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CURRICULUM VITAE Eleni Orfanidou, Ph.D. Nationality: Greek Place and date of birth: Athens, 24/05/1978

Note: Areas highlighted in grey refer to publications, grants etc. after successful application for Lecturer in Cognitive-Experimental Psychology, in January 2009)

Work Address Department of Psychology School of Social Sciences University of Crete Gallos Campus Rethymno 74100 Crete Greece

Email: [email protected] Office: (+30) 28310 77524

Education Ph.D. Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 2006 Thesis title: Spoken word recognition and priming: A cross-linguistic cognitive neuroscience approach to lexical representation. Supervisors: Prof. W.D. Marslen-Wilson and Dr. M.H. Davis

MSc Cognitive Neuroscience, Imperial College of Medicine, Science and Technology University of London, 2003 (First Class)

BA, Literature, Specialisation: Linguistics, University of Athens, 2001, (Distinction)

Apolytirion, Arsakeio Girl’s school, Psychiko, 1996 (Distinction)

Work experience Lecturer in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Greece, January 2011-present

Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, DCAL Research Centre, University College London, Νovember 2010-March 2012

Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, DCAL Research Centre, University College London, UK, April 2009-October 2010

Post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, DCAL Research Centre, University College London and City University London, UK (in

1 collaboration with the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands) (funded by the ESRC Economic and Social Sciences Research Council RES-000-23-1450) April 2006-April 2009

Invited Lecturer, City University, Department of Language Communication Science,UK November 2008-December 2008, November 2009-December 2009 (Module: Cognitive Development)

Lecturer (part-time), City University, Department of Language Communication Science,UK, Septεmber 2007-Μarch 2008 (Module: Cognitive Development)

Tutor (Cambridge University Supervisions system), Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK, Οctober 2004-February 2006. (Modules: Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology of Language)

Research Assistant, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, October 2004-October 2005

Scholarships and Awards Research bursary, Maria and Pantelis Laimos Foundation, 2009-2011 Lundgren Research Award, 2005 Leventis Foundation Scholarship, 2003-2005 Βrain Travel Grant, April, 2003 Grindley Grant, Experimental Psychological Society, 2003 Cambridge European Trust, Isaac Newton Scholarship, 2002-2005 Erasmus Scholarship (University of Salzburg), March 1999

Funding Program “Thales” (2011). Member of the COGMET team (Head: Prof. S. Vosniadou) Member of COST action TD0904 (TIMELY) (Head: Dr. Argiro Vatakis)

Publications in peer reviewed journals (h index: 4, SCOPUS) 1. Orfanidou, E., & Sumner, P. (2005). Language switching and the effects of orthographic specificity and response repetition, Memory and Cognition, 33(2), 355-369. IF: 1.922, Citations: 7

2. 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., IF: 5.175, Citations: 43

3. Orfanidou, E., Adam, R., McQueen, J.M., & Morgan, G. (2009). Making sense of non sense: the handprint of phonological awareness on sign perception and production. Memory and Cognition, 37(3), 302-315., IF: 1.922, Citations: 12

4. Orfanidou, E., Adam, R., Morgan, G., & McQueen, J.M. (2010). Segmentation

2 in signed and spoken language: different modality, same segmentation procedure. Journa l of Memory and Language, 62, 272-283. DOI information: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.12.001, IF: 2.733, Citations: 8

5. Orfanidou, E., Davis, M.H., Ford, M., & Marslen-Wilson,W.D. (2010). Perceptual and response components in repetition priming of spoken words and pseudowords. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(1), 96-121. DOI: 10.1080/17470211003743794, IF: 1.964, Citations: 2

6. 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., IF: 1.538, Citations: 2

7. 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, IF: 3.162, Citations: 0

8. 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., IF: 7.396, Citations:0

9. Andin, J., Orfanidou, E., Cardin, V., Capek, C. M., Woll, B., Rönnberg, J., & Rudner, M. Simiral digit-based working memory in deaf signers and hearing signers despite digit- span differences. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. IF: 1.017 (accepted with revisions, see Editor Letter in Appendix 1)

10. Orfanidou, E., McQueen, J.M., Adam, R., & Morgan, G. (revise and resubmit, see Appendix 3). Segmentation of British Sign Language: Mind the gap!

11. Orfanidou, E., Capek, C.M., Cardin, V., Woll, B., Rönnberg,J., & Rudner (submitted 19th March 2013). Deafness, sign language experience, and efficiency of processing in linguistic and non-linguistic visuospatial working memory.

Book chapters 1. Orfanidou, E. (2011). Language and Memory: spoken and written language. In K. Potagas & I. Evdokimides (Eds) Language and Memory. (p. 233-255). Synapseis: Athens. (in Greek).

2. Adam, R., Orfanidou, Ε., McQueen, J., & Morgan, G. (2012). Sign language comprehension: insights from misperceptions of different phonological parameters. In Channon, R. & van der Hulst (Eds) Formational Units in the Analysis of Signs. Ishara press, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

3 3. Stamatakis, E. & Orfanidou, E. (accepted). Functional magnetic resonance imaging. In A. Papanicolaou (Ed) Functional brain imaging in cognitive neurosciences and neuropsychology. Oxford University Press. (see Appendix 2 for letter of editor to publisher)

Published abstracts Orfanidou, E., Davis, M.H., & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. 2004. Neural bases of spoken word recognition: Lexicality and repetition priming using efMRI. Poster στο 11th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 18-20, 2004. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement, 66

Orfanidou, E., Davis, M.H., & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. 2005. Neural correlates of priming between verbs and derivatives: evidence from an efMRI study on Greek derivational morphology. Poster στο 11th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY, April 9-11, 2005. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement, 70

Orfanidou, E., Davis, M.H., & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. 2005. Neural response suppression predicts repetition priming of spoken words and pseudowords. Proceedings of the Experimental Psychology Society, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, 1464-0740, 58(8), 1534-1559.

Orfanidou, E., Adam, R., & Morgan, G. (2010) The Sign Segmentation Project at City University, 77-78. Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the World federation of the Deaf, July 16-22, 2007, Madrid, Spain.

Orfanidou, E., Kaestner, L., Capek, C., Cardin, V., Woll, B., Rudner, M., Ronnberg, J. (2011). Semantic and phonological processing in the visuospatial domain: Evidence from Swedish Sign Language. Poster presented at the 18th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2-5, 2011. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement, 94

Rudner, M., Orfanidou, E., Capek, C., Cardin, V., Woll, B., Ronnberg, J. (2012). Access to linguistic structure enhances visuospatial working memory capacity. Poster presented at the 19th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Μarch 31-April 2, 2012. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Supplement

Publications in non-peer reviewed journals

1. Orfanidou, E., Davis, M.H., & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (2004). Spoken word recognition: effects of lexicality and repetition priming. In Daskalaki, E., Katsos, N, Mavrogiorgos, M., Reeve, M.(eds) Proceedings of the Second Postgraduate Conference in Language research, Cambridge, March 2004.

2. Adam, R., Orfanidou, E., McQueen, J., & Morgan, G. (2007) The Sign Segmentation Project. Sign Matters: the magazine for the sign community: British Deaf Association.

4 3. Orfanidou, E., Davis, M.H., & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (2010). A cognitive neuroscience approach to lexical representations: an fMRI study on Greek derivational morphology. Neurology, Journal of the Greek Neurological Association.

4. Cormier, K., Vinson, D., Schembri, A., Orfanidou, E., (December, 2012). The benefits of early sign language exposure for deaf children, Cochlear Implanted Children's Support Group, December 2012 newsletter, p.8-9.

5. Cormier, K., Vinson, D., Schembri, A., Orfanidou, E., (January, 2013). Early exposure to BSL. British Association of Teachers of the Deaf magazine, p.19.

Teaching November 2008-December 2008, September 2007-March 2008: Cognitive Development, (Series of Seminars as part of compulsory course, Department of Language and Communication Science, City University London).

January 2011-June 2011, February 2012-June 2012, February 2013-June 2013: Seminar on Cognitive/Experimental Psychology. (6th Semester, Department of Psychology University of Crete).

January 2011-June 2011, February 2012-June 2012, February 2013-June 2013: Lab exercises on Language (6th Semester, Department of Psychology University of Crete).

October 2011-January 2012, October 2012-January 2013: Cognitive Psychology I: Learning, Language, Thinking. (1st Semester, Department of Psychology University of Crete).

October 2011-January 2012, October 2012-January 2013: Research Methods in Social Sciences II (3rd Semester, Department of Psychology University of Crete).

February 2012-June 2012: Language and the Brain. Postgraduate Course, Mind and Brain Postgraduate Program, University of Crete (co-teaching with Prof. Akis Simos).

February 2013-June 2013: Introduction to Psychology and Social Neurosciences (Three seminars as part of compulsory course, Postgraduate Course, Mind and Brain Postgraduate Program, University of Crete)

Other activities Second Supervisor of Master Thesis, UCL/Birkbeck MSc Cognitive Neuoroscience, University of London. Title: “What and How/Where in the Signing Brain” (2009-2010).

Second Supervisor of Master Thesis, Postgraduate program “Basic Applied Cognitive Science”, University of Athens, Department of Methodology and History of Science. Title: “The effect of different types of semantic priming on readers of Greek” (2010- 2011).

5 Second Supervisor of Master Thesis, Postgraduate program “Educational and Health Psychology”, University of Crete, Department of Psychology. Title: “Morphological priming in novice readers” (2011-2012).

Second Supervisor of Doctoral Thesis, University of Athens, Department of Methodology and History of Science. Title: “Phonological and orthographical representation of stress in the mental lexicon” (ongoing).

Supervisor of undergraduate dissertations (8), University of Crete, Department of Psychology.

Oxford Cambridge Examinations Syndicate, Consultant for the preparation of exams for learners of Greek as a foreign language (Asset Languages program), 2005-2011.

Conferences Orfanidou, E., & Sumner, P. (2003). Language switching costs: the effects of orthography. Paper presented at the 1st Postgraduate Conference in Language Research, Cambridge, UK, April 26, 2003.

Orfanidou, E.,& Sumner, P. (2003). Language switching and the effects of orthographic specificity and response repetition. Paper presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, Exeter, UK, April 11-13, 2003.

Orfanidou, E., Davis, M.H., & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (2004). Neural bases of spoken word recognition: Lexicality and repetition priming using efMRI. International conference on Aphasia Rehabilitation, Milos, Greece, July 8-11, 2004.

Orfanidou, E., Davis, M.H., & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (2004). Spoken word recognition: effects of lexicality and repetition priming. 2nd Postgraduate Conference in Language Research, Cambridge, March 20, 2004.

Orfanidou, E., Davis, M.H., & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (2005). Neural response suppression predicts repetition priming of spoken words and pseudowords. Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, London, UK, January 5, 2005.

Orfanidou, E., Adam, R., McQueen, J. & Morgan, G. (2007). Sign segmentation in British Sign Language: Possible word effects in sign-spotting. 20th Annual CUNY Conference on human sentence processing, San Diego, CA, March 29-31, 2007.

Orfanidou, E. Adam, R., McQueen, J. and Morgan, G. (2007). Sign segmentation in British Sign Language: Possible word effects in sign-spotting. Visual Prosody in Language Communication workshop. Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, netherlands, May 9-10, 2007.

Orfanidou, E., Adam, R., McQueen, J. & Morgan, G. (2008). Mind the gap: transitions as segmentation cues in British Sign Language. 14th Annual Conference in Architectures

6 and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge, September 4-6, 2008.

Schembri, A., Orfanidou, Ε., Cormier, Κ. & Vinson. D., 2009. British Sign Language Grammaticality Judgement Task: Exploring age of acquisition effects in British deaf adults. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Edinburgh, September 6-9, 2009.

Schembri, A., Orfanidou, Ε., Cormier, Κ. & Vinson. D., 2009. British Sign Language Grammaticality Judgement Task: Exploring age-of-acquisition effects in British deaf adults. 1st Bangor Postgraduate Conference on Bilingualism and Bimodalism. Bangor University, October 2-3, 2009.

Orfanidou E., Marslen-Wilson, W.D., & Davis, M.H. (2009). Is there a difference between pairs like theoro/theoria, pino/poto, fetos/feta? Maybe in the long term. 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Chicago, USA, October 29-31, 2009.

Orfanidou E., Marslen-Wilson, W.D., & Davis, M.H. (2009). Effects of semantic relatedness and extreme orthographic opacity in masked and delayed priming: Evidence from Greek. 6th International Conference of morphological processing, Turku, Finland, June 15-17, 2009.

Schembri, A., Orfanidou, Ε., Cormier, Κ. & Vinson. D. (2010). British Sign Language Grammaticality Judgement Task: Exploring age-of-acquisition effects in British deaf adults. 10th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference, Purdue University, September 30-October 2, 2010.

Kaestner, L., Orfanidou, E., Capek, C., Rudner, M., Woll, B., & Ronnberg, J. (2010). The “what” and “where” of sign language. 18th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Germany, August 25-28, 2010.

Cardin, V., Orfanidou, E., Kastner, L., Capek, C.M., Rönnberg, J., Woll, B., Rudner, M. (2011). Signs that violate phonological rules differentially activate parietal areas in deaf native signers. Poster presented at the 3rd Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, MD, USA, November 10-11, 2011.

Cardin, V., Orfanidou, E., Kastner, L., Capek, C.M., Rönnberg, J., Woll, B., Rudner, M. (2011). Signs that violate phonological rules differentially activate parietal areas in deaf native signers. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, Washington D.C., USA, November 12-16, 2011.

Rudner, M., Orfanidou, E., Cardin, V., Woll, B., Rönnberg, J. (2011). Relative effects of aging on cognition for communication in deaf signing and hearing non-signing adults. Aging and Speech communication Research Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 11-12, 2011.

7 Rudner, M., Cardin, V., Orfanidou, E., Capek, C.M., Woll, B., Rönnberg, J., (2011). Neural mechanisms in STS mechanisms for processing phonological components. Poster presented at the Symposium “Neuroplasiticty and cognitin across the lifespan”, Karolinska Instituet, Stockholm, Sweden, September 1-2, 2011.

Cardin, V., Orfanidou, E., Kastner, L., Capek, C.M., Woll, B., Rönnberg, J., Rudner, M. (2011). Neural mechanisms supporting the extraction of different sublexical components of sign language. Poster presented at the 1st Conference on Cognitive and Hearing Research, Linköping, Sweden, June 19-22, 2011.

Orfanidou, E., Cardin, V., Hazimah, H.H., Capek, C.M., Woll, B., Rudner, M., Rönnberg, J. (2011). Working memory and visuospatial cognition in deaf signers and hearing non-signers. Poster presented at the 1st Conference on Cognitive and Hearing Research, Linköping, Sweden, June 19-22, 2011.

Orfanidou, E., Kaestner, L., Capek, C., Cardin, V., Woll, B., Rudner, M., Ronnberg, J. (2011). Semantic and phonological processing in the visuospatial domain: Evidence from Swedish Sign Language. Poster presented at the 18th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2-5, 2011.

Kästner, L., Cardin,V., Orfanidou, E., Capek, C.M., Rönnberg, J., Woll, B., & Rudner, M. (2011). Phonological processing across modalities: Evidence from sign language Sensory-motor concepts in language and cognition (SMCLC-11), December 1-3, 2011, Düssseldorf, Germany.

Rudner, M., Orfanidou, E., Cardin, V., Capek, C.M., Woll, B., Rönnberg, J. (2012). Reading ability in adult deaf native signers is positively associated with their ability to judge the grammatically of their native sign language. Fourth Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, October 26-27, 2012, San Sebastian, Spain.

Cardin,V., Orfanidou, E., Rönnberg, J., Capek, C., Rudner, M., & Woll, B.(2012). Dissociating linguistic and sensory neural plasticity in human superior temporal cortex Society for Neuroscience, October, 13-17, 2012, New Orleans, USA.

Orfanidou, E., Lagoudianaki, M., & Davis, M.H. (2013). Morphological processing during word reading: a comparison of skilled and beginner readers in a masked priming task. 14th National conference of Psychological Research, May, 15-19 2013, Alexndroupoli, Greece.

Vagia, A., Vatakis, A., Orfanidou, E. (2013). Language and time: an investigation of the influence of word meaning in time perception. 14th National conference of Psychological Research, May, 15-19 2013, Alexndroupoli, Greece.

Protopapas, Ath., Smyrnis, N., Karavasilis, E., Orfanidou, E. (2013). Language and time: an investigation of the influence of word meaning in time perception. 14th National conference of Psychological Research, May, 15-19 2013, Alexndroupoli, Greece.

8 Invited Talks/Lectures Orfanidou, E. 2004. Experimental methods in linguistics – psycholinguistics experiments: methodology and applications for theoretical linguistics. School of Philosophy,University of Athens, May 11, 2004.

Orfanidou, E. 2005. What can repetition priming and efMRI tell us about spoken word recognition. fMRI Research Centre, Columbia University, New York, December 14, 2005.

Orfanidou, E. (2006). The structure of the mental lexicon: data from a series of psycholinguistic experiments and a neuroimaging study on Greek derivational morphology. Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge University, March 26, 2006.

Orfanidou, E. (2008). How do signers of British Sign Language segment continuous signing: the use of transitions between signs. Bristol University, Centre for Deaf Studies,UK, December 12, 2008.

Orfanidou, E. (2008). Spoken word recognition: neurolinguistic studies in Greek adn English. Medical School, University of Athens, March 27, 2008.

Orfanidou, E. (2008). Indexical and allomorphic variation in spoken word recognition: behavioural and neuroimaging studies. University of Essex, Department of Linguistics, March 13, 2008.

Orfanidou, E. (2009). The hearing, listening and signing brain. Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, UCL, London, November 7, 2009.

Orfanidou E. (2009). Phonology in a soundless, visual/gestural language: Evidence from British Sign Language. Institute for Speech Processing, ΙΕΚ «Αthena», Athens, Greece, May 22, 2009.

Orfanidou E. (2009). Introduction to the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Grete, April 13, 2009.

Orfanidou, E. (2010). Experiments with morphologically complex words in Greek. Department of Methodology and history of Science, University of Athens, November 12, 2010.

Orfanidou E. (2010). Language and memory: spoken, written and signed language. Medical School, University of Athens, June 12, 2010.

Orfanidou E. (2010). Neuroimaging methods and cognitive functions. Greek Neurosurgical Society, February 22, 2010.

Orfanidou, E. (2011). fMRI: Introductory comments (design and interpretation). 3rd Greek Conference of Cognitive Science. Paros, Greece, June 2-5, 2011.

9 Orfanidou, E. (2011). Language and neuroimaging: spoken and signed language. Symposium “ Language and the brain: from language development to language disorders”. University of Athens, April 13, 2011.

Orfanidou, E. (2012). Psycholinguistics-Neurolinguistics. Invited Lecture, School of Philosophy, Linguistics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, January 26, 2012.

Orfanidou, E. (2013). A review and synthesis of the first 20 years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (Price, 2012). Invited Seminar, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, November 23, 2013.

Orfanidou, E. (2013). Deafness, sign language experience, and efficiency of processing in linguistic and non-linguistic visuospatial working memory. Invited talk, Deafness, Cognition and Language research centre, UCL, London, June 13, 2013.

Languages Greek (native), English (fluent), French (very good), German (very good), Italian (basic), British Sign Language (good)