Supervisor

Athanassios Protopapas

Associate Professor of Cognitive Science in the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens. Director of the interdepartmental graduate program on “Basic and Applied Cognitive Science.” He holds a degree in Physics from the University of Patras (1991), MS in Cognitive Science (1993) and in Engineering (1995) and PhD in Cognitive Science from Brown University (Providence, RI). In his dissertation he examined the role of stress and syllables in the perception of speech. He has worked on the development of software for the assessment and remediation of language, reading, and cognitive abilities as well as on the development and standardization of psychoeducational assessment tests. His main research interests focus on cognitive mechanisms of spoken and written language learning and perception at the lexical and sublexical level. He also works on computational cognitive models, acoustic phonetics, and development of resources and tools to support psycholinguistic research. e-mail: protopap [@] gmail.com

Doctoral candidates

Angeliki Andrikopoulou

A psychology graduate (B.A., 2005) from the American College of Greece (Deree), graduate of the Department of Social Work (2007), Technological Educational Institute of Athens, and of the “Basic and Applied Cognitive Science” graduate program (2010) of the University of Athens. She works at a day care center for children and adolescents with pervasive developmental disorders and autism. Her research interests focus on the phonological and orthographic processing of lexical stress in Greek, the representation and processing of the semantic features of words in the mental lexicon, the development of reading skills and reading disorders. e-mail: ang.andrikopoulou [@] gmail.com

Laoura Ziaka

A graduate of the Department of German Literature, University of Athens, the Department of Psychology, Panteion University, and the “Basic and Applied Cognitive Science” graduate program (2014) of the University of Athens. She works as a foreign language tutor. Hew research interests focus on serial naming tasks and intratask components of Stroop interference. e-mail: laoura.ziaka [@] yahoo.gr

Sofia Loui

Graduate in Linguistics from the Department of Philology, School of Philosophy, University of Athens. She studied at the postgraduate level in the Department of Psychology, York University, UK. Her Masters thesis, supervised by Silvia Gennari, examined the role of animacy in the production of Greek relative clauses. Her research interests concern the representation and processing of morphologically complex Greek words in the mental lexicon. e-mail: sonialoui [@] gmail.com

Fotis Fotiadis

A graduate of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the School of Technology, University of Thessaloniki. He has worked for several years in the private and public secondary education as an informatics teacher. He holds a degree in “Basic and Applied Cognitive Science” from the University of Athens. In his Masters thesis he manipulated experimentally the involvement of discrete memory systems in a categorical learning task. His research interests concern the Multiple Memory Systems Hypothesis, the verbal nature of declarative knowledge, and cognitive mechanisms of learning. e-mail: fotisfotiadis [@] gmail.com

Graduate studens

Michalis Vinos

A graduate of the Department of Computer Science, Hellenic Open University. He is a graduate student in “Basic and Applied Cognitive Science” at the University of Athens. His current research concerns the emergence of semantic properties and functions in parallel distributed processing networks. He is also interested in the study of cognitive agents, seen as complex adaptive systems, and in the cognitive features of systems in the domain of biologically inspired computing. e-mail: michael.vinos [@] gmail.com

Iliana Kolotoura

A graduate of the Department of Speech and Language Therapy of the Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Ioannina. She is attending the first year of her postgraduate studies in "Basic and Applied Cognitive Science". In the context of this program she is involved in a research group studying the development of reading skills and their relationship with rapid naming of visual stimuli. e-mail: ilikolotoura [@] gmail.com

Georgia Papachristou

Graduate of the Department of Speech Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Patras (2006). She is a graduate student at the "Basic and Applied Cognitive Science" program. She works as a speech therapist with children and adults with communication and/or feeding disorders. Her research interests focus on the study of naming and reading fluency using neuroimaging. e-mail: gpapachrist [@] hotmail.com

Dimitris Sagris

Dimitris is a postgraduate student in the “Basic and Applied Cognitive Science” program at the University of Athens. He is a graduate of the Department of Speech Therapy (2000) and he holds a MSc degree in “Developmental Disorders in Communication” (2002) from the University of Sofia. Since 2003 he works with children helping them to overcome their communication difficulties. He participates in the research group studying the development of reading skills and their relationship with rapid automatized naming. e-mail: dimsag [@] hotmail.com

Undergraduate students

Marianna Leventi

A senior in the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens. Her degree thesis concerns implicit orthographic learning that occurs while carrying out an irrelevant task. e-mail: marianna_aona_11 [@] hotmail.com

Graduates and alumni

Katerina Kanna

She works on her Masters thesis concerning a procedure to localize language processing in individual brains using fMRI.

Kostas Outos

After completing his Masters thesis on connectionist models of single word and pseudoword reading, he worked on a doctoral dissertation on the same topic.

Katerina Katopodi

She completed her Masters thesis on the development of reading skills and their relationship with rapid naming of visual stimuli.

Miltos Koustoumbardis

He completed his Masters thesis on implicit orthographic learning during an irrelevant task.

Katerina Skolidi

She completed her thesis on the asymmetry of shape and color naming in Stroop interference.

Vangelis Samaras

He completed his Masters thesis on the asymmetry of shape and color naming in Stroop interference following practice.

Lora Dimopoulou

After completing her Masters thesis on implicit perceptual learning of phonetic categories, she works as a math tutor for children in secondary education.

Sofia Tsitsopoulou

After completing her thesis on implicit orthographic learning that occurs while carrying out an irrelevant task, she moved on to graduate study at the University of York.

Nikos Yialusis

He worked on the role of lexical stress information in speech processing.

Yanna Karachristou

She worked on the localization of language function in the brain.

Angeliki Altani

After completing her Masters thesis on the relationship between rapid naming of visual stimuli and reading, she moved on to doctoral studies at the University of Alberta.

Anna Mitsi

After completing her Masters thesis on implicit orthographic learning during an irrelevant task, she works as a teacher in elementary education.

Katerina Galari

She completed her thesis on the effect of animacy on production time and subordinate structure towards her degree in Philosophy and History of Science.

Andreas Piokos

He completed his thesis on the asymmetry of interference between shape and color that arises due to differential practice towards his degree in Philosophy and History of Science.

Agathi Roumelioti

She worked on semantic priming in school-age children.

Ioanna Katidioti

After completing her Masters thesis on a connectionist computational model of Greek spelling, she moved on to doctoral studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, working on cognitive models of executive control in multitasking.

Nora Panagaki

After completing her Masters thesis on the representation of lexical stress in the mental lexicon, she returned to teaching English in public elementary education.

Dimitra Ioannou

After receiving her PhD in Psychology from the University of York, UK, she works as a speech therapist in Patras, Greece. Her research interests center on the development of literacy skills in children with speech and language impairments. She is particularly interested in the development of intervention strategies to enhance children’s literacy skills, including reading, writing, and reading comprehension.

Litsa Cheimariou

After completing her Masters thesis on verb morphology in Greek aphasia, she moved on to doctoral studies at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include language production and comprehension by persons with aphasia.

Effie Kapnoula

After completing her Masters thesis on single word and pseudoword reading, she moved on to doctoral studies at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include the effect of neighborhood density on the phonological representation of words and nonwords, the development of lexical competition by nonwords, and the role of the mental lexicon in phoneme categorization.

Areti Kotsolakou

She completed her Masters thesis on the role of vocabulary in reading comprehension.

Giannis Vagias

After completing his Masters thesis on computational modeling of individual differences in Stroop interference, he joined the PhD program at the Department of Philosophy & History of Science, University of Athens, studying the emergence and evolution of communication in systems of intelligent agents.

Mina Moirou

She completed her Masters thesis on the effects of practice on Stroop interference.

Katerina Grimani

After completing her Masters thesis on the effects of morphological information on stress assignment in reading, she joined the PhD program at the Department of Philosophy & History of Science, University of Athens, studying the socioeconomic implications of occupational accidents, occupational diseases, absenteeism, work satisfaction, and mental health at work, as well as the cognitive mechanisms of adaptations employees develop regarding their physical and mental health and safety at work.

Svetlana Gerakaki

After completing her Masters thesis on stress assignment in reading, she joined the Attention and Language Performance group at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour in the Netherlands for further graduate study in cognitive neuroscience, and subsequently moved on to the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics for PhD study on individual differences in speech perception and production.

Artemis Markatou

She completed her Masters thesis on the effects of practice on Stroop interference.

Dimitra Skoteinou

She completed her Masters thesis on individual differences in Stroop interference.