Ioulia Kovelman
Professor

My research interests are in language and reading development in monolingual and bilingual infants, children, and adults. My work includes both typical and atypical language and reading development using a variety of behavioral and brain imaging methods (fMRI, fNIRS).
Kovelman teaches courses in the following program(s):
Combined Program in Education and Psychology
Selected Publications
Kremin, L., Arredondo, M. M., Hsu, S., Satterfield, T., & Kovelman, I. (2016). The effects of Spanish heritage language literacy on English reading for Spanish-English bilingual children in the U.S. International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. doi: 10.1080/13670050.2016.1239692
Ip, K., Hsu, S., Arredondo, M. M., Tardif T., & Kovelman, I. (2016). Brain bases of morphological processing in Chinese-English bilingual children. Developmental Science.
doi: 10.1111/desc.12449
Arredondo, M., Hu, X., Satterfield T. & Kovelman, I. (2016). Bilingualism alters children’s frontal lobe functioning for attentional control. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.12377
Bisconti, S., Shulkin, M., Hu, X., Basura, G. Kileny, P., & Kovelman, I. (2016). Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Brain Imaging Investigation of Phonological Awareness and Passage Comprehension Abilities in Adult Recipients of Cochlear Implants. Journal of Speech Language & Hearing Research, 59, 239-253. doi:10.1044/2015_JSLHR-L-14-02