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Marietta Papadatou-Pastou CPsychol CSci AFBPsS

Associate Professor, “Neuropsychology and Language Functions”

                     

Contact Details
 

email: mpapadatou@primedu.uoa.gr

Address:

13Α Navarinou Str, 10680, Athens, Greece
 

 Studies

  • Doctorate Diploma (DPhil [PhD]) in Neuropsychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
  • Master in Science (MSc) in Research Methods in Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
  • Ptychion (4-year BSc Hons) in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece

Professional career/experience
  • Faculty member in the Faculty of Primary Education, School of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2014-present)
  • Lecturer Adjunct in the Faculty of Primary Education, School of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2009-2012)
  • Head of Psychology Department, Business College of Athens (BCA) (2011-2014)

Research interests
  • Neuroscience and Education (Educational Neuroscience, Neuro-education)
  • Experimental neuropsychology
  • Brain imaging (functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound [fTCD], functional magnetic resonance imaging [fMRI])
  • Experimental cognitive psychology with an emphasis on the study of language and memory functions
  • Cerebral laterality and behavioural laterality (handedness)
  • Meta-analysis

Teaching

Undergraduate level

  • Educational Neuroscience
  • Statistics with SPSS (2017-2018, with G. Sideridis)

  • Developmental Psychology (2020-2021)

Postgraduate level

  • Neuroscience and Education
  • Supervisor of MSc theses

  • Applications of Neuroscience in Education

  • Research Methods and Statistics
  • Cognitive Psychology in Education
  • Introduction to Neuroscience

Research programs

  • Principal Investigator for the research project supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) "By (writing) hand: Investigating the cerebral laterality during writing using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound and the genetic relationship of laterality with special learning difficulties (dyslexia, dysgraphia) (WRITE)" (2020-2023)

  • Researcher for the EU funded H2020 project "Modulating Human Subjective Experience (ChronoPilot)" (2021-2025)

  • Head of the Greek team for the Erasmus+ program "Interdisciplinary Cooperation in Psychosocial Interventions (InterAct)" (2018-2020)

  • Head of the Greek team for the Erasmus+ program "new Tools for Inclusion of Dyslexic studEnts (TIDE)" (2016-2019)
  • Researcher for the national funded parogram ‘’Evaluation of Special Needs Educational  Settings’’ (2012-2014)
  • Researcher for the EU funded program ‘’Designing evidence-based strategies and actions to face bullying by considering socio-ethnic diversities in school populations and evaluating their effects (DAPHNE III)’’ (2009-2011)

Academic activities

Reviewer in the peer-reviewed journals (https://publons.com/author/1176437/marietta-papadatou-pastou#profile):

  • Brain and Language (Elsevier)
  • Brain and Cognition (Elsevier)
  • Plos ONE (Public Library of Science)
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology (Elsevier)
  • Molecular Neurobiology (Springer)
  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research (Elsevier)
  • Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition (Psychology Press)
  • Psychology (Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society)
  • Hellenic Journal of Research in Education (Laboratory of Research in Pedagogy and Educational Practices, Department of Educational Sciences in Pre-school Age, Democritus University of Thrace)
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders (Elsevier)
  •  IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society)

  • Neuropsychology (American Psychological Association)

  • Neuropsychologia (Elsevier)

 Learned societies:

  • Hellenic Psychological Society
    • Secretary General (5.2017-5.2019)
    • Co-coordinator of the Neuropsychology Division (5.2015 – present)
  • British Psychological Society (BPS)
    • Associate Fellow (AFBPsS)
    • Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol)
    • Chartered Scientist (CSci)
  • Psychological Society of Northern Greece
  • Association of Greek Psychologists
  • Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
  • International Brain Research Organization
  • Hellenic Neuropsychological Society (HNPS)

Science Communication

  • Talks for the general public (e.g., Mediterranean Science Festival, Athens Science Festival, Café Scientific)
  • Popular science pieces (e.g., Athens Voice, protagon.gr, scinews.eu, column titled "Let's Science" in a8inea.com)

Publications

More than 50 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (H-factor = 22, more than 1500 citations,  https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=jVcD7-UAAAAJ&hl=el)

Selected articles in peer-reviewed international journals (n = 15)

  • Nastou, E., Ocklenburg, S., Hoogman, M., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2022). Handedness in ADHD: Meta-Analyses. Neuropsychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-021-09530-3

  • Pfeifer, L. S., Schmitz, J., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Peterburs, J., Paracchini, S., & Ocklenburg, S. (2022). Handedness in twins: Meta-analyses. BMC Psychology, 10:11 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00695-3

  • Westerhausen, R., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2021). Handedness and midsagittal corpus callosum morphology: A systematic meta-analytic evaluation. Brain Structure and Function. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-021-02431-4

  • Papadatou-Pastou, M., Ntolka, E., Schmitz, J., Martin, M., Munafò, M. R., Ocklenburg, S., & Paracchini, S. (2020). Human handedness: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 146(6), 481–524. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000229

  • Papadatou-Pastou, M., Gritzali, M., & Barrable, A. (2018). Educational neuromyths using the case of learning styles: Lack of agreement between teachers’ judgments of their students’ Learning Styles, self-assessed Learning Styles, and students’ intelligence. Frontiers in Education: Educational Psychology, Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2018.00105

  • Ntolka, E., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2018). Right-handers have negligibly higher IQ scores than left-handers: Systematic review and meta-analyses. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 84,376-393. 
    Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.08.007

  • Papadatou-Pastou, M., & Martin, M. (2017). Cerebral laterality for language is related to adult salivary testosterone levels but not digit ratio (2D: 4D) in men: A functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound study. Brain and Language, 166, 52-62. 
    Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.12.002