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Michaela Nerantzini

Assistant Professor

Michaela Nerantzini holds a Ph.D. in Neurolinguistics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research focuses on the relationship between language and cognitive deficits in both acquired and developmental disorders. Her additional research area concerns the study of aphasia with the aim of designing effective intervention tools to enhance the language and cognitive skills of people with acquired language disorders. After her doctoral studies, she completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern University in the US. From 2017 onwards she has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Philology of the University of Ioannina and of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at the Department of Speech and Language Therapy of the University of Patras

Contact details
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  • Department of Speech & Language Therapy
    University of Ioannina
    Ioannina University Campus B,
    4o km National road Ioannina-Athens
    GR 45500 Ioannina, Greece
Teaching Courses

Academic Information

Domain of interest/Discipline

Linguistics

Education
  • 2013 - Ph.D. (Neurolinguistics) from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
  • 2008 - M.Sc. in Clinical Linguistics (University of Groningen, The Netherlands & University of Potsdam, Germany)
  • 2007 - B.Sc. Linguistics from University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece
Scientific/Research Interests
  • Sentence processing (syntax, morphology) in acquired language deficits (stroke-induced or caused by cortical degeneration (PPA)
  • Neuroimaging Applications and language intervention (e.g., rTMS, tDCS)
  • Language Acquisition and developmental language disorders, Bilingualism and Second language learning
Indicative Papers
  • Peristeri, E., Nerantzini, M., Drakoulaki, K., Boznou, A., & Varlokosta, S. (2024). Narrative production and executive functions in post-stroke agrammatic aphasia. Aphasiology, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2024.2393221
  • Peristeri, E., Drakoulaki, K., Boznou, A., Nerantzini, M., Gena, A., Lengeris, A., & Varlokosta, S. (2024). What silent pauses can ‘tell’ us about the storytelling skills of autistic children: Relations between pausing, language skills and executive functions. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06523-y
  • Stamouli, Sp., Nerantzini, M., Papakyritsis, I., Katsamanis, N., Chatzoudis, G., Dimou, A., Plitsis, E., Katsouros, V., Varlokosta, S., & Terzi, A. (2023). A web-based application for eliciting narrative discourse from Greek-speaking people with and without language impairments. Frontiers in Communication, section Language Sciences, 8:919617. DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2023.919617
  • Nerantzini, M., Drakoulaki, K., Peristeri, E., & Varlokosta, S. (2023). Cognitive Intervention for people with aphasia; a treatment protocol. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing). International Society of Experimental Linguistics. Athens: National and Kapositrian University of Athens.
  • Nerantzini, M., Papakyritsis, I., Christou, Th., Zafeiri, A., Bagioka, D.  & Terzi, A. (2023). Telerehabilitation advancements: A Computer-based speech/ language treatment platform for Greek-speaking people with chronic aphasia and dysarthria. Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Language Disorders in Greek.
  • Manouilidou, Ch., Nerantzini, M., Marjanovic, K., Roumpea, G., Pirtosek, Zv., & Bon, J. (2021). Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation coupled with behavioral intervention appears to improve sentence comprehension in early Alzheimer’s disease. Brain Stimulation 14: 1589-1707.
  • Nerantzini, M., Mastropavlou, M., Christou, Th., Lekakou, M. & Zakopoulou, V. (2021). Processing voice morphology and argument structure during sentence comprehension by Greek children with dyslexia and beginning readers. Applied Psycholinguistics, 1-31. doi:10.1017/S0142716421000424
  • Manouilidou, Ch., Nerantzini, M., Ciappetta, B., Mesulam, M.M., & Thompson, C. (2021). What language disorders reveal about the mechanisms of morphological processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:701802. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.701802
  • Nerantzini, M., Savvoulidou, D., Stavrakaki, St., Kouskouras, K., Patsalas, I., Foroglou, N., Kosmidis, M., & Kimiskidis, V. (2020). Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Aphasia Rehabilitation. In: G. Argyropoulos (Ed.) Translational Neuroscience of Speech and Language Disorders, Series: Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience, Springer. Cham.
  • Manouilidou, Ch., & Nerantzini, M. (2020). Treatment and intervention approaches for the improvement of language abilities in neurodegenerative diseases. In: G. Argyropoulos (Ed.) Translational Neuroscience of Speech and Language Disorders, Series: Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience, Springer. Cham.
  • Nerantzini, M., Papakyritsis, I., & Varlokosta, S. (2019). Time reference and Tense marking in Greek agrammatism. Evidence from narratives and a sentence production priming task. Aphasiology, DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2019.1693028
  • Papakyritsis, I., Kastani, I., & Nerantzini, M. (2019): Phonological awareness and sonority in Greek children: developmental data and clinical perspectives, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 34(8): 756-773. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2019.1697371
  • Mack, J., Nerantzini, M., & Thompson, C. (2017). Recovery of sentence production processed following language treatment in aphasia: Evidence from eyetracking. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11:101.
  • Schuchard, J., Nerantzini, M. & Thompson, C. (2016). Implicit learning and implicit treatment outcomes in individuals with aphasia. Aphasiology, 31:25-48.
  • Varlokosta, S., Nerantzini, M., & Papadopoulou, D. (2015). Comprehension asymmetries in language acquisition. A test for Relativized Minimality. Journal of Child Language, 42 (3): 618-661.
  • Varlokosta, S., Nerantzini, M., Papadopoulou, D., Bastiaanse, R., & Beretta, A. (2014). Minimality effects in agrammatic comprehension: The role of lexical restriction and feature impoverishment. Lingua, 148: 80-94.
  • Nerantzini, M., Varlokosta, S., Papadopoulou, D., & Bastiaanse, R. (2014). Wh-questions and relative clauses in Greek aphasia: Evidence from comprehension and production. Aphasiology, 28, (4): 490-514.
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