Selected Publications from the Last Decade

Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2021). Diversity of bilingual circumstances and implications for language and cognition. In W. Francis (Ed.) Bilingualism Across the Lifespan (pp. 69-87). Routledge. PDF

Vitrano, D., Altarriba, J., & Leblebici-Başar, D. (in press, 2021).  Revisiting Mednick’s (1962) theory of creativity with a composite measure of creativity:  The effect of stimulus type on word association production. Journal of Creative Behavior. doi: 10.1002/jocb.498. PDF 

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Kazanas, S. A., Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (in press, 2021). Adaptive memory: Greater memory advantages in bilinguals’ first language. International Journal of Bilingualism. doi: 10.1177/13670069211022856. PDF

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Refki, D., Ahmed, R., Altarriba, J., Abdelkarim, S., Sa, E., & Avery, M. C. (2021). Health messaging on YouTube for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities: Here’s what we found (Infographic). https://healthcommforcovid19.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/infographic_final.pdf

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Ahmed, R., Refki, D., Altarriba, J., Abdelkarim, S., Sa, E., & Avery, M. C. (2021). Trust & disease prevention: Communicating health messages within culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities (Policy brief). https://www.albany.edu/womeningov/New%20Policy%20Brief%20June21.pdf

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Altarriba, J., & Avery, M. C. (2021). Divergent thinking in survival processing: Did our ancestors benefit from creative thinking? Evolutionary Psychology, 19, 1-6. doi: 10.1177/1474704921994028. PDF

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Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (in press, 2021). Emotion words in monolingual and bilingual cognitive psycholinguistic research. In G. Schiewer, J. Altarriba, & N. B. Chin (Eds.), Handbook on language and emotion. Berlin: de Gruyter.

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Altarriba, J., & Wilck, A. M. (2021). Evolutionary cognitive psychology. In T. K. Shackelford (Ed.), The SAGE handbook of evolutionary psychology: Integration of evolutionary psychology with other disciplines (pp. 28-50). London: SAGE Publishing. PDF

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Martin, J. M., Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2020). Is it possible to predict which bilingual speakers have switched language dominance? A discriminant analysis. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 41(3), 206-218. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2019.1603236. PDF

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Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2020). Recall of cheaters. In T. K. Shackelford, & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science.  New York, NY:  Springer. PDF

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Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2019).  Animacy and mortality salience:  New directions for the adaptive memory literature.  In T. K. Shackelford & Zeigler-Hill, V. (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on death (pp. 63-76).  New York:  Springer Nature. PDF

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Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2019). An investigation of sex differences, implicit memory, and perceptual identification in the survival memory paradigm. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 5(3), 369-380. PDF

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Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2019). Attention and perception. In T. K. Shackelford, & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science.  New York, NY:  Springer. Advanced online publication. doi : 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_637-1. PDF

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Basnight-Brown, D. M., Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2018). Translation ambiguity in Mandarin-English bilinguals: Production effects across concrete, abstract, and emotion words. In Linguistic approaches to bilingualism. PDF

El-Dakhs, D. A. S., & Altarriba, J. (2018). The distinctiveness of emotion words: Does it hold for foreign language learners? The case of Arab EFL learners. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. PDF

Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba. (2018). Predators as attention-grabbing. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. PDF

Kazanas, S. A., McLean, J. S., & Altarriba, J. (2018). Emotion and emotion concepts: Processing and use in monolingual and bilingual speakers. In J. W. Schwieter (Ed.), The handbook of the neuroscience of multilingualism. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. PDF

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Knickerbocker, H., Johnson, R. L., Starr, E. L., Hall, A. M., Preti, D. M., Slate, S. R., & Altarriba, J. (2018). The time course of processing emotion-laden words during sentence reading: Evidence from eye movements. Acta Psychologica. PDF

Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2018). Selective attunement to adaptive problems. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. PDF

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Wilck, A. M., Altarriba, J., Heredia, R. R., & Schwieter, J. W. (2018). Learning and memory in the bilingual mind and brain. In J. W. Schwieter (Ed.), The handbook of the neuroscience of multilingualism. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. PDF

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Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2018). The cost of being bilingual: The example of verbal fluency and switching. In A. Ardila, A. B. Cieslicka, R. R. Heredia, & M. Rosselli (Eds.), Psychology of bilingualism: The cognitive and emotional world of bilinguals (pp. 119-136). New York: Springer Nature. PDF

Altarriba, J., & Heredia, R. R. (2018). Introduction. In J. Altarriba & R. R. Heredia (Eds.), An introduction to bilingualism: Principles and processes (2nd ed.) (pp. 3-11). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. PDF

Basnight-Brown, D. M., & Altarriba, J. (2018). The influence of emotion and culture on language representation and processing. In C. Faucher, T. Nishida, & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Advances in culturally-aware intelligent systems and in cross-cultural psychological studies (pp. 415-432). New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. PDF

Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2017). Emotions and expressions across cultures. In Y. Y. Kim & K. McKay-Semmler (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of intercultural communication (IE-ICC). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. PDF

Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2017). Neurorehabilitation with Hispanic/Latino populations: Clinical perspectives on interprofessional communication. SIG 2 Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, 2, 132-141. PDF

Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2017). Effects of valence on hemispheric specialization for emotion word processing. Language and speech, 60(4), 597-613. PDF

Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2017). Did our ancestors fear the unknown? The role of predation in the survival advantage. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 11(1), 83-91. PDF

Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2016). An interdisciplinary approach to foreign language learning: Myths and strategies for success. [Review of the book Being fluent: How cognitive science can help adults learn a foreign language, by R. Roberts & R. Kreuz (Eds.)]. PsycCRITIQUES, 61(3). PDF

Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2016). Emotion word processing: Effects of word type and valence in Spanish-English bilinguals. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45(2), 395-406. PDF

Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2016). Emotion word type and affective valence priming at a long stimulus onset asynchrony. Language and Speech, 59(3), 339-352. PDF

Altarriba, J., & Basnight-Brown, D. M. (2015). Emotion word processing within and between languages. In J. W. Schwieter (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of bilingual processing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. PDF

Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2015). Rapid Serial Visual Presentation: Bilingual lexical and attentional processing. R. R. Heredia, J. Altarriba, & A. B. Cieslicka (Eds.), Methods in bilingual reading comprehension research. New York, NY: Springer. PDF

Knickerbocker, H., Johnson, R. L., & Altarriba, J. (2015). Emotion effects during reading: Influence of an emotion target word on eye movements and processing. Cognition & Emotion, 29(5), 784-806. PDF

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Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2015). The survival advantage: Underlying mechanisms and extant limitations. Evolutionary Psychology, 13(2), 360-396. PDF

Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2015). The automatic activation of emotion and emotion-laden words: Evidence from a masked and unmasked priming paradigm. American Journal of Psychology, 128(3), 323-336. PDF

Cho, K. W., Altarriba, J., & Popiel, M. (2015). Mental juggling: When does multitasking impair reading comprehension? The Journal of General Psychology, 142(2), 90-105. PDF

Graves, D. F., & Altarriba, J. (2014). False memories in bilingual speakers. In R. R. Heredia & J. Altarriba (Eds.), Foundations of bilingual memory. (pp. 205-221). New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. PDF

Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2014). Multilingualism and memory. The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. PDF

Tse, C.-S., & Altarriba, J. (2014). The relationship between language proficiency and attentional control in Cantonese-English bilingual children: Evidence from Simon, Simon Switchig, and working memory tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 954. PDF

Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2013). Survival processing, attention, and interference. In B. L. Schwartz, M. L. Howe, M. P. Toglia, & H. Otgaar (Eds.). What is adaptive about adaptive memory? (pp. 123-138). New York: Oxford University Press. PDF

Leblebiçi-Basar, D., & Altarriba, J. (2013). The role of imagery and emotion in the translation of concepts into product form. The Design Journal, 16, 295-314. PDF

Knickerbocker, H., & Altarriba, J. (2013). Differential repetition blindness with emotion and emotion-laden wordtypes. Visual Cognition, 21(5), 599-627. PDF

Tse, C.-S., & Altarriba, J. (2012). Recognizing the directionality of an arrow affects subsequent judgments of a temporal statement: The role of directionality in spatial metaphors. The Psychological Record, 62, 497-506. PDF

Gianico-Relyea, J. L., & Altarriba, J. (2012). Word concreteness as a moderator of the tip-of-the-tongue effect. The Psychological Record, 62, 763-776. PDF

Altarriba, J., & Basnight-Brown, D. M. (2012). The acquisition of concrete, abstract, and emotion words in a second language. International Journal of Bilingualism, 16, 446-452. PDF

Von Pein, M., & Altarriba, J. (2011). Testing the development of linguistic knowledge in adult naïve learners of American Sign Language. Modern Language Journal, 95, 205-216. PDF

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Knickerbocker, H., & Altarriba, J. (2011). Bilingualism and the impact of emotion: The role of experience, memory, and sociolinguistic factors. In V. Cook, & B. Bassetti (Eds.), Language and bilingual cognition (pp. 453-477). New York: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis. PDF

Altarriba, J., & Knickerbocker, H. (2011). Acquiring second language vocabulary through the use of images and words. In P. Trofimovich, & K. McDonough (Eds.), Applying priming methods to L2 learning, teaching and research: Insights from psycholinguistics (pp. 21-48). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. PDF

Altarriba, J., & Basnight-Brown, D. M. (2011). The representation of emotion vs. emotion-laden words in English and in Spanish in the Affective Simon Task. International Journal of Bilingualism, 15, 310-328. PDF

Tse, C.-S., & Altarriba, J. (2010). The revelation of the negative side of a mental number line depends on list context: Evidence from a sign priming paradigm. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 22, 1248-1260. PDF

Olivares, I., & Altarriba, J. (2009). Mental health considerations for speech-language services with bilingual Spanish-English speakers. Seminars in Speech and Language, 30, 153-161. PDF

Marmolejo, G., Diliberto-Macaluso, K. A., & Altarriba, J. (2009). False memory in bilinguals: Does switching languages increase false memories? American Journal of Psychology, 122, 1-16. PDF

Agee, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2009). Changing conceptions and uses of computer technologies in the everyday literacy practices of sixth and seventh graders. Research in the Teaching of English, 43, 363-396. PDF

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