{"id":1252,"date":"2018-03-14T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T11:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christoslab.wordpress.com\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2021-12-14T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T13:09:17","slug":"new-students-in-our-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/christos-lab\/new-students-in-our-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"New students in our lab!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our lab is growing! We have some new recruits:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christoslab.wordpress.com\/eleanor-luckock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">-Eleanor Luckock<\/a>\u00a0is a PhD student based in University of Reading Malaysia (first supervisors: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/c-houston~price.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof. Carmel Houston-Price<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/psychology\/about\/staff\/r-e-pye.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Rachel Pye<\/a>). Her PhD topic is\u00a0<em>How does multilingual language experience influence vocabulary acquisition in an additional unfamiliar language? <\/em>Her work in our lab will involve designing a new ERP experiment for her thesis.<\/p>\n<p>-Varun Arunachalam Chandran is a PhD student that recently joined us (first supervisor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhismalab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof. Bhismadev Chakrabarti<\/a>). Varun will look at the effects of autism on the structure of the brain by using methods targeting both the grey and the white matter.<\/p>\n<p>-Holly Davies is an MSc student in our Speech and Language Therapy programme. In collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marjon.ac.uk\/about-marjon\/staff-list-and-profiles\/oh-tomasina.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Tomasina Oh<\/a>\u00a0(Plymouth Marjon University), Holly will be looking at the effects of multilingualism on brain structure, comparing monolingual to bilingual and multilingual participants.<\/p>\n<p>-James Philip is an MSc student in our Language Sciences programme. In collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~weimerw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Wesley Weimer<\/a> (University of Michigan) will be looking at structural effects in the brain of experienced computer programmers.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, exciting times ahead! As always,\u00a0if you are interested in joining our lab, including applying for a PhD, feel free to email at c.pliatsikas[at]reading.ac.uk, \u00a0or use the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/christoslab.wordpress.com\/contact_form\/\">contact form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lab is growing! We have some new recruits: -Eleanor Luckock\u00a0is a PhD student based in University of Reading Malaysia (first supervisors: Prof. Carmel Houston-Price and Dr Rachel Pye). 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