Olga Kepinska, a linguist and a cognitive neuroscientist, has been recruited as CNRS researcher at Laboratoire Parole et Langage, starting this Fall. Olga’s research explores individual differences in (second) language acquisition from a neurocognitive perspective, notably the impact of complex environments on brain development and on language skills. Olga also investigates language typology, its relation to multilingual language competence, and its neural signatures. At Aix-Marseille, she is launching research on fetal language acquisition and brain development in multilingual contexts, for which she received an ERC Starting Grant.
Olga Kepinska obtained her PhD in Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics in the Netherlands (2017). She completed postdocs at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Connecticut in the US, with Prof. Fumiko Hoeft, and at the Brain and Language Lab of Prof. Narly Golestani at the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub and the Department of Behavioral & Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna, Austria.