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  1. Speech Perception Consistency Facilitates Initial Lexical Activation, but Not Speech Perception Flexibility

    Article • January 2026, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  2. Perceptual Rhythmic Ability Predicts Cognitive Load in Perception of Accented Second Language Speech

    Article • January 2026, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  3. Weak Links between Speech Perception and Speech Production at the Subphonemic Level

    Article • January 2026, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  4. Perceptual Rhythmic Ability Predicts Cognitive Load in Perception of Accented Second Language Speech

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  5. Perceptual Rhythmic Ability Predicts Cognitive Load in Perception of Accented Second Language Speech

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  6. The Role of Speech Perception Gradiency in L1 versus L2 Spoken Word Recognition

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  7. The Role of Speech Perception Gradiency in L1 versus L2 Spoken Word Recognition

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  8. The Role of Speech Perception Gradiency in L1 versus L2 Spoken Word Recognition

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  9. Phonological neighbourhood density effects on Spanish spoken word recognition and word learning

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  10. Rhythmic Abilities and Cognitive Load in Perception of Accented Second Language Speech

    Article • July 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  11. The Role of Speech Perception Gradiency in L1 versus L2 Spoken Word Recognition

    Article • May 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  12. Consistency and Gradiency in Speech Perception: Differential Impacts on Initial Lexical Activation and Speech Perception Flexibility in Spanish (L1) and English (L2)

    Article • July 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  13. The Role of Speech Perception Gradiency in L1 versus L2 Spoken Word Recognition

    Article • July 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  14. Sensitivity to Subphonemic Differences in First Language Predicts Vocabulary Size in a Foreign Language

    Article • Language Learning, May 2024, Wiley

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  15. Spoken Word Recognition: A Focus on Plasticity

    Article • Annual Review of Linguistics, January 2024, Annual Reviews

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  16. Don't force it! Gradient speech categorization calls for continuous categorization tasks

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, December 2022, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  17. Wait long and prosper! Delaying production alleviates its detrimental effect on word learning

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  18. Don’t Force It! Gradient Speech Categorization Calls for Continuous Categorization Tasks

    Article • April 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  19. Reconciling the contradictory effects of production on word learning: Production may help at first, but it hurts later.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, March 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  20. Idiosyncratic use of bottom-up and top-down information leads to differences in speech perception flexibility: Converging evidence from ERPs and eye-tracking

    Article • Brain and Language, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  21. On the Locus of L2 Lexical Fuzziness: Insights From L1 Spoken Word Recognition and Novel Word Learning

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2021, Frontiers

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  22. Gradient phoneme categorization helps listeners recover from mispronunciations

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, April 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula, Bob McMurray

  23. On the locus of individual differences in perceptual flexibility: ERP evidence for perceptual warping of speech sounds

    Article • April 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  24. Individual differences in speech perception: Evidence for gradiency in the face of category-driven perceptual warping

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2021, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  25. Dynamic EEG analysis during language comprehension reveals interactive cascades between perceptual processing and sentential expectations

    Article • Brain and Language, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  26. Greek word recognition by Greek readers and the DRC model

    Article • October 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  27. Gradient activation of speech categories facilitates listeners’ recovery from lexical garden paths, but not perception of speech-in-noise

    Article • October 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  28. Dynamic EEG analysis during language comprehension reveals interactive cascades between perceptual processing and sentential expectations

    Article • October 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  29. Lip-Reading Enables the Brain to Synthesize Auditory Features of Unknown Silent Speech

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, December 2019, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  30. Speaker's voice can be part of lexical representations

    Article • Journal of Memory and Language, August 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  31. Effect of deep brain stimulation on vocal motor control mechanisms in Parkinson's disease

    Article • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  32. Any leftovers from a discarded prediction? Evidence from eye-movements during sentence comprehension

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Arella Gussow, Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  33. Realtime integration of acoustic input and semantic expectations in speech processing: evidence from electroencephalography

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, September 2018, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  34. Evaluating the sources and functions of gradiency in phoneme categorization: An individual differences approach.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, September 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  35. Visual word recognition in Greek: Behavioral data and DRC model simulations

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Athanassios Protopapas, Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  36. Evaluating cognitive models of visual word recognition using fMRI: Effects of lexical and sublexical variables

    Article • NeuroImage, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  37. Training alters the resolution of lexical interference: Evidence for plasticity of competition and inhibition.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  38. Short-term and long-term effects on visual word recognition.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  39. Newly learned word forms are abstract and integrated immediately after acquisition

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  40. Immediate lexical integration of novel word forms

    Article • Cognition, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  41. Triangulating the GRID: A corpus-based cognitive linguistic analysis of five Greek emotion terms1

    Article • August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Marina Terkourafi, Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  42. The young and the meaningless: Novel-word learning without meaning or sleep

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, September 2012, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula