Dr. Christos Pliatsikas: Understanding structural plasticity in the multilingual brain

This video features Dr. Christos Pliatsikas’s talk, "Understanding structural plasticity in the multilingual brain: The dynamic restructuring model" presented at the LSLARF Symposium (2019).

Selected references:
DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., & Bialystok, E., & Pliatsikas, C. (2019): Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affect brain structure and function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (15) 7565-7574. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1811513116

Pliatsikas, C. (2020): Understanding structural plasticity in the bilingual brain: The Dynamic Restructuring Model. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23 (2) 459-471. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728919000130

Pliatsikas, C., DeLuca, V. & Voits, T. (2020): The many shades of bilingualism: language experiences modulate adaptations in brain structure. Language Learning, 70(S2), 133–149. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12386

Pliatsikas, C., Meteyard, L., Veríssimo, J., DeLuca, V., Shattuck, K., & Ullman, MT. (2020): The effect of bilingualism on brain development from early childhood to young adulthood. Brain Structure and Function, 225, 2131–2152. DOI: 10.1007/s00429-020-02115-5

Voits, T., Robson, H., Rothman, J., & Pliatsikas, C. (2022). The effects of bilingualism on hippocampal volume in ageing bilinguals. Brain Structure and Function, 227, 979–994. DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02436-z

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Funded by ESRC Japan-UK Connection Grant (ES/S013024/1), our team organized a series of international and interdisciplinary symposia in Japan and UK featuring a range of world-renowned scholars from education, linguistics, and neuroscience. Please visit the channel description to learn more about our intellectual commitments and our team.

UK TEAM
PI Kazuya Saito (UCL, Education)
CI Adam Tierney (Birkbeck, University of London, Neuroscience)
CI Andrea Revesz (UCL, Education)

JP TEAM
CI Motoaki Sugiura (Tohoku University, Neuroscience)
CI Hyeonjeong Jeong (Tohoku University, Neuroscience)
CI Yuichi Suzuki (Kanagawa University, Education)

Research Assistant/Special Support Member
Masaru Yamamoto (University of British Columbia, Education)