Janet van Hell
Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
Most Recent Publications
Neural correlates of listening to nonnative-accented speech in multi-talker background noise
Y Liu, Janet Van Hell, Neuropsychologia on p. 108968
The effect of the communicative setting on the speech tempo of different varieties of American English
Li Fang Lai, Janet Van Hell, John Lipski, American Speech
Second language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts: An approximate replication of Van Hell & Dijkstra (2002)
E Pelzl, Janet Van Hell, Studies in Second Language Acquisition on p. 1457-1474
Automated Assessment of Creativity in Multilingual Narratives
Simone Luchini, M Muhammad, Ibraheem Moosa, John Patterson, Dan Johnson, Matthijs Baas, Baptiste Barbot, Iana Bashmakova, Mathias Benedek, Qunlin Chen, Giovanni Corazza, Boris Forthmann, Benjamin Goecke, S Ibrahim, Sameh Said-Metwaly, Maciej Karwowski, Yoed Kenett, Izabela Lebuda, Todd Lubart, Kirill Miroshnik, Felix-Kingsley Obialo, Marcela Ovando-Tellez, Ricardo Primi, R Diaz, Rogelio Puente-Diaz, Claire Stevenson, R Stevenson, Emmanuelle Volle, Aleksandra Zielinska, A Zielińska, Janet Van Hell, Janet van Hell, Y Wenpeng, Wenpeng Yin, Roger Beaty, 2025, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Cognate Facilitation in Different-Script Trilinguals as a Function of Task Demands
M Elias, Janet Van Hell, T Degani, A Prior, 2025, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
Second language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts
Eric Pelzl, Rafał Jończyk, Janet G. van Hell, 2024, Studies in Second Language Acquisition on p. 1457-1474
Neural correlates of listening to nonnative-accented speech in multi-talker background noise
Yushuang Liu, Janet G. van Hell, 2024, Neuropsychologia
Learning to write rationally: how information is distributed in nonnative speakers’ essays
Z Tang, Janet Van Hell, 2024, Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing on p. 12868–12879
The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries
Janet G. van Hell, 2023, Language Learning on p. 172-181
The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains from the Past and Future Outlook
Janet G. van Hell, 2023, Language Learning
Most-Cited Papers
Cognitive control ability mediates prediction costs in monolinguals and bilinguals
Megan Zirnstein, Janet G. van Hell, Judith F. Kroll, 2018, Cognition on p. 87-106
Tracking lexical consolidation with ERPs: Lexical and semantic-priming effects on N400 and LPC responses to newly-learned words
Iske Bakker, Atsuko Takashima, Janet G. van Hell, Gabriele Janzen, James M. McQueen, 2015, Neuropsychologia on p. 33-41
Language switch costs in sentence comprehension depend on language dominance: Evidence from self-paced reading
Sybrine Bultena, Ton Dijkstra, Janet G. Van Hell, 2015, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition on p. 453-469
Switching direction affects switching costs: Behavioral, ERP and time-frequency analyses of intra-sentential codeswitching
Kaitlyn A. Litcofsky, Janet G. Van Hell, 2017, Neuropsychologia on p. 112-139
Changes in theta and beta oscillations as signatures of novel word consolidation
Iske Bakker, Atsuko Takashima, Janet G. Van Hell, Gabriele Janzen, James M. Mcqueen, 2015, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 1286-1297
Foreign-accented speaker identity affects neural correlates of language comprehension
Sarah Grey, Janet G. van Hell, 2017, Journal of Neurolinguistics on p. 93-108
Interaction between episodic and semantic memory networks in the acquisition and consolidation of novel spoken words
Atsuko Takashima, Iske Bakker, Janet G. van Hell, Gabriele Janzen, James M. McQueen, 2017, Brain and Language on p. 44-60
Dissociating retrieval interference and reanalysis in the P600 during sentence comprehension
Darren Tanner, Sarah Grey, Janet G. van Hell, 2017, Psychophysiology on p. 248-259
Divergent semantic integration (DSI): Extracting creativity from narratives with distributional semantic modeling
Dan R. Johnson, James C. Kaufman, Brendan S. Baker, John D. Patterson, Baptiste Barbot, Adam E. Green, Janet van Hell, Evan Kennedy, Grace F. Sullivan, Christa L. Taylor, Thomas Ward, Roger E. Beaty, 2022, Behavior Research Methods
Second language attainment and first language attrition: The case of VOT in immersed Dutch–German late bilinguals
Antje Stoehr, Titia Benders, Janet G. van Hell, Paula Fikkert, 2017, Second Language Research on p. 483-518
News Articles Featuring Janet van Hell
Feb 15, 2023
Penn State names seven new distinguished professors for 2023
Penn State's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs has named seven distinguished professors for 2023. The distinguished professor title recognizes outstanding academic contribution to the University.
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