Our lab is part of MultiMind, an EU-funded international multidisciplinary and multisectorial training network on multilingualism. MutliMind has now advertised 15 fully-funded 3-year PhDs across its beneficiary institutions, to commence in Autumn…Read More >
Our new MRI study on bilingualism and ageing is underway!
Only three days after we first advertised it, today we scanned our first participant for Toms Voits’ new study on bilingualism and its effects on the brain! If you are…Read More >
Participants needed for MRI study! Do you want a picture of your brain?
We are looking for participants for an MRI study! Are you or a friend/relative more than 50 years old? Interested in high-definition image of your/their brain? This is an opportunity…Read More >
New publication on stuttering in Human Brain Mapping
Connally, E., Ward, D., Pliatsikas, C., Finnegan, S., Boyles, R., Jenkinson, M. & Watkins, K. (2018): Separation of trait and state in stuttering. Human Brain Mapping, doi: 10.1002/hbm.24063 To access, click here Abstract Stuttering…Read More >
New book chapter on Critical Periods in Second Language Acquisition
DeLuca, V., Miller, D., Pliatsikas, C. and Rothman, J. (in press) Brain adaptations and neurological indices of processing in adult Second Language Acquisition: challenges for the Critical Period Hypothesis. To…Read More >
New students in our lab!
Our lab is growing! We have some new recruits: -Eleanor Luckock is a PhD student based in University of Reading Malaysia (first supervisors: Prof. Carmel Houston-Price and Dr Rachel Pye). Her…Read More >
Invited talk at St. Philomena’s Catholic High School for Girls
I was recently honoured by an invitation to talk at the St Philomena’s Catholic High School for Girls. At what turned out to be a really inspiring session, I had…Read More >
New book chapter on Multilingualism and Brain Plasticity
This book chapter summarises the available evidence on the effects of multilingualism on brain structure and functional connectivity. It has just been accepted and it will appear in Schwieter, J. (Ed.)…Read More >
Register now: Workshop on fMRI and language processing: State of the art and future directions. Places still available!
fMRI and language processing: State of the art and future directions Register for free here 13/12/2017 Palmer 1.09, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, Reading, UK, RG6 6AL The Centre for Literacy and…Read More >
Conferences, workshops, talks -busy week ahead for our lab! Come and say hi!
Next week we will all be engaged in various conferences, talks an events: -More specifically, I will be at the Conference on Multilingualism (COM2017) at Groningen, the Netherlands, presenting Vince Deluca’s PhD…Read More >