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Education:
- Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2008
- B.A., Bryn Mawr College, 2001
Courses Currently Taught:
- SLHS 600 - Research Methods in Communication Sciences and Disorders
- SLHS 672 - Seminar in Communicative Disorders in Bilingual Adults
Scholarly Areas: - How cognitive resources support monolingual and bilingual language processing
- How bilingual experience influences language representations and cognitive processes
- How language and cognition interact (a) with life-long bilingualism, (b) during second-language acquisition, (c) during aging, and (d) in bilingual individuals with aphasia
Biography: Dr. Blumenfeld is a language scientist with a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders and a B.A. in Linguistics, and specializes in bilinguals’ linguistic and cognitive processing. She has employed behavioral, eye-tracking, and neuroimaging methodologies in her research.
Selected Publications:
- Marian, V., Blumenfeld, H.K., and Boukrina, O. (2008) Sensitivity to phonological similarity within and across languages. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 37: 141-170. read
- Blumenfeld, H.K., and Marian, V. (2007) Constraints on parallel activation in bilingual spoken language processing: Examining proficiency and lexical status using eye-tracking. Language and Cognitive Processes. 22 (5): 633-660. read
- Marian, V., Blumenfeld, H.K., and Kaushanskaya, M. (2007) The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Assessing language profiles in bilinguals and multilinguals. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 50 (4): 940-967. read
- Marian, V., Shildkrot, Y., Blumenfeld, H.K., Kaushanskaya, M., Faroqi-Shah, Y., and Hirsch, J. (2007) Cortical activation during word processing in late bilinguals: Similarities and differences as revealed by fMRI. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 29(3): 247-265. read
- Thompson, C.K., Bonakdarpour, B., Fix, S.C., Blumenfeld, H.K., Parrish, T.B., Gitelman, D.R., and Mesulam, M.M. (2007) Neural correlates of verb argument structure processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscienc. 19(11): 1753-1767. read
- Blumenfeld, H.K., Booth, J.R., and Burman, D.D. (2006) Differential prefrontal-temporal neural correlates of semantic processing in children with varying performance levels. Brain and Language. 99(3): 226-235. read
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