Efthymia Kapnoula

Ikerbasque Research Fellow, BCBL

Ikerbasque Research Fellow at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL).

Research line:

Cognitive mechanisms underlying language comprehension and language plasticity across the lifespan, focusing on speech and lexical processing.

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Juan de la Cierva Formación Fellow, ESCoP Early Career Publication Award, D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize.

Previous research experience at the University of Athens (Greece), the University of York (UK), and the University of Iowa (USA).

PhD in Psychology (2016) from the University of Iowa, USA.

2024

Article / Sensitivity to Subphonemic Differences in First Language Predicts Vocabulary Size in a Foreign Language

Language Learning

Kapnoula, E.C.; Samuel, A.G.

Review / Spoken Word Recognition: A Focus on Plasticity

Annual Review of Linguistics

Kapnoula, E.C.; Jevtović, M.; Magnuson, J.S.

Review / The relationship of speech perception and speech production: It’s complicated

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Baese-Berk, M.M.; Kapnoula, E.C.; Samuel, A.G.

2023

Article / Wait long and prosper! Delaying production alleviates its detrimental effect on word learning

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

Kapnoula, E.C.; Samuel, A.G.

2022

Article / Reconciling the Contradictory Effects of Production on Word Learning: Production May Help at First, but It Hurts Later

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Kapnoula, E.C.; Samuel, A.G.

Article / Don't force it! Gradient speech categorization calls for continuous categorization tasks

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Apfelbaum, K.S.; Kutlu, E.; McMurray, B.; Kapnoula, E.C.

The role of lexical co-activation in word learning

University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

Daphne Weiss - In preparation

Predictors of individual differences in non-native listening comprehension

University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

Wai Leung (Brian) Wong - In preparation

Déjà-lu: The influence of orthography on auditory word learning

University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

Mina Jevtovic - Finished

2024

Poster presentation | The effect of lexical co-activation on novel word learning.

Experimental Psychology Society Meeting - Poster presentation

Weiss, D., Samuel, A.G., & Kapnoula, E.C.

Poster presentation | On the role of orthography and images in early foreign language learning: An ERP study.

30th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLAP24) - Poster presentation

Ciesla, M., Kapnoula, E.C., Pozdniakov, M., Gruszeczka, J., & Jankowiak, K.

2023

Oral presentation | Subphonemic sensitivity facilitates foreign language learning in late (but not early) bilinguals

14th International Symposium on Bilingualism - Oral presentation

Kapnoula, E.C. & Samuel, A.G.

Oral presentation | Non-Native phonetic learning in listeners with high versus low sensitivity to L1 subphonemic differences

Psychonomic Society - Oral presentation

Kapnoula, E.C. & Samuel, A.G.

Oral presentation | Do subphonemic mismatch effects only tell us about words, how they are learnt, and whether they need to sleep?

Psychonomic Society - Oral presentation

Dumay, N., Kenway, S., Kim, D., Kapnoula, E.., & Samuel, A.G.

Oral presentation | Using the visual world paradigm (VWP) to track age-related changes in spoken word recognition

Eye-Tracking & Language Processing Conference - Oral presentation

Cheimariou, S. & Kapnoula, E.C.

Poster presentation | Examining the links between L1 phoneme categorization and non-native phonetic learning

XVI International Symposium of Psycholinguistics - Poster presentation

Kapnoula, E.C. & Samuel, A.G.

Poster presentation | Linking L1 phoneme categorization to non-native phonetic learning: The role of gradiency

European Society of Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) - Poster presentation

Kapnoula, E.C. & Samuel, A.G.

Poster presentation | Individual differences in speech perception gradiency and listeners’ recovery from lexical garden paths in L1 and L2

Psychonomic Society - Poster presentation

Wong, B.L., Samuel, A.G., & Kapnoula, E.C.

Poster presentation | Does co-activating familiar words improve word learning?

Psychonomic Society - Poster presentation

Weiss, D., Samuel, A.G., & Kapnoula, E.C.

Poster presentation | Phonological neighborhood density effects on Spanish spoken word recognition and word learning”

Psychonomic Society - Poster presentation

Gür, E., Samuel, A.G., & Kapnoula, E.C

2022

Invited talk | Individual differences in speech perception gradiency: Sources and consequences.

at the Language and Brain Lab, University of Connecticut, CT, USA. - Invited talk

Kapnoula, E.C.

Invited talk | Word is as word does: A functional definition of word learning.

at the Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives & Sciences Affectives (SCALab), University of Lille, Lille, France. - Invited talk

Kapnoula, E.C.

Invited talk | Towards a common framework for L1/L2 novel word learning: Lexicalization as a gradual process towards automaticity.

in Casalis, S. (chair) L1/L2 novel word learning: Investigating methodological issues and orthographic and semantic aspects. Symposium at the 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Lille, France. - Invited talk

Kapnoula, E.C.

Invited talk | Examining the links between subphonemic sensitivity and nonnative speech perception.

in Sarrett, M. & Toscano, J. (chairs) Bilingualism and the Brain. Symposium at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Nashville, TN, USA. - Invited talk

Kapnoula, E.C.

Oral presentation | Immediate (but not delayed) production hurts word learning.

at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, London, UK. - Oral presentation

Kapnoula, E.C. & Samuel, A.G.

2021

Oral presentation | Individual differences in L1 speech perception and L2 learning: The role of sensitivity to within-category differences.

at the Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2021 (BMRS21), Edinburgh, UK. - Oral presentation

Kapnoula, E.C. & Samuel, A.G.

Oral presentation | Effects of immediate versus delayed production on word learning.

at the XV International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (ISP), Madrid, Spain. - Oral presentation

Kapnoula, E.C. & Samuel, A.G.

Poster presentation | Does sensitivity to acoustic variation within an L1 phoneme category help L2 learning?

at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA, USA. - Poster presentation

Kapnoula, E.C. & Samuel, A.G.