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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · 21d

📰 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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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Jun 18

We are very grateful to our speakers, @berthele.bsky.social, @irenebalboni.bsky.social, @zhanminye.bsky.social, Sara Mascheretti and Tecumseh Fitch, who gave insightful and stimulating talks on bilingualism and literacy through complementary behavioral, neural, genetic, and comparative lenses.

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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Jun 18

@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.

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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Jun 18

Congratulations, Christos!!

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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · May 20

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👇

Irene Balboni @irenebalboni.bsky.social · May 20

🧠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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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Apr 11

thank you!

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Apr 10

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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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Mar 28

Version of Record of our work out now in @elife.bsky.social. Please check it out!

Olga Kepinska @olgakepinska.bsky.social · Mar 28

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!) 🗣️👂🧠

Olga Kepinska @olgakepinska.bsky.social · Oct 19

🚨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!

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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Feb 25

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...

Irene Balboni @irenebalboni.bsky.social · Feb 25

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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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Feb 12

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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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Jan 28

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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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Jan 24

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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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Jan 7

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...

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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Dec 20

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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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Dec 18

annual lab retreat in Vienna last week, it was such a pleasure to (almost) all be in one place for a change!

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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Nov 25

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...

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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Nov 22

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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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Jul 10

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...

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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Nov 24

We spend two great days together with the Geneva chapter of the lab! A lot of amazing and exciting projects in the making 🎉

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Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social · Oct 26

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...

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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Oct 22

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!

Olga Kepinska @olgakepinska.bsky.social · Oct 19

🚨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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Brain and Language Lab @brainlanglab.bsky.social · Oct 22

Hello Bluesky community! We've recently joined, and are eager for fun, fruitful and informative interactions with you!

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