Guest speaker: Christos Pliatsikas (University of Reading, 10.12.2025)

Talk title: Bilingualism and neuroplasticity - what next? Abstract Bilingualism has been decisively shown to have a significant influence on cognition, brain structure, and function. Importantly, these effects appear to be determined by the contexts bilinguals find themselves in, and the opportunities they have to use, and control between, their languages. These observations have shifted the field towards abandoning categorical definitions of bilingualism and treating bilingualism as a continuous, cognitively challenging experience, and have led to the emergence of several influential models. This has also raised an important question- how do we follow up on this work? Do we need to explore different domains, different types of experience, different behavioural and neuroimaging methodologies, all of the above? In this talk I will present recent, ongoing and planned work from my lab, and I will open the floor to a discussion on where the field needs to go next.