Dr. Eleni Orfanidou is Assistant Professor of the Psychology Department at Deree-The American College of Greece. She graduated from the University of Athens with a BA in Philology (specialization: Linguistics). She earned her MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of London and completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. From 2006-2009 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at University College London, at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (2010-2012 Honorary Research Fellow). At the same time, she worked as a part-time Lecturer of Cognitive Development at City University London. From 2011 to 2019 she was a Lecturer and then Associate Professor of Cognitive/Experimental Psychology at the University of Crete, Department of Psychology. Her research interests include various aspects of psycholinguistics/ neurolinguistics. She has used fMRI and behavioural experiments to investigate the neural basis of word recognition in English, Greek and British Sign Language. Email: [email protected].
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research covers a. Behavioral and neural correlates of spoken language processing, b. Orthographic and morphological processes in visual word recognition, c. Behavioral and neural correlates of signed language processing
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Orfanidou, E., Marslen-Wilson, W.D., & Davis, M.H. (2006). Neural response suppression predicts repetition priming of spoken words and pseudowords. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(8), 1237-1252.
Orfanidou, E., Davis, M.H., & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (2011). Effects of orthographic and semantic opacity in masked and delayed priming: Evidence from Greek. Language and Cognitive processes, 26(4/5/6), 530-557.
Cormier, K., Schembri, A., Vinson, D., Orfanidou, E. (2012). First language acquisition differs from second language acquisition in prelingually deaf signers: Evidence from grammatical processing of British Sign Language. Cognition. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.003. One of Cognition’s Top 25 Hottest Articles for 2012
Cardin, V., Orfanidou, E., Rönnberg, J., Capek, C.M., Rudner, M., & Woll, B. (2013). Dissociating cognitive and sensory neural plasticity in human superior temporal cortex. Nature Communications, 4, 1473-1478, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2463
Cardin, V., Orfanidou, E., Kästner, L., Rönnberg, J., Woll, B., Capek, C.M. & Rudner, M. (2016). Monitoring different phonological parameters of sign language engages the same cortical language network but distinctive perceptual ones. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(1), 20-40. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00872
Cardin, V., Smittenaar, C.F., Orfanidou, E., Rönnberg, J., Capek, C.M., Rudner, M. & Woll, B. (2016). Differential activity in Heschl’s gyrus between deaf and hearing individuals is due to auditory deprivation rather than language modality. NeuroImage, 124, 96-106. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.08.073
Protopapas, A., Orfanidou, E., Taylor, J. S. H., Karavasilis, E., Kapnoula, E. C., Panagiotaropoulou, G., Velonakis, G., Poulou, L. S., Smyrnis, N., & Kelekis, D. (2016). Evaluating cognitive models of visual word recognition using fMRI: Effects of lexical and sublexical variables. NeuroImage 128, 328-341. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.01.013
Rudner, M., Orfanidou, E., Kaestner, L., Cardin, V., Woll, B., Capek, C., Ronnberg, J. (2019). Neural networks supporting phoneme monitoring are modulated by phonology but not lexicality or iconicity: Evidence from British and Swedish Sign Language. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,13, 374-385.
Loui, S., Protopapas A., & Orfanidou, E. (2021). Asymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek, Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 12 – 2021 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658189
Galeraki, N., & Orfanidou, E. (2024). Can Grammatical Gender Override Gender Stereotypes? Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.