About me

Welcome! I am Naomi Nota, a cognitive science postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. My research focuses on language processing in challenging conditions, like noisy environments, and among different populations, like the hearing-impaired. Previously, I was a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Donders Centre for Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, where I studied how visual bodily signals contribute to language processing. Additionally, I have worked on sentence reading in bilingual children. 

Methods I use include conversation corpora and behavioural experiments with virtual agents and eye-tracking. I analyse these using data science techniques, including mixed effects and Bayesian modelling, time series, and machine learning such as clustering.

I enjoy teaching and science communication (through conferences, outreach events, or by writing blogs for MPI TalkLing), and work as a freelance illustrator in my spare time (see a small sample of art). Feel free to contact me about research, supervision opportunities, science communication or illustration projects!