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In case you are at the British Psychological Society conference in Newcastle, you may be interested in our symposium on Psychosis and Language on Friday, starting 9.30am. Each talk will present some of the results from our AHRC project on language in schizophrenia and aphasia. The symposium on Friday will focus particularly on language differences between people with schizophrenia with and without formal thought disorder. Here is the programme.
- Vitor
Research from the lab, reporting residual cognition in severe aphasia, was described by neuroscientist Sophie Scott on BBC Radio 4 programme 'The Infinite Monkey Cage'.
Some thoughts on a new paper about processing biases in people with Williams Syndrome on Vitor Zimmerer's website.
A bit fit (5th in the Faculty competition) outpaced the Walking on sunshine team (10th). The more senior A bit fit team were "marginally ahead" of the doctoral student team by a small matter of 300,000 steps.
Members of the lab are taking part in the Faculty Walking Challenge. There is a heated inter-lab competition going on ...
Read moreWe are going to present four projects at this year's SoA conference at the Université de Genève on September 11th-14th. Last year we got to know the conference as a friendly forum for idea exchange, and one very supportive of doctoral students.
Alas, no beach right next to the venue as was the case last year in Lido de Venezia. Evenings at the lake will have to suffice.
Here our abstracts (follow links for full text):
Read moreWe welcome Bridget Yuen Yu to our lab. Bridget will use a new method of language analysis to analyse the language of US president Ronald Reagan and novelist Iris Murdoch, who both had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
UCL Cognition and Grammar Lab