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Athanassios Protopapas

Athanassios Protopapas

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
7207
World Ranking
5044
National Ranking
42

Overview

Athanassios Protopapas is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a specific emphasis on developmental and educational psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience.

Their work spans several key topics, including:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills
  • Language Development and Disorders

Protopapas frequently publishes in scholarly venues such as:

  • Reading and Writing
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Their recent papers include:

  • Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO), 2022, published in Behavior Research Methods
  • Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus, 2022, published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • Cascaded processing in naming and reading: Evidence from Chinese and Korean, 2022, published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Early rapid naming longitudinally predicts shared variance in reading and arithmetic fluency, 2023, published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Prevalence of spelling errors affects reading behavior across languages, 2021, published in Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Protopapas frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Laoura Ziaka
  • George K. Georgiou
  • Victor Kuperman
  • Angeliki Altani
  • Noam Siegelman

Best Publications

  • Speech comprehension is correlated with temporal response patterns recorded from auditory cortex

    Ehud Ahissar;Srikantan Nagarajan;Merav Ahissar;Athanassios Protopapas

  • Check Vocal: A program to facilitate checking the accuracy and response time of vocal responses from DMDX

    Athanassios Protopapas

  • Disruption of the neural response to rapid acoustic stimuli in dyslexia: Evidence from functional MRI

    E. Temple;Russell A Poldrack;A. Protopapas;S. Nagarajan;S. Nagarajan

  • Auditory processing parallels reading abilities in adults

    Merav Ahissar;Athanassios Protopapas;Miriam Reid;Michael M. Merzenich

  • Success and failure in teaching the [r]-[l] contrast to Japanese adults: tests of a Hebbian model of plasticity and stabilization in spoken language perception.

    Bruce D. McCandliss;Julie A. Fiez;Athanassios Protopapas;Mary Conway

  • Relations between the Neural Bases of Dynamic Auditory Processing and Phonological Processing: Evidence from fMRI

    Russell A. Poldrack;Elise Temple;Athanassios Protopapas;Srikantan Nagarajan

  • Selective speech motor, syntax and cognitive deficits associated with bilateral damage to the putamen and the head of the caudate nucleus: a case study.

    Emily R Pickett;Erin Kuniholm;Athanassios Protopapas;Joseph Friedman

  • Reading ability is negatively related to Stroop interference.

    Athanassios Protopapas;Anastasia Archonti;Christos Skaloumbakas

  • A comparative quantitative analysis of Greek orthographic transparency.

    Athanassios Protopapas;Eleni L. Vlahou

  • Development of Lexical Mediation in the Relation Between Reading Comprehension and Word Reading Skills in Greek

    Athanassios Protopapas;Georgios D. Sideridis;Angeliki Mouzaki;Panagiotis G. Simos

  • Fundamental frequency of phonation and perceived emotional stress

    Athanassios Protopapas;Philip Lieberman

  • The Components of the Simple View of Reading: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis

    Athanassios Protopapas;Panagiotis G. Simos;Georgios D. Sideridis;Angeliki Mouzaki

  • The Role of Vocabulary in the Context of the Simple View of Reading.

    Athanassios Protopapas;Angeliki Mouzaki;Georgios D. Sideridis;Areti Kotsolakou

  • What do spelling errors tell us? Classification and analysis of errors made by Greek schoolchildren with and without dyslexia

    Athanassios Protopapas;Aikaterini Fakou;Styliani Drakopoulou;Christos Skaloumbakas

  • Development of serial processing in reading and rapid naming.

    Athanassios Protopapas;Angeliki Altani;George K. Georgiou

  • Classification of Students with Reading Comprehension Difficulties: The Roles of Motivation, affect, and Psychopathology

    Georgios D. Sideridis;Angeliki Mouzaki;Panagiotis Simos;Athanassios Protopapas

  • Cognitive defects at altitude.

    Lieberman P;Protopapas A;Reed E;Reed E;Youngs Jw

  • Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus

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  • Techniques for predicting reading deficit based on acoustical measurements

    Athanassios Protopapas;Michael M. Merzenich;Merav Ahissar

  • The breakdown of functional categories in Greek aphasia: Evidence from agreement, tense, and aspect

    Spyridoula Varlokosta;Natalia Valeonti;Maria Kakavoulia;Mirto Lazaridou

  • Universal screen for language learning impaired subjects

    Steven L. Miller;Bret E. Peterson;Athanassios Protopapas

Frequent Co-Authors

Merav Ahissar
Merav Ahissar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Panagiotis G. Simos
Panagiotis G. Simos University of Crete
Michael M. Merzenich
Michael M. Merzenich University of California, San Francisco
Georgios D. Sideridis
Georgios D. Sideridis Boston Children's Hospital
Rauno Parrila
Rauno Parrila Macquarie University
George K. Georgiou
George K. Georgiou University of Alberta
Aaron R. Seitz
Aaron R. Seitz University of California, Riverside
Srikantan S. Nagarajan
Srikantan S. Nagarajan University of California, San Francisco
Philip Lieberman
Philip Lieberman Brown University
Peter D. Eimas
Peter D. Eimas Brown University

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