Olga Kepinska MA, PhD

Olga Kepinska, MA, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna. Olga obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her Ph.D. focused on neural mechanisms and brain structures underlying successful foreign language learning. She investigated neural correlates of the analytical component of language aptitude using functional MRI, diffusion imaging, and EEG. More recently, She was involved in a longitudinal neuroimaging study using cross-linguistic data to understand the impact of multilingualism on children’s cognitive and neural outcomes. Her most recent work concentrates on language typology, multilingual language competence, and neural signatures.