Curricilum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in Psychology (2016)
University of Iowa, U.S.A.
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M.A. in Psychology (2013)
University of Iowa, U.S.A.
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M.Sc. in Basic and Applied Cognitive Science (2009)
University of Athens, Greece
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B.A. in Psychology (2007)
University of Athens, Greece
Selected Publications
Kapnoula, E.C. & Samuel, A.G. (In Press). Sensitivity to subphonemic differences in first language predicts vocabulary size in a foreign language. Language Learning. published version | preprint
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Kapnoula, E.C., & Samuel, A.G. (2023). Wait long and prosper! Delaying production alleviates its detrimental effect on word learning. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 38(5), 724-744. published version
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Kapnoula, E.C. & McMurray B. (2021). Idiosyncratic use of bottom-up and top-down information leads to differences in speech perception flexibility: Converging evidence from ERPs and eye-tracking. Brain and Language, 223, 105031. published version
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Kapnoula, E.C., Edwards, J., & McMurray, B. (2021). Gradient activation of speech categories facilitates listeners’ recovery from lexical garden paths, but not perception of speech-in-noise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(4), 578-595. published version
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Kapnoula, E.C., & Samuel, A.G. (2019). Voices in the mental lexicon: Words carry indexical information that can affect access to their meaning. Journal of Memory and Language, 107, 111-127. published version
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Kapnoula, E.C., Protopapas, A., Saunders, S. & Coltheart, M. (2017). Lexical and sublexical effects on visual word recognition in Greek: Comparing human behavior to the Dual Route Cascaded (DRC) model. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.32(10), 1290-1304. published version
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Kapnoula, E.C., Winn M., Kong, E., Edwards, J. & McMurray, B. (2017). Evaluating the sources and functions of gradiency in phoneme categorization: An individual differences approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(9), 1594-1611. published version
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Kapnoula, E.C. & McMurray B. (2016). Training alters the resolution of lexical interference: Evidence for plasticity of competition and inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(1), 8-30. published version
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Kapnoula, E.C., Packard, S., Gupta, P., & McMurray B. (2015). Immediate lexical integration of novel word forms. Cognition, 134, 85-99. published version
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Selected Conference Presentations
Kapnoula, E.C. & Samuel, A.G. (2022). Immediate (but not delayed) production hurts word learning. Oral presentation at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, London, UK (hosted virtually).
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Kapnoula, E.C. & McMurray, B. (2019). What can continuous responses tell us about phoneme categorization? Oral presentation at the 21st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Tenerife, Spain.
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Kapnoula, E.C. (2017). Is it a word yet? Discussing the definition of lexicality in the context of word learning. Invited talk at the Workshop on Conversational Speech and Lexical Representations, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Kapnoula, E.C. & McMurray, B. (2015). Immediate integration of novel word forms: Evidence from eye movements. Invited talk in Weighall, A. (chair) Timescales of word learning: From immediate to long-term representations across development presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, Leeds, UK.
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Kapnoula, E.C. & McMurray, B. (2014). Evidence for experience-based changes in inter-lexical inhibition. Poster presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, USA. pdf
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Kapnoula, E.C., McMurray, B., Kong, E., Winn M., & Edwards, J. (2014). Individual differences in phoneme categorization. Oral presentation at the 19th Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference, Madison, WI, USA. pdf
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Protopapas, A. & Kapnoula, E.C. (2013). Exploring word recognition with selected stimuli: The case for decorrelated parameters. Paper presented at the 35th Annual Cognitive Science Conference, Berlin, Germany. pdf
Research Experience
Associate Group Leader at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, 2024-present
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Staff scientist at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, 2022-present
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Ikerbasque Research Fellow (tenure-track), 2021-present
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Post-doctoral researcher at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, 2016-2021
(Group Leader: Dr. Arthur Samuel)
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Graduate research assistant at the University of Iowa
MACLab (Supervisor: Dr. Bob McMurray), 2011-2016
Language and Memory Lab (Supervisor: Dr. Prahlad Gupta), 2010-2011
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Visiting research assistant at the University of York, UK
Psycholinguistics Research Group (Supervisor: Dr. Silvia Gennari), September, 2009
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Graduate research assistant at the University of Athens, Greece
Language and Learning Lab (Supervisor: Dr. Athanassios Protopapas), 2007-2009
Teaching Experience
Instructor at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Mental Lexicon
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Instructor at the University of Iowa
Elementary Psychology
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Teaching Fellow at the University of Iowa
Mixed-Effects Modeling in Psychology
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Head Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa
Elementary Psychology
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Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa
Elementary Psychology
Research Methods in Psychology
Professional Membership
European Society for Cognitive Psychology