Psycho-/Neurolinguistics in Ljubljana/Psiho-Nevrolingvistika v Ljubljani

Another amazing week at the Spring School in Novi Sad!
If you have not participated yet, make sure you do so next year!

Almost against all odds...and before the world falls completely apart, Spyridoula Varlokosta and Michaela Nerantzini are coming to Ljubljana for two hot talks!

All welcome!

A very exciting workshop is taking place next week!
Check it out!

This is not psycholinguistics, nor neurolinguistics—but don’t worry, there will be linguistics! Add a dash of poetry, a touch of music, and you’ve got an evening all about celebrating the Greek language!

Tuesday, Feb. 10th, 18:00, Arnež Hall, Diocesan classical Gymnasium, St. Stanislav Institute.

Join us!

Dear friends,

Another successful psycho-year is coming to an end. As we're recapping, some moments to remember and some new achievements to celebrate! An open-access monograph that has set a new downloading record for the publisher, two new papers in the last month, and Lea's prestigious Prešeren award!

Happy holidays to all, stay tuned for more psycho-neuro action in 2026!

For the past 6 months, we were very lucky to host Prof. Phaedra Royle from the University of Montreal (Canada), who chose to spend her sabbatical year at the University of Ljubljana and our lab.
Among other research activities, Phaedra gave a series of lectures on neuroimaging and the processing of morphology.
Merci Phaedra, c'était un plaisir de t'accueillir!

📄Objava v časopisu The Guardian
Izr. prof. dr. Christina Manouilidou z Oddelka za primerjalno in splošno jezikoslovje FF UL sodeluje v skupini Psiho-/Nevrolingvistika v Ljubljani, ki preučuje procesiranje jezika pri otrocih, odraslih in posameznikih z možgansko poškodbo ter povezuje jezik z vedenjem.
Slovenski podatki o tabu besedah so zdaj del mednarodne zbirke iz 13 jezikov in 17 držav. Rezultati, objavljeni v Sulpizio et al. (2024), so bili omenjeni tudi v časopisu The Guardian. 👇

Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the world Once swearwords were dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, now researchers argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked

We're in the Guardian!
Some years ago, we were asked by an international group of researchers to contribute Slovenian data on taboo words. Cool, right? Our Slovenian data, together with data from 12 other languages (spoken in 17 countries), were published in a nice paper...which was spotted by the Guardian, and here you have a post about it:

Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the world Once dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, researchers now argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked

Our project NEDIS was at the Science of Aphasia last week in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 🇩🇰, and the Workshop on Assessing Morphological Complexity in Language Disorders, taking place right after.

👉 Karin Kavčič and Christina Manouilidou presented data from 5 participants, all children with dyslexia, who received ventral tDCS stimulation and behavioral training.

👉 Reading fluency improved in all participants, which is consistent with ventral stimulation.
👉 Phonological awareness also improved, suggesting an effect of behavioral training as well.
🔎Stay put, as we will be applying dorsal stimulation to our current group of participants to better understand the effects of stimulation.
And of course, contact us, if you are interested in more or want to join as a participant.

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New publication!

Idioms are really cool things and their processing of particular interest. In this paper we investigated how different language profiles of participants affected their idiom processing with respect to idiom predictability and familiarity.

Stay tuned for more idiom research by Anastasia Lada, Stefanie Keulen, Ifigeneia Dosi, Philippe Paquier

Predictability and Familiarity Assessments for Greek Idiomatic Expressions: the Role of Reading Habits and Language Profiles | New Perspectives on Languages Predictability and Familiarity Assessments for Greek Idiomatic Expressions: the Role of Reading Habits and Language Profiles Authors Anastasia Lada Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1616-2891 Ifigeneia Dosi Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece htt...