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Psychology

Ioanna Anastasopoulou

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Assistant Professor

Psychology

Contact:
Office: COR A277 250-721-6172
Credentials:
PhD (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
Area(s) of expertise:
Speech motor control, Speech sound disorders, Apraxia of speech, Speech neuroscience, Neuroimaging (MEG/EEG)

Interests

  • Speech motor control
  • Motor sequencing and coordination
  • Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)
  • Acquired Apraxia of speech (AOS)
  • Speech sound disorders
  • Neural mechanisms of speech planning and execution
  • Brain oscillations and motor control
  • EEG and MEG
  • Articulatory kinematics
  • Neuromarkers of speech motor disorders 

Faculty bio

Dr. Ioanna Anastasopoulou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria and is affiliated with the University of British Columbia's School of Audiology and Speech Sciences. After practicing as a Speech-Language Pathologist in Greece she completed her PhD in Cognitive Science at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and subsequently a postdoctoral research fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. Her research bridges neuroscience, speech science, and clinical practice to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying speech motor control.

Her research aims to understand how the human brain plans, coordinates, and executes speech movements. Using neuroimaging, articulatory motion tracking, and behavioural methods, her work investigates the neural control of speech production in both neurotypical individuals and people with speech motor disorders, particularly apraxia of speech. A major goal of her research is to identify objective neural and behavioural markers that improve our understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of speech disorders while advancing fundamental knowledge of human speech motor control.

Representative publications

 Anastasopoulou, I., Cheyne, D. O., Lieshout, P. van, Wilson, P. H., Ballard, K. J., & Johnson, B. W. (2025). A novel candidate neuromarker of central motor dysfunction in childhood apraxia of speech. Journal of Neuroscience,e1471242025,2024.08.11.607491. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1471- 24.2025

Anastasopoulou, I., Cheyne, D. O., & Johnson, B. W. (2025). Functional segregation of cortical hand and speech areas by frequency detuning of an intrinsic motor rhythm. Journal of Neurophysiology, 134(1), 229-236.

Anastasopoulou, I., Cheyne, D. O., van Lieshout, P., & Johnson, B. W. (2024). Decoding kinematic information from beta-band motor rhythms of speech motor cortex: a methodological/analytic approach using concurrent speech movement tracking and magnetoencephalography. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18, 1305058.

Anastasopoulou, I., van Lieshout, P., Cheyne, D. O., & Johnson, B. W. (2022). Speech kinematics and coordination measured with an MEG-compatible speech tracking system. Frontiers in Neurology, 13, 828237.