NCID-1526
Eve Higby
Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
California State University, East Bay
Education/Degree:
1 Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
About
Eve Higby received her BA in Spanish, Linguistics, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Florida International University and her PhD in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences with a concentration in Cognitive Science from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She completed a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship in psychology at the University of California, Riverside and is now an assistant professor in the department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at California State University, East Bay. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the City University of New York, the University of California, and California State University.
Current Work
Eve Higby's research sits at the intersection of linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and communication disorders. She has studied language production and comprehension in bilinguals and older adults and the role that various aspects of cognition play in regulating language. She has also studied the neural underpinnings of language and cognitive processes using brain measures such as electrophysiology (EEG) and structural brain imaging (MRI). One of her primary areas of research is investigating how the languages of a bilingual or multilingual influence each other in the mind and produce unique patterns of language use. She also studies how multilingualism can fine-tune specific aspects of cognition due to the cognitive demands of managing and regulating two languages and determining when to use each language. She has recently begun to study bilingual language development in children and cross-linguistic influence in people with aphasia.
Research Area Keyword(s)
bilingualism, cognition, cognitive neuroscience, language, neurolinguistics