Jyotsna Vaid
  • Fellow: APA, APS, AAAS, and Psychonomic Society
  • Professor
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Research Areas
  • Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Diversity Science

Research Interests

  • Bilingualism – cognitive and neurocognitive aspects
  • Reading processes and writing systems
  • Directional biases in spatial cognition
  • Creative thinking and language
  • Gender and race in psychological inquiry

Affiliated Research Cluster

Neuroscience. Language in humans; neuropsychological and cognitive aspects of bilingualism.
Diversity Science. Multiple language experience and cognition; social construction of merit in academia.

 

Office Hours: Online or in person - by appointment

 

Accepting Students for 2024-2025?: No

 

Memberships: Institute for Neuroscience

Selected Publications

    • Vingerhoet, G., et al. (2023): Laterality indices consensus initiative (LICI): A Delphi expert survey report on recommendations to record, assess, and report asymmetry in human behavioural and brain research, Laterality, 28(2-3), 1-70. DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199963
    • Faghihi, N. & Vaid, J.  (2023). Reading/writing direction as a source of directional bias in spatial cognition: Possible mechanisms and scope. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 30, 843-862. doi 10.3758/s13423-022-02239-1
    • Fox Tree, J. & Vaid, J. (2022). Why so few, still? Challenges to attracting, advancing and keeping women faculty of color in academia. Research Topic:  Women in Academia: Challenges and solutions to representation in the social sciences.Frontiers in Sociology. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2021.792198/full

    •  Vaid, J., Chen*, H.C. & Rao*, C.  (2022). Biscriptal bilingualism differentially affects homophone segmentation across languages: Evidence from Hindi and English users.  International Journal of Bilingualism, 26(1), 13-30.
    • Park, H., Faghihi*, N., Dixit, M., Vaid, J. & McNamara, A.  (2021). Judgments of object size and distance across different virtual reality environments: A preliminary study.11, 11510.   Applied Sciences. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci

    • Garcia, O., Faghihi, N.,Raola, A. & Vaid, J. (2021). Factors influencing speed and accuracy of number judgments in bilinguals: A meta-analytic investigation.  Journal of Memory and Language, 118.  
    • Bazner, K.J., Vaid, J. & Stanley, C.A. (2021). Who is meritorious? Gendered and racialized discourse in named award descriptions in professional societies of higher education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 34 (2), 108-124.

    • Garcia, O., Faghihi, N., & Vaid, J. (2020). Sources of directional spatial biases in hemi-image drawing. Perception. 49(2), 169-185.

    • Vaid, J., & Chen, H-C. with Frantisek Lichtenberk. (2019). A processing advantage for inalienable possession: Evidence from English phrase plausibility judgments. Te Reo: New Zealand Journal of Linguistics, 62 (1), 155-173.

    • Carter-Sowell, A., Vaid, J., Stanley, C.A., Petitt, B., & Jericka Battle, C. (2019). ADVANCE Scholar Program: Enhancing minoritized scholars’ professional visibility. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

    • Faghihi, N., Garcia, O., & Vaid, J. (published online, Dec. 2018). Spatial bias in object centering in representational drawing: Associations with handedness and script directionality. Laterality: Asymmetries in Body, Brain and Cognition.

    • Tosun, S. & Vaid, J. (2018). Activation of source and stance in interpreting evidential and modal expressions in Turkish and English. Dialogue and Discourse, Vol. 9(1), 128-162.

    • Lopez, B. & Vaid, J. (2018). Facil or A piece of cake: Does variability in bilingual language brokering experience affect idiom comprehension? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 21(2), 340-354.

    • Tosun, S., Faghihi, N. & Vaid, J. (2018). Is an ideal sense of humor gendered? A cross-national study. Frontiers in Psychology: Social and Personality Section.

    • Lopez, B. & Vaid, J. (2018). Divergence and overlap in bilingual conceptual representation: Does prior language brokering experience matter? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 21(1), Pp. 150-161.

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