TY  - JOUR
A1  - Reifegerste, Jana
A1  - Hauer, Franziska
A1  - Felser, Claudia
T1  - Agreement processing and attraction errors in aging
BT  - evidence from subject-verb agreement in German
JF  - Aging, neuropsychology, and cognition : a journal on normal and dysfunctional development
N2  - Effects of aging on lexical processing are well attested, but the picture is less clear for grammatical processing. Where age differences emerge, these are usually ascribed to working-memory (WM) decline. Previous studies on the influence of WM on agreement computation have yielded inconclusive results, and work on aging and subject-verb agreement processing is lacking. In two experiments (Experiment 1: timed grammaticality judgment, Experiment 2: self-paced reading + WM test), we investigated older (OA) and younger (YA) adults’ susceptibility to agreement attraction errors. We found longer reading latencies and judgment reaction times (RTs) for OAs. Further, OAs, particularly those with low WM scores, were more accepting of sentences with attraction errors than YAs. OAs showed longer reading latencies for ungrammatical sentences, again modulated by WM, than YAs. Our results indicate that OAs have greater difficulty blocking intervening nouns from interfering with the computation of agreement dependencies. WM can modulate this effect.
KW  - Subject-verb agreement
KW  - attraction errors
KW  - aging
KW  - grammaticality judgment
KW  - self-paced reading
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2016.1251550
SN  - 1382-5585
SN  - 1744-4128
VL  - 24
IS  - 6
SP  - 672
EP  - 702
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Carstens, Nora
T1  - Digitalisation Labs
BT  - a new arena for policy design in German multilevel governance
JF  - German Politics
N2  - The federal system has long been seen as one of the biggest obstacles to the digital transformation of the German state. With the enactment of the Online Access Act (OZG), a law that obliges all federal levels to offer their administrative services digitally in a joint portal network by the end of 2022, a new arena for multilevel collaboration has developed in Germany; the so-called digitalisation labs. The labs are intended to bring together representatives of all federal levels, external actors and citizens to promote problem-oriented policy design and the development of innovative policy solutions. Following a neo-institutionalist perspective and using the analytical concepts of multilevel governance and problem-solving, this paper investigates how the institutional settings, internal dynamics and actors’ composition influence policy design processes in the labs. The empirical analysis is built on a qualitative case study of two digitalisation labs in the policy field ‘Immigration and Emigration', and based on ten expert interviews as well as an extensive document analysis. The paper concludes that, by promoting problem-solving, the institutional settings as well as the organisational design and actors’ constellations have influenced the policy design process in several ways.
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2021.1887851
SN  - 1743-8993
SN  - 0964-4008
VL  - 30
IS  - 1
PB  - Taylor and Francis
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kohler, Ulrich
A1  - Brady, David
A1  - Guerra, Christian
A1  - Link, Bruce
T1  - The long term relationship between childhood Medicaid expansions and severe chronic conditions in adulthood
JF  - Social Policy and Administration
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 1467-9515
VL  - 58
IS  - 1
SP  - 39
EP  - 60
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schmalzgruber, Hedwig
T1  - When "dumb" beasts raise their voices
BT  - Speaking animals in Graeco-Roman and Near Eastern literature
JF  - The Ancient Near East Today
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2022/04/speaking-animals-literature
SN  - 2156-2253
VL  - 10
IS  - 4
PB  - Univ.
CY  - New York
ER  -