Bilingual Brain Lab
@Christos_lab
The X page of Christos Pliatsikas's Bilingualism in the Brain lab @ The University of Reading
The International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC) 2026 is now on X! Follow now for news and updates! x.com/isbpac_conf
On my way to San Sebastian to attend the International Symposium on Bilingualism #ISB15! I look forward to a week of inspiration, and to reuniting with (many!) good friends and colleagues! Don't forget to attend our symposium on bilingualism and the brain,Monday at 11.35,Room 9😉
New paper: A protocol to study multilingual patients with progressive neurological diseases research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/n…. With @marco_calabria, @jdunabeitia & @markantoniou. Thanks to the @MARCSInstitute, @UniofReading , @UniRdg_CeLM , @UniRdg_CINN & @UniRdg_Psych for their support.
Native speakers of Albanian and Romanian are sought for online naming experiment- and they will receive a £10 Amazon voucher for their participation! See links below for details and signup form: Albanian: research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/m… Romanian: research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/m…
New paper on the effects of ageing on speech abilities and brain volume in bilinguals, in NeuroImage research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/n…
I'm thrilled and honoured to have been appointed the new director of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism @UniRdg_CeLM,one of the interdisciplinary reseach centres at the @UniofReading, starting in August 2025! I look forward to new exciting projects, events and synergies!
New paper: The Galician Multipic; also, the Ukrainian Multipic norms are now available! research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/n…
Second CAS workshop on using diversity in multilingual experience as a model to study neural plasticity research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/s…
Very excited to have been awarded a @BritishAcademy_ Academy Research Project which will allow for the norming of our Multipic picture dataset in eight under-resourced/ minority languages! research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/g…… @UniRdg_CeLM
Join me in congratulating newly minted Dr Alex Sheehan, who just defended his thesis and passed with (very) minor corrections! Alex’s thesis was co-supervised by Prof. Doug Saddy, and examined by Prof. Ludovica Serratrice and Prof. Judy Kroll. Congrats Dr Alex @SheehanATS!
Preprint alert from our lab! Bilingualism modulates domain-general functional connectivity: insights from EEG and artificial grammar learning doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…. First paper out of @SheehanATS 'd PhD!
New review paper on studying brain function in bilinguals with fNIRS, in @FrontiersIn Language Sciences-Bilingualism research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/n…
Our poster at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting in Brisbane research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/o…
Kickstarting a new international project looking at multilingual experiences and how they affect cognition and the brain research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/k…
