Kyra Krass | Department of Psychological Sciences

Program:	Perception, Action, Cognition: Language and Cognition
Advisor:	Gerry Altmann
Anticipated Graduation:	2020
Education:	M.S. Psychological Sciences: Language and Cognition, University of Connecticut, 2017 B.S. Biology: Neuroscience, Minors in Dance, Psychology, and Spanish, The Pennsylvania State University, 2015
Research Interests:	My research interests lie in sentence processing and event cognition. I would like to know what role affordances and object states play in event processing and how we can use eye-tracking and behavioral techniques to investigate this. I am also interested in how bilingualism and executive functioning influence event processing.
Representative Publications:	Rossi, E., Krass, K., & Kootstra, G. J. (2019) Psycholinguistic methods in multilingual research. In J. S. Schwieter (Ed.), The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell. Krass, K. & Altmann, G. (2019, August) Goal Bias in the Visual World. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Helsinki, FI. Rossi, E., Krass, K., Joergensen, G., Zeidan, C., Zirnstein, M., & Altmann, G. (2019, June) The Influence of Cognitive Control and Bilingual Experience on Event Processing. Talk presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Krass, K., Joergensen, G., Zeiden, C., Zirnstein, M., Altmann, G., & Rossi, E. (2018, March) How individual difference measures inform event processing in monolingual and early and late bilingual speakers. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA. Krass, K., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2017, October) Investigating how anticipation of object states drives event comprehension. Poster presented at the Event Representations in Brain, Language, and Development Workshop, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Krass, K., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2017, March) Affordances and end states: How verb type and tense affect event comprehension. Talk presented at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, MA. Krass, K., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2016, November) Verb Semantics: Affordances or Object States? Poster presented at the 24th Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Boston, MA. Krass, K., Prystauka, Y., & Rossi, E. (2016, August) Neural underpinnings of grammatical processing for less proficient L2 learners. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, London, UK. Krass, K., Navarro-Torres, C., Kroll, J., & Rossi, E. (2015, October) The role of discourse context in pronoun resolution. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, IL. Krass, K., Navarro-Torres, C., Kroll, J., & Rossi, E. (2015, March) The role of discourse context in pronoun resolution. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.