Judith F. Kroll
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women's Studies
Former Director, Center for Language Science
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Biography:
*In July, 2016, Judith Kroll and her laboratory will move to the University of California, Riverside. Click on the website above to find out more about her new lab.
Lab Affiliation:
The Bilingualism, Mind, and Brain Lab (formerly known as the Cognition and Language Lab)
Research Interests:
- Psycholinguistics
- Bilingualism
- Second language acquisition
- Language processing
- Cognitive neuroscience
Bio:
Judith F. Kroll is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women’s Studies and Director of the Center for Language Science at Pennsylvania State University. She completed her undergraduate degree at New York University and graduate degrees at Brandeis University. She held faculty positions at Swarthmore College, Rutgers University, and Mount Holyoke College before joining the Penn State faculty in 1994. The research that she and her students conduct concerns the way that bilinguals juggle the presence of two languages in one mind and brain. Their work, supported by grants from NSF and NIH, shows that bilingualism provides a tool for revealing the interplay between language and cognition that is otherwise obscure in speakers of one language alone. She is a Fellow of the AAAS, the APA, the APS, the Psychonomic Society, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. She was one of the founding editors of the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press), and one of the founding organizers of Women in Cognitive Science, a group developed to promote the advancement of women in the cognitive sciences and supported by NSF (http://womenincogsci.org/). With Paola Dussias and Janet van Hell, she is PI on a PIRE grant (Partnerships for International Research and Education) from NSF to develop an international research network and program of training to enable language scientists at all levels (undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral) to pursue research abroad on the science of bilingualism (http://cls.psu.edu/PIRE).
Research and Professional Experience:
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women’s Studies, Penn State U., 2007-present
Center for Language Science, Penn State U., Co-Director, 2006-2009; Director, 2009-present
Visiting Sabbatical Scholar, Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, UCLA, 2013-2014
Visiting Professor, The Empirical Foundations of Linguistics International Chair of Quantitative and Experimental Linguistics, June 2012, Paris, France (http://www.labex-efl.org/)
Member, College of Reviewers, Perception, Action, and Cognition (PAC) Program, NSF, 2013-2015
Chair, Study Section, Behavioral and Biobehavioral Processes 3, Language and Communication, Center for Scientific Review, NIH, 2005-2007; Member, 2003-2005
Visiting Professor, U. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1999-2000; Leiden U., Leiden, The Netherlands, 2000
Visiting Professor, NSF Visiting Professorship for Women, U. Mass-Amherst, 1993-94
Honors and Awards:
W. LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award, Pennsylvania State University, 2009
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012
Faculty Scholar Medal in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 2013
Face of Penn State, 2013
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2013-2014
Research Opportunities:
We are looking for a few enthusiastic undergraduates who would like to work in the lab with us on new projects.
Our lab conducts research on the cognitive processes that support the acquisition and proficient use of a second lanuage. (for more information see our research page.) However, there is no requirement to speak a second language yourself. The only requirement is to be interested in gaining research skills and in being part of an interactive lab group. We are always looking for enthusiastic undergraduates who would like to work in the lab with us on new projects.
For more information, contact me at jfk7@psu.edu
Selected Publications:
Kroll, J. F. , Dussias, P. E., Bice, K., & Perrotti, L. (in press). Bilingualism, mind, and brain. In M. Liberman & B. H. Partee (Eds.), Annual Review of Linguistics.
Kroll, J. F. , Bobb, S. C., & Hoshino, N. (2014). Two languages in mind: Bilingualism as a tool to investigate language, cognition, and the brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 159-163.
Kroll, J. F., & Bialystok, E. (2013). Understanding the consequences of bilingualism for language processing and cognition. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25, 497-514.
Gullifer, J. W., Kroll, J. F., & Dussias, P. (2013). When language switching has no apparent cost: Lexical access in sentence context. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 278.
Kroll, J. F., Dussias, P. E., Bogulski, C. A., & Valdes-Kroff, J. (2012). Juggling two languages in one mind: What bilinguals tell us about language processing and its consequences for cognition. In B. Ross (Ed.),The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 56 (pp. 229-262). San Diego: Academic Press.
Misra, M., Guo, T., Bobb, S. C., & Kroll, J. F. (2012). When bilinguals choose a single word to speak: Electrophysiological evidence for inhibition of the native language. Journal of Memory and Language, 67, 224-237.
Guo, T., Liu, H., Misra, M., & Kroll, J. F. (2011). Local and global inhibition in bilingual word production: fMRI evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals. NeuroImage, 56, 2300-2309.
Morford, J. P., Wilkinson, E., Villwock, A., Piñar, P. & Kroll, J. F. (2011). When deaf signers read English: Do written words activate their sign translations? Cognition, 118, 286-292.
Linck, J. A., Kroll, J. F., & Sunderman, G. (2009). Losing access to the native language while immersed in a second language: Evidence for the role of inhibition in second language learning. Psychological Science, 20, 1507-1515.
Kroll, J. F., & De Groot, A. M. B., Eds. (2005). Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches. New York: Oxford University Press. (Paperback edition published 2009.)
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