{"id":254,"date":"2021-11-07T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvoits.com\/?page_id=254"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:01:57","slug":"appearances","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tvoits.com\/index.php\/appearances\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[May 2026] Visiting Lancaster University for the The Multilingual North: Multilingualism Research Across the N8 &amp; EEG Workshop<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[April 2026] A month-long visit to MARCS, hosted by the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernsydney.edu.au\/marcs\/about\/our-people\/chief-investigators\/associate-professor-mark-antoniou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mark Antoniou<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[March 2026] Resubmission of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=858369&amp;p_dimension_id=156422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Gabrielsen<\/a> et al. paper on bilingualism and working memory at Language Learning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[February 2026] A quiet month at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[January 2026] Grant writing season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[December 2025] Got awarded an International Visiting Fellowhip at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernsydney.edu.au\/marcs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">MARCS Institute for Brain, Bahaviour, and Development at Western Sydney University<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[November 2025] Hosted a group of visitors from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcbc.uio.no\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">LCBC at UiO.<\/a> Applied for a job there (unsuccessfully).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[October 2025] Ate some cake to celebrate ongoing SynVesT-1 PET scanning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[September 2025] Took part at the Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies course on brain plasticity in San Servolo, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[August 2025] Back to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[July 2025] Break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[June 2025] Two papers published! First one on bilingualism and neuroplasticity of the hippocampus in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1523\/ENEURO.0128-25.2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"eNeuro\">eNeuro<\/a> and the second one on the modulatory effects of bilingualism on inhibitory on-task oscillatory activity in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2025.121312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"NeuroImage\">NeuroImage<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[May 2025] First succesful SynVesT-1 PET scan in Sweden as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/tvoits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Synapse-1600x900_1-scaled.jpg\" title=\"SYNAPSE project\">SYNAPSE project<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[April 2025] Travel month. Presented at Experimental Psychology Society meeting in Lancaster, UK and Learning and Plasticity meeting in \u00c4k\u00e4slompolo, Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[March 2025] A quiet month at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[February 2025] A month dedicated to grant writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[January 2025] Presented a poster at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gu.se\/en\/event\/sahlgrenska-academy-junior-researcher-symposium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sahlgrenska Academy Junior Researcher Symposium\">Sahlgrenska Academy Junior Researcher Symposium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[December 2024] Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[November 2024] Travel month: visiting the University of Groningen for <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=V_cIiygAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" title=\"Dr. Floor van den Berg's\">Dr. Floor van den Berg&#8217;s<\/a> PhD defense, followed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychonomic.org\/page\/2024annualmeeting\" title=\"Psychonomics annual meeting in NYC.\">Psychonomics annual meeting in NYC.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[October 2024] Launch of participant recruitment for the <a href=\"https:\/\/tvoits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Synapse-1600x900_1-scaled.jpg\" title=\"SYNAPSE project\">SYNAPSE project<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[September 2024] <a href=\"http:\/\/r1g.edu.lv\/v\/articles\/2024\/09\/24\/salidojuma-norise\" title=\"Back to school!\">Back to school!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[August 2024] A quiet month at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[July 2024] Had a run-in with the Latvian border patrol while attempting to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/kulturasdati.lv\/lv\/kulturvesturiskas-vietas\/draudzibas-kurgans-un-pieminas-zimes\" title=\"the friendship monument\">the friendship monument<\/a> on Latvian-Russian-Belarusian tripoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[June 2024] Return to northern Norway for the nuptials of Vince DeLuca and Ingeborg Gi\u00e6ver in gorgeous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitnorway.com\/listings\/havnnes-handelssted\/215645\/\" title=\"Havnnes\">Havnnes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[May 2024] Attended the best <a href=\"https:\/\/biomarker-course.org\/\">biomarkers course<\/a> in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Apr 2024] Paper investigating <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.neurobiolaging.2024.04.009\">the effects of multilingual engagement on resting state oscillatory signature across the lifespan<\/a> accepted for publication at <em>Neurobiology of Aging<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Mar 2024] Concluding work visit to Troms\u00f8 for the final event of the <a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/research\/acqva\">AcqVA Aurora center.<\/a> Farewell AcqVA! Long live <a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/research\/clabl\">C-LaBL<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Feb 2024] It was a leap year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Jan 2024] Received a hardcover author&#8217;s copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Second-Language-Acquisition-and-Neurolinguistics\/Morgan-Short-van-Hell\/p\/book\/9781032042022\">The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics<\/a> in the mail. Thanks to Eleonora Rossi and Vince DeLuca for their work on our chapter and kudos to Kara Morgan-Short and Janet van Hell for putting it all together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Dec 2023] Paper testing the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jneuroling.2020.100930\">UBET model<\/a> accepted for publication at <em>Cerebral Cortex<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Nov 2023] Presented a poster on the effects of bilingualism on resting state brain activity across the lifespan at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neurolang.org\/2023\/\">Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting in Marseille, France<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Oct 2023] Editorial for a Special issue on Cognitive Neuroscience Perspectives on Language Acquisition and Processing accepted at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/brainsci13121613\">Brain Sciences<\/a><\/em>. This marks a fortunate end of having to deal with MDPI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Sep 2023] Commenced an appointment as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg with <a href=\"https:\/\/lovdenlab.org\/\">Martin L\u00f6vd\u00e9n<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some recorded past appearances<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neurocognitve effects of bilingual experience: V. DeLuca, T. Voits, J. 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[March 2026] Resubmission of the Gabrielsen et al. paper on bilingualism and working memory at Language Learning [February 2026] A quiet month at work. 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