Kara D. Federmeier

19.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
149 papers, 12.8k citations indexed

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Kara D. Federmeier is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kara D. Federmeier has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 12.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 84 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 24 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kara D. Federmeier's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (106 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (74 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (58 papers). Kara D. Federmeier is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (106 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (74 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (58 papers). Kara D. Federmeier collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Netherlands. Kara D. Federmeier's co-authors include Marta Kutas, Edward W. Wlotko, Sarah Laszlo, Chia‐Lin Lee, Brennan R. Payne, Joel L. Voss, Monica Fabiani, Gabriele Gratton, Eva M. Moreno and Rina Schul and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Kara D. Federmeier

144 papers receiving 12.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Thirty Years and Counting: Finding Meaning in the N400 Component of the Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP)

2010 2.8k citations Marta Kutas, Kara D. Federmeier profile →
Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension

2000 1.6k citations Marta Kutas, Kara D. Federmeier Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
A Rose by Any Other Name: Long-Term Memory Structure and Sentence Processing

1999 631 citations Kara D. Federmeier, Marta Kutas Journal of Memory and Language profile →
Thinking ahead: The role and roots of prediction in language comprehension

2007 570 citations Kara D. Federmeier Psychophysiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kara D. Federmeier United States	48	11.1k	6.4k	3.6k	1.6k	1.1k	149	12.8k
Phillip J. Holcomb United States	64	13.6k 1.2×	8.5k 1.3×	3.8k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	821 0.8×	224	15.3k
Antje S. Meyer Netherlands	49	8.8k 0.8×	6.7k 1.1×	4.3k 1.2×	786 0.5×	1.4k 1.3×	204	11.6k
David Caplan United States	53	10.1k 0.9×	7.6k 1.2×	2.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	215	12.8k
Andrew W. Ellis United Kingdom	60	10.3k 0.9×	7.2k 1.1×	3.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	919 0.9×	195	13.1k
Gabriella Vigliocco United Kingdom	50	5.6k 0.5×	4.7k 0.7×	4.3k 1.2×	2.5k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	175	9.7k
Ardi Roelofs Netherlands	48	8.5k 0.8×	6.2k 1.0×	3.2k 0.9×	617 0.4×	897 0.8×	148	10.0k
Evelina Fedorenko United States	51	6.8k 0.6×	2.9k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	151	9.0k
Arthur M. Jacobs Germany	67	9.6k 0.9×	6.3k 1.0×	4.8k 1.3×	2.2k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	256	14.4k
Helen J. Neville United States	66	11.3k 1.0×	6.3k 1.0×	4.6k 1.3×	1.0k 0.6×	320 0.3×	139	14.0k
Meredyth Daneman Canada	35	7.0k 0.6×	5.4k 0.9×	3.5k 1.0×	637 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	70	10.8k

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Fairbairn, Catharine E., et al.. (2025). The impact of alcohol on brain response in social context: A hyperscanning alcohol-administration trial. NeuroImage. 320. 121450–121450.

Stine‐Morrow, Elizabeth A. L., et al.. (2025). Diffindo! Precise language comprehension in older adulthood revealed by event-related brain potential studies of domain knowledge. Cognition. 263. 106210–106210.

Beck, Diane M., et al.. (2024). Image memorability is linked to facilitated perceptual and semantic processing. Imaging Neuroscience. 2. 3 indexed citations

Hubbard, Ryan & Kara D. Federmeier. (2024). Altered oscillatory neural dynamics related to word prediction in older adult readers. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 39(7). 891–908. 1 indexed citations

Frisson, Steven, et al.. (2024). Early parafoveal semantic integration in natural reading. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations

Payne, Brennan R., et al.. (2023). Graded and ungraded expectation patterns: Prediction dynamics during active comprehension. Psychophysiology. 61(1). e14424–e14424. 11 indexed citations

Hubbard, Ryan & Kara D. Federmeier. (2023). The Impact of Linguistic Prediction Violations on Downstream Recognition Memory and Sentence Recall. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 36(1). 1–23. 6 indexed citations

Federmeier, Kara D., et al.. (2022). Patterns of hemispheric asymmetry provide evidence dissociating the semantic and syntactic P600. Neuropsychologia. 179. 108441–108441.

Federmeier, Kara D., et al.. (2021). The N300: An Index for Predictive Coding of Complex Visual Objects and Scenes. Cerebral Cortex Communications. 2(2). tgab030–tgab030. 24 indexed citations

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Federmeier, Kara D.. (2021). Connecting and considering: Electrophysiology provides insights into comprehension. Psychophysiology. 59(1). e13940–e13940. 66 indexed citations

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Hubbard, Ryan & Kara D. Federmeier. (2021). Representational Pattern Similarity of Electrical Brain Activity Reveals Rapid and Specific Prediction during Language Comprehension. Cerebral Cortex. 31(9). 4300–4313. 14 indexed citations

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Szewczyk, Jakub, et al.. (2021). The power of “good”: Can adjectives rapidly decrease as well as increase the availability of the upcoming noun?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 48(6). 856–875. 8 indexed citations

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Szewczyk, Jakub & Kara D. Federmeier. (2021). Context-based facilitation of semantic access follows both logarithmic and linear functions of stimulus probability. Journal of Memory and Language. 123. 104311–104311. 37 indexed citations

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Federmeier, Kara D., et al.. (2020). Examining the Role of General Cognitive Skills in Language Processing: A Window Into Complex Cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 29(6). 575–582. 16 indexed citations

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Federmeier, Kara D., et al.. (2019). The P3b and P600(s): Positive contributions to language comprehension. Psychophysiology. 57(7). e13351–e13351. 93 indexed citations

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Federmeier, Kara D., et al.. (2016). The N400 reveals how personal semantics is processed: Insights into the nature and organization of self-knowledge. Neuropsychologia. 84. 36–43. 22 indexed citations

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Voss, Joel L., David E. Warren, Brian D. Gonsalves, et al.. (2011). Spontaneous revisitation during visual exploration as a link among strategic behavior, learning, and the hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(31). E402–9. 83 indexed citations

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Laszlo, Sarah, Mallory Stites, & Kara D. Federmeier. (2011). Won't get fooled again: An event-related potential study of task and repetition effects on the semantic processing of items without semantics. Language and Cognitive Processes. 27(2). 257–274. 38 indexed citations

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Laszlo, Sarah, Blair C. Armstrong, W. Joseph MacInnes, David C. Plaut, & Kara D. Federmeier. (2010). When dog is more wolf than bone: Computational and electrophysiological evidence for featural organization of semantic memory. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32).

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Kutas, Marta & Kara D. Federmeier. (2000). Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 4(12). 463–470. 1575 indexed citations breakdown →

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