Christos Pliatsikas
@christoslab.bsky.social
The Bluesky page of Prof. Christos Pliatsikas's Bilingualism in the Brain lab @ The University of Reading. research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/
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The first volume to bring together state-of-the-art studies on language development in Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Welsh.
The Acquisition of Celtic Languages eds. Vicky Chondrogianni, Ciara O'Toole, &Enlli Thomas, Out Now
#Linguistics #CelticLanguages #LangSky
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The Acquisition of Celtic Languages eds. Vicky Chondrogianni, Ciara O'Toole, &Enlli Thomas, Out Now
#Linguistics #CelticLanguages #LangSky
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July 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The first volume to bring together state-of-the-art studies on language development in Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Welsh.
The Acquisition of Celtic Languages eds. Vicky Chondrogianni, Ciara O'Toole, &Enlli Thomas, Out Now
#Linguistics #CelticLanguages #LangSky
cup.org/4nK7RAS
The Acquisition of Celtic Languages eds. Vicky Chondrogianni, Ciara O'Toole, &Enlli Thomas, Out Now
#Linguistics #CelticLanguages #LangSky
cup.org/4nK7RAS
Big news! research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
Big news! - Bilingualism in The Brain
I can share the news that, with effect from August the 1st, I have been promoted to full Professor at the University of Reading School of Psychology and Clinical Language...Read More >
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June 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Big news! research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
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! While we're at it, don't forget to attend our symposium on bilingualism and the brain,Monday at 11.35, Room 9 😉
June 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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! While we're at it, 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...
New paper: A protocol to study multilingual patients with progressive neurological diseases - Bilingualism in The Brain
Pliatsikas, C., Antoniou, M., Duñabeitia, J. A., & Calabria, M. (2025). A comprehensive protocol to study the effects of multilingualism on cognition and the brain in patients with progressive neurolo...
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May 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New paper: A protocol to study multilingual patients with progressive neurological diseases research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
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🧠 📚 Looking for a hashtag #protocol to assess the effects of #multilingualism on #cognition and the #brain in #neurological diseases? Check out our paper with a wonderful team of experts @christoslab.bsky.social Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Mark Antoniou! 👏 👏
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A comprehensive protocol to study the effects of multilingualism on cognition and the brain in patients with progressive neurological diseases
Multilingualism, the cognitively demanding experience of speaking multiple languages, has been linked to measurable effects on cognition and brain str…
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April 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🧠 📚 Looking for a hashtag #protocol to assess the effects of #multilingualism on #cognition and the #brain in #neurological diseases? Check out our paper with a wonderful team of experts @christoslab.bsky.social Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Mark Antoniou! 👏 👏
➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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: research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
Romanian: research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
Albanian: research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
Romanian: research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
Multipic information sheet- Albanian - Bilingualism in The Brain
Titulli i studimit: Baza e të dhënave të figurave shumëgjuhëshe (Multipic) FLETË INFORMATIVE PËR PJESËMARRËSIN Do të ishim mirënjohës nëse mund të na ndihmonit duke marrë pjesë në studimin tonë...Read...
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March 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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...
Romanian: research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
Albanian: research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
Romanian: research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
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: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... ...
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Find out the specifics of this job, what it does, and whether it's a fit for you.
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March 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... ...
New paper on the effects of ageing on speech abilities and brain volume in bilinguals, in NeuroImage research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
New paper on the effects of ageing on speech abilities and brain volume in bilinguals, in NeuroImage - Bilingualism in The Brain
Yu, H., Kang, K., Pliatsikas, C., Zhou, Y., & Zhang, H. (2025): Age-related differences in speech and gray matter volume: The modulating role of multilingualism. NeuroImage, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage....
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March 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
New paper on the effects of ageing on speech abilities and brain volume in bilinguals, in NeuroImage research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
I'm thrilled and honoured to have been appointed the new director of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism @celm-uor.bsky.social,one of the interdisciplinary reseach centres at the University of Reading, starting in August 2025! I look forward to new exciting projects, events and synergies!
March 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I'm thrilled and honoured to have been appointed the new director of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism @celm-uor.bsky.social,one of the interdisciplinary reseach centres at the University of Reading, 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...
New paper: The Galician Multipic; also, the Ukrainian Multipic norms are now available! - Bilingualism in The Brain
Álvarez de la Granja, M., Parafita Couto, MC., Sá-Leite., AR, Fraga, I., Duñabeitia, JA., Pliatsikas, C., Comesaña, M. (2025): The Galician MultiPic: a picture database that captures lexical variation...
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March 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New paper: The Galician Multipic; also, the Ukrainian Multipic norms are now available! research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
Second CAS workshop on using diversity in multilingual experience as a model to study neural plasticity research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
March 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Second CAS workshop on using diversity in multilingual experience as a model to study neural plasticity research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
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... @celm-uor.bsky.social
Grant success! - Bilingualism in The Brain
I am honoured to have received funding by the British Academy for an Academy Research Project which will allow us to expand Multipic to include naming norms in 8 under-resourced languages...Read More ...
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February 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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... @celm-uor.bsky.social
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Looking forward to this meeting on #language learning/individual differences in Chicago.. Thanks to @morganshort.bsky.social & Janet van Hell for organizing. Great speakers including @draehernandez.bsky.social, @christoslab.bsky.social, and many others. Wow..
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Individual Differences in Adult Language Learning: Future Directions | University of Illinois Chicago
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February 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Looking forward to this meeting on #language learning/individual differences in Chicago.. Thanks to @morganshort.bsky.social & Janet van Hell for organizing. Great speakers including @draehernandez.bsky.social, @christoslab.bsky.social, and many others. Wow..
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Really cool!
1) I'd like to draw attention to, what I think, is a really cool finding! Recently I ran a meta-analysis looking at how #bilingualism affects the white matter of the brain. We found that bilingualism is selectively associated with higher fractional anisitropy in ...
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December 8, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Really cool!
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!
December 2, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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!
Our Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism is on Bluesky! Follow us! bsky.app/profile/celm...
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November 29, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Our Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism is on Bluesky! Follow us! bsky.app/profile/celm...
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Join us #psynom24 for our affiliate meeting!Amazing speakers including @tvoits.bsky.social , Mira Goral and Ester Navarro.
November 20, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Join us #psynom24 for our affiliate meeting!Amazing speakers including @tvoits.bsky.social , Mira Goral and Ester Navarro.
My month-long visit in Australia is coming to an end; and what a month that was! Plenty of time to read, think and write, interesting discussions with colleagues from Western Sydney, MacQuarie and Queensland Universities, new projects planned, the SNL conference, and even kangaroo hand-feeding!
November 20, 2024 at 5:57 AM
My month-long visit in Australia is coming to an end; and what a month that was! Plenty of time to read, think and write, interesting discussions with colleagues from Western Sydney, MacQuarie and Queensland Universities, new projects planned, the SNL conference, and even kangaroo hand-feeding!
Preprint alert from our lab! Bilingualism modulates domain-general functional connectivity: insights from EEG and artificial grammar learning doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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November 16, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Preprint alert from our lab! Bilingualism modulates domain-general functional connectivity: insights from EEG and artificial grammar learning doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Doing #bilingualism or #multilingualism research and wondering which lang background measure to use?
We examined if #language solidarity biased self-evaluation accuracy. doi.org/nrvz
Bottom line: %use self-evals were less biased than value-laden (how good am I?) self-evals.
%use wins, to us!
We examined if #language solidarity biased self-evaluation accuracy. doi.org/nrvz
Bottom line: %use self-evals were less biased than value-laden (how good am I?) self-evals.
%use wins, to us!
Self-evaluations and the language of the beholder: objective performance and language solidarity predict L2 and L1 self-evaluations in bilingual adults - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implication...
People are often asked to self-evaluate their abilities, and these evaluations may not always reflect objective reality. Here, we investigated this issue for bilingual adults’ self-evaluations of lang...
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November 13, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Doing #bilingualism or #multilingualism research and wondering which lang background measure to use?
We examined if #language solidarity biased self-evaluation accuracy. doi.org/nrvz
Bottom line: %use self-evals were less biased than value-laden (how good am I?) self-evals.
%use wins, to us!
We examined if #language solidarity biased self-evaluation accuracy. doi.org/nrvz
Bottom line: %use self-evals were less biased than value-laden (how good am I?) self-evals.
%use wins, to us!
Great initiative by @dtitone.bsky.social !
A bilingualism/multilingualusm starter pack!
Reach out if you’d like me to add or remove you.
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Reach out if you’d like me to add or remove you.
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November 13, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Great initiative by @dtitone.bsky.social !
New review paper on studying brain function in bilinguals with fNIRS, in Frontiers in Language Sciences-Bilingualism research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
November 5, 2024 at 3:27 AM
New review paper on studying brain function in bilinguals with fNIRS, in Frontiers in Language Sciences-Bilingualism research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
Our poster at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting in Brisbane research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...
November 4, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Our poster at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting in Brisbane research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...