{"id":1050,"date":"2017-10-05T06:38:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christoslab.wordpress.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2021-12-14T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T13:09:52","slug":"new-phd-student-in-our-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/new-phd-student-in-our-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"New PhD student in our lab!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A warm welcome to Toms Voits, the new addition to our lab! Toms will conduct a series of longitudinal studies investigating the effects of bilingualism on cognition and brain structure and function in patients with dementia and in healthy older adults! This exciting project is funded by a University of Reading Anniversary Studentship, and will be co-supervised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/psychology\/about\/staff\/h-v-robson.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holly Robson<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/Psychology\/About\/staff\/j-rothman.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Rothman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-768\" src=\"https:\/\/christoslab.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o.jpg\" alt=\"18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o\" width=\"1184\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2017\/05\/18427010_10104839536182639_471552017_o-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1184px) 100vw, 1184px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is a photo of our lab, with a very special guest! 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