Dr Ekaterini Klepousniotou

Currently, I lecture (part-time) at City College, University of York Europe Campus.

I am an Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology (Visiting) in the School of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK (tenured 2007-2023) and have held honorary contracts at The Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, UK and The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Paediatric Neuropsychology, UK. 

I have also held Visiting Associate Professor positions at Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar), Georgetown University (Qatar) and Texas A&M University (Qatar). 

CPS2514 Social Psychology

CHD2301 Social Psychology (Humanities)

CPS3229 Cognition and Emotion

CPS6901 Fundamentals in Neuropsychology

CPS6904 Neuropsychology of Memory and Dementias

I am a cognitive neuroscientist working on language processing. My research interests lie in the area of meaning access and representation patterns, as well as language localization. I work with older neurotypical and language-impaired populations (patients with acquired left or right hemisphere damage and patients with neurodegenerative disorders), young healthy adults as well as children with neurotypical and atypical language development (monolingual and bilingual). My research involves behavioural measures and neuroimaging methodologies (fMRI, EEG, tDCS) to investigate the following:

• Lexical ambiguity processing
• Figurative language processing
• Neural bases of language processing
• Temporal dynamics of language processing
• Cognitive bases of neurological communication disorders
• Language deficits subsequent to left- and right-hemisphere brain damage
• Cognitive processes in ageing
• Typical and atypical language development
• Bilingualism, SES and academic attainment

This line of research aims to provide converging evidence about the neural dynamics and cognitive processes underlying language and support rehabilitation practices, education and policy.

Indicative Referred Publications:

Maciejewski, G., Taylor, J.E. & Klepousniotou, E. (under review). Type of polysemy matters: Evidence from semantic relatedness decisions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Tomczak, J., Klepousniotou, E. & Delvenne, J.-F. (under review). The effect of bilingualism in old age on interhemispheric communication. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Davies, C., Porretta, V., Koleva, K. & Klepousniotou, E. (2022). Speaker-specific cues influence semantic disambiguation. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 51, 933-955. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-022-09852-0

Maciejewski, G. & Klepousniotou, E. (2020). Disambiguating the Ambiguity Disadvantage Effect: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence for Semantic Competition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 46, 1682-1700. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000842

Maciejewski, G., Rodd, J.M., Mon-Williams, M. & Klepousniotou, E. (2020). The cost of learning new meanings for familiar words. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35, 188-210. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1642500

Koleva, K., Mon-Williams, M. & Klepousniotou, E. (2019). Right hemisphere involvement for pun processing – Effects of idiom decomposition. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 51, 165-183. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.02.002

Craddock, M., Klepousniotou, E., el-Deredy, W., Poliakoff, E. & Lloyd, D. (2019). Transcranial alternating current stimulation at 10 Hz modulates response bias in the Somatic Signal Detection Task. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 135, 106-112. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.12.001

Craddock, M., Poliakoff, E., El-deredy, W., Klepousniotou, E. & Lloyd, D.M. (2017). Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations over somatosensory cortex predict tactile misperceptions. Neuropsychologia, 96, 9-18. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.030

Maciejewski, G. & Klepousniotou, E. (2016). Relative Meaning Frequencies for 100 Homonyms: British eDom Norms. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 4: e6. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jopd.28

De Cat, C., Klepousniotou, E., & Baayen, R.H. (2015). Representational deficit or processing effect? An electrophysiological study of noun-noun compound processing by very advanced L2 speakers of English. Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 6, Article 77, 1-17. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00077

MacGregor, L., Bouwsema, J., & Klepousniotou, E. (2015). Sustained meaning activation for polysemous but not homonymous words: Evidence from EEG. Neuropsychologia, 68, 126-138.

Klepousniotou E., Gracco V.L., & Pike G.B. (2014). Pathways to lexical ambiguity: fMRI evidence for bilateral fronto-parietal involvement in language processing. Brain and Language, 131, 56-64.

Indicative Book Chapters:

Frisson, S. & Klepousniotou, E. (forthcoming). Experimental Methods in Lexical Semantics. In Geeraerts, G. & Glynn, D. (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Lexical Semantics.

Klepousniotou, E. (forthcoming). Psycholinguistic Evidence for Theories of Metaphor and Metonymy for Volume 11 of the Annual Review of Linguistics.

Tompkins, C.A., Klepousniotou, E., & Scott, A.G. (2017). Nature and assessment of right hemisphere disorders. In Papathanasiou, I., Coppens, P., Potagas, C. (Eds.), Aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders, 2^nd Edition, pp. 353-398. Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

eklepousniotou@york.citycollege.eu