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Dr Kyriaki Mikellidou

Dr Kyriaki Mikellidou

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About Dr Kyriaki Mikellidou

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Quantitative Research Methods
Chairperson of the Department of Psychology

EXPERTISE

My research interests focus on how the human brain processes visual stimuli, using behavioral, neuroimaging and computational methods. I am currently working towards understanding how our past visual experiences can shape our current perception of the visual world and I am also involved in studies of the peripheral visual field, and its interaction with other senses.

SHORT BIO

Dr Kyriaki Mikellidou (F) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Quantitative Research Methods at the University of Limassol in Cyprus, studying visual perception and cognition in healthy and clinical populations using virtual reality, psychophysics and neuroimaging techniques. Kyriaki has obtained a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of York, UK. She holds a PhD in Psychology with a focus on visual neuroscience, funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation from the University of York, UK. To date, she has published 18 manuscripts in internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Methods, Annual Review of Psychology, Current Biology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B and Scientific Reports, and her work has been presented in 33 European and international conferences. A recipient of the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship and currently an Expert Reviewer for the European Commission for such fellowships. Dr. Mikellidou has been awarded with a Vice-Chancellor’s teaching award and a Vice-Chancellor’s Silver Award for Outstanding Achievement in Internationalisation from the University of York, UK.  Host of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2023 in Paphos, Cyprus (635 registrations) and the Visual Sciences of Art Conference (VSAC) 2023 in Nicosia, Cyprus (100 registrations). Dr. Mikellidou is an ad-hoc reviewer for multiple peer-reviewed journals and an Editor of Perception and i-Perception journals.

Personal Information

  • Name Kyriaki Mikellidou
  • Address Nicosia Campus: 21 Glafkou Clerides Avenue, 2107 Aglantzia Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Email kyriaki.mikellidou@uol.ac.cy
  • Phone +357 22462210

Publications

  1. Hayashi, S., Caron, B., … Mikellidou, K., …Puce, A., & Pestilli, F. [63 authors in total] (2024) . io: A decentralised and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research. Nature Methods, 1-5.
  2. Petrizzo, I., Mikellidou, K., Avraam, S., Avraamides, M., & Arrighi, R. (2024). Reshaping the Peripersonal Space in Virtual Reality. Scientific Reports, 14(1),2438.
  3. Cicchini, G.M., Mikellidou, K. & Burr, D.C. (2024). Serial dependencies in perception. Annual Review of Psychology,75, 129-154.
  4. Mikellidou, K., Lambrou, N., Georgiou, E., & Avraamides, M. (2023). Visual orientation discrimination skills are tightly linked with specific aspects of human intelligence. Plos one, 18(10), e0289590.
  5. Mikellidou, K., Cicchini, G.M., & Burr, D.C (2021). Perceptual history acts in world-centred coordinates. I-perception. https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695211029301
  6. Kurzawski, J.W., Mikellidou, K., Morrone, M., & Pestilli, F. (2020). The visual white matter connecting human area prostriata and the thalamus is retinotopically organized. Brain, Structure and Function, 225, 1839–1853. doi: 10.1007/s00429-020-02096-5
  7. Mikellidou, , Arrighi, R., Aghakhanyan, G., Tinelli, F., Frijia, F., Crespi, S., De Masi, F., Montanaro, D. & Morrone, M.C. (2019). Plasticity of the human visual brain after an early cortical lesion. Neuropsychologia, 128, 166-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.10.033
  8. Cicchini, G.M., Mikellidou, K., & Burr, D.C (2018). The functional role of serial dependence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285(1890), 20181722. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1722
  9. Mikellidou, K., Frijia, F., Montanaro D., Greco, V., Burr, D., Morrone, M. C. (2018). Cortical BOLD responses to moderate- and high-speed motion in the human visual cortex. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 8357.
  10. Mikellidou, , Kurzawski, J.W., Frijia, F., Montanaro D., Greco V., Burr, D., Morrone, M. C. (2017). Area prostriata in the human brain. Current Biology, 27(19),3056-3060.
  11. Mikellidou, , Turi, M. & Burr, D. B. (2017). Spatiotopic maps during dynamic head tilt. Journal of Neurophysiology, 117(2), 808-817.
  12. Cicchini, G.M., Mikellidou, K., & Burr, D.C (2017). Serial dependencies act directly on perception. Journal of Vision,17(14), 6. doi: 10.1167/17.14.6.
  13. Mikellidou, , Gouws, A., Clawson, H., Thompson, P., Morland, A. B., & Keefe, B. (2016). An orientation dependent size illusion is underpinned by processing in the extrastriate visual area, LO1. i-Perception, 7(5).
  14. Greco, V., Frijia, F., Mikellidou, K., Montanaro, D., Farini, A., D’Uva, M., Poggi, P., Pucci, M., Sordini, A., Morrone, M.C., & Burr, D. B. (2016). A low-cost and versatile system for projecting wide-field visual stimuli within fMRI scanners. Behavior Research Methods 48(2),614-620.
  15. Mikellidou, K., Cicchini, G.M., Thompson, P., & Burr, D. B. (2015). The oblique effect is both allocentric and egocentric. Journal of Vision, 15(8),
  16. Mikellidou, K. & Thompson, P. (2014). Crossing the line: Estimations of line length in the Oppel-Kundt illusion. Journal of vision,14 (8), 1-10.
  17. Mikellidou, & Thompson, P. (2013). The vertical-horizontal illusion: assessing the contributions of anisotropy, abutting, and crossing to the misperception of simple line stimuli. Journal of Vision, 8 (13), 1-11.
  18. Thompson, P. & Mikellidou, (2011). Applying the Helmholtz illusion to fashion: horizontal stripes won’t make you look fatter. i-Perception, 2, 69-76.

Projects

Institutional

Dr. Mikellidou coordinated the creation of the Department of Psychology at the University of Limassol by designing two degrees (one undergraduate and one postgraduate), overseeing the development of Study Guides for distance learning education, creating the experimental psychology lab by ordering equipment, batteries of test, software and books, organising the preparation of staff for the accreditation day and drafting university policies.

 Research

  • Research Bootcamps 04/2022, “Nurturing an RTDI Culture” in «RESTART 2016-2020» (€2500), Co-PI.“Sci-Sports Science: Another way to sports” for upper secondary school students. Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus.
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (€151,648.80). Project “Peripheality” grant agreement no.797603. Department of Psychology & Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus.

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