Everyday conversation draws on a remarkable combination of linguistic and cognitive abilities. The words we choose, the sentences we build, and the rhythm of our speech can offer clues about how these abilities change with age and neurological conditions.

Through collaborations with clinicians and clinical researchers, we study language in various populations, including healthy older adults, people with neurodegenerative diseases or epilepsy. We develop computational methods grounded in linguistic theory to quantify patterns in language production and examine how they relate to cognitive and clinical characteristics.

We also work on adapting linguistic analyses to Hebrew, whose structure deserves more than a direct import of tools developed for English. Our aim is to contribute precise, informative language measures to clinical research and deepen our understanding of the relationship between language and brain health.