Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula is a staff scientist and Ikerbasque researcher at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (Spain). She received her BSc in Psychology and MSc in Basic and Applied Cognitive Science from the University of Athens (Greece) and then completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Iowa (USA). Her research examines the cognitive mechanisms that enable people to learn and understand language with a special focus on word learning.