Invited Talks/Lectures (selection)

  1. Fyndanis, V. “Morphosyntactic errors and cognitive systems: Empirical data from acquired neurogenic disorders and healthy aging.” Oral presentation at the Department of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. (April 24, 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece). (in Greek)  
  2. Fyndanis, V. “Verb-related morphosyntactic production in adult language disorders and healthy aging: Evidence from Greek.” Oral presentation at the Center for Theoretical Linguistics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. (January 19, 2024, Barcelona, Spain).
  3. Fyndanis, V. “Machine Learning Aphasia.” Oral presentation at MultiLing Closing Conference – Session 8 “Multilingualism and Language Disorders” (Session leader: Monica I. Norvik), MultiLing / Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, 18–20 October 2023. (October 20, 2023, Oslo, Norway)
  4. Fyndanis, V. “The relationship between multilingualism and cognitive capacities: Evidence from neurotypical middle-aged and older academics.” Oral presentation at MultiLing Closing Conference – Session 6 “Language and Cognitive Processes in the Multilingual Brain” (Session leader: Franziska Köder), MultiLing / Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, 18–20 October 2023. (October 20, 2023, Oslo, Norway)
  5. Fyndanis, V. “Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory: Evidence from university professors and researchers.” Keynote at the Advances in second/foreign language acquisition (ASeFoLA 2023) conference, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Nicosia. (June 10, 2023, Nicosia, Cyprus)
  6. Fyndanis, V. “Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory: Evidence from academics.” Oral presentation at the 13th Conference on Communication Disorders in Multilingual and Multicultural Populations, Department of Communication Disorders, Hadassah Academic College. (January 10, 2023, Jerusalem, Israel)
  7. Fyndanis, V. “Teasing apart tense-related encoding and retrieval deficits in aphasia.” Virtual presentation at the e-Seminars organized by the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. (November 16, 2022.)
  8. Fyndanis, V. “Treatment of underlying forms.” Virtual lecture at the undergraduate course Aphasias and Neurological Communication Disorders: Principles and Neurorehabilitation at the Department of Speech and Language Therapy, University of Ioannina, Greece. (May 28, 2021) (in Greek)
  9. Fyndanis, V. “Sequential multilingualism and working memory: Evidence from academics.” Virtual presentation at the LingLab Webinars organized by the Linguistics Laboratory at the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. (April 23, 2021)
  10. Fyndanis, V. “Brain and aphasia”. Virtual lecture at the undergraduate course Introduction to the Study of Language at the School of English, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. (November 25, 2020)
  11. Fyndanis, V. “Morphosyntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: A cross-linguistic machine learning approach.” Oral presentation at the LAVA Lunch Seminar, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. (November 15, 2019, Tromsø, Norway)
  12. Fyndanis, V. “The impact of multilingualism on the cognitive abilities of healthy speakers.” Lecture at the Master’s course ENG-3060 Multilingualism at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. (November 13, 2019, Tromsø, Norway)
  13. Fyndanis, V. & Cameron, S. “Cognitive testing: When is it non-verbal?”. Oral presentation at MultiLing’s workshop Visual Prompts and Visual Methods in Multilingualism Research (part of MultiLing’s Colloquium B, Engaging Innovative Methodologies in Studying Multilingualism across the Lifespan), University of Oslo. (June 18, 2019, Oslo, Norway)
  14. Fyndanis, V. “Morphosyntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: A cross-linguistic machine learning approach.” Oral presentation at the Obler Neurolinguistics Lab Meeting, CUNY Graduate Center. (May 16, 2019, New York City, USA)
  15. Fyndanis, V. “Does bi-/multilingualism make academics even ‘smarter’? Evidence from Norway.” Oral presentation at the CNRS Laboratory Structures Formelles du Langage/University Paris 8.(June 4, 2018, Paris, France)
  16. Fyndanis, V. “Morphosyntactic production in Greek- and Italian-speaking individuals with probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from subject-verb agreement, tense/time reference and mood.” Oral presentation at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Lille 3. (May 25, 2018, Lille, France)
  17. Fyndanis, V. “Time reference in aphasia: Evidence from Greek and Italian.” Oral presentation at the Department of Linguistics at University of Lille 3. (May 18, 2018, Lille, France)
  18. Fyndanis, V. “(Morpho)syntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: A cross-linguistic test of three competing hypotheses and a machine learning study.” Oral presentation at the Department of Linguistics at University of Lille 3. (May 4, 2018, Lille, France)
  19. Fyndanis, V. “Does bi-/multilingualism make academics even ‘smarter’? Evidence from Norway”. Oral presentation at the Department of Linguistics at University of Lille 3. (4 May 2018, Lille, France)
  20. Fyndanis, V. “Impact of bi-/multilingualism on cognitive abilities.” Oral presentation at Oslo Metropolitan University. (April 23, 2018, Oslo, Norway)
  21. Fyndanis, V. “Morphosyntactic production in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from Greek and Italian.” Oral presentation at the research group Swedish Language Bank (Språkbanken), Faculty of Arts, University of Gothenburg. (December 19, 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  22. Fyndanis, V. “Linguistic and cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s disease” Oral presentation at the MSc in Brain and Cognitive Sciences guest speaker seminar, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology. (November 28, 2017, Limassol, Cyprus)
  23. Fyndanis, V. “(Morpho)syntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from German, Italian, and Greek.” Oral presentation at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden. (May 15, 2017, Linköping, Sweden)
  24. Fyndanis, V. “Experimental methods in psycholinguistics.” Lecture in Master’s course Linguistic Methods, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. (April 4, 2016, Oslo, Norway)
  25. Fyndanis, V. “Morphosyntactic processing in aphasia, Alzheimer’s disease, and healthy aging.” Oral presentation at MultiLing, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo. (June 9, 2015, Oslo, Norway)
  26. Fyndanis, V. “Morphosyntactic production in agrammatic aphasia and healthy aging: Evidence from Greek.” Oral presentation at the Seminario di Linguistica, Department of Linguistics, University of Padua. (March 27, 2015, Padua, Italy)
  27. Fyndanis, V. “Morphosyntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: Non-local dependencies and Working Memory.” Oral presentation at the European Master in Clinical Linguistics guest speaker seminar, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam. (June 2, 2014, Potsdam, Germany)
  28. Fyndanis, V. “Morphosyntactic impairment in agrammatic aphasia and probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from Greek.” Oral presentation at the workshop Comparative Biolinguistics: An exploratory workshop. Biolinguistics Initiative Barcelona. (November 29, 2013, Barcelona, Spain)
  29. Fyndanis, V. “Morphosyntactic production in agrammatism: The role of non-local dependencies.” Oral presentation at the Neurolinguistics Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam. (October 15, 2013, Potsdam, Germany)
  30. Fyndanis, V. “Demonstrating the value of aphasia intervention.” Lecture at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. (May 11, 2012, Athens, Greece) (in Greek)
  31. Fyndanis, V. “Broca’s aphasia and agrammatism.” Lecture at the Department of Humanities, European University of Cyprus. (June 28, 2011, Nicosia, Cyprus)
  32. Fyndanis, V. “Functional categories in agrammatism: Evidence from Greek.” Oral presentation at the Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Laboratory at the School of Communication, Northwestern University. (August 13, 2010, Evanston, Illinois, USA)

Assistant Professor at Cyprus University of Technology & Researcher at University of Oslo