Christos Pliatsikas

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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

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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 😉

The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) at the University of Reading, UK, is delighted to announce that the 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2026) will be held from June 18th-19th, 2026 at the University of Reading, UK isbpac.info

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...

New paper: A protocol to study multilingual patients with progressive neurological diseases research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...

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…

🧠 📚 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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Literacy acquisition in Arabic diglossia: Psycholinguistic findings and educational implications. - Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism

Our seminar this week (Thursday 1pm UK time) is a talk by Prof Elinor Saiegh-Haddad on "Literacy acquisition in Arabic diglossia: Psycholinguistic findings and educational implications". All welcome to attend online - you can register here: research.reading.ac.uk/celm/literac...

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...

Lectureships in Psychology:Whiteknights Reading UK

... and here for the Assistant Professor posts jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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...

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!

Very big shoes to fill! Thanks a lot!

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...

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

Cognitive Neuroscience of Individual Differences in Adult Language Learning: Future Directions | University of Illinois Chicago University of Illinois ...

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!

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...

Join us #psynom24 for our affiliate meeting!Amazing speakers including @tvoits.bsky.social , Mira Goral and Ester Navarro.

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!

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...

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...

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!

Great initiative by @dtitone.bsky.social !

absolutely!

i was planning to do the same! thanks Debra!

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...