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Introduction

Miho Sasaki is a distinguished researcher in second language and bilingual cognition, focusing on the cognitive changes in bilinguals and the balance between languages. Her work also explores language processing effects, particularly orthographic influences, and evaluates language proficiency development.

Achievements

■Bilingual Cognition and Categorisation
Research Objective: To examine the effect of body parts categorisation in another language in bilinguals and the differences in the effect according to their proficiency.
- Title: Categorisation of body parts in bilinguals. Sasaki Miho, Murahata, Yoshiko (Journal of the European Second Language Association) 8 (1) 192–208 Dec. 2024
■Language Processing and Effects
・Research Objective: To investigate the role of orthography in the picture-word task.
- Title: Effects of orthography in the picture-word task: Evidence from Japanese scripts, Dylman Alexandra S., Kikutani Mariko, Sasaki Miho, Barry Christopher （Reading and Writing） 35 (1) 55-91 Jan. 2022

Areas of Research

・・Visual Word Recognition in Japanese as a Second Language Learners: A Comparison of Native Japanese Sign Language Speakers and Other Language Speakers
・・The Interference Effect of Pictures and Words in Word Production in Japanese-English Bilinguals
・・Language Lateralisation in Japanese-English Bilinguals
・・Reading and Cognitive Processes in a Second Language: Constructing a Developmental and Multilingual Bilingual Process Model
・・Cognition and Identity in Bilinguals
・・Experimental Psychology
・・Linguistics

Social Contributions

・・Enhancing Educational Strategies: Understanding the impact of the languages of bilinguals or second language users on their cognitive processes can lead to more effective educational strategies and policies for bilingual individuals and communities, improving people's multiple language acquisition and cognitive development.
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