Event date:
Friday 8 July
Location:
Room G32, Psychology Building, 7 George Square
FRIDAY, 8/7, 12.30pm
G32, 7 George Square
Gitit Kave - Paradoxes related to word retrieval in ageing
Older adults often complain of difficulties in word retrieval. However, difficulties do not occur across all tasks to the same degree. The talk will discuss some paradoxical experimental results in an attempt to understand the effect of vocabulary knowledge and compensatory strategies on word retrieval in old age.
Prof. Gitit Kavé is a neuropsychologist from the Open University in Israel. She studies language and cognitive changes in healthy older adults as well as in dementia patients.