On the 20th of May our lab will participate in this year’s Pint of Science festival in Reading. Why not have a beer while learning about all the latest new…Read More >
Our lab’s public event for the International Mother Language Day
On the 21st of February our lab delivered a public event for the International Mother Language day, called “Learning languages for a healthy brain”. In what turned up to be…Read More >
Listen to our lab’s interview about bilingualism and the brain at BBC Radio Berkshire
Last week our own Toms Voits gave an interview to Phil Kennedy and BBC Radio Berkshire about his research and the public even that our lab is presenting tonight! You…Read More >
New theoretical paper on structural plasticity in the bilingual brain, in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Pliatsikas, C. (in press): Understanding structural plasticity in the bilingual brain: The Dynamic Restructuring Model To access, click here Abstract: Research on the effects of bi-/multilingualism on brain structure has…Read More >
Public event: Learning languages for a healthy brain
The Bilingualism in The Brain lab is pleased to invite everyone to a public event on 21st February – International Mother Language Day – at the University of Reading. The…Read More >
Graduation day!
Last week our lab attended the graduation of our first alumnus, Vincent Deluca! Here are some pictures of that nice day! Apart from Vince, that day marked the graduation of…Read More >
New book chapter on psycholinguistic methods
Pliatsikas, C. and Marinis, T. (in press) Online psycholinguistic methods in second language acquisition research. To appear in Chapelle, C. (ed.) The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley To access please…Read More >
Next stop: Barcelona!
This Friday (23/11, at 12 noon) I will be presenting my Dynamic Restructuring Model as an invited speaker for the weekly seminars organised by the Centre for Brain and…Read More >
See you in Sidney!
I’m travelling to Australia for a couple of invited talks next week! Specifically, on Monday the 5th of November I’ll be presenting my Dynamic Restructuring Model for bilingualism-induced…Read More >
New PhD students in our lab, farewell to an alumnus, and new opportunities to join our School!
A very warm welcome to our new PhD recruits! Najla Alrwaita will conduct a study on diglossia in Saudi Arabia, Michal Kořenář will be investigating bilingualism and creativity, whereas Jia’en Yee will be looking at…Read More >