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I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Central European University, where I investigate how social event construal shapes episodic memory as part of the LISA project. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, studying how language prediction is affected under challenging conditions such as cognitive load, background noise, fast speech, and different accents. I completed my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Donders Centre for Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, where I examined how visual bodily signals contribute to language processing. I have also conducted research on sentence reading in bilingual children.
My research focuses on how people efficiently process language in real-world contexts, and how this is shaped by cognitive demands and available cues. I investigate mechanisms that support comprehension, including prediction, as well as situated language use involving social context and multimodal signals. Across this work, I have studied diverse populations (children, younger adults, and older adults with and without hearing impairment, across both first- and second-language contexts) using a range of methods, including corpus analyses, behavioural experiments, virtual-avatar paradigms, and eye-tracking.
For a complete list of publications and full CV, see my personal website: www.naominota.nl