Marietta Papadatou-Pastou

Biography

I graduated from the Department of Psychology of the Panteion University, Athens, Greece. I further hold an MSc in Research Methods in Psychology (awarded with distinction) and a DPhil in Neuropsychology (full scholarship), both from the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK. In 2014, I joined the faculty of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as a Lecturer in “Neuropsychology and Language Functions” and in 2024 I became Associate Professor. I am also an Affiliated Investigator of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens.  I served as the Secretary General for the Hellenic Psychological Society (HPS; 2017-2019) and I am the co-director of the Neuropsychology Branch of the HPS since 2017 and treasurer of the Hellenic Brain Council since 2024. My research interests include various aspects of neuropsychology, as well as cognitive neuroscience, educational neuroscience, and experimental psychology. My work focuses on handedness and brain lateralization, using behavioral and brain imaging techniques (functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound [fTCD] and functional magnetic resonance imaging [fMRI]), in healthy individuals as well as populations with special education needs (students with dyslexia, hearing impaired students, students with low or high IQ and individuals with autism spectrum disorder). I am further interested in meta-science, with a special focus on meta-analysis. Moreover, I am a member of the Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA), where I have served as an Assistant Director for the Ethics Review Committee. Last but not least, I am interested in science outreach.

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