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
Brain and Language, 2012DeLong, K.A, Groppe, D.M., Urbach, T.P., Kutas, M., Thinking ahead or not? Natural aging and anticipation during reading
Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Metusalem, R., Kutas, M., Urbach, T.P., Hare, M., McRae, K., Elman, J.L., Generalized event knowledge activation during online sentence comprehension
Psychiatry Research, 2012
Kiang, M., Christensen, B.K., Kutas, M., Zipursky, R.B., Electrophysiological evidence for primary semantic memory functional organization deficits in schizophrenia
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Talks
May 10, 201212:30-1:30pm, SDSC EB-129: Brendan Allison, Cognitive neuroscience with P300 and other BCIs
May 14, 2012
1-2pm, CSB 003: Bruno Olshausen, Learning intermediate-level representations of form and motion from natural movies
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