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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >