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🔨 I currently work as: A Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience & Neurodynamics at the University of Reading
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🔭 I’m currently working on: Bi-/multilingual neurocognitive adaptation, brain dynamics, dynamical & complex systems, emergentist theory, study design development, entropy, neural complexity, fractal dimension, Lidenmayer System grammars, Bash scripting, pipeline automation, linguistic distance, functional connectivity, neural energetics & efficiency
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🌱 I’m currently learning: Simultaneous EEG-fNIRS, multivariate temporal response function analysis, signal complexity analysis, group iterative model estimation
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👀 I’m interested in: R, MRI analysis, EEG analysis, E-Prime, MATLAB, Python, neuroscience, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive psychology, consciousness, quantitative statistics (including GAMs & Bayesian statistics), novel research & analysis method development, open-source tools, open science practices
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😄 Pronouns: He/him.
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📝 Recent publications:
- Sheehan, A., Saddy, D., Krivochen, D., Gupta, S., Sibsey, M., & Pliatsikas, C. (2026). Bilingualism modulates functional connectivity induced by a domain-general artificial grammar learning task. Scientific Reports, 16(1), 12756. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-42094-x
- Sheehan, A., Saddy, D., & Pliatsikas, C. (2026). Chapter 9. The use of non-linguistic cognitive conflict tasks to understand the bilingual mind. In G. Klassen & J. W. Schwieter (Eds), Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing (Vol. 16, pp. 173–203). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/rmal.16.09she
- Yee, J., Kořenář, M., Sheehan, A., & Pliatsikas, C. (2024). Subcortical malleability as a result of cognitively challenging experiences: The case of bi-/multilingualism. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 59, 101438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101438
- Sheehan, A., Saddy, D., Gupta, S., & Pliatsikas, C. (2025). The impact of bilingual experience on task-driven resting-state functional connectivity in the language and attentional cognitive domains. OSF Preprint. https://osf.io/ghu7f_v1
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🌐 You can find me on: ORCID, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, CINN website, LinkedIn
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