In this presentation, Professor Kara Federmeier describes how non-invasive recordings of brain electrical activity can be used to study how the brain figures out what words and sentences mean. This approach makes it possible to trace how the human brain understands language as it unfolds, moment by moment – and often in ways that defy our intuitions. The talk explores how the brain makes predictions during language comprehension, how language processing changes across adulthood into older age, and how the brain’s left and right hemispheres, which both process language but do so differently, work together to support understanding. Taken together, these findings reshape our understanding of when and how meaning is constructed in the brain.
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