Viorica Marian

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Viorica Marian's research focuses on bilingualism/multilingualism and the brain's ability to accommodate multiple languages at the same time. She studies the relationship between language and memory, as well as how people process spoken and written language. Her research uses cognitive, behavioral, and neurological measures to study the human linguistic capacity.

Lab Affiliations

Northwestern Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Laboratory

Education

PhD	Experimental Psychology, Cornell University
MA	Experimental Psychology, Cornell University
MA	Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, Emory University
BA	Psychology, University of Alaska

Publications (since 2007)

Marian, V.,  & Kaushanskaya, M. (2007). Language context guides memory content. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 5, 925-933.

Marian, V.,  Blumenfeld, H., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2007). The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Assessing language profiles in bilinguals and multilinguals. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 4, 940-967.

Marian, V., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2007). Cognitive constraints on cross-linguistic transfer and borrowing in bilinguals. Applied Psycholinguistics, 28, 369-390.

Kaushanskaya, M., & Marian, V. (2007). Non-target language recognition and interference: Evidence from eye-tracking and picture naming. Language Learning, 57, 1, 119-163.

Marian, V., Shildkrot, Y., Blumenfeld, H., Kaushanskaya, M.,  Faroqi-Shah,  Y., & Hirsch, J. (2007). Cortical activation during word processing in late bilinguals:  Similarities and differences as revealed by fMRI. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 29, 3, 247-265.

Blumenfeld, H., & Marian, V. (2007). Between-language overlap and proficiency in bilingual parallel language activation: An eye-tracking study. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22, 5, 633-660.

Kaushanskaya, M., & Marian, V. (2007). Age-of-acquisition effects in the development of a bilingual advantage for word learning. Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Kaushanskaya, M., & Marian, V. (2008). Mapping phonological information from auditory to written modality during foreign vocabulary learning. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1145, 56-70.

Marian, V., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2008). Words, feelings, and bilingualism: Cross-linguistic differences in emotionality of autobiographical memories. The Mental Lexicon, 3, 1, 72-91.

Marian, V., Blumenfeld, H., & Boukrina, O. (2008). Sensitivity to phonological similarity within and across languages: A native/non-native asymmetry in bilinguals. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 37, 141-170.

Marian, V. (2008). Bilingual research methods.  In J. Altarriba, & R. R. Heredia (Eds.), An Introduction to Bilingualism:  Principles and Processes.  Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum.

Marian, V. (in press). Audio-visual integration during bilingual language processing. In A. Pavlenko (Ed.), The Bilingual Mental Lexicon. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Kaushanskaya, M., & Marian, V. (in press). Bilingualism reduces native-language interference during novel word learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Kaushanskaya, M., & Marian, V. (in press). The bilingual advantage in novel word learning. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

Recent Awards and Honors

2008	Clarence Simon Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring
2006-2007	Outstanding Faculty of the Year, Northwestern Associated Student Government
2005	Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Otto Klineberg Intercultural & International Relations Honorable Mention
1999-2000	National Research Service Award, National Institute of Health

Recent Grants and Funding

2006-2009	Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning. National Science Foundation. $11,207. P.I
2005-2008	Memory and Language in Bilinguals. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. $148,500. P.I
2004-2007	Bilingual Language Processing: Parallel Activation During Spoken and Written Word Recognition. National Science Foundation. $119,913. P.I.

Courses

CSD 392	Language Development and Usage
CSD 309	Culture, Language, and Learning
CSD 545	Research Methods
CSD 551	Topics in CSD: Bilingualism

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