Associate Professor, Speech Language
Director, Bilingualism and Cognition Laboratory
Phone: (619) 594-7110
Office: SLHS 225
Email: hblumenf@sdsu.edu
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Education
- Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2008
- B.A., Bryn Mawr College, 2001
Professional Memberships / Affiliations
- American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA)
- ASHA Special Interest Division 14: Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
- San Diego State University Center on Aging, Faculty Fellow
- Women in Cognitive Science
- Cognitive Science Society
Academic and Clinical Teaching Areas
- Linguistic and Cognitive Processing in Bilingual Adults
- Bilingual Aphasia
- Communication Processes and Aging
- Research Methods in Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders
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
Research Support
- ASHA Grant Program for Multicultural Activities, 2012-2013, Blumenfeld (PI), Co-PI’s: Dr. Tracy Love, Dr. JongWon Min, Amber Brychta, & Dr. Anita Harbert. Development of Language and Cognitive Assessment Protocols, and Linguistic Resources for Multicultural / Multilingual Vulnerable Senior Living in Poverty.
- Collaboration for Healthy Aging and Workforce Development (CHAWD) Grant, 2011-2012, Blumenfeld (PI)Development of a Reliable Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire for Seniors and Identification of Linguistic Resources for Clients at the Gary and Mary West Wellness Center.
- Language Learning Small Grants Program Grant, 2011-2012, Co-PI with Dr. Ignatius Nip (PI). Cognitive and Linguistic Influences on Speech Motor Control of L2 in Adult Language Learners.
- ASHFoundation, New Investigator Grant, 2010-2012, Blumenfeld (PI). Lexical Activation and Inhibition in Monolingual and Bilingual Aphasia.
- San Diego State University, University Grants Program Grant, 2010-2011, Blumenfeld (PI). Identifying the Time-course of Ambiguity Resolution in Bilinguals and Monolinguals
- San Diego State University, University Grants Program Grant, 2009-2010, Blumenfeld (PI). Consequences of Life-long Bilingualism on Aging and Symptoms of Wernicke’s Aphasia
Selected Publications
- Blumenfeld, H.K., Schroeder, S.R., Bobb, S.C., Freeman, M.R., & Marian, V. (in press). Auditory word recognition across the lifespan: Links between linguistic and non-linguistic inhibitory control in bilinguals and monolinguals. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
- Potapova, I., Blumenfeld, H.K., & Pruitt-Lord, S. (in press). Cognate identification methods: Impacts on the cognate advantage in adult and child Spanish-English bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism.
- Nip, I. & Blumenfeld, H.K. (in press). Proficiency and linguistic complexity influence speech motor control and performance in Spanish language learners. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.
- Giezen, M.R., Blumenfeld, H.K., Emmorey, K.E., Shook, A., & Marian, V. (2015). Parallel language activation and inhibitory control in bimodal bilinguals. Cognition, 141, 9-25. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.04.009
- Blumenfeld, H.K. & Adams, A.M. (2014). Learning and processing of nonverbal symbolic information in bilinguals and monolinguals. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1147. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01147
- Blumenfeld, H.K., & Marian, V. (2014). Cognitive control in bilinguals: Advantages in stimulus-stimulus inhibition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(3), 610-629. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728913000564
- Blumenfeld, H.K., & Marian, V. (2013). Cognitive control and parallel language activation during word recognition in bilinguals. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25 (5), 547-567. doi:10.1080/20445911.2013.812093
- Marian, V., Blumenfeld, H.K., Mizrahi, E., Kania, U., & Cordes, A.-K. (2013). Multilingual Stroop performance: effects of trilingualism and proficiency on inhibitory control. International Journal of Multilingualism, 10 (1), 82-104.. doi: 10.1080/14790718.2012.708037
- Blumenfeld, H.K., & Marian, V. (2011). Bilingualism influences inhibitory control in auditory comprehension. Cognition, 118(2), 245-257. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.012
- Kaushanskaya, M., Blumenfeld, H.K., & Marian, V. (2011). The relationship between short-term memory and vocabulary measures in monolingual and bilingual speakers. International Journal of Bilingualism, 15(4), 408-425. doi:10.1177/1367006911403201
- Marian, V., Blumenfeld, H.K., & Boukrina, O. (2008). Sensitivity to phonological similarity within and across languages. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 37, 141-170. doi: 10.1007/s10936-007-9064-9 PMCID: PMC2788498
- Blumenfeld, H.K., & 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. doi: 10.1080/01690960601000746
- Marian, V., Blumenfeld, H.K., & 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. doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2007/067)
- Thompson, C.K., Bonakdarpour, B., Fix, S.C., Blumenfeld, H.K., Parrish, T.B., Gitelman, D.R., & Mesulam, M.M. (2007). Neural correlates of verb argument structure processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19 (11), 1753-1767. doi: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.11.1753 PMCID: PMC2253656
- Blumenfeld, H.K., Booth, J.R., & 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. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.07.004 PMCID: PMC2667123
Publications
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