I can share the news that, with effect from August the 1st, I have been promoted to full Professor at the University of Reading School of Psychology and Clinical Language…Read More >
New paper: A protocol to study multilingual patients with progressive neurological diseases
Pliatsikas, C., Antoniou, M., Duñabeitia, J. A., & Calabria, M. (2025). A comprehensive protocol to study the effects of multilingualism on cognition and the brain in patients with progressive neurological…Read More >
New paper on the effects of ageing on speech abilities and brain volume in bilinguals, in NeuroImage
Yu, H., Kang, K., Pliatsikas, C., Zhou, Y., & Zhang, H. (2025): Age-related differences in speech and gray matter volume: The modulating role of multilingualism. NeuroImage, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121149 To…Read More >
New paper: The Galician Multipic; also, the Ukrainian Multipic norms are now available!
Álvarez de la Granja, M., Parafita Couto, MC., Sá-Leite., AR, Fraga, I., Duñabeitia, JA., Pliatsikas, C., Comesaña, M. (2025): The Galician MultiPic: a picture database that captures lexical variation. Frontiers…Read More >
Second CAS workshop on using diversity in multilingual experience as a model to study neural plasticity
Last week we organised the second workshop of our project titled “Using diversity in multilingual experience as a model to study neural plasticity”, funded by the Norwegian Centre for Advanced…Read More >
Grant success!
I am honoured to have received funding by the British Academy for an Academy Research Project which will allow us to expand Multipic to include naming norms in 8 under-resourced languages…Read More >
There is a new doctor in the house!
Join me in congratulating newly minted Dr Alex Sheehan , who just defended his thesis and passed with (very) minor corrections! Congrats Dr Alex! Alex’s thesis was co-supervised by…Read More >
Goodbye Australia
My month-long visit in Australia is coming to an end; and what a month that was! Plenty of time to read, think and write, interesting discussions with colleagues from Western…Read More >
New review paper on studying brain function in bilinguals with fNIRS, in Frontiers in Language Sciences-Bilingualism
Pliatsikas, C. (2024): Examining functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy as a tool to study brain function in bilinguals. Frontiers in Language Sciences- Bilingualism, 3. DOI: 10.3389/flang.2024.1471133 To access click here Abstract: There…Read More >
Our poster at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting in Brisbane
A little more than a week ago I attended the recent SNL meeting in Brisbane, Australia. There, I had the opportunity to present the work of my now former PhD…Read More >