern university, wrote for 20 minutes ...
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Zhao, Guanlong (2020-06-22)Foreign accent conversion (FAC) aims to generate a synthetic voice that has the voice identity of a given non-native speaker (NNS), but the pronunciation patterns (i.e., accent) of a native speaker (NS). This synthetic ...
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Vaid, Jyotsna; Hull, Rachel; Heredia, Roberto; Gerkins, David; Martinez, Francisco E. (Elsevier, 2003)Two lexical decision semantic priming experiments examined when, in the course of reading a joke, the initial and the intended meanings are primed; whether the meanings overlap in time; and what happens to the initial ...
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Stephenson, Kittredge T (2014-04-04)The present study continued an examination of haiku poetry within the context of the writing paradigm. Groups were compared with respect to three factors—writing type (narrative, haiku, or haibun), image content (nature ...
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Rhodes, Rebecca E (2012-07-11)This study examined the influence of handedness and reading/writing direction on the facing and sequencing of drawn objects and/or scenes and on orientation preference in viewing figures and photographing objects. Right- ...