BSc Psychology & Language Sciences student awarded Alzheimer’s Society Undergraduate Research Bursary

Bridget Yu Yuen Ning, a 2^nd year student on the BSc Psychology & Language Sciences programme has been awarded an Alzheimer’s Society Undergraduate Research Bursary to investigate early language change in people subsequently diagnosed with dementia. 

Bridget will use automated tools developed within the Department of Language & Cognition at UCL to conduct her research. She will examine longitudinal samples of writing from the novelist Iris Murdoch and the speech of President Ronald Reagan, both of whom were subsequently were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.