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Ioanna is a Senior Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. She completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychology at the University of East Anglia (UK) with an EU-funded Marie Curie Early-Stage Research Fellowship. She received a BSc in Psychology from the University of Crete (GR) and a MSc in Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR).
Research interests
Ioanna’s main research interests focus on patterns of convergent and divergent changes occurring in various cognitive systems (i.e., memory, visuospatial abilities, language, spontaneous cognitions) across the lifespan and in neuropsychological disorders.
A key focus has been the nature and mechanisms involved in the manifestation of cognitive phenomena that are mediated by spontaneous retrieval processes. For example, why does a thought or a memory pop into our mind unexpectedly; are there any qualitative differences between the autobiographical memories we recall automatically and effortlessly versus the memories we recall effortfully; do spontaneous retrieval processes change comparably to effortful processes in typical and in atypical ageing?
- Markostamou, Randall, & Kvavilashvili (2023) Memory https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2212921
- Cole, Markostamou, et al (2022) J of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000071
- Kvavilashvili, Niedzwienska, Gilbert, & Markostamou (2020) Trends in Cognitive Sciences https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.01.005
Another focus has been been the mapping between linguistic and non-linguistic representations of space in encoding, processing, and recalling visuospatial and navigation information from different perspectives. For example, is one’s ability to verbally describe and remember locations more closely related to verbal or visuospatial abilities, or both; and how does this ability change with increasing age or in dementia?
- Markostamou & Coventry (2022) Neuropsychology https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000789
- Markostamou & Coventry (2022) Applied Neuropsychology https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2022.2121212
- Markostamou & Coventry (2021) J of Environmental Psychology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101712
An earlier area of research has been the long-term effects of early-life experiences (i.e., stress) on brain plasticity, visuospatial abilities and behavioural manifestations after neurological insults.
- Markostamou, et al (2016) International J of Developmental Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2016.04.002
- Tata, Markostamou, et al (2015) Behavioural Brain Research https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.11.033
Teaching specialisms
- Cognitive and Biological Psychology (PSY2 lectures)
- Research Methods (PSY1 tutorials)
- Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology research project and research apprenticeship supervision (BSc / MSc / PhD)
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Projects
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QR Grant (CRiPSS, UH) on "Memory for familiar routes in typical and atypical ageing"
11/04/22 → 10/04/23
Project: Research
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Dissociations between directly and generatively retrieved autobiographical memories: Evidence from ageing
Markostamou, I., Randall, C. & Kvavilashvili, L., 15 May 2023, In: Memory. 31, 7, p. 931-947 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Distinguishing involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences: Different types of cues and memory representations?
Kvavilashvili, L. & Markostamou, I., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Spontaneous past and future thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic across 14 countries: Effects of individual and country-level COVID-19 impact indicators
Cole, S., Markostamou, I., Watson, L. A., Barzykowski, K., Ergen, İ., Taylor, A. & Öner, S., 27 Oct 2022, In: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Age effects on processing spatial relations within different reference frames: The role of executive functions
Markostamou, I. & Coventry, K. R., 19 Sept 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Collective remembering and future forecasting during the COVID-19 pandemic: How the impact of COVID-19 affected the themes and phenomenology of global and national memories across 15 countries
Öner, S., Watson, L. A., Adıgüzel, Z., Ergen, İ., Bilgin, E., Curci, A., Cole, S., de la Mata, M. L., Janssen, S. M. J., Lanciano, T., Markostamou, I., Nourkova, V., Santamaría, A., Taylor, A., Barzykowski, K., Bascón, M., Bermeitinger, C., Cubero-Pérez, R., Dessenberger, S., Garry, M., & 10 others, 12 Jul 2022, In: Memory and Cognition. 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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