Dr. Alexandra Karousou

Curriculum Vitae

since 2019	Associated Researcher at DIPF | Member of IDeA Center
since 2014	Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Language Development, Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), Dept. of Education Sciences in the Early Years
2014 – 2016	Lecturer of Cognitive Psychology and Language Development. Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), Dept. of Education Sciences in Early Childhood
2010 – 2013	Adjunct Lecturer of Cognitive and Developmental Psychology. Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), Dept. of Education Sciences in Early Childhood
2008 – 2010	Adjunct Lecturer of Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Language Development. University of Hertfordshire / IST. B.Sc in Psychology
2005 – 2008	Post-doctoral researcher. University of Athens (Greece). Dept. of Early Childhood Education
2003 – 2005	Adjunct Lecturer of Cognitive Psy. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). University College Cardenal Cisneros. School of Psychology
2003	PhD Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), School of Psychology, Dept. of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Processes

Research Interests

• Early communication and language development
• Early evaluation and prediction of language development
• Phonological working memory and language development

Publications

Indicative publications (peer-reviewed)

• Mokaiti, F., & Karousou, A. (2020). The relationship between preschoolers’ vocabulary development and their psychosocial profile. Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society, 25, Special Issue: Developmental Psychology, Applications, and Implications.
• Karousou, Α., & Nerantzaki, T. (2020). Phonological memory training and its effect on second language vocabulary development. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658319898514
• López Ornat, S., Karousou, A., Gallego, C., Camero Fernández, R., & Martín L. (2018).  Pupillary Measures of the Cognitive Effort in Auditory Novel Word Processing and Short-Term Retention. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2248. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02248
• Karousou, Α. (2017). Language evaluation in infants, toddlers and preschool children. In: Ο. Palikara & Α. Ralli (Eds.). Developmental Language Disorder: delimitation, evaluation, and intervention. Athens: Gutenberg
• Κarousou, Α., & Petrogiannis, K. (2017). Communication Development Report [CDR]: A parent-report instrument for the early screening of communication and language development in Greek-speaking infants and toddlers. Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society, 21(4), 395-420.
• Karousou, Α., Koutsiouki, Μ. & Triantafyllidou, Α. (2015). «Quick Incidental Learning» and consolidation of novel words in early primary school children. Research in Education, 5, 1-16.
• Karousou, Α., & Nikolaidou, Κ. (2015). Parents as informants of their children’s communication and language skills: concurrent validity of the Communication Development Report (CDR). Research in Education, 4, 30-53.
• Karousou, Α. (2015). Phonological short-term memory measurement in Greek-speaking children aged 2 to 4 years: data on its relationship with language development. Preschool & Primary School Education, 3, 117-135.
• Karousou, A., & Petrogiannis, K. (2014). Communication Development Report - Scales for the early screening of communication and language development in children aged 8-30 months: Pilot data and basic psychometric properties. Preschool & Primary School Education, 2, 83-114.
• Karousou, A. (2014). Learning the form of the words: The process in its complexity.  Ιn N. Caparrós & R. Cruz Roche (Eds.). El viaje a la Complejidad [Travel to Complexity] (Vol. 4, pp. 342-251). Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.
• Karousou, A., & López Ornat (2013). Prespeech vocalizations and the emergence of speech: a study of 1005 Spanish children. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 16. E32.

Psychometric Tools

• Karousou, A., & Petrogiannis, K. (in press). Communication Development Report: evaluation of communication and language development in infants and toddlers.
• López Ornat, S., Gallego, C., Gallo P., Karousou, A., Mariscal, S., Martínez, M. (2005). MacArthur Inventarios del Desarrollo Comunicativo. Madrid: TEA Ediciones. ISBN: SBN: 84-7174-820-7.