Journal Articles

* indicates student author; ☨ indicates joint first author

*☨ Myers, R.,  ☨Troyer, M., and Federmeier, K.D. (Provisionally accepted). Electrophysiological evidence for age-related changes in event knowledge use during language comprehension. Psychology and Aging.

Troyer, M., Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., and Federmeier, K.D. (2025). Diffindo! Precise language comprehension in older adulthood revealed by
event-related brain potential studies of domain knowledge. Cognition, e106201.

Troyer, M., Kutas, M., Batterink, L., and 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, e14422.

Brown, K.S., Yee, E., Joergensen, G., Troyer, M., Saltzman, E., Rueckle, J., Magnuson, J.S., and McRae, K. (2023). Investigating the extent to which Distributional Semantic Models capture a broad range of semantic relations. Cognitive Science, e13291.

Leckey, M., Troyer, M., and Federmeier, K.D. (2023). Patterns of hemispheric asymmetry provide evidence dissociating the semantic and syntactic P600. Neuropsychologia, 179, 108441.

Troyer, M., McRae, K., and 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.

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

Troyer, M. and Kutas, M. (2020). To catch a Snitch: Brain potentials reveal knowledge-based variability in the functional organization of (fictional) world knowledge during reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 113, 104111.

Troyer, M., Urbach, T.P., and Kutas, M. (2019). Lumos!: Electrophysiological tracking of (wizarding) world knowledge use during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(3), 476–486.

Troyer, M. and Kutas, M. (2018). Harry Potter and the Chamber of What?: the impact of what individuals know on word processing during reading. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 35(5), 641-657.

Troyer, M. and Borovsky, A.B. (2017). Maternal socioeconomic status influences the range of expectations during language comprehension in adulthood. Cognitive Science, 41(S6), 1405-1433.

Troyer, M., Hofmeister, P., and Kutas, M. (2016). Elaboration over a discourse facilitates retrieval in sentence processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 374.

Wang, H., Ma, L., Wang, Y., Troyer, M., and Li, Q. (2015). An ERP study in English relative clause processing by Chinese-English Bilinguals. Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics, 38(1), 3-35.

DeLong, K.A., Troyer, M., and Kutas, M. (2014). Pre-processing in sentence comprehension: Sensitivity to likely upcoming meaning and structure. Language & Linguistics Compass, 8(12), 631-645.

Troyer, M., Curley, L.B., Miller, L.M., Saygin, A.P., and Bergen, B.K. (2014). Action verbs are processed differently in metaphorical and literal sentences depending on the semantic match of visual primes. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 982.

Miller, B.R., Troyer, M., and Busey, T.A. (2008). Virtual EEG: A software-based electroencephalogram designed for undergraduate neuroscience-related courses. The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE), 7(1), A19-A25. Software available here.

Conference Proceedings

Troyer, M., Myers, R., and Federmeier, K.D. (2025). Age-related differences in processing event knowledge during real-time language comprehension. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Troyer, M., Urbach, T.P., and Kutas, M. (2021). Toward dissociating general reading experience and domain-specific knowledge sources during RSVP reading: An exploratory rERP data analysis. Society for the Neurobiology of Language. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/YNV9K

Troyer, M. and Kutas, M. (2020). Hemispheric asymmetries in "expert" processing of semantic relationships during reading. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Troyer, M. and Kutas, M. (2019). To catch a Snitch: Brain potentials reveal variability in the functional organization of (fictional) world knowledge during reading. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Troyer, M. and Kutas, M. (2017). It's all in your head: Effects of expertise on real-time access to knowledge during written sentence processing. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Troyer, M., and Borovsky, A. (2015). Childhood SES affects anticipatory language comprehension in college-aged adults. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Troyer, M., O'Donnell, T.J., Fedorenko, E. and Gibson, E. (2011). Storage and computation in syntax: Evidence from relative clause priming. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Last updated: 04.09.2025