Welcome to the Kutas Lab!
Our broad research goal is to study how meaning is organized, accessed, and constructed in the brain. More specifically, we focus on understanding how context shapes language and memory processing. Our studies track these cognitive and neural processes in both healthy and clinical individuals across the adult lifespan. We do this primarily by assessing patterns of brainwaves recorded at the scalp as well as reaction times to various visual and auditory stimuli.Areas of research
- Making sense of (all sorts of) sensory inputs
- Word, sentence and discourse processing
- Prediction in language
- Event knowledge in meaning construction
- Aging and cognition
- Novel word learning
- Attention, language, and memory
- Emotion, mood, and cognitive processing
- Hemispheric contributions to language and memory processes
- Using electric brain potentials to parse perception, cognition, and action
Publications/Comments
Neuropsychologia, 2018Urgen, B., Kutas, M., Saygin, A., Uncanny valley as a window into predictive processing in the social brainn
Brain and Cognition, 2017
Cohn, N., Paczynski, M., Kutas, M., Not so secret agents: Event-related potentials to semantic roles in visual event comprehension
Commentary on Nieuwland et al (2017)
Delong, K.A., Urbach, T.P., Kutas, M., April 2017, Concerns with Nieuwland et al. (2017)
Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017
Amsel, B.D., Kutas, M., Coulson, S., Projectors, associators, visual imagery, and the time course of visual processing in grapheme-color synesthesia
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News
CNS Annual Meeting, March 2015Marta Kutas receives the 2015 Distinguished Career Contributions Award and gives her award lecture
BBC News, Oct 2014
Neil Cohn is featured in the article Are we hard-wired to doodle?
The Guardian, Nov 2013
Read about Neil Cohn, his research, and his upcoming book in How the visual language of comics could have its roots in the ice age
Talks
Monday, Feb 5, 2018Kutas lab meetings, 3-5pm, CSB 280: Seana Coulson will lead discussion on Delogu, F., Drenhaus, H., & Crocker, M.W. (2017). On the predictability of event boundaries in discourse: An ERP investigation. Memory & Cognition, November, 2017
Tuesday, Feb 6, 2018
CRL Talks, 4:00pm, CSB 280: Lynn Hou, UCSD