CURRICULUM VITAE. Edward Wesley Wlotko 405 N. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL Education. Professional Experience

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Edward Wesley Wlotko 405 N. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL Education !!!! University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign!!!!! Department of Psychology, Brain and Cognition Division!!!!!! minor: Quantitative Psychology!!!!! M.A. in Psychology Awarded December 2006!!!!! Ph.D. in Psychology Awarded October 2009!!!!! Thesis: Individual and joint contributions of the cerebral hemispheres to!!!!!! language comprehension Advised by: Kara D. Federmeier !!!! University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA!!!!! B.S. in Psychology and English literature, summa cum laude!!!!! Cognitive Psychology Concentration & Honors Distinction Professional Experience 2012!!!!! Postdoctoral Scholar, Training in Education and Critical Research Skills (TEACRS)!!!!!! Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences!!!!!! Tufts University !!!! Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow!!!!!! Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology & Dept. of Psychology!!!!!! University of Illinois !!! Research Assistant and Lab Manager!!!!! Dr. Charles A. Perfetti s Reading and Language Group!!!!! Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh Grants and Fellowships NIGMS-funded Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award Trainee ( present)! Tufts University, TEACRS Program (Grant K12-GM , PI: Claire L. Moore)! mentored by: Gina R. Kuperberg, Tufts University Department of Psychology and MA General Hospital Beckman Fellow, Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows program ( ) Co-investigator, Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, Illinois Research Board (2009)! Principal Investigator: Kara D. Federmeier, University of Illinois Department of Psychology Pre-doctoral Fellow, National Research Service Award (NRSA), Grant F31-DC ( )! mentored by: Gabriele Gratton & Kara D. Federmeier, University of Illinois Dept. of Psychology Principal Investigator, Society for Psychophysiological Research Training Award (2008)! mentored by: Ksenija Marinkovic & Eric Halgren, UCSD Department of Radiology NIMH-funded Summer Training in Aging Research Topics for Mental Health (START-MH) Fellowship (2008)! University of California, San Diego School of Medicine (Grant R25-MH , PI: Dilip V. Jeste)! mentored by: Marta Kutas, UCSD Department of Cognitive Science Pre-doctoral Fellow, Illinois Distinguished Fellowship ( ) WLOTKO, E. W. CURRICULUM VITAE page 1 of 6

2 Honors and Awards Trainee, NIH Training Grant T32-MH (PI: Kathryn Bock), University of Illinois ( ) Society for Psychophysiological Research Student Poster Award (2007) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention (2006) University Honors College Undergraduate Research Fellowship (Spring 2002) Member, Psi Chi National Honor Society for Psychology (Inducted 2001) Wilma Binder Zeder Memorial Scholarship (Fall 2001) University Scholar Award ( ) Research Interests Topics: Neurobiology and neurodynamics of language and memory; hemispheric asymmetry and cooperation in cognition; cognitive and neural changes in healthy aging; cognitive flexibility across the lifespan Techniques: Electrophysiology (ERPs), electromagnetic source localization; near-infrared optical imaging of brain function (Event-related Optical Signal; EROS); multimodal imaging; quantitative methods for neuroimaging data Publications Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (under review). Two sides of meaning: The scalp-recorded N400 reflects distinct contributions from the cerebral hemispheres. Frontiers in Language Sciences. Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., & Kutas, M. (in press). To predict or not to predict: Age-related changes in the use of sentential context. Psychology and Aging. Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2012). So that's what you meant! Event-related potentials reveal multiple aspects of context use during construction of message-level meaning. NeuroImage, 62(1), Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2012). Age-related changes in the impact of contextual strength on multiple aspects of sentence comprehension. Psychophysiology, 49(6), Wlotko, E. W., Lee, Chia-Lin, & Federmeier, K. D. (2010). Language of the aging brain: Event-related potential studies of comprehension in older adults. Language and Linguistics Compass, 4(8), Federmeier, K. D., Wlotko, E. W., & Meyer, A. M. (2008). What's "right" in language comprehension: ERPs reveal right hemisphere language capabilities. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2(1), Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2007). Finding the right word: Hemispheric asymmetries in the use of sentence context information. Neuropsychologia, 45(13), Federmeier, K. D., Wlotko, E. W., De Ochoa-Dewald, E., and Kutas, M. (2007). Multiple effects of sentential constraint on word processing. Brain Research, 1146, Perfetti, C. A., Wlotko, E. W., & Hart, L. A. (2005). Word learning and individual differences in word learning are reflected in ERPs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31(6), in preparation: Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (in prep). It takes two: The event-related optical signal (EROS) reveals distinct contributions from the cerebral hemispheres to language comprehension. Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., & Kutas, M. (in prep). Flexible implementation of anticipatory language comprehension mechanisms. Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (in prep). Flexible implementation of hemispheric processing biases during sentence comprehension. WLOTKO, E. W. CURRICULUM VITAE page 2 of 6

3 Published Abstracts and Presentations * Talk or paper ** Symposium chair Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2012, October). The event-related optical signal (EROS) provides a spatiotemporal and functional connectivity study of cortical responses during language comprehension. Poster to be presented at the 4 th annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Sebastian, Spain. **Wlotko, E. W. (2012). Recovery, revision, reinterpretation, resolution? Late frontal ERP effects in sentence comprehension. Psychophysiology, 49 (Supplement 1), S16. *Wlotko, E. W. (2012). The polarity of prose: Predictive and reinterpretive strategies in sentence comprehension are reflected in positive- and negative- going late frontal ERP effects. Psychophysiology, 49 (Supplement 1), S17. Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2012). The event-related optical signal (EROS) reveals patterns of hemispheric processing during language comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (Supplement 1), 239. Kandhadai, P., Wlotko, E. W., Giffin, L., & Federmeier, K. D. (2012). In search of meaning: Electrophysiological evidence of semantic processing in the cerebral hemispheres. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (Supplement 1), 172. Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2011). It takes two: The event-related optical signal (EROS) reveals distinct contributions from the cerebral hemispheres to language comprehension. Psychophysiology, 48 (Supplement 1), S99. Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2011). Flexible implementation of anticipatory language comprehension mechanisms. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (Supplement 1), 233. Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., & Kutas, M. (2010). Malleability of language comprehension mechanisms via task demands. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 15, 103. Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2010, November). An items-level event-related potential analysis of initial and later stages of sentence comprehension in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the 2 nd annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA. Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2010). I didn t know you were going to say that: A left-lateralized negative brain potential for sentences of moderately strong constraint. Psychophysiology, 47 (Supplement 1), S36. Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2010). The event-related optical signal reveals contralateral and ipsilateral brain activity over time during lateralized processing of words. Psychophysiology, 47 (Supplement 1), S29. Wlotko, E. W. and Federmeier, K. D. (2010). Flexible implementation of hemispheric processing biases during sentence comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 (Supplement 1), 219. Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., & Kutas, M. (2009). Shifts in hemispheric contributions to language comprehension with age. Psychophysiology, 46 (Supplement 1), S81. Wlotko, E. W., Evans, K. M., Huang, H. W., Kandhadai, P., Lee, C., & Federmeier, K. D. (2009, April). Hemispheric asymmetries in the processing of verbal material as indexed by the frontal P2. Poster presented at EPIC XV, Bloomington, IN. Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., & Kutas, M. (2009, March). An electrophysiological investigation of the impact of sentential context on processing unexpected but plausible words. Poster presented at the 22 nd annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA. Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., & Kutas, M. (2009). An electrophysiological investigation of individual differences in the use of sentential constraint. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 (Supplement 1), 83. *Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2008). The frontal P2 component and the influence of sentential constraint on visual processing. Psychophysiology, 45 (Supplement 1), S9. Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., & Kutas, M. (2008). Age-related changes in the use of sentential context. Psychophysiology, 45 (Supplement 1), S33. WLOTKO, E. W. CURRICULUM VITAE page 3 of 6

4 Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2008). Two is not better than one: Bilateral presentation fails to elicit an electrophysiological marker of sentential constraint. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20 (Supplement 1), 216. Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2007). Two Sides of Meaning: The scalp-recorded N400 reflects distinct contributions from the cerebral hemispheres. Psychophysiology, 44 (Supplement 1), S62. Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2007). Divide and conquer: Electrophysiological indices of sentence processing reflect distinct contributions from the cerebral hemispheres. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19 (Supplement 1), 283. Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2006). Finding the right word: Hemispheric asymmetries in the use of sentence context information. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 11, 122. Wlotko, E. W. & Federmeier, K. D. (2006). An investigation of the timecourse of sentence context use by the cerebral hemispheres. Psychophysiology, 43 (Supplement 1), S109. Wlotko, E. W., Federmeier, K. D., De Ochoa-Dewald, E., & Kutas, M. (2006). Multiple effects of sentential constraint on word processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18 (Supplement 1), 219. Hart, L., Wlotko, E. W., & Perfetti, C. A. (2004). The error-related negativity as an index of readers word knowledge. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 (Supplement 1), 170. Hart, L., Wlotko, E. W., & Perfetti, C. A. (2003). An event-related potential study of reading skill differences in vocabulary learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15 (Supplement 1), 210. Hart, L., Wlotko, E. W., & Perfetti, C. A. (2002, June). Event-related potential study of individual differences in learning. Poster presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Chicago, IL. Colloquia September, Malleability of the message: Predictive and reinterpretive modes of sentence comprehension. Harpur College Dean's Speaker Series in Psychological Sciences, Binghamton University, SUNY. April, Brain Reading: A multimodal approach to understanding the neural mechanisms of language comprehension. Beckman Institute Director s Seminar, University of Illinois. March, Flexible implementation of anticipatory language comprehension mechanisms. Cognitive Brown Bag, University of Illinois. February, Flexible implementation of mechanisms for sentence comprehension: Sensitivity to hemispheric processing biases, experimental context, and age. Language Processing Brown Bag, University of Illinois. September, A discussion of an electrophysiological marker of sentential constraint and its sensitivity to experimental context. Cognitive Electrophysiology Lab Colloquium. University of California, San Diego. September, Age-related changes in the use of sentential context. Brain & Cognition Brown Bag, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March, Individual and joint contributions of the cerebral hemispheres to the multiple mechanisms of language comprehension. Reading and Language Group Colloquia Series, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. November, Two sides of meaning: Independent biases, joint contributions, and emergent properties of hemispheric interactions in language processing. Cognitive Brown Bag, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March, Multiple effects of sentential constraint on word processing. Language Processing Brown Bag, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. January, Finding the right word: Hemispheric asymmetries in the use of sentence context information. Brain & Cognition Brown Bag, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. WLOTKO, E. W. CURRICULUM VITAE page 4 of 6

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6 Teaching Experience !!!! Undergraduate Mentoring, co-advised advanced undergraduate research!!!!! Department of Psychology, University of Illinois!!!!!! students: Marissa Dziepak, Pawel Laciak 2008 (Fall Semester)!! Tutor in Graduate Statistics!!!!! Office of Minority Student Affairs, University of Illinois 2006 (June - August)!! Cognitive Psychology Instructor!!!!! Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University !!!! Teacher and Tutor, GRE and GMAT!!!!! Kaplan Test Prep!!!!! London, UK; Pittsburgh, PA; Champaign, IL Service and Outreach Ad-hoc Reviewer: Psychophysiology, Brain and Language, Neuropsychologia, NeuroImage, Brain Research, Cortex, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Behavior Research Methods, PLoS One Community activities: Bi-annual Beckman Institute Open House (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011); Annual Brain Awareness Day ( ) Professional Societies Society for Psychophysiological Research Society for the Neurobiology of Language Cognitive Neuroscience Society WLOTKO, E. W. CURRICULUM VITAE page 6 of 6