Our Team

Vincent DeLuca (vincent.f.deluca@uit.no)
Vincent DeLuca is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at UiT. His research is focused on how different aspects of bilingual language experience variably impact brain structure, function, and several cognitive processes. His work focuses on how these neural and cognitive adaptations dynamically shift over time and with changes to patterns of language use.

Jason Rothman (j.rothman@lancaster.ac.uk)
Jason Rothman is Professor in Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Science at Lancaster University (UK). He works on language acquisition, processing, and language-associated links to neurocognition in children and adults, especially in various bi-/multilingual populations. He is the founding editor of the journal Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism and executive editor of the book series Studies in Bilingualism.

Jubin Abutalebi (abutalebi.jubin@unisr.it)
Jubin Abutalebi is a Professor of Neuropsychology at the Faculty of Psychology at the University Vita Salute San Raffaele (Milan, Italy) and a Professor II at UiT. 

Anders Gabrielsen (anders.gabrielsen@uit.no)
Anders Gabrielsen is a Doctoral Research Fellow at UiT. His research primarily focuses on how different aspects of bilingual language experience variably impact the brain and its associated cognitive processes. He studies how these neural and cognitive adaptations dynamically shift over time and with changes to patterns of language use, using behavioral experiment designs and EEG.

Katherine J. Sendek (katherine.sendek@uit.no)
Katie Sendek is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UiT. Her project applies a complementary neural measure to questions about multilingual experience. Time–frequency analyses usually focus on oscillatory (periodic) activity, but the aperiodic (broadband) component of the neural power spectrum — which contains most spectral power — has recently emerged as an informative marker of overall signal organization and excitation/inhibition balance. Although this measure has proven useful in work on development, cognition, language, and aging, it has been underused in multilingualism.