Judith F. Kroll is a Distinguished Professor of Language Science at

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. She specializes in

psycholinguistics Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind ...

, focusing on

second language acquisition Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning — otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process by which people learn a second language. Second-language acquisition is also the scientific dis ...

and

bilingual Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all E ...

language processing. With Randi Martin and Suparna Rajaram, Kroll co-founded the organization

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in 2001. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Psychological Association (APA), the

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, the

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, and the Association for Psychological Science (APS).

Biography

Judith Kroll received an A.B. (1970) in

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

with a minor in

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

from

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. She completed an M.A. (1972) and PhD (1977) in

Cognitive Psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...

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, supervised by Maurice Hershenson. Kroll held faculty positions at

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(1977-1978),

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(1978-1981) and

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(1981-1994), prior to moving to

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(1994-2016), where she directed the Center for Language Science. Kroll moved her lab to University of California, Riverside (UCR) in 2016 and then to University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2019. With colleagues from UCR and Penn State, she is Co-Principal Investigator of a Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) grant to provide training for language scientists to pursue research on

bilingualism Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all E ...

. Kroll is married to David A. Rosenbaum, a professor of psychology at UCR.

Research

Kroll's research program examines the cognitive processes underlying bilingualism. Her research has been supported by The National Science Foundation (NSF) and The National Institutes of Health (NIH). With Annette de Groot, she co-edited the ''Handbook of Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Approaches.'' In 2013, Kroll was awarded a

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to conduct research exploring how learning a second language and becoming a bilingual person impacts processing of one's native language. One of Kroll's research foci has to do with language selection in bilingual speech. She discovered that when one language is spoken, both languages are active.

Select publications

* Kroll, J. F., & Bialystok, E. (2013). Understanding the consequences of bilingualism for language processing and cognition. ''Journal of Cognitive Psychology'', ''25''(5), 497–514. *Kroll, J. F., Bobb, S. C., & Wodniecka, Z. (2006). Language selectivity is the exception, not the rule: Arguments against a fixed locus of language selection in bilingual speech. ''Bilingualism: Language and Cognition'', ''9''(2), 119–135. * Kroll, J. F., Michael, E., Tokowicz, N., & Dufour, R. (2002). The development of lexical fluency in a second language. ''Second language Research'', ''18''(2), 137–171. *Kroll, J. F., & Potter, M. C. (1984). Recognizing words, pictures, and concepts: A comparison of lexical, object, and reality decisions. ''Journal of Memory and Language'', ''23''(1), 39–66. * Kroll, J. F., & Stewart, E. (1994). Category interference in translation and picture naming: Evidence for asymmetric connections between bilingual memory representations. ''Journal of Memory and Language'', ''33''(2), 149–174.

References

External links

Faculty pageBilingualism, Mind, and Brain lab
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