Naomi Nota

Naomi Nota is a postdoctoral researcher at the Central European University, where she investigates how social event construal shapes episodic memory as part of the LISA project. Previously, she 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. She completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Donders Centre for Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, where she examined how visual bodily signals contribute to language processing. Earlier in her career, she also conducted research on sentence reading in bilingual children.

Her research examines how people efficiently process language in real-world contexts and how this process is shaped by cognitive demands, social context, and available cues. She investigates the mechanisms that support language comprehension, including prediction, as well as situated language use involving multimodal and social information. Across her work, she has studied diverse populations—including children, younger adults, and older adults with and without hearing impairment, in both first- and second-language contexts—using a broad range of methods, including corpus analyses, behavioural experiments, virtual-avatar paradigms, and eye-tracking.