Judith F. Kroll is Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. She holds affiliate appointments in the Departments of Language Science and Psychological Science. She has held faculty positions at Swarthmore College, Rutgers University, Mount Holyoke College, Penn State University, and University of California, Riverside before joining the faculty at the UC Irvine in 2019. She is the former director of the Center for Language Science at Pennsylvania State University.

Kroll's research uses the tools of cognitive neuroscience to examine the way that bilinguals and language learners juggle the presence of two languages in one mind and brain. Her work, supported by grants from NSF and NIH, shows that bilingualism provides a tool for revealing the interplay between language and cognition that is otherwise obscure in speakers of one language alone.

Kroll is a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the APA, the APS, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. She was one of the founding editors of the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press), and one of the founding organizers of Women in Cognitive Science. With Penn State colleagues, she is a PI on an NSF PIRE grant (Partnerships for International Research and Education) to develop an international research network and program of training to translate the science of bilingualism to learning environments in the US and abroad.

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Judith F. Kroll
Distinguished Professor of Language Science
Department of Language Science
University of California, Irvine
Social Sciences Plaza B
Irvine, CA 92697-5100 USA

E-mail: judith.kroll@uci.edu 
Website: https://bilingualismmindbrain.com/