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Dr. Debra Jared is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Western University, specializing in cognitive, developmental, and bilingual language processing. She has held this position for over 30 years and currently leads research in the Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences area. Her work focuses on reading development, cross-language activation, and bilingualism, with particular attention to morphological and phonological processing mechanisms.
Dr. Jared earned her PhD from McGill University under Dr. Mark Seidenberg and completed postdoctoral research at McMaster University, Massachusetts, and elsewhere. She has secured continuous NSERC Discovery Grant funding and led a multi-site longitudinal study on French Immersion education funded by the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network. She has served on NSERC panels, including chairing the Cognitive Science section (2022–23), and editorial roles for Journal of Memory and Language and Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Her research interests span bilingual cognitive processes, including cross-language semantic activation, syntactic influences in reading, and cultural effects on conceptual representation. Notable contributions include ERP studies on bilingual lexical access and longitudinal studies on biliteracy development. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science and the Psychonomic Society.
- Awards:
- Fellow of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science
- Fellow of the Psychonomic Society
- Grants:
- NSERC Discovery Grants (ongoing)
- Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (French Immersion study)
Dr. Jared’s lab explores topics such as homophone processing, masked priming effects, and the neural correlates of cross-language activation. She has advised numerous graduate students and remains active in editorial and peer-review roles across 50+ journals.
