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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Psychology

Teaching areas

Cognitive Psychology Psycholinguistics

Research areas

Psycholinguistics, figurative language comprehension, embodied cognition, complex word processing

Education

PhD, Cognitive Psychology, University of Alberta (Canada), 2020

Contact

jpark@aus.edu

Dr. Juana Park

Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Alberta (Canada),

Her research interests include complex word processing, figurative language comprehension, embodied cognition, bilingualism and gestures. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Alberta, her M.Sc. in Cognitive Psychology at Université Paris V and her Licentiate Degree in Psychology at Universidad de Buenos Aires. She is also a registered psychologist in Argentina. Before working at AUS, she taught 15 different Psychology courses in English, French and Spanish at the University of Alberta, Campus Saint-Jean, MacEwan University and Universidad de la Marina Mercante.

Publications

Juana Park, Christina Gagné And Thomas Spalding. Writing direction and language activation affect how Arabic-English bilingual speakers map time onto space, Frontiers In Psychology
Juana Park. Do bilingual people think differently?, The International Honor Society In Psychology, March 2022
Juana Park, Faria Sana, Christina Gagne And Thomas Spalding. Factors that Influence the Processing of Noun-Noun Metaphors, Metaphor And Symbol, 2021
Faria Sana, Juana Park, Christina Gagne And Thomas Spalding. The interplay between inhibitory control and metaphor conventionality, Memory & Cognition, 2021
Juana Park, Faria Sana, Christina Gagne And Thomas Spalding. Is inhibition involved in the processing of opaque compound words? A study of individual differences, Mental Lexicon, 2020
Juana Park. Comprehension and written production of English modifier-noun phrases: effects of meaning predictability, Skase Journal Of Theoretical Linguistics, 2015
Marianne Barbu-roth, David Anderson, Ryan Streeter, Marie Combrouze, Juana Park, Brooke Schultz, Joseph Campos, Francois Goffinet And Joelle Provasi. Why Does Infant Stepping Disappear and Can It Be Stimulated by Optic Flow?, Child Development, 2015

Awards and Honors

Graduate Student Teaching Award, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta, 2017
Teaching Honor Roll/Honor Roll with Distinction (every term, from 2016 to 2020), Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, 2016

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