Viorica Marian

Viorica Marian is a scientist with expertise in bilingualism and multilingualism. She is a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Northwestern University. Dr. Marian is the Principal Investigator of the Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Group. She conducts research in bilingualism/multilingualism and the consequences of knowing more than one language for the human linguistic, cognitive, and neural architectures. Dr. Marian is interested in language and cognition and studies language processing, language and memory, language learning, and audio-visual integration in bilinguals and monolinguals. Her other areas of research include bilingual assessment, neurolinguistics of bilingualism, and computational models of bilingual language processing.
She received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Cornell University and her master's degrees from Cornell University and from Emory University.