26 August 2020 (11:00 HK time) 

Associative Memory in Bilinguals 

Wendy S. Francis (University of Texas at El Paso) 

Professor 

Psychology 

College of Liberal Arts 

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Dr. Francis' primary research interests are in five related areas of human cognition:

1. the functional organization of bilingual memory
2. transfer processes in human memory
3. representation of and access to words and concepts in semantic and episodic memory
4. the impact of pre-experimental and experimental experience on vocabulary access and memory
5. Relationships between online language processing and long-term verbal learning

Recent projects in the Bilingual Cognition Laboratory have focused on 1) associative memory in monolinguals and bilinguals, 2) the impact of comprehension exposures to words on their later production. Methods of investigation include lexical processing tasks, explicit and implicit memory techniques, standardized proficiency assessments, and mathematical models of cognitive processes.

Education 

Ph D in Cognitive Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (1996)

MS in Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (1991)

BA in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin (1988)

Presentations

Results of a two-semester study on mnemonics usage in an online introductory statistics course (2017), Volume State College, PA, Megan Mocko, Lawrence M. Lesser, Amy E. Wagler, Wendy S. Francis.

Bilingual proficiency effects in conceptial and perceptual implicit memory (2012), Volume Minneapolis, MN, Wendy S. Francis, Elva N. Strobach, Renee M. Penalver, Yolanda Ochoa.

Bilingual proficiency effects in paired associate learning (2011), Volume Commerce, Texas, Wendy S. Francis, Betsabee Lara, Elva N. Strobach, Gabriela Duran.

Recogntion of high and low frequency words in monolinguals and bilinguals (2011), Volume Commerce, Texas, Elva N. Strobach, Wendy S. Francis, Betsabee Lara.

Bilingual proficiency effects in paired associate learning. (2011), Volume Commerce, TX, Wendy S. Francis, B Lara, E Strobach, G Durán.

Sample Publications:

Francis, W. S., Arteaga, M. M., Liaño, M. K., & Taylor, R. S. (2020). Temporal dynamics of free recall: The role of rehearsal efficiency in word frequency and bilingual language proficiency effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149, 1477-1508.

Lauro, J. G., Schwartz, A. I., & Francis, W. S. (2020). Bilingual novel word learning in sentence contexts: Effects of semantic and language variation. Journal of Memory and Language, 113, 104123.

Wendy S. Francis .Shared core meanings and shared associations in bilingual semantic memory: Evidence from research on implicit memory .International Journal of Bilingualism 24 3 (2020).

Francis, W. S., Strobach, E. N., Penalver, R. M., Martínez, M., Gurrola, B. V., & Soltero, A. (2019). Word-context associations in episodic memory are learned at the conceptual level: Word frequency, bilingual proficiency, and bilingual status effects on source memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 1852-1871.

Taylor, R. S., Francis, W. S., Borunda-Vazquez, L., & Carbajal, J. (2019). Mechanisms of word concreteness effects in explicit memory: Does context availability play a role? Memory & Cognition, 47, 169-181.

Francis, W. S., Camacho, A., & Lara, C.  (2014).  Words translated in sentence contexts produce repetition priming in visual word comprehension and spoken word production.  Memory & Cognition, 42, 1143-1154.

Francis, W. S., & Strobach, E. N.  (2013).  The bilingual L2 advantage in recognition memory.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 1296-1303.

Francis, W. S., Durán, G., Augustini, B. K., Luévano, G., Arzate, J. C., & Sáenz, S. P. (2011). Decomposition of repetition priming processes in word translation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 187-205.

Francis, W. S., Corral, N. I., Jones, M. L., & Sáenz, S. P. (2008). Decomposition of repetition priming components in picture naming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 566-590.

Francis, W. S., & Sáenz, S. P. (2007). Repetition priming endurance in picture naming and translation: Contributions of component processes. Memory & Cognition, 35, 481-493.

Francis, W. S., & Gallard, S. L. K. (2005). Concept mediation in trilingual translation: Evidence from response times and repetition priming patterns. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 1082-1088.

Francis, W. S., Augustini, B. K, & Sáenz, S. P. (2003). Repetition priming in picture naming and translation depends on shared processes and their difficulty: Evidence from Spanish-English bilinguals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 1283-1297.

Francis, W. S. (1999). Cognitive integration of language and memory in bilinguals: semantic representation. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 193-222.