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 >
Kickstarting a new international project looking at multilingual experiences and how they affect cognition and the brain
Last week saw the beginning of our new project titled “Using diversity in multilingual experience as a model to study neural plasticity”. The project is funded by the Norwegian Centre…Read More >
Looking forward to my reseach visit to Australia!
Just a month left until my month-long visit to The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University as an International Visiting Fellow! During that time I…Read More >
New review paper on subcortical adaptations caused by bilingualism, in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
Yee, J., Kořenář, M., Sheehan, A. & Pliatsikas, C. (2024): Subcortical malleability as a result of cognitively challenging experiences: the case of bi-/multilingualism. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 59, 101438….Read More >