Jyotsna Vaid (Texas A&M University)

Jyotsna Vaid
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Texas A & M University
College Station, TX 77843-4235  USA

and
Adjunct Professor
Center for Asian Studies
University of Texas
Austin, Texas
 
phone: 979-845-2576
fax:   979-845-4727
email: jxv@psyc.tamu.edu
url:   http://http.tamu.edu/~e305jj/

Description of work:

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cognitive and neuropsychological aspects of bilingualism
Reading and writing in semi-syllabic scripts
Matrimonial advertisements
South Asian women's groups in North America

SELECTED  PUBLICATIONS
	
Books

Vaid, J., Miller, B., & Hyde, J. (1984). South Asian Women At Home and 
Abroad: A Guide to Resources. Research Monograph 2, Committee on Women in 
Asian Studies.  Syracuse: Syracuse University Metropolitan Studies 
Program. 90 pp.

Vaid, J. (1986). Ed., Language Processing in Bilinguals: Psycholinguistic 
and Neuropsychological Perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum 
Associates. 

Vaid, J. (1990). The Bilingual Aphasia Test: Hindi/English, Dvibhasha ka 
Pratikshan. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 

Ward, T., Smith, S. & Vaid, J. (Eds.) (1997). Creative Thought: An 
Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes. Washington, DC: 
American Psychological Association.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters 

Vaid, J. (1980). Code-mixing in Indian films: The case of Hindi and 
English. Indian Linguistics, 41, 37-44.

Vaid, J. (1985).  Numerical size comparisons in a phonologically 
transparent script. Perception and Psychophysics, 6, 592-595. [Hindi]

Vaid, J. & Chengappa, S. (1988). Assigning linguistic roles: Sentence 
interpretation in normal and aphasic bilinguals. Journal of 
Neurolinguistics, 3(2), 161-183. [Kannada]

Vaid, J. (1988). Asymmetries in tachistoscopic word recognition: Scanning 
effects re-examined. International Journal of Neuroscience, 253-258. 
[Hindi and Urdu]

Vaid, J. & Singh, M. (1989). Asymmetries in the perception of facial 
affect: Is there an influence of reading habits?  Neuropsychologia, 
27(10), 1277-1287. [Hindi and Urdu]

Vaid, J. (1989). Seeking a voice: South Asian women's groups in North 
America. In Wong, Diane Y-M. (Ed.), Making waves: An anthology by and 
about Asian-American women (pp. 395-404). Boston: Beacon Press. [This 
anthology received the 1990 Outstanding Book Award from the Association 
for Asian American Studies.] 

Vaid, J. & Pandit, R. (1991). Sentence interpretation in normal and 
aphasic Hindi speakers. Brain and Language, 41, 250-274.

Vaid, J. & Hall, D.G. (1991). Neuropsychological perspectives on 
bilingualism: Right, left and center. In A. Reynolds (Ed.),  
Bilingualism, multiculturalism and second language learning: The McGill 
conference in honour of Wallace E. Lambert (Pp. 81-112). Hillsdale, NJ: 
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Vaid, J. (1995). Script directionality influences nonlinguistic 
performance: Evidence from Hindi and Urdu. In I. Taylor & D. Olson 
(Eds.), Scripts and literacy: Reading and learning to read alphabets, 
syllabaries and characters (pp. 295-310). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic 
Publishers.

Sakhuja, T., Gupta, G.C., Singh, M. & Vaid, J. (1996). Reading habits 
affect asymmetries in facial affect judgments: A replication. Brain and 
Cognition, 32(2), 162-165. [Hindi and Urdu]

Vaid, J. (2000). Beyond a space of our own: South Asian women's groups in 
the United States. Amerasia Journal, 25(3), 111-126. 

Singh, M., Vaid, J. & Sakhuja, T. (2000). Reading/writing vs. handedness 
influences on line length estimation. Brain and Cognition, 43(1-3), 
398-402. [Hindi and Urdu]

Vaid, J., Singh, M., Sakhuja, T. & Gupta, G.C.  (2001, in press). Stroke 
direction asymmetry in figure drawing: Influence of handedness and 
reading/writing habits. Brain and Cognition. [Hindi and Urdu]

Padakannaya, P., Devi, M.K., Zaveria, B., Chengappa, S.K. & Vaid, J. 
(2001, in press). Directional scanning effect and strength of reading 
habit in picture naming and recall. Brain and Cognition. [Kannada, Urdu]

Vaid, J. & Gupta, A. (2001, in press). Exploring word recognition in a 
semi-alphabetic script: The case of Devanagari. Brain and Language.

Vaid, J. (2001, forthcoming ). Inside 'One Mind, Two Languages.' World 
Englishes. 

Vaid, J. & Chengappa, K.C.  The bilingual brain: Clinical 
neuropsychological perspectives. In W. Ritchie and T. Bhatia (Eds.), 
Handbook of bilingualism. London: Blackwell. In prep.  

Vaid, J. (2001, in progress). Matrimonial advertisements in India Abroad: 
Discourses of the commodified self. In Mazumdar, S., Srikant, R. & Vaid, 
J. (Eds.), Opening Act: The First 200 Years of South Asians in North 
America.  

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 
Committee on South Asian Women Bulletin, Founding Editor: 1983-present
Committee on Women in Asian Studies - Executive Board Chair: 1993-95

Conference Symposia/Panels Organized/Chaired

1984, Chair, South Asian Women at Home and Abroad, Panel at Conference on 
South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Nov. 

1987, Organizer, Dual Universes: Perspectives on the Female Immigrant 
Experience, Panel at annual Conference on South Asia, University of 
Wisconsin, Nov.

1994, Chair/Organizer, New Immigrants: Media Representations of South 
Asians in the U.S.  Panel at annual conference of Multi-Ethnic Literature 
of the U.S. (MELUS), College Station, April 

1996, Chair and Co-organizer, Diasporic Communities in Construction, 
Panel presented at 25th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of 
Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 

1997, Chair, Violence against Women in the South Asian Community, Panel 
presented at 26th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of 
Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 

1998, Chair, Feminine Vulnerabilities: A Consideration of Women and Power 
in South Asia, Panel at 27th Annual Conference on South Asia, University 
of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 

2000, Chair/Organizer, Past (Im)perfect and Present Tense? Problematizing 
Female Migration in and From South Asia, Roundtable, annual meeting of 
the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March