Updated: Wed, 10/02/2024 - 13:45

From Saturday, Oct. 5 through Monday, Oct. 7, the Downtown and Macdonald Campuses will be open only to McGill students, employees and essential visitors. Many classes will be held online. Remote work required where possible. See Campus Public Safety website for details.


Du samedi 5 octobre au lundi 7 octobre, le campus du centre-ville et le campus Macdonald ne seront accessibles qu’aux étudiants et aux membres du personnel de l’Université McGill, ainsi qu’aux visiteurs essentiels. De nombreux cours auront lieu en ligne. Le personnel devra travailler à distance, si possible. Voir le site Web de la Direction de la protection et de la prévention pour plus de détails.

Debra Titone

Academic title(s): 

Professor

Canada Research Chair in Language & Multilingualism (Tier I)

 

Contact Information:

 


Office: 2001 McGill College, 758
Phone: 514.398.1778
Email: debra.titone[at]mcgill.ca

 

Mailing Address:
Department of Psychology
2001 McGill College, 7th floor
Montreal, QC
H3A 1G1

 

Debra Titone
Biography: 

Research Areas:

Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience | Behavioural Neuroscience

Research Summary:

Professor Titone conducts behavioral (e.g., eye-tracking), sociolinguistic (e.g., social network analysis, linguistic landscape), and, less frequently, neuroimaging (e.g., ERP, MRI) experiments to investigate some of the following questions:

  • How do bilinguals resolve within-language and cross-language ambiguity during written and spoken language comprehension?
  • How do individual differences in executive function, and other cognitive capacities, modulate language comprehension and production, and vice versa?
  • What sociolinguistic/social network/theory of mind factors impact first and second language processing, and vice versa?
  • How do first and second language users learn, represent and process figurative language?
  • Are bilingual experience and ability associated with structural and functional brain changes in younger and older adults?
  • How do neuropathological/neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., schizophrenia, dyslexia) affect language processes such as skilled reading? 

Selected References (grad trainees*/undergrad trainees**):

*Palma, P. & Titone, D. (accepted 2020). Something old, something new: A selective review of the literature on sleep-dependent memory consolidation of novel words in adults. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

*Gullifer, J., & Titone, D. (accepted 2020). Bilingual language experience predicts language outcomes but not proactive executive control: A machine learning approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

*Tiv, M., **Deodato, F., **Rouillard, V., *Wiebe, S., & Titone, D. (accepted 2020). Individual differences in explicit and implicit bilingual first language irony comprehension. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. Special Issue in honor of the career of Albert Katz.

*Tiv, M., *Gullifer, J., **Feng, R., & Titone, D. (accepted 2020). Using network science to map what Montreal bilinguals talk about across languages and communicative contexts. Journal of Neurolinguistics.

*Palma, P., *Whitford, V., & Titone, D. (2020). Cross-language activation and executive control modulate within-language ambiguity resolution: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 46(3), 507-528.

*Gullifer, J. W. & Titone, D. (2019). Characterizing the social diversity of bilingualism using language entropy. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, 94(1), 1-18.

*Vingron, N., *Gullifer, J., **Hamill, J., Leimgruber, J. R. E., & Titone, D. (2017). Using eye tracking to investigate what bilinguals notice about linguistic landscape images: A preliminary study. Linguistic Landscape, 3(3), 226-245.

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