Ioanna Markostamou

Dr Ioanna Markostamou

  • Lecturer in Psychology
  • Poole House P123, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

Ioanna is a Lecturer at the Psychology ​Department at Bournemouth University (BU). Before joining BU, she held postdoc positions at the University of Herfordshire (UK). Ioanna completed her PhD at the University of East Anglia (UK) with a Marie Curie ECR Fellowship of the EU. 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). Throughout those years, Ioanna also studied and completed research secondments in other institutions, including the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (NL), University of Salamanca (SP), and Aarhus University (DK).

Research

Ioanna's research interests lie in the areas of cognitive psychology and neuropsychology. Her research work includes behavioural, clinical, psychometric and neuroimaging/neurophysiological methods to investigate convergent and divergent cognitive changes in memory and visuospatial abilities across the lifespan and in neuropsychological conditions (e.g., stroke; mild cognitive impairment; dementias), both in the lab and in daily life.

A key focus of her work has been the investigation of the nature and mechanisms involved in the manifestation of cognitive phenomena mediated by spontaneous (or effortless) encoding and retrieval processes (e.g., incidental memory; autobiographical memory; mind-wandering and spontaneous future thinking), and how these processes emerge early in development and may be differentially affected by typical and atypical ageing relatively to effortful operations. Another focus has been the mapping between linguistic and non-linguistic representations of space in encoding, processing, and recalling visuospatial and navigation information from different perspectives across the lifespan and in pathological ageing,

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