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45
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6560
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441

Overview

Ken McRae is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines within psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, with a particular focus on cognitive and developmental processes.

Their work predominantly addresses topics in the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, child and animal learning development, and action observation and synchronization. Other notable themes in their research include language, metaphor, and cognition; topic modeling; natural language processing techniques; and face recognition and perception.

McRae's research outputs have appeared in various publication venues. Frequent venues include:

  • Neuropsychologia
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Psychological Research
  • Cognitive Science
  • PLoS ONE

Recent papers authored or co-authored by McRae include the following:

  • What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary, 2024, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Thematic and other semantic relations central to abstract (and concrete) concepts, 2021, Psychological Research
  • Perirhinal cortex automatically tracks multiple types of familiarity regardless of task-relevance, 2023, Neuropsychologia
  • Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations, 2023, Cognitive Science
  • Wrong or right? Brain potentials reveal hemispheric asymmetries to semantic relations during word-by-word sentence reading as a function of (fictional) knowledge, 2022, Neuropsychologia

Co-authorship patterns reveal frequent collaboration with researchers such as Melissa Troyer, Kevin Brown, Arielle Borovsky, Angela Roberts, and Kara E. Hannah. These partnerships have yielded multiple publications, reflecting active interdisciplinary research networks.

McRae's work spans several fields and subfields of study. The main fields covered include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Computer Science

Their research contributions are also classified under these subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Best Publications

  • Semantic feature production norms for a large set of living and nonliving things

    Ken McRae;George S. Cree;Mark S. Seidenberg;Chris Mcnorgan

  • On the nature and scope of featural representations of word meaning.

    Ken McRae;Virginia R. de Sa;Mark S. Seidenberg

  • Modeling the Influence of Thematic Fit (and Other Constraints) in On-line Sentence Comprehension

    Ken McRae;Michael J. Spivey-Knowlton;Michael K. Tanenhaus

  • Analyzing the factors underlying the structure and computation of the meaning of chipmunk, cherry, chisel, cheese, and cello (and many other such concrete nouns).

    George S. Cree;Ken McRae

  • Spatial representations activated during real‐time comprehension of verbs

    Daniel C. Richardson;Michael J. Spivey;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Ken McRae

  • A common neural substrate for perceiving and knowing about color

    W. Kyle Simmons;Vimal Ramjee;Michael S. Beauchamp;Ken McRae

  • The basis of consistency effects in word naming

    Debra Jared;Ken McRae;Mark S Seidenberg

  • Integrating Verbs, Situation Schemas, and Thematic Role Concepts

    Todd R. Ferretti;Ken McRae;Andrea Hatherell

  • Automatic semantic similarity priming.

    Ken McRae;Stephen Boisvert

  • Thematic Roles as Verb-specific Concepts

    Ken McRae;Todd R. Ferretti;Liane Amyote

  • An Attractor Model of Lexical Conceptual Processing: Simulating Semantic Priming

    George S. Cree;Ken McRae;Chris McNorgan

  • A basis for generating expectancies for verbs from nouns

    Ken Mcrae;Mary Hare;Jeffrey L. Elman;Todd Ferretti

  • The mechanics of embodiment: a dialog on embodiment and computational modeling.

    Giovanni Pezzulo;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Angelo Cangelosi;Martin H. Fischer

  • Computational Grounded Cognition: a new alliance between grounded cognition and computational modeling.

    Giovanni Pezzulo;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Angelo Cangelosi;Martin H. Fischer

  • Verb aspect and the activation of event knowledge.

    Todd R. Ferretti;Marta Kutas;Ken McRae

  • Activating event knowledge

    Mary Hare;Michael Jones;Caroline Thomson;Sarah Kelly

  • Factors underlying category-specific semantic deficits

    Ken McRae;George S. Cree

  • Generalized event knowledge activation during online sentence comprehension

    Ross Metusalem;Marta Kutas;Thomas P. Urbach;Mary Hare

  • Sense and structure: Meaning as a determinant of verb subcategorization preferences

    Mary Hare;Ken McRae;Jeffrey L. Elman

  • Nonword pronunciation and models of word recognition.

    Mark S. Seidenberg;David C. Plaut;Alan S. Petersen;James L. McClelland

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics

    Michael Spivey;Ken McRae;Marc Joanisse

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Spivey
Michael J. Spivey University of California, Merced
Jeffrey L. Elman
Jeffrey L. Elman University of California, San Diego
Marc F. Joanisse
Marc F. Joanisse University of Western Ontario
Mark S. Seidenberg
Mark S. Seidenberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Michael K. Tanenhaus University of Rochester
Marta Kutas
Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego
R. Shayna Rosenbaum
R. Shayna Rosenbaum York University
Lawrence W. Barsalou
Lawrence W. Barsalou University of Glasgow
James S. Magnuson
James S. Magnuson University of Connecticut
Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer University of Potsdam

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