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
Psychophysiology, 2011Groppe, D.M., Urbach, T.P., Kutas, M., Mass univariate analysis of event-related brain potentials/fields I: A critical tutorial review.
Psychophysiology, 2011
DeLong, K.A., Urbach, T.P., Groppe, D.M., & Kutas, M., Overlapping dual ERP responses to low cloze probability sentence continuations.
Annual Review of Psychology, 2011
Kutas, M., Federmeier, K.D., Thirty years and counting: Finding meaning in the N400 component of the event related brain potential (ERP).
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Talks
January 23, 201212-12:50pm, CSB 180: Angela Yu, Often Wrong, but Never in Doubt: Pascal's Wager in Everyday Cognition
January 30, 2012
11:00am, EBU3B, Rm 1202: Andrew Ng, Machine learning and AI via large scale brain simulations
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