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Brain and Language Lab
@brainlanglab.bsky.social
Cracking the brain functional/structural bases of auditory encoding, speech, language(-learning) and its dysfunction.
📰 new paper! lnkd.in/dYdrvZAz, by @irenebalboni.bsky.social , Alessandra Rampinini, @olgakepinska.bsky.social, @berthele.bsky.social, @nargolestani.bsky.social, @nccrlanguage.bsky.social showing the importance of multimodal approaches for uncovering brain-behaviour relationships
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September 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
@nargolestani.bsky.social and @vborghesani.bsky.social co-chaired the symposium on ‘The bi-literate brain: behavioural, neural, and genetic insights into recent evolutionary adaptations’ at #ISB15 in Donostia-San Sebastián last week, supported by @nccrlanguage.bsky.social.
June 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Are you designing your syllabus? Preparing a teaching statement for the job market? Or do you want to discuss what is missing in teaching materials and manuals?
Join @irenebalboni.bsky.social and @vborghesani.bsky.social to talk about teaching Neurobiology of language👇
🧠What should a neurobiology of language course look like?

Next week (May 27, 18:00 CEST), I’ll co-host with @vborghesani.bsky.social a virtual SNL session on content, tools and strategies for teaching an up-to-date course in 2025.

Join us to share ideas!
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May 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Reposted by Brain and Language Lab
Polyglot brains: A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.
Polyglot brains
A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.
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April 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Version of Record of our work out now in @elife.bsky.social. Please check it out!
Delighted to have the Version of Record of our work published by @elife.bsky.social. Please take a look at how we answered the question of whether the auditory cortex accommodates multilingual phonological experience (spoiler: it does, and very interestingly so!) 🗣️👂🧠
🚨Our paper with @brainlanglab.bsky.social on how multilingual phonology shapes the auditory cortex is out in @elife.bsky.social : elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 🚨 Loved the process and looking forward to tackling the reviews out in the open!
March 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Check out @irenebalboni.bsky.social’s talk at this month’s CO-AIR webinar on Dyslexia in Bilinguals! 🧠📖 A great discussion with insightful questions that sparked even more excitement for this research.
📺 Watch here: coairwebinar.wordpress.com/past-events/
📄 Read the preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
I had the pleasure of speaking at this month's CO-AIR webinar, where we discussed our review on Dyslexia in Bilinguals.
It was a fun talk with great questions afterwards!

A big thank you to everyone who attended and if you missed it, you can watch the recording👇

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February 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Check out our new preprint! "Multilingualism and Working Memory: The Role of Formal vs. Informal Language Learning" by A. Mohammed, A. Rampinini, @irenebalboni.bsky.social , R. Berthele, @nargolestani.bsky.social and @olgakepinska.bsky.social ! osf.io/preprints/os...
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February 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
2 positions (1 PhD & 1 postdoc) at University of Vienna on (neural bases of) singing-based intervention 🎤🎵 in Alzheimer's Disease 🧠, supervised by Anja-Xiaoxing Cui & Narly Golestani. Start date: June 1st, application deadline: Feb 28th. More info: tinyurl.com/mw3bpzky. Please circulate!
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January 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Our post doc Alessandra Rampinini was invited to speak at the Neurolinguistics in Sweden seminar event last week in Lund #NLSseries @lunduniversity.bsky.social If you missed her talk you can watch a recording here :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIq-...
A. Rampinini Leveraging Open Data in Neurolinguistics: Challenges in the Age of Reproducible Science
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January 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Today marks a milestone for our #NCCRevolvingLanguage work! Our #openscience language dataset by Alessandra Rampinini, @irenebalboni.bsky.social , @olgakepinska.bsky.social , Raphael Berthele and @nargolestani.bsky.social is out in #SpringerNature #ScientificData 🧠 😍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Thrilled to share our new preprint! 🎉
"Dyslexia in Bilinguals: A PRISMA Systematic Review", led by @irenebalboni.bsky.social , explores challenges and deficits in bilingual dyslexic readers and tasks for effective diagnosis.

Check it out 👉https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jzpx5
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December 20, 2024 at 4:22 PM
annual lab retreat in Vienna last week, it was such a pleasure to (almost) all be in one place for a change!
December 18, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Very excited to share our paper 📃 on bilingualism, episodic memory and brain anatomy 🧠, in which we offer a novel, mechanistic explanation accounting for differences observed behaviourally and in the brain across the domains of memory and of executive control: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 25, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Registration is now open for the virtual TEAM Conference on Language Acquisition and Multilingualism on 16 Jan, 2025! www.team-up.lu.se/team-confere...
Speakers include Ifigeneia Dosi, @nargolestani.bsky.social Peter MacIntyre, Christina Gagne, Tom Spalding, and @lauragwilliams.bsky.social
TEAM Conference 2025
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November 22, 2024 at 8:50 AM
The first paper with data from our WP Aptitude is out!
▫️34 linguistic, cognitive, domain-specific variables
▫️Relationship explored using Exploratory graph analysis
Not exactly a short read but we hope you'll enjoy it!
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

@nccrlanguage.bsky.social
July 10, 2024 at 8:03 AM
We spend two great days together with the Geneva chapter of the lab! A lot of amazing and exciting projects in the making 🎉
November 24, 2023 at 10:53 AM
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A new ENIGMA working group will be focusing on the neurobiology of language via brains and genes.
Chairs: Pliatsikas (CINN/UoR), Golestani (Geneva), DeLuca (Tromsø), Ullman (Georgetown), Fisher (MPI).
For more Information, including on how to contribute: enigma.ini.usc.edu/ongoing/enig...
October 26, 2023 at 12:30 PM
Congratulations to @olgakepinska.bsky.social for her beautiful work on auditory cortex anatomy and multilingualism, now out in @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...! We are looking forward to improving the paper in the constructive open sphere of science!
🚨Our paper with @brainlanglab.bsky.social on how multilingual phonology shapes the auditory cortex is out in @elife.bsky.social : elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 🚨 Loved the process and looking forward to tackling the reviews out in the open!
Auditory cortex anatomy reflects multilingual phonological experience
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October 22, 2023 at 1:50 PM
Hello Bluesky community! We've recently joined, and are eager for fun, fruitful and informative interactions with you!
October 22, 2023 at 1:44 PM