Stephanie A Kazanas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5887422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie A Kazanas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kazanas |
| SIGNATURE | KAZANAS S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tennessee Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5845-2227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Multilingualism and Memory
The current entry discusses applied memory research with multilingual and bilingual populations: emotion memory, interpretation, autobiographical memory, false memory, and aging. Key findings highlight the importance of language experience in these areas, notably participants’ age of acquisition, proficiency and dominance, and preferences for each of their languages. Experiential factors including their country of birth, immigration experiences, …
Adaptive memory
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: In this study, we examined memory performance in a bilingual population, in an effort to compare depth of processing and complexity across first and second languages. Design/methodology/approach: Complexity was investigated with a pleasantness rating task and an elaborative encoding, scenario-based rating task (i.e. rating words for their survival-relevance). Previous research found word recall larg…
Gossip and Indirect Reciprocity
Children’s Antipredator Adaptations
Impersonal Sex
Translation ambiguity in Mandarin-English bilinguals
Research focused on the cognitive processes surrounding bilingual language representation has revealed the important role that translation ambiguity plays in how languages are stored in memory ( Tokowicz & Kroll, 2007 ). In addition, translation of emotionally related information has been shown to be challenging because a direct translation does not always exist ( Basnight-Brown & Altarriba, 2014 ). The focus of the current study was to explore t…
Is it possible to predict which bilingual speakers have switched language dominance? A discriminant analysis
Linguistic research on bilinguals has sometimes focused on either first vs. second acquired language or dominant vs. non-dominant language despite situations in which the dominant and first language are no longer the same. Many bilinguals in the U.S. and other countries experience a change in language dominance from a home language to a majority language. The present study examined language history data from young Spanish-English bilingual adults…
Use It or Lose It
Selective Attending
Neuroethics
Adaptive Learning
Attention and Memory
Predators as Attention-Grabbing
Emotion Word Type and Affective Valence Priming at a Long Stimulus Onset Asynchrony
As the division between emotion and emotion-laden words has been viewed as controversial by, for example, Kousta and colleagues, the current study attempted a replication and extension of findings previously described by Kazanas and Altarriba. In their findings, Kazanas and Altarriba reported significant differences in response times (RTs) and priming effects between emotion and emotion-laden words, with faster RTs and larger priming effects with…
Emotion Word Processing
Multilingualism and Memory
Research with multilinguals has highlighted the general memory advantages of knowing more than one language. For example, Schroeder and Marian have cited better executive functioning in bilinguals than monolinguals, and research in the medical field has found a buffering effect of multilingualism on memory loss in the elderly. Other research has emphasized the differences in memory capacity or memory effects in a native language (L1) versus a sec…
Emotion Word Processing
Emotion Word Type and Affective Valence Priming at a Long Stimulus Onset Asynchrony
As the division between emotion and emotion-laden words has been viewed as controversial by, for example, Kousta and colleagues, the current study attempted a replication and extension of findings previously described by Kazanas and Altarriba. In their findings, Kazanas and Altarriba reported significant differences in response times (RTs) and priming effects between emotion and emotion-laden words, with faster RTs and larger priming effects with…
Is it possible to predict which bilingual speakers have switched language dominance? A discriminant analysis
Linguistic research on bilinguals has sometimes focused on either first vs. second acquired language or dominant vs. non-dominant language despite situations in which the dominant and first language are no longer the same. Many bilinguals in the U.S. and other countries experience a change in language dominance from a home language to a majority language. The present study examined language history data from young Spanish-English bilingual adults…
Multilingualism and Memory
Research with multilinguals has highlighted the general memory advantages of knowing more than one language. For example, Schroeder and Marian have cited better executive functioning in bilinguals than monolinguals, and research in the medical field has found a buffering effect of multilingualism on memory loss in the elderly. Other research has emphasized the differences in memory capacity or memory effects in a native language (L1) versus a sec…
Emotion Word Type and Affective Valence Priming at a Long Stimulus Onset Asynchrony
As the division between emotion and emotion-laden words has been viewed as controversial by, for example, Kousta and colleagues, the current study attempted a replication and extension of findings previously described by Kazanas and Altarriba. In their findings, Kazanas and Altarriba reported significant differences in response times (RTs) and priming effects between emotion and emotion-laden words, with faster RTs and larger priming effects with…
Emotion Word Processing
Predators as Attention-Grabbing
Use It or Lose It
Selective Attending
Neuroethics
Adaptive Learning
Attention and Memory
Gossip and Indirect Reciprocity
Children’s Antipredator Adaptations
Impersonal Sex
Translation ambiguity in Mandarin-English bilinguals
Research focused on the cognitive processes surrounding bilingual language representation has revealed the important role that translation ambiguity plays in how languages are stored in memory ( Tokowicz & Kroll, 2007 ). In addition, translation of emotionally related information has been shown to be challenging because a direct translation does not always exist ( Basnight-Brown & Altarriba, 2014 ). The focus of the current study was to explore t…
Is it possible to predict which bilingual speakers have switched language dominance? A discriminant analysis
Linguistic research on bilinguals has sometimes focused on either first vs. second acquired language or dominant vs. non-dominant language despite situations in which the dominant and first language are no longer the same. Many bilinguals in the U.S. and other countries experience a change in language dominance from a home language to a majority language. The present study examined language history data from young Spanish-English bilingual adults…
Adaptive memory
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: In this study, we examined memory performance in a bilingual population, in an effort to compare depth of processing and complexity across first and second languages. Design/methodology/approach: Complexity was investigated with a pleasantness rating task and an elaborative encoding, scenario-based rating task (i.e. rating words for their survival-relevance). Previous research found word recall larg…
Multilingualism and Memory
The current entry discusses applied memory research with multilingual and bilingual populations: emotion memory, interpretation, autobiographical memory, false memory, and aging. Key findings highlight the importance of language experience in these areas, notably participants’ age of acquisition, proficiency and dominance, and preferences for each of their languages. Experiential factors including their country of birth, immigration experiences, …
Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Age of Acquisition (2 works) · Biology (2 works)