Georgetown University Department of Neurology Building D, room 235A 4000 Reservoir Road, N.W. Washington D.C. 20057 USA E-Mail: Jana.Reifegerste@georgetown.edu Phone: +1-202-687-8489 ResearchGate Profile |
Education
2014 | PhD in Social Sciences, Radboud University (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Nijmegen, the Netherlands |
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Field: | Psycholinguistics | |||
Thesis Title: | Morphological Processing in younger and older people: Evidence for flexible dual-route access | |||
Advisors: | Antje S. Meyer and Pienie Zwitserlood | |||
2010 | Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, McGill University, Canada |
Publications
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Zona, C. I.#, & Reifegerste, J. (in press). Visual context benefits spoken sentence comprehension across the lifespan.
Hopp, H., Reifegerste, J., & Ullman, M. T. (2024). Lexical effects on L2 grammar acquisition: Testing psycholinguistic and neurocognitive predictions. Language Learning. doi:10.1111/lang.12672
Miklashevsky, A., Reifegerste, J., Balota, D. A., García, A. M., Pulvermüller, F., Veríssimo, J., & Ullman, M. T. (2024). Embodied cognition comes of age: A processing advantage for action words is modulated by aging and the task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153, 7, 1725-1764. doi:10.1037/xge0001555
Chen, S.*, Gil, D.*, Gaponov, S., Reifegerste, J., , Yuditha, T., Tatarinova, T., Progovac, Lj.*, & Benítez-Burraco, A.* (2024). Linguistic and cognitive correlates of societal variation: A quantitative analysis. PLOS ONE, 19, e0300838. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0300838
Reifegerste, J. (2024). Inflectional processing across the adult lifespan: A tale of gains and losses. Journal of Language and Aging Research, 2, 85-143. doi:10.15460/jlar.2024.2.1.1053
Reifegerste, J., Garibagaoglu, A., & Felser, C. (2023). Conceptual number in bilingual agreement computation: Evidence from
German pseudo-partitives. Languages, 8, 147. doi:10.3390/languages8020147
Reifegerste, J., Meyer, A. S., Zwitserlood, P., & Ullman, M. T. (2021). Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging. Brain and Language, 218, 104941. doi:0.1016/j.bandl.2021.104941
Reifegerste, J. (2021). The effects of aging on bilingual language: What changes, what doesn’t, and why. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24, 1-17. doi:10.1017/S1366728920000413
Reifegerste, J., Veríssimo, J., Rugg, M. D., Pullman, M., Babcock, L., Glei, D., Weinstein, M., Goldman, N., & Ullman, M. T. (2021). Early-life education may help bolster declarative memory in old age, especially for women. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 28, 218-252. doi:10.1080/13825585.2020.1736497
Reifegerste, J., Estabrooke, I. V., Russell, L. E., Veríssimo, J., Johari, K., Wilmarth, B., Pagan, F. L., Moussa, C., & Ullman, M. T. (2020). Can sex influence the neurocognition of language? Evidence from Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychologia, 148, 107633. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107633
Reifegerste, J., Jarvis, R., & Felser, C. (2020). Effects of chronological age on native and nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from subject-verb agreement in German. Journal of Memory and Language, 111, 104083. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.104083
Reifegerste, J., Elin, K., & Clahsen, H. (2019). Persistent differences between native speakers and late bilinguals: Evidence from inflectional and derivational processing in older speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22, 425-440. doi:10.1017/S1366728918000615
Johari, K., Walenski, M., Reifegerste, J., Ashrafi, F., Behroozmand, R., Daemi, M., & Ullman, M. T. (2019). A dissociation between syntactic and lexical processing in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 51, 221-235. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.03.004
Johari, K., Walenski, M., Reifegerste, J., Ashrafi, F., & Ullman, M. T. (2019). Sex, dopamine, and language: A study of inflectional morphology in Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychology, 33, 508-522. doi:10.1037/neu0000533
Prehn, K., Taud, B., Reifegerste, J., Clahsen, H., & Flöel, A. (2018). Neural correlates of grammatical inflection in older native and second-language speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21, 1-12. doi:10.1017/S1366728916001206
Reifegerste, J., & Clahsen, H. (2017). Accessing morphosyntactic information is preserved at old age, except for irregulars. The Mental Lexicon, 12, 342-372.
Reifegerste, J., & Felser, C. (2017). Effects of aging on interference during pronoun resolution. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 3573-3589. doi:10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-17-0183
Clahsen, H., & Reifegerste, J. (2017). Morphological processing in old-age bilinguals. In M. Libben, M. Goral, & G. Libben (Eds.), Bilingualism: A Framework for Understanding the Mental Lexicon (pp. 217-248). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Reifegerste, J., Hauer, F., & Felser, C. (2017). Agreement processing and attraction errors in aging: Evidence from subject-verb agreement in German. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 24, 672-702. doi:10.1080/13825585.2016.1251550
Reifegerste, J., Meyer, A. S., & Zwitserlood, P. (2017). Inflectional complexity and experience affect plural processing in younger and older readers of Dutch and German. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32, 471-487. doi:10.1080/23273798.2016.1247213
Clahsen, H., Heyer, V., & Reifegerste, J. (2016). Linguistic perspectives on morphological processing. (Editorial). The Mental Lexicon, 11, 161-163.
Reifegerste, J. (2014). Morphological processing in younger and older people: Evidence for flexible dual-route access. (Doctoral dissertation). Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Manuscripts in Submission
Zona, C.#, & Reifegerste, J. (under review). The weighting of syntactic versus visual-context information during comprehension: A lifespan perspective.
[* indicates equal contribution]
[# indicates student first author]
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Symposia organized
Reifegerste, J., & Prehn, K. (2017). How aging affects language processing: lexical access and grammatical computation. Symposium organized at the 20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Potsdam, Germany.
Oral Presentations
Reifegerste, J., Ullman, M. T., & Lyons, I. M. (2024). Age-related declines in hippocampal volumes explain strong age-related declines in simple math-fact retrieval. Oral presentation at the 3rd Annual Georgetown University Medical Center Healthy Aging Symposium, Washington DC, USA.
Buffington, J., Ullman, M. T., & Reifegerste, J. (2024). Word Learning Declines in Aging: A Role for the Hippocampus? Oral presentation at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York NY, USA.
Cano Sánchez, V., Laka, I., Lago, S., Reifegerste, J., & Santesteban, M. (2024). Aging effects in prediction and agreement processing. Oral presentation at the workshop “Language Processing in Aging,” The Bilingual Mind Research Group, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitória-Gasteiz, Spain.
Reifegerste, J., Ullman, M. T., & Lyons, I. M. (2024). Age-related declines in hippocampal volumes explain strong age-related declines in simple math-fact retrieval. Oral presentation at the 2024 conference of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS 2024), Washington DC, USA.
Reifegerste, J. (2024). Language processing in the aging mind and brain: What changes, what doesn’t, and why? Invited keynote at the workshop “Language Processing in Aging,” The Bilingual Mind Research Group, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitória-Gasteiz, Spain.
Benítez-Burraco, A., Chen, S., Gil, D., Reifegerste, J., Tatarinova, T. & Progovac, Lj. (2023). Patterns of correlation between linguistic and sociopolitical complexity. Oral presentation at the 2023 Conference on Complexity in Language Variation and Change (COMPILA 2023), Tokyo, Japan.
Ullman, M. T., & Reifegerste, J. (2023). The cognitive neuroscience of aging: What declines, why does it happen, and what can you do about it? Invited talk at the Center for Cognitive Science of Language, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.
Benítez-Burraco, A., Chen, S., Gil, D., Progovac, Lj., Reifegerste, J., & Tatarinova, T. (2023). Looking for correlations between language structural complexity and sociopolitical complexity. Oral presentation at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2023), Athens, Greece.
Hopp, H., Reifegerste, J., & Ullman, M. T. (2023). Procedural memory and lexical constraints on L2 implicit grammatical learning. Oral presentation at the 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 32), Birmingham, UK.
Zona, C. I., & Reifegerste, J. (2022). Weighting visual and linguistic cues for sentence comprehension: a lifespan study. Oral presentation at the 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2022), Lille, France.
Bénitez Burraco, A., Cahuana, C., Gil, D., Progovac, Lj., Reifegerste, J., & Tatarinova, T. (2022). Cognitive and genetic correlates of a single macro-parameter of crosslinguistic variation. Oral presentation at the workshop “Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Language Emergence,” virtual event.
Reifegerste, J. (2022). Language processing across the lifespan: What changes, what doesn’t, and why? Invited talk at the conference “Diversity in Language and Cognition,” Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.
Reifegerste, J. (2022). Healthy aging affects storage-based, but not rule-based inflectional processing: A cross-modal priming study on German plurals. Oral presentation at the 5th Corpora for Language and Aging Research conference (CLARe5), Anchorage AK, USA.
Reifegerste, J. (2022). Sprache im Alter — was verändert sich, was bleibt, und warum? [Language in aging – what changes, what doesn’t, and why?]. Oral presentation at the Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften [Potsdam Science Day], Potsdam, Germany.
Reifegerste, J. (2021). Sentence processing and aging. Invited talk at the Bilingual Mind research group, Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitória-Gasteiz, Spain.
Reifegerste, J. (2020). Language and aging. Invited talk at the International Conference on Cognitive Science of Language, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China. [Canceled.]
Reifegerste, J. (2019). Language Processing in Aging: what changes, and why. Invited talk at the Maryland Language Science Center, University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA.
Reifegerste, J. (2019). Aging and the processing of language. Invited talk at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Reifegerste, J. (2018). Aging and Language: What’s cognition got to do with it?. Invited talk at the Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Department of Language-Hearing Sciences, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York NY, USA.
Reifegerste, J., Zwitserlood, P., Meyer, A. S., & Ullman, M. T. (2018). Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that lexical processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging. Oral presentation at the 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Edmonton, Canada.
Elin, K., Reifegerste, J., & Clahsen, H. (2018). Ageing, bilingualism and language processing: A study of morphological processing in older adults. Oral presentation at the 28th conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 28), Münster, Germany.
Elin, K., Reifegerste, J., & Clahsen, H. (2018). Persistent differences between native speakers and late bilinguals: Evidence from inflectional and derivational processing in older speakers. Oral presentation at the 2nd International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2018), Braunschweig, Germany.
Reifegerste, J., & Prehn, K. (2017). Grammatical computation versus lexical look-up: selective aging effects
in language processing. Oral presentation at the 20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Potsdam, Germany.
Reifegerste, J. (2016). Aging and Language. Invited talk at the Brain and
Language Lab, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA.
Reifegerste, J., & Clahsen, H. (2016). Access to Complex Inflectional Paradigms is Preserved in Aging. Oral presentation at the 10th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Ottawa, Canada.
Reifegerste, J. & Clahsen, H. (2016). Morphological Processing in older L1 and L2 speakers. Oral presentation at the workshop on Impairments in the Mental Lexicon: The case of child and adult bilinguals, Potsdam, Germany.
Reifegerste, J. (2016). Illusory licensing effects in younger vs. older adults. Oral presentation at the Sentence Processing in Multilingual and Other Less Commonly Studied Populations workshop, Potsdam, Germany.
Veríssimo, J., Reifegerste, J., & Clahsen, H. (2016). Morphological structure in native and non-native processing: Linguistic and subject-level factors. Oral presentation at the International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain.
Reifegerste, J., Meyer, A. S., & Zwitserlood, P. (2015). Morphological processing in younger and older speakers: Evidence from German and Dutch plurals. Oral presentation at the Psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches to the grammar-lexicon distinction workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Prehn, K., Taud, B., Reifegerste, J., Clahsen, H., & Flöel, A. (2015). Neural correlates of morphological processing in older late bilinguals. Oral presentation at the 9th International Morphological Processing Conference, Potsdam, Germany.
Reifegerste, J., & Clahsen, H. (2015). Morphological priming in old-age bilinguals. Invited talk at the 10th International Symposium for Bilingualism, New Brunswick, USA.
Reifegerste, J. (2015). Zwei Sprachen in einem Gehirn – Bilingualismus unter der Lupe. Oral presentation at the Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften, Potsdam, Germany.
Reifegerste, J., Zwitserlood, P., & Meyer, A. S. (2013). The influence of pseudoword material on the processing of Dutch past-tense verbs. Oral presentation at the 8th International Morphological Processing Conference, Cambridge, UK.
Reifegerste, J., & Meyer, A. S. (2012). The influence of Age on the mental representation of polymorphemic words in Dutch. Oral presentation at the Morphological Complexity meeting, London, UK.