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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

  • Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension

    Marta Kutas;Kara D. Federmeier

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

    Kara D. Federmeier;Marta Kutas

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

    Kara D. Federmeier

  • Event-related brain potentials: Methods, theory, and applications

    Monica Fabiani;Gabriele Gratton;Kara D. Federmeier

  • Timed picture naming in seven languages

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

  • Event-related brain potentials.

    Monica Fabiani;Gabriele Gratton;Kara D. Federmeier

  • A new on-line resource for psycholinguistic studies

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

  • Multiple effects of sentential constraint on word processing.

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

  • 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

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

    Kara D Federmeier;Marta Kutas

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

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

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

    Kara D. Federmeier;Marta Kutas;Rina Schul

  • Timed action and object naming

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

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

    Kara D. Federmeier;Marta Kutas

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

    Sarah Laszlo;Kara D. Federmeier

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

    Kara D. Federmeier;Marta Kutas

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

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

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

    Joel L. Voss;Kara D. Federmeier

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

    Kara D Federmeier;Marta Kutas

  • The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    Kara D Federmeier

Frequent Co-Authors

Marta Kutas
Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego
Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow
Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joel L. Voss
Joel L. Voss Northwestern University
Cyma Van Petten
Cyma Van Petten Binghamton University
Neal J. Cohen
Neal J. Cohen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas Jacobsen
Thomas Jacobsen Helmut Schmidt University
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Daniel Tranel
Daniel Tranel University of Iowa
Li Fei-Fei
Li Fei-Fei Stanford University
Aaron S. Benjamin
Aaron S. Benjamin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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