Please join me in congratulating newly minted Dr Toms Voits for having just defended his PhD viva. And did I say that no corrections were required? Congratulations Toms! Given the…Read More >
News
New pre-print: The effects of bilingualism on the structure of the hippocampus and on memory performance in ageing bilinguals
Voits, T., Robson, H., Rothman, J., & Pliatsikas, C. (2020). The effects of bilingualism on the structure of the hippocampus and on memory performance in ageing bilinguals. To access, click…Read More >
Online Conference on Multilingualism 2020- Register now for free!
The next Conference on Multilingualism 2020 (COM2020) will be hosted by the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) at the University of Reading (UK) from the 23rd to the 25th of…Read More >
Don’t miss this year’s public Fairbrother lecture on bilingualism, ageing and the brain, at the University of Reading!
Thrilled to announce that our own Toms Voits has been selected to deliver the University of Reading 2020 Fairbrother lecture! The Fairbrother Lecture is a prestigious annual event where a…Read More >
New pre-print: Bilingualism and brain development
Pliatsikas, C., Meteyard, L., Veríssimo, J., DeLuca, V., Shattuck, K., & Ullman, MT. (2020): The effect of bilingualism on brain development from early childhood to young adulthood To access….Read More >
New paper on methods for studying language acquisition in the brain, in System
Luk, G., Pliatsikas, C., & Rossi, E. (2020): Brain changes associated with language development and learning: A primer on methodology and applications. To appear in System To access, click here Abstract:…Read More >
Kick-starting 2020 with a few talks!
The new year has just started, and our lab is already busy with several talks this week! Specifically: -Christos will deliver a talk at the Ringvorlesung Multilingual Mind at the…Read More >
New pre-print: Bilingualism and neurodegenerative disorders beyond Alzheimer’s Disease
Voits, T., Pliatsikas, C., Robson, H, Rothman, J.(2019): Beyond Alzheimer’s Disease: Bilingualism and Other Types of Neurodegeneration To access, click here Abstract Bilingualism has been argued to have an impact…Read More >
New paper on bilingualism and Multiple Sclerosis, in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Aveledo, F., Higueras, Y., Marinis, T., Bose, A., Pliatsikas, C., Meldaña-Rivera, A., Martínez-Ginés, M. L., García-Domínguez, J., Lozano-Ros, A., Cuello, J. P. and Goicochea-Briceño, H. (2019) Multiple sclerosis and bilingualism: some initial findings. To appear in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. To access, click here…Read More >
Call for Papers: Conference on Multilingualism (COM) 2020 @ the Centre of Literacy and Multilingualism, University of Reading.
The next Conference on Multilingualism 2020 (COM2020) will be hosted by the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) at the University of Reading (UK) from the 23rd to the 25th of…Read More >