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 >
Proudly presenting… Dr Vince DeLuca!
We are thrilled to announce that our own Vince DeLuca successfully passed his viva examination yesterday! He is now the first alumnus of our lab, having finished his PhD in…Read More >
Our lab at the CoNSALL conference
Earlier this week our lab featured in the CoNSALL conference with two talks and two poster presentations. Pliatsikas: Understanding structural plasticity in the multilingual brain: The Dynamic Restructuring Model DeLuca…Read More >
Two new publications on morphological processing, in Cortex
Both papers to appear in the forthcoming Special Issue on Structure in words: the present and future of morphological processing in a multidisciplinary perspective Leminen, A., Smolka, E., Duñabeitia, JA. &…Read More >
Farewell to Quebec after a successful SNL meeting!
Our lab has had a very productive time and a strong presence at this year’s Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting that was held in the beautiful Quebec City….Read More >
New publication on the longitudinal effects of bilingualism on brain structure, in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., & Pliatsikas, C. (2018): Linguistic immersion and structural effects on the bilingual brain: a longitudinal study. To appear in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition To access, click…Read More >
Our lab’s YouTube interview with Bilingualism Matters@Reading
Our lab was recently interviewed by Bilingualism Matters@Reading. Toms, Vince and I had the opportunity to talk about our work and our findings, and also provide a small demonstration of…Read More >
New publication on working memory in older age, in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Pliatsikas, C., Veríssimo, J., Babcock, L., Pullman, M.Y., Dana G.A., Weinstein, M., Goldman, N., & Ullman, M.T. (2018): Working memory in older adults declines with age, but is modulated by sex…Read More >
Our lab at the SNL 2018 conference
We are very happy to have been informed that our lab will be represented with four presentations at the upcoming Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference! These are (click…Read More >
Invited talk by Dina Mehmedbegovic
Today our lab hosted Dr Dina Mehmedbegovic from Institute of Education (UCL). Dr Mehmedbegovic discussed the processes that lead to “language hierarchies” in education- for example, why in countries like the United…Read More >