Publications

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Morales Valiente, C., Köhler, S., & McRae, K. (2024). Personal likelihood and event familiarity influence the simulation of future events. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Reilly, J., ... McRae, K., ... Vinson, D. (2024). What we mean when we say semantic: A consensus statement on the nomenclature of semantic memory. Psychological Bulletin & Review.

Brown, K. S., Hannah, K. E., Christidis, N., Hall-Bruce, M., Stevenson, R. A., Elman, J. L., & McRae, K. (2024). Using network science to provide insights into the structure of event knowledge in memory. Cognition, 251.

Troyer, M., Kutas, M., Batterink, L., & McRae, K (2024). Nuances of knowing: Brain potentials reveal implicit effects of domain knowledge on word processing in the absence of sentence-level knowledge, Psychophysiology, 61.

Borovsky, A., Peters, R., Cox, J., & McRae, K. (2024). Feats: A database of semantic features for early-produced noun concepts. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 3259-3279.

Yang, H., McRae, K., & Köhler, S. (2023). Perirhinal cortex automatically tracks multiple types of familiarity regardless of task-relevance. Neuropsychologia, 187.

Brown, K. S., Yee, E., Joergenson, G., Troyer, M., Saltzman, E., Magnuson, J. S., Rueckl, J., & McRae, K. (2023). Investigating the extent to which distributional semantics models capture a broad range of semantic relations. Cognitive Science, 47.

Hannah, K. E., Brown, K. S., Hall-Bruce, M., Stevenson, R. A., & McRae, K. (2022). Knowledge of the temporal structure of events in relation to autistic traits and social ability. Acta Psychologica, 231, 103779, 1-12. 

Al-Azary, H., Yu, T., & McRae, K. (2022). Can you touch the N400? The interactive effects of Body-Object Interaction and task demands on N400 amplitudes and decision latencies. Brain & Language, 231, 105147, 1-11.

Troyer, M., McRae, K., & Kutas, M. (2022). Wrong or right? Brain potentials reveal hemispheric asymmetries to semantic relations during word-by-word sentence reading as a function of (fictional) knowledge. Neuropsychologia, 170, 108215, 1-14.

Troyer, M., & McRae, K. (2021). Thematic and other semantic relations central to abstract (and concrete) concepts. Psychological Research, 86(8), 2399-2416

McRae, K., Brown, K. S., & Elman, J. L. (2022). Prediction-Based Learning and Processing of Event Knowledge. Topics in Cognitive Science, 13, 206-223.

Hannah, K. E., Brown, K. S., Hall-Bruce, M., Stevenson, R. A., & McRae, K. (2020). Investigating the relationship between event knowledge, autistic traits, and social ability using graph theory. PsyArXiv.

Yang, H., Laforge, G., Stojanoski, B., Nichols, E. S., McRae, K., & Köhler, S. (2019). Late Positive Complex in event related potentials tracks memory signals when they are decision relevant. Scientific Reports, 9, 1-15.

Benedettini, V., Bertinetto, P. M., Lenci, A., & McRae, K. (2019). Multimodal event knowledge in online sentence comprehension: The influence of visual context on anticipatory eye movements. Proceedings of the Forty-first Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1395-1401). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Elman, J. L. & McRae, K. (2019). A model of event knowledge. Psychological Review, 126, 252-291.

McRae, K., Nedjadrasul, D., King, L., Pau, R., & Lo, B. P-H. (2018). Abstract concepts and pictures of real-world situations activate one another. Topics in Cognitive Science, 10, 518-532.

Brown, K. S., Allopena, P. D., Hunt, W. R., Steiner, R., Saltzman, E., McRae, K., & Magnuson, J. S. (2018). Universal features in phonological neighbor networks. Entropy, 20, 1-23.

Zarcone, A., Lenci, A., McRae, K., & Pado, S. (2017). Complement coercion: The joint effects of type and typicality. Frontiers in Psychology.

Roberts, A., Nguyen, P., Orange, J. B., Jog, M., Nisbet, K. A., & McRae, K. (2017). Differential impairments of upper and lower limb movements influence action verb processing in Parkinson disease. Cortex, 97, 49-59.

Blumenthal, A., Duke, D., Bowles, B., Gilboa, A., Rosenbaum, S., Köhler, S., & McRae, K. (2017). Abnormal semantic memory structure in a case of developmental amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 102, 237-247.

Duke, D., Martin, C. B., Bowles, B., McRae, K., & Köhler, S. (2017). Perirhinal cortex tracks degree of recent as well as cumulative lifetime experience with object concepts. Cortex, 89, 61-70.

Elman, J. L. & McRae, K. (2017). A model of event knowledge. In Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, & T., Davelaar, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 337-342). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Yee, E., Jones, M. N., & McRae, K. (2017). Semantic Memory. In J. T. Wixted & S. Thompson-Schill (Eds.), The Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (4th Edition, Volume 3: Language and Thought). New York: Wiley.

Bowles, B., Duke, D., Rosenbaum, S. R., McRae, K., & Köhler, S. (2016). Impaired assessment of cumulative lifetime familiarity for object concepts after left anterior temporal-lobe resection that includes perirhinal cortex but spares the hippocampus. Neuropsychologia, 90, 170-179.

Jouravlev, O., & McRae, K. (2016). Thematic relatedness production norms for 100 object concepts. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 1349-1357.

Cruse, D., Beukema, S., Chennu, S., Malins, J., Owen, A. M., & McRae, K. (2014). The reliability of the N400 in single subjects: Implications for patients with disorders of consciousness. NeuroImage: Clinical, 4, 788-799.

Rabovsky, M., & McRae, K. (2014). Simulating the N400 ERP component as semantic network error: Insights from a feature-based connectionist attractor model of word meaning. Cognition, 132, 68-89.

McRae, K., & Matsuki, K. (2013). Constraint-based models of sentence processing. In R. Van Gompel (Ed.), Sentence Processing (pp. 51-77). New York, NY: Psychology Press.

McRae, K., & Jones, M. N. (2013). Semantic memory. In D. Reisberg (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology (pp. 206-219). Oxford, UK.

Pezzulo, G., Barsalou, L. W., Cangelosi, A., Fischer, M. H., McRae, K., & Spivey, M. J. (2013). Computational grounded cognition: A new alliance between grounded cognition and computational modeling. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:612, 1-11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00612.

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, 2:5, 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.

Cree, G. S., McNorgan, C., & McRae, K. (2010). Distinctive features hold a privileged status in the computation of word meaning: Implications for theories of semantic memory. In T. A. Harley (Ed.), Sage Key Work in Psycholinguistics, Volume 5: Representation (pp. 63-97). London: Sage. (Reprinted from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 32, 643-658).

Metusalem, R., Kutas, M., Hare, M., McRae, K., & Elman, J. L. (2010). Generalized event knowledge activated during on-line language comprehension. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1058-1063). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

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.

Bicknell, K., Elman, J. L., Hare, M., McRae, K., & Kutas, M. (2008). Online expectations for verbal arguments conditional on event knowledge. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2220-2225), Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Ferretti, T. R., Kutas, M., & McRae, K. (2007). Verb aspect and the activation of event knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 33, 182-196.

Hare, M., Tanenhaus, M. K., & McRae, K. (2007). Understanding and producing the reduced relative construction: Evidence from ratings, editing, and corpora. Journal of Memory & Language, 56, 410-435.

McNorgan, C., Kotack, R. A., Meehan, D. C., & McRae, K. (2007). Feature-feature causal relations and statistical co-occurrences in object concepts. Memory & Cognition, 35, 418-431.

Simmons, W. K., Ramjee, V., Beauchamp, M. S., McRae, K., Martin, A, & Barsalou, L. W. (2007). A common neural substrate for perceiving and knowing about color. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2802-2810.

Grondin, R., Lupker, S. J., & McRae, K. (2006). Shared features dominate the number-of-features effect. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1400-1405). Mahway, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cree, G. S., McNorgan, C., & McRae, K. (2006). Distinctive features hold a privileged status in the computation of word meaning: Implications for theories of semantic memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 32, 643-658.

Ferretti, T. R., McRae, K., Elman, J. L., & Ramshaw, C. (2005). Expectancy for the morphological form of verbs during semantic priming. In B. C. Bara, L. W. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 654-659). Mahway NJ: Erlbaum.

McRae, K., Cree, G. S., Seidenberg, M. S., & McNorgan, C. (2005). Semantic feature production norms for a large set of living and nonliving things. Behavior Research Methods, 37, 547-559.

McRae, K., Hare, M., Elman, J. L., & Ferretti, T. R. (2005). A basis for generating expectancies for verbs from nouns. Memory & Cognition, 33, 1174-1184.

McRae, K., Hare, M., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2005). Meaning Through Syntax is insufficient to explain comprehension of sentences with reduced relative clauses: Comment on McKoon and Ratcliff (2003). Psychological Review, 112, 1022-1031.

Elman, J. L., Hare, M., & McRae, K. (2004). Cues, constraints, and competition in sentence processing. In M. Tomasello and D. Slobin (Eds.) Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates (pp. 111-138). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Hare, M., McRae, K., & Elman, J. L. (2004). Admitting that admitting verb sense into corpus analyses makes sense. Language and Cognitive Processes, 19, 181-224.

McRae, K. (2004). Semantic memory: Some insights from feature-based connectionist attractor networks. In B. H. Ross (Editor), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, Vol. 45 (pp. 41-86). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Cree, G. S., & McRae, K. (2003). Analyzing the factors underlying the structure and computation of the meaning of chipmunk, cherry, chisel, cheese, and cello (and many other such concrete nouns). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 163-201.

Ferretti, T. R., Gagné, C. L, & McRae, K. (2003). Thematic role focusing by participle inflections: Evidence from conceptual combination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 118-127.

Hare, M., McRae, K., & Elman, J. L. (2003). Sense and structure: Meaning as a determinant of verb subcategorization preferences. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 281-303.

Richardson, D. C., Spivey, M. J., Barsalou, L. W., & McRae, K. (2003). Spatial representations activated during real-time comprehension of verbs. Cognitive Science, 27, 767-780.

Jared, D., McRae, K., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2002). The basis of consistency effects in word naming. In G. T. M. Altmann (Ed.), Psycholinguistics: Critical concepts, Vol. II (pp. 638-679). London: Routledge. (Reprinted from Journal of Memory and Language, 29, 687-715).

McRae, K., de Sa, V. R., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2002). On the nature and scope of featural representations of word meaning. In G. T. M. Altmann (Ed.), Psycholinguistics: Critical concepts, Vol. II (pp. 297-362). London: Routledge. (Reprinted from Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 126, 99-130).

McRae, K., & Cree, G. S. (2002). Factors underlying category-specific semantic deficits. In E. M. E. Forde & G. W. Humphreys (Eds.), Category-Specificity in Brain and Mind (pp. 211-249). East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.

Cree, G. S., & McRae, K. (2001). Beyond the sensory/functional dichotomy: Commentary on Humphreys, G. W., & Forde, E. M. E., Hierarchies, similarity and interactivity in object recognition: On the multiplicity of 'category-specific' deficits in neuropsychological populations, Brain & Behavioral Sciences, 24, 480-481.

Ferretti, T. R., McRae, K., & Hatherell, A. (2001). Integrating verbs, situation schemas, and thematic role concepts. Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 516-547.

McRae, K., Hare, M., Ferretti, T. R., & Elman, J. L. (2001). Activating verbs from typical agents, patients, instruments, and locations via event schemas. In J. D. Moore and K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 617-622). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cree, G. S., McRae, K., & McNorgan, C. (1999). An attractor model of lexical conceptual processing: Simulating semantic priming. Cognitive Science, 23, 371-414.

Ferretti, T. R., & McRae, K. (1999). Modeling the role of plausibility and verb-bias in the direct object/sentence complement ambiguity. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 161-166). Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum.

McRae, K., Cree, G. S., Westmacott, R., & de Sa, V. R. (1999). Further evidence for feature correlations in semantic memory. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology: Special Issue on Models of Word Recognition, 53, 360-373.

McRae, K., Cree, G. S., & McNorgan, C. (1998). Semantic similarity priming without hierarchical category structure. In Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 681-686). Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum.

McRae, K., & Boisvert, S. (1998). Automatic semantic similarity priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 558-572.

McRae, K., Spivey-Knowlton, M. J., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (1998). Modeling the influence of thematic fit (and other constraints) in on-line sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 283-312.

McRae, K., de Sa, V. R., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1997). On the nature and scope of featural representations of word meaning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 126, 99-130.

McRae, K., Ferretti, T. R., & Amyote, L. (1997). Thematic roles as verb-specific concepts. Language and Cognitive Processes: Special Issue on Lexical Representations in Sentence Processing, 12, 137-176.

McRae, K., & Boisvert, S. (1996). The importance of automatic semantic relatedness priming for distributed models of word meaning. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 278-283). Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum.

Seidenberg, M. S., Plaut, D. C., Petersen, A. S., McClelland, J. L., & McRae, K. (1994). Nonword pronunciation and models of word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 1177-1196.

Tabossi, P., Spivey-Knowlton, M. J., McRae, K., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (1994). Semantic effects on syntactic ambiguity resolution: Evidence for a constraint-based resolution process. In C. Umilta & M. Moscovitch (Eds.), Attention & Performance XV (pp. 589-616). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

McRae, K., de Sa, V. R., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1993). Modeling property intercorrelations in conceptual memory. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 729-734). Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum.

McRae, K., & Hetherington, P. A. (1993). Catastrophic interference is eliminated in pretrained networks. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 723-728). Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum.

McRae, K. (1992). Correlated properties in artifact and natural kind concepts. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 349-354). Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum.

Jared, D., McRae, K., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1990). The basis of consistency effects in word naming. Journal of Memory and Language, 29, 687-715.

McRae, K., Jared, D., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1990). On the roles of frequency and lexical access in word naming. Journal of Memory and Language, 29, 43-65.

Popiel, S. J., & McRae, K. (1988). The figurative and literal senses of idioms, or, all idioms are not used equally. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 17, 475-487.

McRae, K., Butler, B. E., & Popiel, S. J. (1987). Spatiotopic and retinotopic components of iconic memory. Psychological Research, 49, 221-227.