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Kara Federmeier is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Program in Neuroscience at the University of Illinois. She is a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, leading the Illinois Language Literacy Initiative. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego in 2000. Her research is funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. As the lead of the Cognition Brain Lab, her work focuses on investigating the neurobiological basis of meaning, particularly how sensory stimuli such as words and pictures can evoke a rich understanding of context and knowledge. Federmeier's group employs electrophysiological techniques in combination with behavioral, eye movement, and brain imaging methods to explore how semantic information is structured and accessed in the brain during language comprehension in both younger and older adults. She has received numerous awards for her contributions to psychophysiology, including the Distinguished Early Career Contributions from the Society for Psychophysiology and the Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Additionally, she has served as the President of the Society for Psychophysiology from 2017 to 2019 and is a fellow of several prestigious psychological associations.
University of Illinois • Champaign, IL
Full-time faculty member in the Department of Psychology and the Program in Neuroscience, leads the Illinois Language Literacy Initiative.
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