The Aphasia and Psycholinguistics Lab is directed by Dr. Valantis Fyndanis. The focus of the research being conducted at the Aphasia and Psycholinguistics Lab is on (1) the morphosyntactic, narrative discourse and cognitive deficits in stroke-induced aphasia, dementia of the Alzheimer type, mild cognitive impairment, and healthy aging, and (2) bilingualism/multilingualism.

Currently, the primary lines of research are the following:
(1) investigation of the morphosyntactic category-, subject-, language- and task/material-specific factors that affect the level of performance of a given individual with stroke-induced aphasia in the production of a given morphosyntactic category;
(2) relationship between bilingualism/multilingualism and cognitive capacities such as working memory and executive functions; and
(3) relationship between morphosyntactic processing (in both production and comprehension) and cognitive capacities such as short-term memory, working memory and speed of processing.

In the above lines of research, both timed and untimed behavioural (linguistic and cognitive) tasks are employed. In collaboration with other labs, we also carry out eye-tracking and EEG/ERP studies.

Dr. Fyndanis was the Principal Investigator of the Machine Learning Aphasia project (2019-2024), funded by the Research Council of Norway. The Cyprus University of Technology was one of the international partners on this project.

PhD students
Georgia Kakargia (09.2024 – present)

Nikoleta Ioannidou (09.2021 – present)

Marielena Soilemezidi (11.2019 – present; affiliated with National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Postdoctoral Fellows
Qingyuan Gardner (10.2021 – 07.2024; affiliated with University of Oslo, Norway)

Alumnae
Styliani Tsigka (Postdoctoral Fellow; 09.2022 – 08.2013)

Natalia Pavlou (Postdoctoral Fellow; 04.2021 – 12.2021)