Presentations
Upcoming Talks
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| 2023, March. Plenary speaker. Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS) Annual Graduate Student Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. | 2023, June. Tutorial on bilingualism. International Society of Experimental Linguistics. |
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| Role of working memory in language activation during visual scene processing | |
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| On Language and Thought: Bilingual Experience Changes Concept Associations | A Comparison of Mother-Preschooler Book Sharing Practices in the United States and Thailand |
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| Cross-Cultural Differences in Maternal Communication with Preschool-Age Children in the United States and Thailand | Cross-linguistic Perception of Phonotactics in Bilinguals |
Content from Outside the Lab About our Research
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| Bilingualism is Healthy! | Linguistic Predictors of Cultural Identification in Bilinguals |
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Conferences
2022
- November. Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim, James Bartolotti, and Viorica Marian presented their poster “The influence of bigram frequency on letter naming” at 63rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
- November. Aya Inamori Williams, Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim, Lauren Haack, Viorica Marian, and Linda Pfiffner presented their talk “Promising effects of socioemotional skills training in bilingual children with attention and behavioral concerns” at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.
- October. Sirada Rochanavibhata, Jessica Yung-Chieh Chuang, and Viorica Marian presented their talk “Bilingual non-verbal communication: A cross-linguistic comparison of gesture use in bilingual mothers and children” at Bilingualism Forum.
- October. Matias Fernandez-Duque, Viorica Marian, and Sayuri Hayakawa presented their talk “Dual-language competition changes memory for visual items” at Bilingualism Forum.
- August. Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim, Peiyao Chen, and Viorica Marian presented their poster “Cultural immersion and experience shape emotion perception in bilinguals” at the International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children.
- August. Matias Fernandez-Duque, Sayuri Hayakawa, & Viorica Marian presented their talk “Effects of phonological competition on memory in bilinguals” at the International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children. Matias won the Best Student Presentation Award!
- May. Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim, Peiyao Chen, and Viorica Marian presented their talk “Culture and input familiarity influence emotion perception in bilinguals” at the Association for Psychological Science.
- April. Sirada Rochanavibhata and Viorica Marian presented their poster “A cross-cultural comparison of American and Thai mother-child communication during toy play” at the Society for Research in Child Development Special Topic Meeting: Learning Through Play and Imagination.
- April. Sirada Rochanavibhata, Jessica Yung-Chieh Chuang, and Viorica Marian presented their talk “Different languages, different contexts, different gestures: A cross-linguistic comparison of bilingual mothers’ and children’s nonverbal communication” at the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech.
2021
- November. Sirada Rochanavibhata, Kaniya Hester, Julia Borland, Nadia van den Berg, and Viorica Marian presented their poster “Cross-linguistic differences in bilingual mother-child communication during toy play” to the American Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention.
- November. Sirada Rochanavibhata, Jessica Yung-Chieh Chuang, Claire Simcox, Lesley Meza, and Viorica Marian presented their poster “Bilingual mothers and children gesture differently across languages” to the American Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention.
- July. Viorica Marian and Sayuri Hayakawa presented their talk “Bilingualism changes how we perceive and process information” to the 13th Virtual Biennial Meeting of the International Symposium on Bilingualism.
- July. Sirada Rochanavibhata, Julia Borland, Kaniya Hester, Jessica Yung-Chieh Chuang, Claire Simcox, Lesley Meza, Nadia van den Berg, and Viorica Marian presented their talk “Bilingual mothers and children communicate differently in their two languages” to the 13th Virtual Biennial Meeting of the International Symposium on Bilingualism.
- April. Julia Borland, Sirada Rochanavibhata, and Viorica Marian presented their talk “Cross-cultural differences in mother-child engagement with picture books” to the Midwestern Psychological Association 93rd Annual Virtual Meeting.
- April. Kaniya Hester, Ryan Wagner, Julia Borland, Sayuri Hayakawa, and Viorica Marian presented their poster “Adapting the Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire for Dialects” to the Midwestern Psychological Association 93rd Annual Virtual Meeting.
- April. Sirada Rochanavibhata, Julia Borland, and Viorica Marian presented their poster “The influence of cultural background and communicative task on maternal scaffolding styles” to the 2021 Virtual Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
2020
- June. Siqi Ning, Sayuri Hayakawa, James Bartolotti, and Viorica Marian presented their poster “On language and thought: Bilingual experience changes concept associations” in the Association for Psychological Science 2020 Virtual Poster Showcase.
- June. Matias Fernandez-Duque, Sarah Chabal, Sayuri Hayakawa, and Viorica Marian presented their poster “Language activation in visual processing occurs regardless of memory demands” in the Association for Psychological Science 2020 Virtual Poster Showcase.
- July. Sarah Chabal, Matias Fernandez-Duque, Sayuri Hayakawa, and Viorica Marian presented their poster “Role of working memory in language activation during visual scene processing” to the Cognitive Science Society 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting.