Qualifications and Professional Body membership

PhD in Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London
PGCert in Learning and Teaching, Anglia Ruskin University
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society

Teaching

Language and Thought (Year 3) module leader
Research Techniques for Psychology (Year 2)
Psychology of Everyday Life (Year 1)

Research Interests

My research focuses on second language acquisition and its effects on attention and executive control. Does bilingualism affect cognitive functioning in childhood and adulthood? How do bilinguals manage to control their two languages? Will brain structure change as a function of increased ability to control both languages? These are some of the most important questions that I address in my research by using a combination of behavioural, computational and neuroimaging techniques.

Publications

Published papers

Filippi, R., Karaminis, T., Thomas, M.S.C. (accepted). Bilingual language switching in production: empirical and computational studies. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition

Filippi, R., Leech, R., Thomas, M.S.C., Green, D.W., and Dick, F., (2012). A bilingual advantage in controlling language interference during sentence comprehension. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition. doi:10.1017/S1366728911000708

Filippi, R., Richardson, F., Dick, F., Leech, R., Green, D.W., Thomas, M.S.C., and Price, C.J. (2011). The right posterior paravermis and the control of verbal interference. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(29): 10732-10740.

Richardson, F., Thomas, M.S.C, F., Filippi, R., Harth, H., and Price, C.J. (2009). Contrasting effects on vocabulary knowledge on temporal and parietal brain structures across lifespan. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 83, 109-113.

Other publications

Filippi, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2012). What can developmental disorders teach us about typical development? Invited chapter for Marshall, C. R. (Ed.) "Current issues in developmental disorders". London, UK: Psychology Press.

Filippi, R. & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (In press). Developmental Psychology. Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. SAGE Publications.

Research affiliations

Member of the Developmental Neurocognition Lab (Birkbeck, University of London)

Member of the Childhood and Youth Research Institute.