Journal Articles & Book Chapters
McArthur, A. W. D., Whitford, V., & Joanisse, M. F. (2024). Event-related potential measures of visual word processing in monolingual and bilingual children and adults: A focus on word frequency effects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36, 1493-1522.
Byers, N., MacIsaac, S., MacGregor, K., & Whitford, V. (2024, In Revision). Schizotypal traits and their relationship to reading and reading-related abilities in neurotypical adults. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition.
Byers, N., Stacey, C., Levasseur, G., Titone, D., & Whitford, V. (2024, In Revision). Word age of acquisition effects during first-language and second-language paragraph reading in bilingual older and younger adults: An eye-tracking investigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
Tarín-Murillo, K., Hernández-Rivera, E., Whitford, V., & Titone, D. (2024, In Revision). Cross-language activation when sentence meaning biases another language: An eye-tracking investigation of second language reading. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Gullifer, J. W., Pivneva, I., Whitford, V., Sheikh, N. A., & Titone, D. (2023). Bilingual language experience and its effect on conflict adaptation in reactive inhibitory control tasks. Psychological Science, 34, 238-251.
Whitford, V., Byers, N., O’Driscoll, G. A., & Titone, D. (2023). Eye movements and the perceptual span in disordered reading: A comparison of schizophrenia and dyslexia. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition. 34, 100289.
Rafat, Y., Spinu, L., Whitford, V., Joanisse, M., Trivedi, V., Swiderski, N., ... & Mohaghegh, M. (2022). An acoustic examination of English fricative production by Korean-and Farsi-English bilinguals: The role of language-and orthographic-specific effects. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152, A262-A263.
Leon Guerrero, S., Whitford, V., Mesite, L., & Luk, G. (2021). Text complexity modulates cross-linguistic sentence integration in L2 reading. Frontiers in Communication: Language Sciences, 6, 1-21.
Rafat, Y., Whitford, V., Joanisse, M., Swiderski, N., Cornwell, S., Mohaghegh, M., Valdivia, C., Fakoornia, N., Nasrollahzadeh, P., & Habibi, L. (2021). First-language-specific orthographic effects in second-language speech: A comparison of Korean-English and Farsi-English bilinguals. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 3, 102-122.
Vingron, N., Palma, P., Gullifer, J., Whitford, V., Friesen, D., Jared, D. J., & Titone, D. (2021). What are the modulators of cross-language syntactic activation during natural reading? Frontiers in Communication: Language Sciences, 6, 1-18.
Whitford, V., & Joanisse, M. F. (2021). Eye movement measures of within-language and cross-language activation during reading in monolingual and bilingual children and adults: A focus on neighborhood density effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 4771.
Friesen, D., Whitford, V., Titone, D., & Jared, D. J. (2020). The impact of individual differences on cross-language activation of meaning by phonology. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23, 323-343.
Palma, P., Whitford, V., & Titone, D. (2020). Cross-language activation and executive control modulate within-language ambiguity resolution: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46, 507-528.
Whitford, V., & Guedea, E. L. (2020). The behavioral and neural correlates of bilingual lexical ambiguity. In R. R. Heredia & A. B. Cieślicka (Eds.), Bilingual lexical ambiguity resolution (pp. 231-249). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Rafat, Y., Whitford, V., Joanisse, M., Mohaghegh, M., Swiderski, N., Cornwell, S., Valdivia, C., Nasrollahzadeh, P., Fakoornia, N., Hafez, R., & Habibi, L. (2019). First language orthography influences second language speech during reading: Evidence from highly proficient Korean-English bilinguals. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 100-107.
Tiv, M., Gonnerman, L., Whitford, V., Friesen, D., Jared, D. J., & Titone, D. (2019). Figuring out how verb-particle constructions are understood during L1 and L2 reading. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1733.
Whitford, V., & Titone, D. (2019). Lexical entrenchment and cross-language activation: Two sides of the same coin for bilingual reading across the adult lifespan. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22, 58-77.
Whitford, V., & Luk, G. (2019). Comparing executive functions in monolinguals and bilinguals: Considerations on participant characteristics and statistical assumptions in current research. In I. Sekerina, L. Spradlin, & V. Valian (Eds.), Bilingualism, executive function, and beyond: Questions and insights (pp. 67-80). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gullifer, J. W., Chai, X. J., Whitford, V., Pivneva, I., Baum, S., Klein, D., & Titone, D. (2018). Bilingual experience and resting-state brain connectivity: Impacts of L2 age of acquisition and social diversity of languag use on control networks. Neuropsychologia, 117, 123-134.
Whitford, V., & Joanisse, M. F. (2018). Do eye movements reveal differences between monolingual and bilingual children’s first-language and second-language reading? A focus on word frequency effects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 173, 318-337.
Whitford, V., O’Driscoll, G. A., & Titone, D. (2018). Reading deficits in schizophrenia and their relationship to developmental dyslexia: A review. Schizophrenia Research, 193, 11-22.
Whitford, V., & Titone, D. (2017). The effects of word frequency and word predictability during first- and second-language paragraph reading in bilingual older and younger adults. Psychology and Aging, 32, 158-177.
Titone, D., Whitford, V., Lijewska, A., & Itzhak, I. (2016). Bilingualism, executive control, and eye movement measures of reading: A selective review and reanalysis of bilingual vs. multilingual reading data. In J. Schwieter (Ed.), Cognitive control and consequences in the multilingual mind (pp. 11-46). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Whitford, V., Pivneva, I., & Titone, D. (2016). Eye movement methods to investigate bilingual reading. In R. R. Heredia, J. Altarriba, & A. B. Cieślicka (Eds.), Methods in bilingual reading comprehension research (pp. 183-212). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
Whitford, V., & Titone, D. (2016). Eye movements and the perceptual span during first- and second-language sentence reading in bilingual older adults. Psychology and Aging, 31, 58-70.
Titone, D., Columbus, G., Whitford, V., Mercier, J., & Libben, M. (2015). Contrasting bilingual and monolingual idiom processing. In R. R. Heredia & A. B. Cieślicka (Eds.), Bilingual figurative language processing (pp. 171-207). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
Titone, D., Pivneva, I., Sheikh, N., Webb, N., & Whitford, V. (2015). Doubling down on multifactorial approaches to the study of bilingualism and executive control. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18, 43-44.
Whitford, V., & Titone, D. (2015). Second-language experience modulates eye movements during first- and second-language sentence reading: Evidence from a gaze-contingent moving window paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 1118-1129.
Richard, A. G., Churan, J., Whitford, V., O’Driscoll, G. A., Titone, D., & Pack, C. C. (2014). Perisaccadic perception of visual space in people with schizophrenia. Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 4760-4765.
Whitford, V., & Titone, D. (2014). The effects of reading comprehension and launch site on frequency-predictability interactions during paragraph reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 1151-1165.
Whitford, V., O’Driscoll, G. A., Pack, C. C., Joober, R., Malla, A., & Titone, D. (2013). Reading impairments in schizophrenia relate to individual differences in phonological processing and oculomotor control: Evidence from a gaze-contingent moving window paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 57-75.
Whitford, V., & Titone, D. (2012). Second-language experience modulates first- and second-language word frequency effects: Evidence from eye movement measures of natural paragraph reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 73-80.
Titone, D., Libben, M., Mercier, J., Whitford, V., & Pivneva, I. (2011). Bilingual lexical access during L1 sentence reading: The effects of L2 knowledge, semantic constraint, and L1–L2 intermixing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 1412-1431.
