Tamar Gollan

Dr. Tamar Gollan is a Professor in Psychiatry at UC San Diego, with PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Psychology. She directs the Latino Core of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and researches bilingualism, aging, and Alzheimer's disease.

Her work examines cognitive differences in bilinguals, language retrieval failures (tip-of-the-tongue phenomena), and relationships between language switching and executive control. She developed the Multilingual Naming Test (MINT) and researches bilingualism's protective effects against Alzheimer's.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Psychology, University of Arizona

Dr. Gollan serves on editorial boards of major psycholinguistics journals and leads NIH-funded projects on language switching in Alzheimer's disease and cognitive assessment in deaf signers. Her recent publications focus on diagnostic tools for Alzheimer's and neural mechanisms of bilingual language control.

Key findings include identification of reading errors as Alzheimer's markers and differential language decline patterns in bilingual patients. She coordinates research on Latino participation in Alzheimer's studies and develops culturally-sensitive cognitive assessments.