Debra Titone

Professor / Canada Research Chair in Language & Multilingualism (Tier I)

McGill University

Research Themes: 

Evolving Language in an Information Economy, Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism, The Communicating Mind and Body

Psychology, Faculty of Science,  McGill University

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? 

Research Areas: Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience