Christos Pliatsikas
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Associate Professor
- School Mentor for Early Career Researchers
- Department Director of Academic Tutoring
- Steering Committee and lead of Neuroscience Theme for Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM).
Areas of interest
My research is on experience-based neuroplasticity, with a primary focus on the effects of bi-/multilingualism on brain structure and function, investigated with behavioural and MRI (functional and structural) methods.
My research interests include:
- Are brain structure and function, and cognition, affected by learning additional languages?
- How are these effects modulated by the individual experiences of the language learner?
- How do these effects interact with typical brain development and ageing, and what are the implications for age- or disease- related neurodegeneration?
- Are there particular effects on the brain and/or cognition caused by language situations like diglossia, digraphia and biliteracy?
Teaching
- Modules: PL1LB, PL3RD, PLMRD, PLMRDN, PL2M2MM2
- Topics: Language in the Brain, Introductory Neurology for Speech and Language Therapy students, BSc and MSc research and dissertation projects.
Research centres and groups
- Bilingualism in the Brain lab (personal lab)
- Psycholinguistics & Neurolinguistics Lab
- Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM)
- Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN).
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading
- MSc in Clinical Neurosciences, Institute of Neurology, UCL, London
- BSc in Psychology, Pantion University, Athens, Greece.