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Kara D. Federmeier is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois, as well as a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She leads the Illinois Language Literacy Initiative and heads the Cognition Brain Lab. Her research focuses on cognitive neuroscience, employing human electrophysiological techniques alongside behavioral assessments, eye movement tracking, and brain imaging methods to explore how semantic information is processed and how it functions across different modalities and stimulus types. Her work examines language comprehension across different age groups, particularly focusing on age-related cognitive changes and hemispheric differences in memory and language.
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