@article{SchneebergerEccard2021,
  author    = {Schneeberger, Karin and Eccard, Jana},
  title     = {Experience of social density during early life is associated with attraction to conspecific odour in the common vole (Microtus arvalis)},
  series = {Ethology : international journal of behavioural biology},
  volume    = {127},
  journal   = {Ethology : international journal of behavioural biology},
  number    = {10},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {0179-1613},
  doi       = {10.1111/eth.13211},
  pages     = {908 -- 913},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Social organisation in species with fluctuating population sizes can change with density. Therefore, information on (future) density obtained during early life stages may be associated with social behaviour. Olfactory cues may carry important social information. We investigated whether early life experience of different experimental densities was subsequently associated with differences in attraction to adult conspecific odours. We used common voles (Microtus arvalis), a rodent species undergoing extreme density fluctuations. We found that individuals originating from high experimental density populations kept in large outdoor enclosures invested more time in inspecting conspecific olfactory cues than individuals from low-density populations. Generally, voles from both treatments spent more time with the olfactory cues than expected by chance and did not differ in their latency to approach the odour samples. Our findings indicate either that early experience affects odour sensitivity or that animals evaluate the social information contained in conspecific odours differently, depending on their early life experience of conspecific density.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{UygunClahsen2021,
  author    = {Uygun, Serkan and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Morphological processing in heritage speakers},
  series = {Bilingualism : language and cognition},
  volume    = {24},
  journal   = {Bilingualism : language and cognition},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
  address   = {Cambridge},
  issn      = {1366-7289},
  doi       = {10.1017/S1366728920000577},
  pages     = {415 -- 426},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Previous research has shown that heritage speakers struggle with inflectional morphology. 'Limitations of online resources' for processing a non-dominant language has been claimed as one possible reason for these difficulties. To date, however, there is very little experimental evidence on real-time language processing in heritage speakers. Here we report results from a masked priming experiment with 97 bilingual (Turkish/German) heritage speakers and a control group of 40 non-heritage speakers of Turkish examining regular and irregular forms of the Turkish aorist. We found that, for the regular aorist, heritage speakers use the same morphological decomposition mechanism ('affix stripping') as control speakers, whereas for processing irregularly inflected forms they exhibited more variability (i.e., less homogeneous performance) than the control group. Heritage speakers also demonstrated semantic priming effects. At a more general level, these results indicate that heritage speakers draw on multiple sources of information for recognizing morphologically complex words.},
  language  = {en}
}