Olga Ivanova is Assistant Lecturer of General Linguistics at the Spanish Language Department of the University of Salamanca, and a member of the research group Neurophysiology, Cognition and Behaviour at the Institute of Neurosciences of Castilla y León, Spain. Her primary research interests are clinical linguistics and psycholinguistics, with a focus on language changes and impairment in healthy aging and persons with Alzheimer’s disease. Within her research group, she studies the speech and language traits of dementia, and she is particularly concerned with better understanding language structure and human language capacity through the lens of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Short Biography
Olga Ivanova is Assistant Lecturer of General Linguistics at the Spanish Language Department of the University of Salamanca, and a member of the research group Neurophysiology, Cognition and Behaviour at the Institute of Neurosciences of Castilla y León, Spain. Her primary research interests are clinical linguistics and psycholinguistics, with a focus on language changes and impairment in healthy aging and persons with Alzheimer’s disease. Within her research group, she studies the speech and language traits of dementia, and she is particularly concerned with better understanding language structure and human language capacity through the lens of neurodegenerative diseases.