Judith F. Kroll | |
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| Occupation(s) | Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women's Studies |
| Spouse | David A. Rosenbaum |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | New York University; Brandeis University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of California,Riverside;Pennsylvania State University |
Judith F. Kroll is a Distinguished Professor of Language Science at University of California,Irvine. She specializes in psycholinguistics,focusing on second language acquisition and bilingual language processing. [1] With Randi Martin and Suparna Rajaram,Kroll co-founded the organization Women in Cognitive Science in 2001. [2] She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),the American Psychological Association (APA),the Psychonomic Society,the Society of Experimental Psychologists,and the Association for Psychological Science (APS). [3]
Judith Kroll received an A.B. (1970) in Psychology with a minor in Mathematics from New York University. [3] She completed an M.A. (1972) and PhD (1977) in Cognitive Psychology at Brandeis University,supervised by Maurice Hershenson. [4] Kroll held faculty positions at Swarthmore College (1977-1978),Rutgers University (1978-1981) and Mount Holyoke College (1981-1994),prior to moving to Pennsylvania State University (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. [5] 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. [6] Kroll is married to David A. Rosenbaum,a professor of psychology at UCR. [7]
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). [8] With Annette de Groot,she co-edited the Handbook of Bilingualism:Psycholinguistic Approaches. [9] [10] In 2013,Kroll was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to conduct research exploring how learning a second language and becoming a bilingual person impacts processing of one's native language. [11]
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. [12]
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