"Language is the dress of thought."
-Samuel Johnson

Book chapters
Conference presentations
Invited presentations
Journal articles

BOOK CHAPTERS

Hernandez, A.E., Fernandez, E. M., Aznar-Besé, N. (2007).
Bilingual sentence processing. In M. G. Gaskell (Ed.), Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Hernandez, A. E. & Hiscock, M. (2007).
The development of neural substrates of language over the lifespan. Manuscript Submitted for Publication.

Meschyan, G., & Hernandez, A. E.  (2003).
Cognitive Factors in Second Language Acquisition and Literacy Learning: A Theoretical Proposal and Call for Research.  In B. B. Shulman, K. Apel, B. Ehren, E. R. Silliman, & A. Stone (Eds.), Handbook on language and literacy development and disorders.  New York: Guilford Publications, Inc.

Hernandez, A.E. (2002).
The effects of language asymmetries on lexical and sentential priming in Spanish-English bilinguals. In R. Heredia & J. Altarriba (Eds.), Bilingual Sentence Processing. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press.

Hernandez, A. E., & Bates, E. (1999).
Bilingualism and the brain. In R. A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.), MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Aznar-Besé, N., Archila, P. & Hernandez, A.E. (2008, April).
The Effects of Contextual Constraint in the Neural Specialization of Reading Processes. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.

Owens, E. A., Aznar-Besé, N., Meschyan, G. & Hernandez, A. E. (2008, April).
Word Reading in Bilingual Children: an fMRI Study. Poster session presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Fifteenth Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Hernandez, A. E. (2008, March).
Age of Acquisition, Language Proficiency and the Bilingual Brain. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C..

Hernandez, A. E. (2007).
Language switching and language proficiency involve increased executive function in late bilinguals. Paper presented at The 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg, Germany.

Hernandez, A. E. (2007).
Age of Acquisition, Language Proficiency and the Bilingual Brain. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Il.

Hernandez, A. E. (2007).
Neural Correlates of Early Bilingualism. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, Ma.

Waldron, E. J. & Hernandez, A. E. (2007).
The Effects of Age of Acquisition and Proficiency on Past Tense Generation in Spanish-English Bilinguals: An fMRI Study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2007. Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Aznar-Besé, N. & Hernandez, A. E. (2007).
Cortical asymmetry in a word-reading task: the effects of word frequency on neural activation in bilingual children. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2007. Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Li, J., Kishida, K. T., Yang, D., Montague, P. R. & Hernandez, A. E. (2007).
Expertise and perspective effects on visualization in accomplished athletes. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2007. Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Aznar-Besé, N., Waldron, E. J., Shaughnessy, J., & Hernandez, A. E. (2006).
Thought and Talked: an fMRI study of past-tense generation in Spanish-English bilinguals. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2006 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Hernandez, A. E., Waldron, E. J., & Aznar-Besé, N. (2006).
Effects of frequency on brain activity during word reading in Spanish-English bilinguals. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2006 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Waldron, E. J., Aznar-Besé, N. , Shaughnessy, J. , & Hernandez, A. E (2006).
Past tense generation in monolinguals and bilinguals: An fMRI comparison. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2006 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

King, K. E., Shaughnessy, J., & Hernandez, A. E. (2006).
Word Learning in Late and Novice Learners of German. 34th annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS). Boston, Massachussets.

Auza, A. & Hernandez, A. E. (2005).
How Spanish Adjectives And Agentives Are Acquired By Monolingual And Bilingual Children? A Reaction Time Analysis Of Derivational Morphology. 26th annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD). Madison, Wisconsin.

Carr, L., Barber, H., Carreiras, M., Hernandez, A. E. (2005).
Neural correlates of gender and number agreement in Spanish. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2005 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Hernandez, A. E., Carr, L., Shaughnessy, J., & King, K. (2005).
An fMRI study of past tense generation in native and non-native English speakers. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2005 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Hofmann, J., Hernandez, A. & Kotz, S. A. (2005).
Modulation of lexically important and unimportant phonological gender markings by means of fMRI and ERP. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2005 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

King, K. E., Shaughnessy, J. & Hernandez, A. E. (2005).
Word learning in late and novice learners of German. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2005 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Meschyan, G., & Hernandez, A.E. (2005).
Impact of language proficiency and orthographic transparency on bilingual neural activity: An fMRI investigation.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2005 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Auza, A. & Hernandez, A. E. (2004).
El procesamiento dinámico en la adquisición de la morfología derivativa. IV Congreso Internacional sobre la adquisición de las lenguas del Estado. Lenguaje e interculturalidad: Una Europa para compartir. University of Salamanca.

Auza, A. & Hernandez, A. E. (2004).
Derivational Morphology in Spanish and Its Dynamic Processing, 25th annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD). Madison, Wisconsin.

Auza, A. & Hernandez, A.E. (2004).
La morfología derivativa y su procesamiento dinámico. 1° Coloquio de Humanidades DES. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.

Hernandez, A.E. (2004).
On language and age of acquisition. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Development and Learning. San Diego, California.

Hernandez, A.E., Kotz, S. A. & Friederici, A. D. (2004).
Is a maus a mouse: the influence of cognate status on concreteness judgments. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2004 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Hofmann, J. Kotz, S.A., Friederici, A.F., Von Cramon, Y., Hernandez, A.E. (2004).
Neuroanatomical distinction between levels of context information in grammatical gender processing. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2004 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Hernandez, A.E. & Fiebach, C.J. (2003).
Age of acquisition and proficiency modulate activity during reading in a second language. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2003 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Fiebach C.J., Hernandez A.E., Friederici A.D. (2002).
Early and late learned words are represented differently in the brain: An event-related fMRI study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2002 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Hernandez, A.E., Valentin, V.V. Dapretto, M., & Bookheimer, S. (2002).
The neural correlates of grammatical gender in Spanish: An fMRI study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2001 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Valentin, V. V. & Hernandez, A. E. (2002).
Differential neural activity during lexical and semantic judgments of abstract and concrete words. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2001 Annual Meeting program. A supplement to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Hernandez, A.E., Valentin, V.V. Dapretto, M., & Bookheimer, S. (2001).
The neural correlates of grammatical gender in Spanish: An fMRI study. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Hernandez, A. E., Dapretto, M., & Bookheimer, S. (2000).
Language switching and language representation in Spanish-English bilinguals: An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 11, s340.

Hernandez, A.E., Dapretto, M. & Bookheimer, S. (2000).
Switching within- and between-languages: One mechanism or two? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for the Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, San Antonio, TX.

Hernandez, A.E., Dapretto, M. & Bookheimer, S. (1999).
Switching within- and between-languages: One mechanism or two? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Washington, D. C.

Hernandez, A. E. (1999)
Toward a cognitive neuroscience of bilingualism. Keynote address. Texas Research Symposium on Language Diversity. Austin, TX.

Hernandez, A.E. & Kohnert-Rice, K. (1998).
Aging and picture naming in monolinguals and bilinguals. Poster presented at the 1998 Cognitive Aging Conference. Atlanta, Ga.

Hernandez, A.E. & Martinez, E. (1998).
Code-switching across the lifespan: Priming effects from auditory stimuli. Poster presented at the 1998 Cognitive Aging Conference. Atlanta, Ga.

Hernandez, A.E., Martinez, A. Wong, E.C., Frank, L.R., & Buxton, R. (1998).
Neuroanatomical correlates of single and dual-language processing in Spanish-English bilinguals. Neuroimage, 7, s190.

Hernandez, A. E. (1995, June).
Word recognition in college-aged and older-adult monolinguals and bilinguals. Paper presented at the New Methods in Comparative Aphasiology conference, Albuquerque, NM.

Hernandez, A.E., Fennema-Notestine, C., Udell, C., & Bates, E. (1995, March).
Interactions of sentential and word contexts: Evidence against a two-process theory of semantic priming. Poster presented at the Eigth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Tucson, AZ.

Hernandez, A. E., Bates, E., Avila, L. X., & Reyes, I. (1995, March).
Sentence priming with older adult bilinguals: Evidence of interference between linguistic codes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA .

Bates, E., Devescovi, A., Dronkers, N., Pizzamiglio, L., Wulfeck, B., Hernandez, A., Juarez, L., & Marangolo, P. (1994).
Grammatical deficits in patients without agrammatism: Sentence interpretation under stress in English and Italian. Brain and Language, 47(3), 400-402

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Age of Acquisition, Language Proficiency and the Bilingual Brain
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C., March 2008.
Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Research, Chicago, Ill., April, 2007.
Texas Research Symposium on Language Diversity, University of Texas, Austin, February 2007.

Grammatical and Semantic Processing in the Bilingual Brain
School of Social Sciences, University of California, Merced, January 2005.
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis, February 2004.

On Two Languages in One Brain
Cognoscenti meeting, Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, October 2005.

Bilingualism and the Brain: Old Questions and New Directions
Department of Psychology, University of Magdeburg, Germany, June 2003.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland, May 2003.
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. March 2003.
Department of Communication Disorders, McGill University. Montreal, Ca. August 2002.
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX. April 2002.
Department of Communication Disorders, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fl., March 2002.
Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Ca., February 2002.
Invited Presentation for the Department of Psychology, UC Davis, Davis, Ca., November 2001.
Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany, June 2001.
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, February 2001.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

UNDER PROCESS

Hernandez, A.E. (in press).
Language switching in the bilingual brain: What’s next? Brain & Language.

Carreiras, M., Carr, L. Barber, H. A. and Hernandez, A.E.
Where syntax meets maths: Right Intraparietal Sulcus activation in response to grammatical number agreement violations. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Hernandez, A. E., Redding, R. I., Mattarela-Micke, A., Owens, E. A. & Beilock, S. L.
Age of acquisition in sport: start early and practice often. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Kushalnagar, P., Hannay, H. J. & Hernandez, A. E.
Low- and high-level attention processing mechanisms are moderated by distinct language experiences. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Owens, E. A., Aznar-Besé, N., Meschyan, G. & Hernandez, A. E.
Developmental Effects of Neural Activity on Language Processing in Bilinguals: Evidence from fMRI. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Tao, S., Branum-Martin, L., Hernandez, A. & Francis, D.J.
Naming, Comprehension, and Phonetic Accessibility in Children’s Chinese Character Reading. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Waldron, E. J. & Hernandez, A.E.
Past tense generation of regular verbs recruits senosorimotor cortex: Evidence from fMRI. Manuscript submitted for publication.

2007-2008

Storm, B. C. & Hernandez, A. E. (2007).
Cognitive consequences of asymmetrical visual distraction. Journal of General Psychology, 134(4), 415–434.

Hernandez, A. E., Hofmann, J., & Kotz, S.A., (2007).
Age of acquisition modulates neural activity for both regular and irregular syntactic functions. NeuroImage, 36, 912–923.

Hernandez, A.E. & Li, P. (2007).
Age of acquisition: Its neural and computational mechanisms. Psychological Bulletin, 133(4), 638-650.

2005-2006

Hernandez, A. E. & Fiebach, C. J. (2006).
The brain bases of reading late learned words: Evidence from functional MRI. Visual Cognition, 13, 1027-1043.

Hernandez, A.E. & Meschyan, G. (2006).
Executive function is necessary to enhance L2 lexical processing in a less proficient L2: Evidence from fMRI during picture naming. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 9(2), 177-178.

Meschyan, G. & Hernandez, A.E. (2006).
Impact of language proficiency and orthographic transparency on bilingual word reading: An fMRI investigation. NeuroImage, 29, 1135-1140.

Reyes, I. & Hernandez, A. E. (2006).
Sentence interpretation strategies in emergent bilingual children and adults. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 9(1), 51-69.

Hernandez, A.E., Li, P., MacWhinney, B. (2005).
The emergence of competing modules in bilingualism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(5), 220-225.

Hernandez, A.E. (2005).
Do bilinguals process or store two languages in one brain. Le Langage Et L’homme, 30, 63-78.

Wicha, N.Y., Reyes, I., Hernandez, A., Gavaldón de Barreto, L., & Bates, E.A., (2005).
When zebras become painted donkeys: Grammatical gender and semantic priming interact during picture integration in a spoken Spanish sentence. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20(4), 553-587.

2003-2004

Hernandez, A.E., Kotz, S.A., Hoffman, J., Valentin, V.V., Dapretto, M. & Bookheimer, S.Y. (2004).
The neural correlates of grammatical gender decisions in Spanish. Neuroreport, 15, 863-866.

Fiebach, C. J., Friederici, A. D., Müller, K., von Cramon, D. Y. & Hernandez, A. E. (2003).
Distinct brain representations for early and late learned words, Neuroimage, 19, 1627-37.

Hernandez, A. E. (2003).
[Review of the book The handbook of cognitive neuropsychology: What deficits reveal about the human mind]. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 46, 129-131.

2001-2002

Hernandez, A.E. & Reyes, I., (2002).
Within- and Between-Language Priming Differ: Evidence From Repetition of Pictures in Spanish-English Bilinguals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 28, 726-34.

Meschyan, G., & Hernandez, A. E. (2002).
Is native language decoding skill related to second language learning? Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 14-22.

Meschyan, G., & Hernandez, A. E. (2002).
Age of acquisition and word frequency: Determinants of object-naming speed and accuracy. Memory & Cognition, 30, 262-269.

Hernandez, A. E. (2001).
Rethinking the bilingual brain. [Review of the book The neurolinguistics of bilingualism: An introduction]. Contemporary Psychology: APA review of books, 46, 129-131

Hernandez, A. E., Dapretto, M., Mazziotta, J & Bookheimer, S. (2001).
Language switching and language representation in Spanish-English bilinguals: An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 510-520.

Hernandez, A. E., Fennema-Notestine, C., Udell, C. & Bates, E. (2001).
Lexical and sentential priming: Implications for two-stage theories of lexical access. Applied Psycholinguistics, 22, 191-215.

1999-2000

Hernandez, A.E., Martinez, A., & Kohnert, K. (2000).
In search of the language switch: An fMRI study of picture naming in Spanish-English bilinguals. Brain and Language, 73, 421-431.

Hernandez, A. E., Sierra, I. & Bates, E. (2000).
Sentence interpretation in bilingual and monolingual Spanish speakers: Grammatical processing in a monolingual mode. Spanish Applied Linguistics, 4, 179-213.

Hernandez, A. E., & Bates, E. (1999).
Bilingualism and the brain. In R. A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.), MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hernandez, A. E. & Kohnert, K. (1999).
Aging and language switching in bilinguals. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 6, 69-83.

Kohnert, K., Bates, E., & Hernandez, A. E. (1999).
Balancing bilinguals: Lexical-semantic production and cognitive processing in children learning Spanish and English. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 42, 1400-1413.

Kohnert-Rice, K., Hernandez, A. E., & Bates, E. (1999).
Bilingual performance on the Boston Naming Test; Preliminary norms in Spanish and English. Brain and Language, 65, 422-440.

1994-1997

Devescovi, A., Bates, E., DAmico, S., Hernandez, A., & Pizzamiglio, L. (1997).
An on-line study of grammaticality judgments in normal and aphasic speakers of Italian. Aphasiology, 11, 543-579

Bates, E., Devescovi, A., Hernandez, A., & Pizzamiglio, L. (1996).
Gender priming in Italian. Perception & Psychophysics, 58, 992-1004.

Hernandez, A. E., Bates, E. & Avila, L. X. (1996).
Processing across the language boundary: A cross-modal priming study of Spanish-English bilinguals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 22, 846-864.

Bates, E., Devescovi, A., Pizzamiglio, L., D`Amico, S., & Hernandez, A. (1995).
Gender and lexical access in Italian. Perception & Psychophysics, 57, 847-862.

Devescovi, A., Pizzamiglio, L., Bates, E., Hernandez, A., & Marangolo, P. (1994).
Grammatical deficits in patients without agrammatism: Detection of agreement errors by Italian aphasics and controls. Brain and Language, 47(3), 449-452.

Hernandez, A. E., & Bates, E. (1994).
Interactive/Activation in normal and brain damaged individuals: Can context penetrate the lexical module? Linguistische Berichte, 6, 145-167.

Hernandez, A. E., Bates, E. & Avila, L. X. (1994).
On-line sentence interpretation in Spanish-English bilinguals: What does it mean to be in between? Applied Psycholinguistics, 15, 417-446.