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: Bilingualism modulates metabolite concentrations in the healthy brain
Part of the thematic session TS24: Synergies & confrontations: socio- and psycholinguistic, cognitive and neuroscientific approaches to bilingualism
-11/07, 14.15: Najla Alrwaita, Lotte Meteyard, Carmel Houston-Price and Christos Pliatsikas: Is there an effect of diglossia on cognition? An investigation of the relationship between diglossia and executive functions in young adults
Part of the open session OS10: Psycholinguistics: the cognitive aspects of bilingualism (III)
-12/07, 8:00: Michal Korenar, Jeanine Treffers-Daller and Christos Pliatsikas: Bilingualism and creativity: The effects of bilingual experiences of interpreters and translators on creative thinking
Part of the open session OS12: Translation/ Interpretation / Mediation
-13/07, 08:00: Jia’en Yee, Ngee Thai Yap, Douglas Saddy, Christos Pliatsikas: Subcortical restructuring with increasing language experience: insights from bilinguals and trilinguals
Part of the open session OS18: Bilingualism and the brain
-13/07, 15.30: Nan Xu Rattanasone, Jae-Hyun Kim, Christos Pliatsikas: English vocabulary predicts the acquisition of grammatical inflections in Mandarin-speaking preschoolers
Part of the open session OS21: Early second language acquisition & learning (I)
-14/07, 9:45: Michal Korenar, Jeanine Treffers-Daller and Christos Pliatsikas: Subcortical adaptations in interpreters and translators compared to multilingual controls, and their relationship to multilingual experiences
Part of the thematic session TS25: The intersection between interpreting and the language hierarchy
-14/07, 13:00: Toms Voits, Jason Rothman, Holly Robson, Marco Calabria, Lidón Marín Marín, Victor Costumero, Naiara Aguirre, Christos Pliatsikas: Bilingualism-related neural adaptations in Mild Cognitive Impairment patients are modulated by language experiences
Part of the open session OS17: Cognitive and language impairments in bilingual speakers
More details about the conference can be found here: https://isb13.wls.uw.edu.pl/
If you wish to register to ISB, please write to isb13@nobell.pl for further instructions.