External links
- Faculty home page
- Language and Multilingualism Lab
- Debra Titone publications indexed by Google Scholar
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Debra Titone | |
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| Citizenship | Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Professor and Canada Research Chair in Language & Multilingualism, McGill University |
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| Alma mater | New York University; Binghamton University |
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| Institutions | McGill University |
Debra Titone is a cognitive psychologist known for her research on bilingualism and multilingualism. She is currently a Professor of Psychology and a chair holder of Canada Research in Language &Multilingualism at McGill University. [1] [2] Titone is a founding member and officer of the professional society,Women in Cognitive Science. [3] She and her colleagues have written about gender disparities in opportunities,along with the advancement of women the field of cognitive science,with specific reference to Canada. [4]
Titone is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Brain,Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) [5] and,in 2019,she received their Richard C. Tees Distinguished Leadership Award. [6] Previous honors included the SWAP Feminist Mentoring Award from the Canadian Psychological Association,awarded to Titone in 2017. [7]
Titone received her B.A.,with honors in Psychology from New York University. [8] She subsequently obtained her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the Binghamton University in 1995,where she was mentored by Cynthia Connine. [9] With Connine,she conducted research on idiomatic expressions,focusing specifically on how individual word components influence idiom interpretation. [10] [11]
Titone completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brandeis University,supervised by Arthur Wingfield. [9] With Wingfield,David Caplan,Gloria Waters,and others,Titone studied the impact of right-hemisphere brain damage [12] and cognitive aging [13] on sentence processing. During a subsequent postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School,Titone extended her research on language processing to individuals with schizophrenia,under the mentorship of Philip Holzman. [9] Their results suggested the language atypicalities in schizophrenia may be due to faulty inhibitory control as opposed to a lack of sensitivity to contextual cues. [14] [15] Other research focused on possible deficits in associative,relational learning in schizophrenia. [16]
Titone is a member of the Executive Board of the Centre for Research on Brain,Language &Music at McGill University,Universitédu Québec àMontréal,Concordia University,and Universitéde Montréal [17] and an associate member of the International Laboratory of Brain,Music,and Sound Research. [18] Her research has been supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. [19]
Titone's research program at McGill explores how people read,write,listen,and speak languages,possible advantages of bilingualism,and how the processing of multiple languages is different from monolingualism. [17] Her work has aimed to characterize the diversity of language experiences that people have and how this diversity reflects the human brain's capacity for language. [20] Titone's research on bilingualism,executive control,and aging suggests that bilinguals may experience multiple advantages in cognitive capacity as compared to monolinguals,which may stem from enhanced neurocognitive plasticity. [21]
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