Journal Club – Grammatical complexity as marker of Dementia
Events
23 March, 2017
Date: 23 March 2017
Time: 8-9AM
Venue: Seminar Room T09- 04, Level 9, NUHS Tower Block
Speaker: Prof. Bao Zhiming, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, NUS
Chairperson: Prof Kua Ee Heok, Senior Consultant, Dept. of Psychological Medicine, NUH
Brief Abstract:
It is known that grammatical complexity declines in individuals showing symptoms of dementia. How the decline progresses in tandem with the progression of dementia is not known. The proposed project studies grammatical complexity related to aging generally, and to dementia specifically. It aims to identify grammatical markers associated with clinically- defined stages of dementia.