McRae, Ken

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Recent Publications:

  • McRae, K., & Jones, M. N. (in press). Semantic memory. In D. Reisberg (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology.
  • McRae, K., & Matsuki, K. (in press). Constraint-based models of sentence processing. In R. Van Gompel (Ed.), Sentence Processing, Psychology Press.
  • Khalkhali, S., Wammes, J., & McRae, K. (2012). Integrating words that refer to typical sequences of events. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 106-114.
  • McRae, K., Khalkhali, S., & Hare, M. (2012). Semantic and associative relations: Examining a tenuous dichotomy. In V. F. Reyna, S. B. Chapman, M. R. Dougherty, & J. Confrey (Eds.), The Adolescent Brain: Learning, Reasoning, and Decision Making (pp. 39-66). Washington, DC: APA.
  • Metusalem, R., Kutas, M., Urbach, T. P., Hare, M., McRae, K., & Elman, J. L. (2012). Generalized event knowledge activation during on-line language comprehension. Journal of Memory & Language, 66, 545-567.
  • Cann, D. R., McRae, K., & Katz, A. N. (2011). False recall in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm: The roles of gist and associative strength. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 1515-1542.
  • Matsuki, K., Chow, T., Hare, M., Elman, J. L., Scheepers, C., & McRae, K. (2011). Event-based plausibility immediately influences on-line language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 37, 913-934.
  • McNorgan, C., Reid, J., & McRae, K. (2011). Integrating conceptual knowledge within and across representational modalities. Cognition, 118, 211-233.
  • Pezzulo, G., Barsalou, L. W., Cangelosi, A., Fischer, M. H., McRae, K., & Spivey, M. J. (2011). The mechanics of embodiment: A dialogue on embodiment and computational modeling. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 1-21. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00005.
  • Welcome, S. E., Paivio, A., McRae, K., & Joanisse, M. F. (2011). An electrophysiological study of task demands on concreteness effects: Evidence for dual coding theory. Experimental Brain Research, 212, 347-358.
  • Bicknell, K., Elman, J. L., Hare, M., McRae, K., & Kutas, M. (2010). Effects of event knowledge in processing verbal arguments. Journal of Memory & Language, 63, 489-505.
  • McRae, K. & Matsuki, K. (2009). People use their knowledge of common events to understand language, and do so as quickly as possible. Language & Linguistics Compass, 3, 1417-1429.
  • Kounios, J., Green, D. L., Payne, L., Fleck, J. I., Grondin, R., & McRae, K. (2009). Semantic richness and the activation of concepts in semantic memory: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. Brain Research, 1282, 95-102.
  • Grondin, R., Lupker, S., & McRae, K. (2009). Shared features dominate semantic richness effects for concrete concepts. Journal of Memory & Language, 60, 1-19.
  • Hare, M., Elman, J. L., Tabaczynski, T., & McRae, K. (2009). The wind chilled the spectators, but the wine just chilled: Sense, structure, and sentence comprehension. Cognitive Science, 33, 610-628.
  • Hare, M., Jones, M. N., Thomson, C., Kelly, S., & McRae, K. (2009). Activating event knowledge. Cognition, 111, 151-167.
  • O'Connor, C. M., Cree, G. S., & McRae, K. (2009). Conceptual hierarchies in a flat attractor network: Dynamics of learning and computations. Cognitive Science, 33, 665-708.

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