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Anita R. Bowles
Assistant Research Scientist

Area: Cognitive Neuroscience and Second Language Acquisition

Education:
  • BA, Psychology, Duke University, 1992
  • MA, Linguistics, 1996
  • PhD, Psychology & Cognitive Science, 2003

Research Interests:
  • Individual differences in 2nd language learning
  • Neural correlates of late-learned 2nd languages
  • Tone languages

CASL Research Projects:

Selected Publications:

High-level Language Aptitude Battery

Modality-independent and modality-specific aspects of the MEG response during lexical decision

A characterization of the MEG components evoked during single word processing - effects of presentation modality and experimental task

Beck in Action: Grawemeyer-Winning psychiatrist influential in psychology

Courting Research: Psychology and law go hand-in-hand

Initial learning of a foreign language: Instruction type and attentional capacity

The effects of grouping on the learning and long-term retention of spatial and temporal information

Metaphor Comprehension: What Makes a Metaphor Difficult to Understand?

A comparison of native speaker and American adult learner Vietnamese lexical tones

Vietnamese monophthong vowel production by native speakers and American adult learners

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