Debra Titone
CitizenshipCanada
Occupation(s)Professor and Canada Research Chair in Language & Multilingualism, McGill University
Awards
  • Richard C. Tees Distinguished Leadership Award, Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, & Cognitive Science (2019)
  • Canadian Psychological Association, SWAP Feminist Mentoring Award (2017)
Academic background
Alma materNew York University; Binghamton University
Academic work
InstitutionsMcGill 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]

Biography

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 schizophenia.[16]

Titone is a member of the Executive Board of the Centre for Research on Brain, Language & Music at McGill University, Université du Québec à Montréal, Concordia University, and Université de 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]

Representative work

  • Baum, S., & Titone, D. (2014). Moving toward a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging. Applied Psycholinguistics, 35(5), 857–894.
  • Gullifer, J. W., & Titone, D. (2020). Characterizing the social diversity of bilingualism using language entropy. Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 94(1), 1-18.
  • Pivneva, I., Mercier, J., & Titone, D. (2014). Executive control modulates cross-language lexical activation during L2 reading: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(3), 787–796.
  • Titone, D. (1998). Hemispheric differences in context sensitivity during lexical ambiguity resolution. Brain and Language, 65(3), 361-394.
  • Titone, D., Libben, M., Mercier, J., Whitford, V., & Pivneva, I. (2011). Bilingual lexical access during L1 sentence reading: The effects of L2 knowledge, semantic constraint, and L1–L2 intermixing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(6), 1412-1431.

References

  1. ↑ "Canada Research Chairs Program announces new and renewed chairs for McGill Profs".
  2. ↑ "Debra Titone". Department of Psychology. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  3. ↑ "People | Women in Cognitive Science". womenincogsci.org. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  4. ↑ Titone, Debra; Tiv, Mehrgol; Pexman, Penny M. (2018). "The status of women cognitive scientists in Canada: Insights from publicly available NSERC funding data". Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72 (2): 81–90. doi:10.1037/cep0000150. ISSN 1878-7290. PMID 29902029. S2CID 49213057.
  5. ↑ "Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour & Cognitive Science: Fellows". www.csbbcs.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  6. ↑ "Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour & Cognitive Science: Dr. Debra Titone". www.csbbcs.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  7. ↑ "SWAP Section: Past Awards – Canadian Psychological Association". 17 January 2018. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  8. ↑ "Debra Titone, Ph.D., Lab Director". Language & Multilingualism Lab. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  9. 1 2 3 "LinguisTree - Debra Titone Family Tree". academictree.org. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  10. ↑ Titone, Debra A.; Connine, Cynthia M. (1999-11-02). "On the compositional and noncompositional nature of idiomatic expressions". Journal of Pragmatics. Literal and Figurative Language. 31 (12): 1655–1674. doi:10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00008-9. ISSN 0378-2166.
  11. ↑ Titone, Debra A.; Connine, Cynthia M. (1994). "Comprehension of idiomatic expressions: Effects of predictability and literality". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 20 (5): 1126–1138. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.20.5.1126. ISSN 1939-1285. PMID 7931098.
  12. ↑ Titone, Debra; Wingfield, Arthur; Caplan, David; Waters, Gloria; Prentice, Kristen (2001). "Memory and Encoding of Spoken Discourse Following Right Hemisphere Damage: Evidence from the Auditory Moving Window (AMW) Technique". Brain and Language. 77 (1): 10–24. doi:10.1006/brln.2000.2419. PMID 11247653. S2CID 30472898.
  13. ↑ Titone, Debra; Prentice, Kristen J.; Wingfield, Arthur (2000). "Resource allocation during spoken discourse processing: Effects of age and passage difficulty as revealed by self-paced listening". Memory & Cognition. 28 (6): 1029–1040. doi:10.3758/BF03209351. ISSN 0090-502X. PMID 11105529.
  14. ↑ Titone, Debra; Levy, Deborah L.; Holzman, Philip S. (2000). "Contextual insensitivity in schizophrenic language processing: Evidence from lexical ambiguity". Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 109 (4): 761–767. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.109.4.761. ISSN 1939-1846. PMID 11196002.
  15. ↑ Titone, Debra; Holzman, Philip S.; Levy, Deborah L. (2002). "Idiom processing in schizophrenia: Literal implausibility saves the day for idiom priming". Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 111 (2): 313–320. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.111.2.313. ISSN 1939-1846. PMID 12003452.
  16. ↑ Titone, Debra; Ditman, Tali; Holzman, Philip S; Eichenbaum, Howard; Levy, Deborah L (2004-06-01). "Transitive inference in schizophrenia: impairments in relational memory organization". Schizophrenia Research. 68 (2): 235–247. doi:10.1016/S0920-9964(03)00152-X. ISSN 0920-9964. PMID 15099606. S2CID 14016594.
  17. 1 2 "Debra Titone". CRBLM. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  18. ↑ "Debra Titone, PhD – Brams". brams.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  19. ↑ "Funding Sources". Language & Multilingualism Lab. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  20. ↑ Gullifer, Jason W.; Titone, Debra (2020). "Characterizing the social diversity of bilingualism using language entropy" (PDF). Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 23 (2): 283–294. doi:10.1017/S1366728919000026. ISSN 1366-7289. S2CID 150591937.
  21. ↑ Baum, Shari; Titone, Debra (2014). "Moving toward a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging". Applied Psycholinguistics. 35 (5): 857–894. doi:10.1017/S0142716414000174. ISSN 0142-7164. S2CID 146314651.
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