Dr. Romy Räling

• The interface of cognition and language
• Processing of prosodic boundary cues
• Semantic processing of the variables typicality and age of acquisition
• EEG/ERP, NIRS
• Diagnostics and treatment of acquired language disorders

Dissertation

Räling, R. (In print). Age of acquisition and semantic typicality effects: Evidences for distinct processing origins from behavioural and ERP data in healthy and impaired semantic processing (Dissertation). Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 

Articles

Räling, R., Hanne, S., Schröder, A., Keßler, C., & Wartenburger, I. (2016). Judging the animacy of words - The influence of typicality and age of acquisition in a semantic decision task. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1–21. doi:10.1080/17470218.2016.1223704

Räling, R., Schröder, A., & Wartenburger, I. (2016). The origins of age of acquisition and typicality effects: Semantic processing in aphasia and the ageing brain. Neuropsychologia, 86, 80–92. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.04.019

Holzgrefe-Lang, J., Wellmann, C., Petrone, C., Räling, R., Truckenbrodt, H., Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. (2016). How pitch change and final lengthening cue boundary perception in German: Converging evidence from ERPs and prosodic judgments. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(7), 904–920. doi:10.1080/23273798.2016.1157195 

Räling, R., Holzgrefe-Lang, J., Schröder, A., & Wartenburger, I. (2015). On the influence of typicality and age of acquisition on semantic processing: Diverging evidence from behavioural and ERP responses. Neuropsychologia, 75, 186–200. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia. 2015.05.031.

Holzgrefe-Lang, J., Wellmann, C., Petrone, C., Räling, R., Truckenbrodt, H., Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. (in press). The impact of pitch and final lengthening cues on prosodic boundary processing: Brain and behavioral data. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 

Conference Proceedings

Burmester, J., Böhme, R., Krajewski, M., Nager, W., Jungehülsing, G. J., Schröder, A., Wartenburger, I., & Jöbges, M. (2013). Wirksamkeit der tDCS in der Therapie von Benennstörungen bei Aphasie. In: C. Kauschke, C., S. Ott, & V. Maihack (Eds.), Prosodie und Kindersprache – die Bedeutung der Prosodie und ihrer Schnittstellen für Spracherwerb und Sprach­therapie. Tagungsbericht zum 13. Wissenschaftlichen Symposium des dbs e.V. Köln: Prolog.

Räling, R., Schröder, A. & Wartenburger, I. (2012). Effects of typicality and age of acquisition on auditory semantic processing - Behavioural and electro­physiological correlates. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie (17, Suppl. 2), 113-115. 

Böhme, R., Burmester, J., Krajewski, M., Nager, W., Jungehülsing, G.J., Schröder, A., I. Wartenburger & Jöbges, M. (2010). Transkranielle Gleichstromstimulation (tDCS) – Zur Entwicklung einer Therapiestudie in der Behandlung von aphasischen Störungen des mündlichen Bildbenennens. In: Wahl M., Stahn C., Hanne S., Fritzsche T. (Hrsg.), Spektrum Patholinguistik, Band 3. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag.

Poster

Räling, R., Schröder, A., & Wartenburger, I. (2012). Behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of typicality and age of acquisition in semantic processing. NeuroPsychoLinguistic Perspectives on Aphasia. Toulouse, France.

Räling, R., Schröder, A., & Wartenburger, I. (2012). Effects of typicality and age of acquisition on auditory semantic processing – Behavioural and electrophysiological correlates. 13th International Science of Aphasia Conference. Groningen, Netherlands.

Räling, R., Schröder, A., & Wartenburger, I. (2011). The Influence of Typicality and Age of Acquisition on Semantic Priming in Healthy and Aphasic Participants - Proposal of a combined ERP/fNIRS Study Design. 2nd IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School. Poster, London, UK.

Burmester, J., Böhme, R., Krajewski, M., Nager, W., Jungehülsing, G. J., Schröder, A., Wartenburger, I. & M. Jöbges (2010). Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in the treatment of aphasic naming disorders. 11th International Science of Aphasia Conference. Poster, Potsdam, Germany.

Böhme, R., Burmester, J., Krajewski, M., Nager, W., Jöbges, M., Jungehülsing, G.J., Schröder, A. & I. Wartenburger (2009). Transkranielle Gleichstrom­stimulation (tDCS) - Zur Entwicklung einer Therapiestudie in der Behandlung von aphasischen Benennstörungen. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik. Poster, Potsdam.