Detail

Keywords

Attachment representation; Language Development; Neurosciences; Psychoanalysis

Research group(s)

• Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
  Members:
  Johanna Alexopoulos

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS):

 fNIRS is a non-invasive and safe method used to measure brain activity through the intact skull. fNIRS measures blood oxygenation level changes directly and it can determine concentration changes of both, oxy-hemoglobin and deoxy-hemoglobin, with high temporal resolution.

Structured Interview of Personality Organisation (STIPO):

The STIPO is a semi-structured interview that yields a dimensional assessment of the domains of functioning central to Kernberg's theory of personality organization.

Adult attachment Interview (AAI)

Grants

• The Influence of Parent-Infant-Interaction on Neural Language Development in Preterm Born Children (2022)
  Source of Funding: Medical University of Vienna, CCP
  Principal Investigator
• Do we care about the powerless third? An ERP study on social interaction and economic decision making (2007)
  Source of Funding: OeAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences), DOCforte
  Principal Investigator

Selected publications

1. Alexopoulos, J. et al. (2022) ‘Sex differences in neural processing of speech in neonates’, Cortex, 157, pp. 117–128. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.09.007.
2. Alexopoulos, J. et al. (2021) ‘The duration of intrauterine development influences discrimination of speech prosody in infants’, Developmental Science, 24(5). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.13110.
3. Bartha-Doering, L. et al. (2019) ‘Absence of neural speech discrimination in preterm infants at term-equivalent age’, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 39, p. 100679. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100679.
4. Tmej, A. et al. (2018) ‘Changes in Attachment Representation in Psychotherapy: Is Reflective Functioning the Crucial Factor?’, Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, 64(3), pp. 222–236. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/zptm.2018.64.3.222.
5. Giordano, V. et al. (2021) ‘Accent discrimination abilities during the first days of life: An fNIRS study’, Brain and Language, 223, p. 105039. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105039.