Knowledge and Communication

Kara D. Federmeier received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois and a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where she leads the Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative and heads the Cognition and Brain Lab. She is also a Past President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Her research examines meaning comprehension and memory using human electrophysiological techniques, in combination with behavioral, eyetracking, and other functional imaging and psychophysiological methods. She has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.

• 1. Semantic memory: Explorations in ERPs and large language modelsLin Khern Avery Chia and Jon Willits2. Something cold and full of rum: What neural language models do and don’t get about meaningSeana Coulson3. Knowledge representation: Mechanisms and perspectivesWill Deng4. TBDBarbara Kaup5. Effects of comprehender knowledge on sentence processing: When, what representations and what processes?Pia Knoeferle6. Language related ERP components and their relation to learning and adaptationMilena Rabovsky7. TBDMike Tanenhaus8. Representations of meaningNoortje J. Venhuizen and Harm Brouwer9. Reliance on language versus world knowledge during comprehensionTessa Warren and Mike Dickey