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Debra Titone

ResearcherPsychologyMcGill University

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Debra Titone

Researcher

Psychology

Social Sciences and Humanities

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
13 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 9 research grants (4 NSERC, 4 SSHRC, 1 CIHR), most recently in 2022.

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Research

linguistic landscape psycholinguistics language multilingualism eye tracking visual attention bilingualism sociolinguistics

Latest papers

Eye movement measures of word-level and text-level fluency in disordered reading: A comparison of schizophrenia and dyslexia.
Neuropsychologia · 2026 · senior author
Communication Context Matters: Elicitation Task Shapes the Clinical Utility of Speech Markers in Psychosis.
Neuropsychologia · 2026
Increasing participation of people with thought disorder in clinical research.
European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026

All 33 publications

Latest funding

Facteurs associés à l'utilisation d'une langue additionnelle au quotidien en contexte migratoire: Une approche situationnelle et contextuelle
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$121,011
Bilingualism as a form of cognitive and social reserve
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$100,000
TYPING UNDER WATCHFUL EYES: THE SOCIAL, COGNITIVE, AND LINGUISTIC DETERMINANTS OF TYPED COMMUNICATION IN BILINGUAL ADULTS
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$37,350

All 20 grants and awards

33 publications.

Eye movement measures of word-level and text-level fluency in disordered reading: A comparison of schizophrenia and dyslexia.

Whitford V, Byers N, Matthews V, O'Driscoll GA, Titone D

Neuropsychologia2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109534 PMID: 42331053

Communication Context Matters: Elicitation Task Shapes the Clinical Utility of Speech Markers in Psychosis.

El Mouslih C, Mackinley M, Dzialoszynski P, Lodhi R, Richard J, Titone D, Palaniyappan L

Neuropsychologia2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109587 PMID: 42772404

Increasing participation of people with thought disorder in clinical research.

Palaniyappan L, Baillet S, Bambini V, Barou-Laforie E, Bosia M, Delgaram-Nejad O, Ganesh H, Garani R, Harrison N, Hodgins V, Joober R, Kircher T, Kuperberg G, Murthy C, Rossell S, Singh KD, Sommer IE, Tang SX, Titone D, Voppel A, Watson T, Zeljkovic I

European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists2026

DOI: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2026.12211 PMID: 42037310

Bilingual irony processing during natural reading: A within-participant look at L1 versus L2 effects using eye-movement measures.

Hodgins V, Tiv M, El Mouslih C, Tarín K, Mansuri N, Iniesta A, Titone D

Memory & cognition2025Senior author

DOI: 10.3758/s13421-025-01722-z PMID: 40304870

Self-evaluations and the language of the beholder: objective performance and language solidarity predict L2 and L1 self-evaluations in bilingual adults.

Hernández-Rivera E, Kalogeris A, Tiv M, Titone D

Cognitive research: principles and implications2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s41235-024-00592-4 PMID: 39495425

A systems approach to multilingual language attitudes: A case study of Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Feng RY, Tiv M, Kutlu E, Gullifer JW, Palma P, O'Regan E, Vingron N, Doucerain MM, Titone D

The international journal of bilingualism : cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic studies of language behavior2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/13670069221133305 PMID: 38881568

Are language-cognition interactions bigger than a breadbox? Integrative modeling and design space thinking temper simplistic questions about causally dense phenomena.

Titone D, Hernández-Rivera E, Iniesta A, Beatty-Martínez AL, Gullifer JW

The Behavioral and brain sciences2024First author

DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x23002145 PMID: 38311462

Eye movements and the perceptual span in disordered reading: A comparison of schizophrenia and dyslexia.

Whitford V, Byers N, O'Driscoll GA, Titone D

Schizophrenia research. Cognition2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.scog.2023.100289 PMID: 37435364

The role of mentalizing capacity and ecological language diversity on irony comprehension in bilingual adults.

Tiv M, O'Regan E, Titone D

Memory & cognition2023Senior author

DOI: 10.3758/s13421-022-01349-4 PMID: 36002643

Scratching your tête over language-switched idioms: Evidence from eye-movement measures of reading.

Senaldi MSG, Wei J, Gullifer JW, Titone D

Memory & cognition2022Senior author

DOI: 10.3758/s13421-022-01334-x PMID: 35699909

Facteurs associés à l'utilisation d'une langue additionnelle au quotidien en contexte migratoire: Une approche situationnelle et contextuelle

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Doucerain, Marina M.

$121,011

Bilingualism as a form of cognitive and social reserve

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant - PA: Health and Official Languages in Minority Communities

Principal investigators: Taler, Vanessa

Keywords: Aging; Bilingualism; Cognitive Impairment; Cognitive Reserve; Dementia; Social Reserve

$100,000

TYPING UNDER WATCHFUL EYES: THE SOCIAL, COGNITIVE, AND LINGUISTIC DETERMINANTS OF TYPED COMMUNICATION IN BILINGUAL ADULTS

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: MARTINEZ INIESTA, ANTONIO

Keywords: Bilingualism; Social communication; Typing production; Text-based communication; Social mechanisms; Linguistic mechanisms; Typed communication; Dominant/L1 and non-dominant/L2 languages; Individual differences; Experimental paradigm

$37,350

Children's reading comprehension: the case of pronoun resolution

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Courteau, Emilie

Keywords: Reading development; Child development; Reading processes; Psycholinguistics; Eye tracking; Morphosyntax

$22,785

Reading-To-Think: How We Infer, Reason, And Make Decisions In A First And Second Language

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Titone, Debra

Keywords: reading; comprehension; cognition; reasoning; decision making; mentalizing; language; psycholinguistics; multilingualism; equity diversity inclusion

$234,000

How do collectively experienced large-scale social events drive language dynamics at the societal and individual levels?

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Senaldi, Marco Silvio Giuseppe

Keywords: linguistic variability; linguistic diversity; COVID-19; experience-driven language models; text mining; computational modeling; language processing; multilingualism; social issues

$29,881

A longitudinal investigation of associations between bilinguals' sociolinguistic ecology and second-language proficiency

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Doucerain, Marina M.

Keywords: multilingualism; second language proficiency; second language acquisition; social networks; immigration; socioecological framework; context

$40,304

Eye tracking investigations of what adult bilinguals "notice" in the linguistic landscape

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Titone, Debra A.

Keywords: linguistic landscape; eye tracking; visual attention; psycholinguistics

$95,697

Language and Multilingualism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Titone, Debra

$400,000

Language and Multilingualism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Titone, Debra

Keywords: language; bilingualism; multilingualism; sociolinguistics; individual differences; linguistic landscape; indirect language; pragmatics

$700,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Debra Titone

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Eye movement measures of word-level and text-level fluency in disordered reading: A comparison of schizophrenia and dyslexia.

Communication Context Matters: Elicitation Task Shapes the Clinical Utility of Speech Markers in Psychosis.

Increasing participation of people with thought disorder in clinical research.

Bilingual irony processing during natural reading: A within-participant look at L1 versus L2 effects using eye-movement measures.

Self-evaluations and the language of the beholder: objective performance and language solidarity predict L2 and L1 self-evaluations in bilingual adults.

A systems approach to multilingual language attitudes: A case study of Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Are language-cognition interactions bigger than a breadbox? Integrative modeling and design space thinking temper simplistic questions about causally dense phenomena.

Eye movements and the perceptual span in disordered reading: A comparison of schizophrenia and dyslexia.

The role of mentalizing capacity and ecological language diversity on irony comprehension in bilingual adults.

Scratching your tête over language-switched idioms: Evidence from eye-movement measures of reading.

Facteurs associés à l'utilisation d'une langue additionnelle au quotidien en contexte migratoire: Une approche situationnelle et contextuelle

Bilingualism as a form of cognitive and social reserve

TYPING UNDER WATCHFUL EYES: THE SOCIAL, COGNITIVE, AND LINGUISTIC DETERMINANTS OF TYPED COMMUNICATION IN BILINGUAL ADULTS

Children's reading comprehension: the case of pronoun resolution

Reading-To-Think: How We Infer, Reason, And Make Decisions In A First And Second Language

How do collectively experienced large-scale social events drive language dynamics at the societal and individual levels?

A longitudinal investigation of associations between bilinguals' sociolinguistic ecology and second-language proficiency

Eye tracking investigations of what adult bilinguals "notice" in the linguistic landscape

Language and Multilingualism

Language and Multilingualism

Frequent collaborators

Denise Klein

Veronica Whitford

Vincent Gracco

Shari Baum

Laura Gonnerman

Caroline Palmer

Julie Richard

Lena Palaniyappan

Sylvain Baillet

Tania Lecomte

Debra Titone

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Eye movement measures of word-level and text-level fluency in disordered reading: A comparison of schizophrenia and dyslexia.

Communication Context Matters: Elicitation Task Shapes the Clinical Utility of Speech Markers in Psychosis.

Increasing participation of people with thought disorder in clinical research.

Bilingual irony processing during natural reading: A within-participant look at L1 versus L2 effects using eye-movement measures.

Self-evaluations and the language of the beholder: objective performance and language solidarity predict L2 and L1 self-evaluations in bilingual adults.

A systems approach to multilingual language attitudes: A case study of Montr&#xe9;al, Qu&#xe9;bec, Canada.

Are language-cognition interactions bigger than a breadbox? Integrative modeling and design space thinking temper simplistic questions about causally dense phenomena.

Eye movements and the perceptual span in disordered reading: A comparison of schizophrenia and dyslexia.

The role of mentalizing capacity and ecological language diversity on irony comprehension in bilingual adults.

Scratching your t&#xea;te over language-switched idioms: Evidence from eye-movement measures of reading.

Facteurs associés à l'utilisation d'une langue additionnelle au quotidien en contexte migratoire: Une approche situationnelle et contextuelle

Bilingualism as a form of cognitive and social reserve

TYPING UNDER WATCHFUL EYES: THE SOCIAL, COGNITIVE, AND LINGUISTIC DETERMINANTS OF TYPED COMMUNICATION IN BILINGUAL ADULTS

Children's reading comprehension: the case of pronoun resolution

Reading-To-Think: How We Infer, Reason, And Make Decisions In A First And Second Language

How do collectively experienced large-scale social events drive language dynamics at the societal and individual levels?

A longitudinal investigation of associations between bilinguals' sociolinguistic ecology and second-language proficiency

Eye tracking investigations of what adult bilinguals "notice" in the linguistic landscape

Language and Multilingualism

Language and Multilingualism

Frequent collaborators

Denise Klein

Veronica Whitford

Vincent Gracco

Shari Baum

Laura Gonnerman

Caroline Palmer

Julie Richard

Lena Palaniyappan

Sylvain Baillet

Tania Lecomte

A systems approach to multilingual language attitudes: A case study of Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Scratching your tête over language-switched idioms: Evidence from eye-movement measures of reading.