Research Team

Laboratory Director

Dr. Wendy Francis photo and brief bio
	Wendy S. Francis, Ph.D. Helen M.C. and J. Edward Stern Endowed Professor of Psychology Dr. Francis came to UTEP in 1999 and is now a tenured Professor. She conducts research on bilingualism and memory and teaches courses in cognition, memory, and statistics.

Graduate Students

Naoko Tsuboi photo and brief bio
	Naoko Tsuboi Naoko is a Ph.D. student in the Bilingualism, Language, and Cognition area. She has completed her MA thesis on foreign vocabulary learning in monolinguals and bilinguals, which is now published in the Journal of Memory and Language. She is now working on her dissertation, which deals with source and destination memory.

Bianca Gurrola photo and brief bio
	Bianca Gurrola Bianca is a Ph.D. student in the Bilingualism, Language, and Cognition area. She completed her first-year project on how listening to and translating sentences impacts the speed and accuracy of spoken production, and this research is now published in Memory & Cognition. She is now working on her thesis on false memories in bilinguals.

Liam Gleason brief bio
	Liam Gleason Liam is a Ph.D. student in the Bilingualism, Language, and Cognition area. He is working on his thesis, which deals with repetition priming in recognition of speech in noise.

Randy Taylor, Wendy Francis, Natalia Strobach, and Renee Penalver
after Natalia's Dissertation Defense, November 2015

Connect With Us

The University of Texas at El Paso
Bilingual Cognition Laboratory
Psychology Bldg. Room 209
500 W University
El Paso, Texas 79902

E: wfrancis@utep.edu
P: (915) 747-5521