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Ioulia Kovelman
Associate Professor
University of Michigan
Psychology
Faculty of Arts
Research Themes:
Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism, The Communicating Mind and Body
Ioulia is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. As a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, she studies the effects of bilingualism on children's language, literacy, and brain development. Her work involves questions of bilingual and cross-linguistic effects in typical language development and in children with language-based learning impairments such as dyslexia. To study bilingualism, she uses a variety of experimental and neuroimaging approaches, especially those involving fNIRS neuroimaging. She welcomes cross-linguistic and cross-cultural collaborations and students interested in the Bilingual Brain. Ioulia's laboratory's website at the University of Michigan provides further insight into her work.
Marks, R., Labotka, D., Sun, X., Nickerson, N., Zhang, K., Eggleston, R., Yu, C., Uchikoshi, Y., Hoeft, F., & Kovelman, I. (2022). Morphological awareness contributes to early literacy in linguistically-diverse learners. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000517
Marks., R., Sun, X., López, E.M., Nickerson, N., Caruso, V., Hernandez, I., Satterfield, T., Kovelman, I. (2022). Cross-linguistic transfer of morphological awareness and reading skill in Spanish-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2022.2090226
Sun, X., Marks, R., Zhang, K., Yu, C.L., Eggleston, R., Nickerson, N., Chou, T.L., Hu, X.S., Tardif, T., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2022). Brain bases of English morphological processing: A comparison between Chinese-English, Spanish-English bilingual, and English monolingual children. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13251
Arredondo, M., Kovelman, I., Stojanov, L., Satterfield, T., Beltz, A. (2022). Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children. Brain & Language, 227 (2022), 105084, 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105084
Wagley, N, Marks, R.A., Bedore, L., & Kovelman I. (2022). Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency to children’s Spanish-English reading outcomes. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13748
Sun, X., Zhang, K., Marks, R., Nickerson, N., Eggleston, R., Yu, C.-L., Chou, T.L, Tardif, T. & Kovelman I. (2022). What’s in a Word? Impact of bilingual acquisition on children’s quality of semantic and phonological representations for learning to read in English. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13666