Cognitive Aging: Volume 77

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. Brennan R. Payne received his Ph.D. in the Cognitive Science of Learning from the University of Illinois. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Cognition and Neural Science program in the Department of Psychology and director of the Language and Memory Aging Lab at the University of Utah. He also holds appointments in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Neuroscience Program, and the Utah Center on Aging. Brennan's research takes an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying human language and memory functioning across the adult lifespan. His work has been funded by the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, the National Science Foundation, and Google.