Affiliated with the Cognitive Division

My main interest in metacognitive functions in language production. How do we monitor our own speech? How do we detect and repair errors? How much of it is a conscious process? What happens to these processes in aphasia?

A more general goal for me is exploring domain-general cognitive processes that have specific manifestations in different cognitive systems, like language production. Currently, I am extending the findings of visual attention to language production, by studying feature migration in time (rather than space) and in production (rather than perception) through speech errors.

I work with the inimitable Gary Dell.

Representative Publications:

• Nozari, N., Kittredge, A.K., Dell, G.S. (in press). A computational case-series approach to frequency effects in aphasic word production.
• Nozari, N., & Dell, G.S.(2009). More on lexical bias; how efficient can a monitor be? Journal of memory and language,60,291-307.
• Nozari, N., Ferri, C.P., Farin, F., Noroozian, M., Salehi, M., Seyedian, M., Prince, M.(2009). Validation of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group's 10/66 Dementia diagnosis in Iran. International Psychogeriatrics, 21, 604-605.