Biography
Publications
- Tkacikova, V., & Tokowicz, N. (2025). Evaluating the effectiveness of L2 morphosyntax instructional methods in laboratory and classroom studies: a review. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 37(5), 397–423.
- Tkacikova, V., Terrazas, G., & Tokowicz N. (2025, Aug. 26-29). From word recognition to translation: How polysemy and ambiguity shape language processing within and across languages. Workshop talk presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bordeaux, France.
- Tkacikova, V., Terrazas, G., Slevc, L.R., Tokowicz, N. (2024, Nov. 21-24). Music, memory, and second language grammar: An EEG study. Poster presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York, N.Y.
- Tokowicz, N., & Tkacikova, V. (2023). The Neurolinguistics of the Second Language Lexico-Semantic System. In The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics (1st ed., pp. 101–114) Routledge.
- Tkacikova, V., Rice, C., Armstrong, B., & Tokowicz, N. (2021, Nov. 4-7) Trust your senses: The effects of subjectively normed polysemy on lexical processing. Poster presented virtually at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Education
- PhD, University of Pittsburgh
- MS, University of Pittsburgh
- BA, Binghamton University
Research Interests
- Cognitive underpinnings of second language (L2) learning
- Individual differences in second language acquisition
- L2 morphosyntax instruction
- Bilingualism
- Lexical processing within and across languages
Teaching Interests
- Statistical Analysis and Design
- Second Language Learning
- Psycholinguistics