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Kickstarting a new international project looking at multilingual experiences and how they affect cognition and the brain

Written by
Christos Pliatsikas
Posted on
24th October 202424th October 2024

Last week saw the beginning of our new project titled “Using diversity in multilingual experience as a model to study neural plasticity”. The project is funded by the Norwegian Centre…Read More >

Looking forward to my reseach visit to Australia!

Written by
Christos Pliatsikas
Posted on
26th September 2024

Just a month left until my month-long visit to The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University as an International Visiting Fellow! During that time I…Read More >

New review paper on subcortical adaptations caused by bilingualism, in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Written by
Christos Pliatsikas
Posted on
15th August 2024

Yee, J., Kořenář, M., Sheehan, A. & Pliatsikas, C. (2024): Subcortical malleability as a result of cognitively challenging experiences: the case of bi-/multilingualism. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 59, 101438….Read More >

Our lab at the International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC)

Written by
Christos Pliatsikas
Posted on
6th June 2024

A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to talk about our work at the ISBPAC conference, that was held at Swansea University, UK. We received plenty of useful…Read More >

See you next week at the International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC)!

Written by
Christos Pliatsikas
Posted on
16th May 2024

Our lab will be present at the next ISBPAC, which takes place in Swansea, Wales, with three presentations, all taking place on Friday the 24th of May: 9:00-10:00: Plenary talk-Christos…Read More >

The Multipic dataset is growing with naming norms in its 33rd language!

Written by
Christos Pliatsikas
Posted on
21st February 2024

We are thrilled to announce that Multipic has been normed in its 33rd language, Cantonese! The new norms have been published as part of the following paper, which you can…Read More >

New paper on subcortical brain adaptations in multilinguals, in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

Written by
Christos Pliatsikas
Posted on
11th December 2023

Yee, J., Yap, NT., Kořenář, M., Saddy, D., & Pliatsikas, C. (2023): Subcortical restructuring as a function of multilingualism: Insights from monolinguals, bilinguals, trilinguals and quadrilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition…Read More >

PhD Studentships in Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Reading

Written by
Christos Pliatsikas
Posted on
17th November 2023

The School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading is inviting applicants for PhD studentships in Psychology and Language Sciences. Language research in the school covers psycholinguistics…Read More >

Introducing the Language Working Group of the ENIGMA international consortium

Written by
Christos Pliatsikas
Posted on
2nd November 202310th November 2023

ENIGMA-Language (ENIGMA-LANG) is a new working group aiming to focus on the neurobiology of language, one of the most fundamental traits of our species, in order to investigate associations between brain…Read More >

New paper on structural adaptations in the brain of interpreters and translators, in Ampersand

Written by
Christos Pliatsikas
Posted on
25th September 202325th September 2023

Kořenář, M., Treffers-Daller, J., & Pliatsikas, C. (2023): Brain structure adapts dynamically to highly demanding bilingual experiences: insights from interpreters and translators. Ampersand. DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2023.100148 To access, click here Abstract…Read More >

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