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Pliatsikas, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-1773, Pereira Soares, S. M., Voits, T., DeLuca, V. and Rothman, J. (2021) Bilingualism is a long-term cognitively challenging experience that modulates metabolite concentrations in the healthy brain. Scientific Reports, 11 (1). 7090. ISSN 2045-2322 doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-86443-4

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DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., Bialystok, E. and Pliatsikas, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-1773 (2020) Duration and extent of bilingual experience modulate neurocognitive outcomes. NeuroImage, 204. 116222. ISSN 1053-8119 doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116222

DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., Bialystok, E. and Pliatsikas, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-1773 (2019) Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affect brain structure and function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (15). pp. 7565-7574. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1811513116

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Yee, J.'e., DeLuca, V. and Pliatsikas, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-1773 (2023) The effects of multilingualism on brain structure, language control and language processing: insights from MRI. In: Cabrelli, J., Chaouch-Orozco, A., González Alonso, J. and Pereira Soares, S. M. (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition and Processing. Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781108832427

DeLuca, V., Miller, D., Pliatsikas, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-1773 and Rothman, J. (2019) Brain adaptations and neurological indices of processing in adult Second Language Acquisition: challenges for the Critical Period Hypothesis. In: Schweiter, J. W. (ed.) The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 192-218. ISBN 9781119387701 doi: 10.1002/9781119387725

Miller, D., DeLuca, V., Berndt, D. and Rothman, J. (2017) Chapter 8. Subtle aspectual differences in the L2 acquisition of German. In: Blom, E., Cornips, L. and Schaeffer, J. (eds.) Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk. Studies in Bilingualism (52). John Benjamins, pp. 207-230. ISBN 9789027241948 doi: 10.1075/sibil.52.10mil

Miller, D., DeLuca, V., Berndt, D., Iverson, M. and Rothman, J. (2017) Subtle aspectual difference in the L2 acquisition of German: the case of pseudo-progressives AM+infinitive versus BEIM+infinitive. In: Blom, E., Cornips, L. and Schaffer, J. (eds.) Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: in honor of Aafke Hulk. Studies in Bilingualism (52). John Benjamins, pp. 207-230. ISBN 9789027241948 doi: 10.1075/sibil.52.10mil

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DeLuca, V. F. (2018) Changing our brains and minds: exploring the effects of individual differences in bilingual language experience on brain structure, function, and cognition. PhD thesis, University of Reading. doi: 10.48683/1926.00084925