Thrilled to announce that our own Toms Voits has been selected to deliver the University of Reading 2020 Fairbrother lecture! The Fairbrother Lecture is a prestigious annual event where a…Read More >
New pre-print: Bilingualism and brain development
Pliatsikas, C., Meteyard, L., Veríssimo, J., DeLuca, V., Shattuck, K., & Ullman, MT. (2020): The effect of bilingualism on brain development from early childhood to young adulthood To access….Read More >
New paper on methods for studying language acquisition in the brain, in System
Luk, G., Pliatsikas, C., & Rossi, E. (2020): Brain changes associated with language development and learning: A primer on methodology and applications. To appear in System To access, click here Abstract:…Read More >
Kick-starting 2020 with a few talks!
The new year has just started, and our lab is already busy with several talks this week! Specifically: -Christos will deliver a talk at the Ringvorlesung Multilingual Mind at the…Read More >
New pre-print: Bilingualism and neurodegenerative disorders beyond Alzheimer’s Disease
Voits, T., Pliatsikas, C., Robson, H, Rothman, J.(2019): Beyond Alzheimer’s Disease: Bilingualism and Other Types of Neurodegeneration To access, click here Abstract Bilingualism has been argued to have an impact…Read More >
New paper on bilingualism and Multiple Sclerosis, in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Aveledo, F., Higueras, Y., Marinis, T., Bose, A., Pliatsikas, C., Meldaña-Rivera, A., Martínez-Ginés, M. L., García-Domínguez, J., Lozano-Ros, A., Cuello, J. P. and Goicochea-Briceño, H. (2019) Multiple sclerosis and bilingualism: some initial findings. To appear in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. To access, click here…Read More >
Call for Papers: Conference on Multilingualism (COM) 2020 @ the Centre of Literacy and Multilingualism, University of Reading.
The next Conference on Multilingualism 2020 (COM2020) will be hosted by the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) at the University of Reading (UK) from the 23rd to the 25th of…Read More >
Publication news 2/2: New empirical paper on the differential effects of bilingual language experiences on brain function in NeuroImage
DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., Bialystok, E., & Pliatsikas C. (2019): Duration and extent of bilingual experience modulate neurocognitive outcomes. NeuroImage. To access, click here Abstract: The potential effects of bilingualism on executive control…Read More >
Publication news 1/2: New conceptual review on structural plasticity in the bilingual brain in Language Learning
Pliatsikas, C., DeLuca, V., & Voits, T. (2019): The many shades of bilingualism: language experiences modulate adaptations in brain structure. To appear in Language Learning To access, click here Abstract: Recent years…Read More >
Updates on upcoming conference presentations
Our lab has a busy but exciting time ahead, as we are due to give seven presentations in several upcoming conferences! Specifically: -Conference on Multilingualism 2019, September 1st-3rd, Leiden, The…Read More >