Ioulia Kovelman
Professor of Psychology, Professor of Linguistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
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Research interests are in language and reading development in monolingual and bilingual infants, children, and adults. Her work includes both typical and atypical language and reading development using a variety of behavioral and brain imaging methods (fMRI, fNIRS).
- Neelima Wagley, Xiaosu Hu, Teresa Satterfield, Lisa M. Bedore, James R. Booth, Ioulia Kovelman. 2024. Neural specificity for semantic and syntactic processing in Spanish-English bilingual children. Brain and Language 250:105380.
- Jia-Wei Kou, Li-Ying Fan, Hsin-Chin Chen, Shiou-Yuan Chen, Xiaosu Hu, Kehui Zhang, Ioulia Kovelman, Tai-Li Chou. 2024. Neural substrates of L2-L1 transfer effects on phonological awareness in young Chinese-English bilingual children. NeuroImage 291:120592.
- Nia Nickerson, Xin Sun, Valeria Caruso, Kehui Zhang, Chi-Lin Yu, Rachel Eggleston, Natasha Chaku, Xiaosu Hu, Teresa Satterfield, Ioulia Kovelman. 2024. What's in the Sound? Common and Language‐Specific Patterns in Brain Activation and Functional Connectivity for Phonological Awareness in Spanish-English Bilinguals. Mind, Brain, and Education
- Alisa Baron, Neelima Wagley, Xiaosu Hu, Ioulia Kovelman. 2023. Neural Correlates of Morphosyntactic Processing in Spanish-English Bilingual Children: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 66(9):3500-3514.
- Michelle R. Y. Huo, Xin Sun, Ioulia Kovelman, Xi Chen. 2023. Literacy Development in East Asia. Global Variation in Literacy Development
- Nicole L Florentino, Tiffani P Shelton, Danya Lebell, Lexie Thomas, Jocelyn Caballero, Florence Bouhali, Ioulia Kovelman, Yuuko Uchikoshi Tonkovich, Fumiko Hoeft. 2023. Are Reading Strategies Related to the Orthographic Depth of Languages Acquired Through Bilingual Education?. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 29(s1):652-653.
- Valeria Ortiz-Villalobos, Ioulia Kovelman, Teresa Satterfield. 2023. The Neurocognition of Child Second Language Development. The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics :436-447.
- Kovelman, Ioulia, Marks, Rebecca A. 2019. Tracking qualitative changes in cognition and brain development through bilingualism. Journal of Neurolinguistics 49:255-257.
- Kovelman, Ioulia, Kremin, Lena V, Arredondo, Maria M, Hsu, Lucy Shih-Ju, Satterfield, Teresa . 2019. The effects of Spanish heritage language literacy on English reading for Spanish-English bilingual children in the US. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22(2):192-206.
- Kovelman, Ioulia, Hsu, Lucy Shih-Ju, Ip, Ka I, Arredondo, Maria M, Tardif, Twila . 2019. Simultaneous acquisition of English and Chinese impacts children's reliance on vocabulary, morphological and phonological awareness for reading in English. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22(2):207-223.