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Best Female Scientists

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119
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61533
World Ranking
576
National Ranking
346

Neuroscience

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119
Citations
63155
World Ranking
392
National Ranking
232

Psychology

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119
Citations
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World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Marta Kutas is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of neuroscience, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience. Additional areas of study include artificial intelligence, psychiatry and mental health, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work covers several topics, notably:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Text Readability and Simplification

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Lindsey Drayton, Rolf Van Der Sanden, Patrick Scheffmann, Ralph Adolphs, and Renée Baillargeon, each having collaborated on seven documented works.

Their recent papers reflect a focus on language comprehension, electrophysiological measures, and cognitive impairments. Selected publications include:

  • Comprehending surprising sentences: sensitivity of post-N400 positivities to contextual congruity and semantic relatedness (2020), Language Cognition and Neuroscience
  • An exploratory data analysis of word form prediction during word-by-word reading (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Role of Glutamate in Language and Language Disorders - Evidence from ERP and Pharmacologic Studies (2020), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • To catch a Snitch: Brain potentials reveal variability in the functional organization of (fictional) world knowledge during reading (2020), Journal of Memory and Language
  • Event-related potential and EEG oscillatory predictors of verbal memory in mild cognitive impairment (2020), Brain Communications

Kutas has published extensively in journals including Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Journal of Memory and Language, Psychophysiology, Language Cognition and Neuroscience, and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Trends in Cognitive Sciences is among the most frequent venues, hosting seven of their publications.

In recognition of scientific contributions, Marta Kutas was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Reading senseless sentences: brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity

    Marta Kutas;Steven A. Hillyard

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

    Marta Kutas;Kara D. Federmeier

  • Brain potentials during reading reflect word expectancy and semantic association

    Marta Kutas;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension

    Marta Kutas;Kara D. Federmeier

  • Augmenting mental chronometry: the P300 as a measure of stimulus evaluation time

    Marta Kutas;Gregory McCarthy;Emanuel Donchin

  • Probabilistic word pre-activation during language comprehension inferred from electrical brain activity.

    Katherine A DeLong;Thomas P Urbach;Marta Kutas

  • Mass univariate analysis of event-related brain potentials/fields I: a critical tutorial review.

    David M. Groppe;Thomas P. Urbach;Marta Kutas

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

    Kara D. Federmeier;Marta Kutas

  • Expect the unexpected : event-related brain response to morphosyntactic violations

    Seana Coulson;Jonathan W. King;Marta Kutas

  • Electrophysiology of cognitive processing.

    Steven A. Hillyard;Marta Kutas

  • Event-related brain potentials to semantically inappropriate and surprisingly large words.

    Marta Kutas;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Event-related brain potentials to grammatical errors and semantic anomalies

    Marta Kutas;Steven A. Hillyard

  • Interactions between sentence context and word frequency in event-related brain potentials.

    C Van Petten;M Kutas

  • Who did what and when? using word-and clause-level erps to monitor working memory usage in reading

    Jonathan W. King;Marta Kutas

  • Automatic removal of eye movement and blink artifacts from EEG data using blind component separation

    Carrie A. Joyce;Irina F. Gorodnitsky;Marta Kutas

  • Neural correlates of encoding in an incidental learning paradigm.

    Ken A. Paller;Marta Kutas;Andrew R. Mayes

  • Bridging the gap: Evidence from erps on the processing of unbounded dependencies

    Robert Kluender;Marta Kutas

  • Anticipating Words and Their Gender: An Event-related Brain Potential Study of Semantic Integration, Gender Expectancy, and Gender Agreement in Spanish Sentence Reading

    Nicole Y.Y. Wicha;Eva M. Moreno;Marta Kutas

  • Psycholinguistics Electrified II (1994–2005)

    Marta Kutas;Cyma K. Van Petten;Robert Kluender

  • Multiple effects of sentential constraint on word processing.

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

  • Subjacency as a processing phenomenon

    Robert Kluender;Marta Kutas

Frequent Co-Authors

Kara D. Federmeier
Kara D. Federmeier University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Vicente J. Iragui
Vicente J. Iragui University of California, San Diego
Steven A. Hillyard
Steven A. Hillyard University of California, San Diego
David P. Salmon
David P. Salmon University of California, San Diego
Cyma Van Petten
Cyma Van Petten Binghamton University
Thomas F. Münte
Thomas F. Münte University of Lübeck
Emanuel Donchin
Emanuel Donchin University of South Florida
Seana Coulson
Seana Coulson University of California, San Diego
Jeffrey L. Elman
Jeffrey L. Elman University of California, San Diego
Ken A. Paller
Ken A. Paller Northwestern University

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