2026 Kara D. Federmeier: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	61	3306	3047	1864	1678	169	24064
Neuroscience	61	3600	3290	1661	1497	168	23800

Kara D. Federmeier publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kara D. Federmeier sits on this spectrum.

31 publications 705+

This scientist: 169 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Kara D. Federmeier D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kara D. Federmeier sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kara D. Federmeier is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans fields including Neuroscience and Psychology, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scholar's work has been published in several venues, with the most frequent being Psychophysiology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Memory and Language, and Brain Research. Their body of work combines elements of neural and behavioral psychology studies, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Recent publications include:

"Connecting and considering: Electrophysiology provides insights into comprehension" (2021) in Psychophysiology
"Context-based facilitation of semantic access follows both logarithmic and linear functions of stimulus probability" (2021) in Journal of Memory and Language
"The N300: An Index for Predictive Coding of Complex Visual Objects and Scenes" (2021) in Cerebral Cortex Communications
"Inter- and intra-individual coupling between pupillary, electrophysiological, and behavioral responses in a visual oddball task" (2020) in Psychophysiology
"Dividing attention influences contextual facilitation and revision during language comprehension" (2021) in Brain Research

Coauthors frequently collaborating with this researcher include:

Diane M. Beck
Ryan Hubbard
Jakub Szewczyk
Brennan R. Payne
Yali Pan

Primary areas of study and topics covered in their work include:

Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Reading and Literacy Development
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Neural dynamics and brain function
Face Recognition and Perception
Action Observation and Synchronization

Best Publications

Thirty years and counting: Finding meaning in the N400 component of the event related brain potential (ERP)

Marta Kutas;Kara D. Federmeier

4800
Citations
Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension

Marta Kutas;Kara D. Federmeier

2627
Citations
A Rose by Any Other Name: Long-Term Memory Structure and Sentence Processing

Kara D. Federmeier;Marta Kutas

1151
Citations
Thinking ahead: The role and roots of prediction in language comprehension.

Kara D. Federmeier

1035
Citations
Event-related brain potentials: Methods, theory, and applications

Monica Fabiani;Gabriele Gratton;Kara D. Federmeier

859
Citations
Timed picture naming in seven languages

Elizabeth Bates;Simona D'Amico;Simona D'Amico;Thomas Jacobsen;Anna Székely

660
Citations
Event-related brain potentials.

Monica Fabiani;Gabriele Gratton;Kara D. Federmeier

645
Citations
A new on-line resource for psycholinguistic studies

Anna Szekely;Thomas Jacobsen;Simona D'Amico;Simona D'Amico;Antonella Devescovi

590
Citations
Multiple effects of sentential constraint on word processing.

Kara D. Federmeier;Edward W. Wlotko;Esmeralda De Ochoa-Dewald;Marta Kutas

582
Citations
The impact of semantic memory organization and sentence context information on spoken language processing by younger and older adults: an ERP study.

Kara D. Federmeier;Devon B. McLennan;Esmeralda de Ochoa;Marta Kutas

443
Citations
Right words and left words: electrophysiological evidence for hemispheric differences in meaning processing.

Kara D Federmeier;Marta Kutas

415
Citations
Switching languages, switching Palabras (words): An electrophysiological study of code switching

Eva M. Moreno;Kara D. Federmeier;Marta Kutas

393
Citations
Age-related and individual differences in the use of prediction during language comprehension

Kara D. Federmeier;Marta Kutas;Rina Schul

391
Citations
Timed action and object naming

Anna Szekely;Simonetta D'Amico;Simonetta D'Amico;Antonella Devescovi;Kara D Federmeier

295
Citations
Aging in context: Age-related changes in context use during language comprehension

Kara D. Federmeier;Marta Kutas

290
Citations
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: An Event-Related Potential Study of Lexical Relationships and Prediction in Context.

Sarah Laszlo;Kara D. Federmeier

289
Citations
Meaning and modality: influences of context, semantic memory organization, and perceptual predictability on picture processing.

Kara D. Federmeier;Marta Kutas

283
Citations
Brain responses to nouns, verbs and class-ambiguous words in context

Kara D. Federmeier;Jessica B. Segal;Tania Lombrozo;Marta Kutas

273
Citations
FN400 potentials are functionally identical to N400 potentials and reflect semantic processing during recognition testing.

Joel L. Voss;Kara D. Federmeier

245
Citations
Picture the difference: electrophysiological investigations of picture processing in the two cerebral hemispheres.

Kara D Federmeier;Marta Kutas

235
Citations
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

Kara D Federmeier

148
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego

Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Diane M. Beck University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Neal J. Cohen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Joel L. Voss Northwestern University

Cyma Van Petten Binghamton University

Thomas Jacobsen Helmut Schmidt University

Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego

Daniel Tranel University of Iowa

Li Fei-Fei Stanford University

External Links

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