Month: October 2023

California Expands Paid Sick Days and Boosts Health Worker Wages

California is making strides in health policy by expanding paid sick leave, providing bereavement leave for reproductive losses, and increasing wages for health workers. The governor’s signing of these bills reflects a rare collaboration between labor and the health industry. The new legislation also includes stronger patient protections, reproductive rights, and measures to address surprise […]

Published on October 25, 2023

Ketamine’s Depression Benefits Could Be Due to Hope

The party drug ketamine has gotten a lot of notice for its potential to help people with severe and persistent depression who haven’t responded to other treatments.But a new study has discovered the drug’s effect may be in the heads of patients who take it.Researchers from… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David […]

Published on October 24, 2023

When Native Speakers Are Not “Native‐Like:” Chunking Ability Predicts (Lack of) Sensitivity to Gender Agreement During Online Processing

Abstract Previous work on individual differences has revealed limitations in the ability of existing measures (e.g., working memory) to predict language processing. Recent evidence suggests that an individual’s sensitivity to detect the statistical regularities present in language (i.e., “chunk sensitivity”) may significantly modulate online sentence processing. We investigated whether individual chunk sensitivity predicted the online […]

Published on October 24, 2023