Bilingual Brain Lab

The X page of Prof. Christos Pliatsikas's Bilingualism in the Brain lab @ The University of Reading

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Speakers of Cornish are needed for a new study! details here: https://t.co/6GzjRJFwl0

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🟠 Could learning a new language help with ageing?

Multilingualist expert @Christos_lab speaks to @SophyRidgeSky and @WilfredFrost about bilingualism and brain health 🧠

https://t.co/8rkMfmuvOh

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Big news! https://t.co/Lokco9gkum

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The International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC) 2026 is now on X! Follow now for news and updates! https://t.co/ggtZQaHWJa

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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😉

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New paper: A protocol to study multilingual patients with progressive neurological diseases https://t.co/ir6ZpgYtFd. With @marco_calabria, @jdunabeitia & @markantoniou. Thanks to the @MARCSInstitute, @UniofReading , @UniRdg_CeLM , @UniRdg_CINN & @UniRdg_Psych for their support.

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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: https://t.co/ugpCxKjM6l

Romanian: https://t.co/gZMxpscpKE

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... and here for the Assistant Professor posts https://t.co/igZeyipwV4

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We are hiring! Looking to recruit one Professor and up to 3 Assistant Professors in Psychology/Neuroscience! Come work with us! See here for the Professor post: https://t.co/uWiuSHInLf… ...

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New paper on the effects of ageing on speech abilities and brain volume in bilinguals, in NeuroImage https://t.co/rOaxQj0EUB

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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!

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New paper: The Galician Multipic; also, the Ukrainian Multipic norms are now available! https://t.co/lG1U8wz6Zo

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Second CAS workshop on using diversity in multilingual experience as a model to study neural plasticity https://t.co/3pepCm5RHR

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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! https://t.co/kkQoqByUA1…
@UniRdg_CeLM

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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!

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I'm back to old Blighty (and to reality) soon. Thanks to my colleagues at Western Sydney, especially Mark Antoniou, for hosting me. Till next time!

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My month-long visit in Australia is coming to an end; what a month! Plenty of time to read, think and write, discussions with colleagues from Western Sydney, MacQuarie and Queensland Universities, new projects planned, the SNL conference, and even kangaroo hand-feeding!

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Preprint alert from our lab! Bilingualism modulates domain-general functional connectivity: insights from EEG and artificial grammar learning https://t.co/iD5neM2R4B. First paper out of @SheehanATS 'd PhD!

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@LekhnathPathak @FrontiersIn Thank you for your interest! Indeed, it is an underused method with great potential.

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New review paper on studying brain function in bilinguals with fNIRS, in @FrontiersIn Language Sciences-Bilingualism https://t.co/ZJZ25hWfRH