The Laboratory of Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics (https://psychoneurolinglab.phil.uoa.gr/) and the Laboratory of Phonetics and Computational Linguistics (https://linglab.phil.uoa.gr/) together with the Language and Aging Research Group (National Research Foundation, Korea) and the Tsakos Energy Navigation organized a conference on “Aging: Exploring its Effects on Language, Life, and Beyond” on 6 και 7 February 2024. The conference was hosted at the Megaron Macedonia of the Tsakos Energy Navigation company on 6 February and at the Institute for Speech and Language Processing (Research Center “Athena”) and the Modern Greek School of NKUA on 7 February.
Researchers from linguistics and artificial intelligence presented recent findings about speech and language characteristics that can differentiate typical from atypical aging and could serve as potential biomarkers for the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s Disease.