First of all, we have a new doctor in the house! (Now Dr) Michal Korenar succesfully defended his thesis this week, and passed without corrections! Congratulations Dr Korenar! Michal will…Read More >

Very excited to receive a hard copy of our recent special issue on Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain, co edited with Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits for Linguistic Approaches…Read More >

Join me in congratualting (now Dr.!) Najla Alrwaita for succesfully defending her PhD thesis last week! Najla’s thesis was on the effects of diglossia on executive functions. Special rhanks to…Read More >

Our lab participates in this year’s ISB conference with seven presentations! Come visit us at the times below (all UK times): -11/07, 14.15: Christos Pliatsikas, Vincent DeLuca, Sergio Pereira Soares, Toms Voits and Jason Rothman:…Read More >

Alrwaita, N., Meteyard, L., Houston-price, C., & Pliatsikas, C. (2021): Is there an effect of diglossia on cognition? An investigation of the relationship between diglossia and Executive Functions in young…Read More >

Don’t miss this talk about bilingualism and brain structure by our lab member Jia’en Yee on the 25th of May at 4 pm (UK time)! To attend this lecture, and…Read More >

Pliatsikas, C., Pereira-Soares, S.M., Voits, T., Deluca, V., & Rothman, J. (2021): Bilingualism is a long-term cognitively challenging experience that modulates metabolite concentrations in the healthy brain. Scientific Reports, 11, 7090….Read More >

Our own Michal has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Masaryk award, part of the Fulbright Scholarships program, to spend six months as a visiting scholar at Roger Beaty’s Cognitive Neuroscience of…Read More >

Alrwaita, N., Houston-Price, C., & Pliatsikas, C (2020): The effects of using two variants of one language on cognition: Evidence from bidialectalism and diglossia. To access, click here Abstract: The…Read More >

Last week our own Michal gave a talk on bilingualism and creativity, which was part of the Multilingual Mind lecture series. In this talk he presented some preliminary results from…Read More >