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Overview

Jutta Kray is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany and specializes in research across psychology and neuroscience. The scientist's work primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their research addresses various aspects of human cognition, development, and neurobiological processes in language and behavior.

The main fields of study in Jutta Kray's research include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Subfields of study comprise:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • General Decision Sciences
  • Applied Psychology

The major themes in the scientist's work involve:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Katja I. Haeuser
  • Vera Demberg
  • Corinna Lorenz
  • Zhiwei Zheng
  • Qi Shao

Jutta Kray has contributed to multiple publication venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Applied Psycholinguistics

Selected recent papers authored by Jutta Kray include the following:

  • The interplay between cognitive control and emotional processing in children and adolescents, 2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Age differences in decision making under known risk: The role of working memory and impulsivity, 2021, Developmental Psychology

Other recent papers co-authored with collaborators cover topics in applied psycholinguistics and psychophysiology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach:

  • How odd: Diverging effects of predictability and plausibility violations on sentence reading and word memory, 2022, Applied Psycholinguistics
  • Age-related differences in expectation-based novel word learning, 2022, Psychophysiology
  • Semantic Predictability Facilitates Comprehension of Degraded Speech in a Graded Manner, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology

Best Publications

  • How useful is executive control training? Age differences in near and far transfer of task-switching training.

    Julia Karbach;Jutta Kray

  • Adult age differences in task switching

    Jutta Kray;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Better or worse than expected? Aging, learning, and the ERN

    Ben Eppinger;Jutta Kray;Barbara Mock;Axel Mecklinger

  • Age differences in executive functioning across the lifespan: the role of verbalization in task preparation.

    Jutta Kray;Jutta Eber;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Age-related changes in task-switching components: the role of task uncertainty.

    Jutta Kray;Karen Z. H. Li;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Verbal self-instructions in task switching: a compensatory tool for action-control deficits in childhood and old age?

    Jutta Kray;Jutta Eber;Julia Karbach

  • The Processing of Unexpected Positive Response Outcomes in the Mediofrontal Cortex

    Nicola K. Ferdinand;Axel Mecklinger;Jutta Kray;William J. Gehring

  • Developmental differences in learning and error processing: evidence from ERPs.

    Ben Eppinger;Barbara Mock;Jutta Kray

  • Age differences in attentional control: An event‐related potential approach

    Jutta Kray;Ben Eppinger;Axel Mecklinger

  • Age differences in task switching and response monitoring: Evidence from ERPs

    Ben Eppinger;Jutta Kray;Axel Mecklinger;Oliver John

  • Can task-switching training enhance executive control functioning in children with attention deficit/-hyperactivity disorder?

    Jutta Kray;Julia Karbach;Susann Haenig;Christine M. Freitag

  • Task-set switching under cue-based versus memory-based switching conditions in younger and older adults.

    Jutta Kray

  • To choose or to avoid: Age differences in learning from positive and negative feedback

    Ben Eppinger;Jutta Kray

  • Understanding sources of adult age differences in task switching: Evidence from behavioral and ERP studies.

    Patrick D. Gajewski;Nicola K. Ferdinand;Jutta Kray;Michael Falkenstein

  • Developmental Changes In Switching Between Mental Task Sets: The Influence Of Verbal Labeling In Childhood

    Julia Karbach;Jutta Kray

  • Error and deviance processing in implicit and explicit sequence learning

    Nicola K. Ferdinand;Axel Mecklinger;Jutta Kray

  • Aging and attention

    Arthur F. Kramer;Jutta Kray

  • Dissociable effects of game elements on motivation and cognition in a task-switching training in middle childhood

    Sandra Dörrenbächer;Philipp M. Müller;Johannes Tröger;Jutta Kray

  • How to Improve Cognitive Control in Development During Childhood: Potentials and Limits of Cognitive Interventions

    Jutta Kray;Nicola K. Ferdinand

  • Effects of associative learning on age differences in task-set switching.

    Jutta Kray;Ben Eppinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia Karbach
Julia Karbach Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Axel Mecklinger
Axel Mecklinger Saarland University
Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Bernhard Hommel
Bernhard Hommel Shandong Normal University
Peter A. Frensch
Peter A. Frensch Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
William J. Gehring
William J. Gehring University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hubert D. Zimmer
Hubert D. Zimmer Saarland University
Markus Werkle-Bergner
Markus Werkle-Bergner Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Michael Falkenstein
Michael Falkenstein TU Dortmund University
Christine M. Freitag
Christine M. Freitag Goethe University Frankfurt

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