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
NeuroImage, 2013Amsel, B., Urbach, T.P., Kutas, M., Alive and grasping: Stable and rapid semantic access to an object category but not object graspability
Neuropsychologia, 2013
Borovsky, A., Kutas, M., Elman, J., Getting it right: Word learning across the hemispheres
Psychophysiology, 2013
Barber, H.A., van der Meij, M., Kutas, M., An electrophysiological analysis of contextual and temporal constraints on parafoveal word processing
Brain and Language, 2012
DeLong, K.A, Groppe, D.M., Urbach, T.P., Kutas, M., Thinking ahead or not? Natural aging and anticipation during reading
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News
Discover Magazine, Dec 2012Neil Cohn's research appears in the article The Brain: The Charlie Brown Effect
Talks
Monday May 20, 2013Weekly Kutas lab meetings, 3:30-5:30pm, CSB 280: Mieko Ueno - Proposal--Late positivities in Japanese and Korean: Refining a model of syntactic processes
Tuesday May 21, 2013
Neurosciences Seminar Series, 4pm, CNCB Large Conference Room: John Carlson - Chemosensory perception in Drosophila
Thursday May 23, 2013
INC Chalk Talk Series, 12:30-1:30pm, San Diego Supercomputer Center, East Annex, South Wing, Level B1, EB-129: Katja Lindenberg - non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Friday May 24, 2013
CHD Interdisciplinary Developmental (iDEV) Talks, 11am-noon, AP&M 5420: Paula Tallal - It's about time