Publications (See here for free pdfs https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nazbanou-Nozari/research. or email me at bnozari@iu.edu for a copy).

Reviews and summaries on special topics

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    Human's language production system. Language production is a uniquely human ability. But how does a language production system work? Are the computations unique and specialized? Or does the system use a set of domain-general computations to achieve a unique and special output? Find the answer in this chapter:

    • Nozari, N. (2018). How special is language production? Perspectives from monitoring and control. In K. D. Federmeier & D. G. Watson (Eds.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation (pp. 179–213). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.plm.2018.08.006
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    Word production (a computational perspective): How do speakers map meaning to sound? What kind of a computational architecture is necessary for this? What happens to this architecture after brain damage? Check out this chapter:

    • Dell, G. S., Nozari, N., & Oppenheim, G. M. (2014). Word production: Behavioral and computational considerations. In M. Goldrick, V. S. Ferreira, & M. Miozzo (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Production (pp. 88–104). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199735471.013.014
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    Word production (a neural perspective): An up-to-date review of the neural substrates of mapping meaning to sound, integrating psycholinguistic and motor control views of speech. Check out this chapter:

    • Nozari, N. (2022). Neural basis of word production. In A. Papafragou, J. C. Trueswell, & L. R. Gleitman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of The Mental Lexicon (pp. 536-560). Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Oxford Handbook of The Mental Lexicon
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    Neural connectivity in language production and comprehension: An up-to-date review of the role of white matter tracts in language production and comprehension:

    • Shekari, E. & Nozari, N. (2023). A narrative review of the anatomy and function of the white matter tracts in language production and comprehension. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1139292
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    Word co-activation: Does coactivation of two words (semantically related, phonologically related, or unrelated) lead to facilitation or interference? Check out this review article:

    • Nozari, N., & Pinet, S. (2020). A critical review of the behavioral, neuroimaging, and electrophysiological studies of co-activation of representations during word production. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.100875
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    Speech monitoring and control: An up-to-date review of the three main monitoring models proposed in speech production.

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    Role of the left inferior ventral gyrus in language processing. What is the role of the inferior frontal gyrus in word and sentence production and comprehension? Check out our chapter:

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    Typing as a useful method for studying language production. In this review paper, Svetlana Pinet, Merel Muylle and I summarize multiple decades of research on typing and discuss the implication of this research for the use of typing as a medium to understand language production and, more broadly, cognition.

All Publications by year

(Only publications that have been formally accepted for publication appear on this page. For preprints and other publications, please see my Google Scholar page.)

2026

2025

  • Goldman, A., Nozari, N., Lim. Y., Kibler, M. (2025). "Hearing As": Knowledge of Syntactic Structure Affects ERP Components for Musical Expectation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Atilgan, N., & Nozari, N. (2025). Statistical learning of orthotactic constraints: Evidence from typing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001502
  • Nozari, N. (2025). Monitoring, control, and repair in word production. Nature Reviews Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-025-00417-1
  • Nozari, N. (2025). The relationship between monitoring, control, conscious awareness and attention in language production. Journal of Neurolinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101247
  • Aczel, B., Barwich, A.S., Diekman, A. B., Fishbach, A., Goldstone, R., Gomez, P., Gundersen, O.E., von Hippel, P. T., Holcombe, A. O., Lewandowsky, S., Nozari, N., Pestilli, F., Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2025). The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122 (5) e2401232121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401232121
  • Daxun Zhu, D., Wang, X., Zhao, E., Nozari, N., Notebaert, W., & Braem, S. (2025). Cognitive control is task specific: Further evidence against the idea of domain-general conflict adaptation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Murphy, T. K., Nozari, N., & Holt, L. L. (2025). Bears don’t always mess with beers: Limits on generalization of statistical learning in speech. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02399-8
  • Waller, M., Yurovsky, D., & Nozari, N. (2025). Production training and contextual similarity hurt the comprehension of new vocabulary. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2429127

2024

2023

  • Pinet, S. & Nozari, N. (2023). Different electrophysiological signatures of similarity-induced and Stroop-like interference in language production. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 6(35). https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02014
  • Black, J. & Nozari, N. (to appear). Precision of phonological errors in aphasia supports resource models of phonological working memory in language production. Cognitive Neuropsychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2023.2206012
  • Arslan, B., Ng, F., Goksun, T., & Nozari, N. (to appear). Trust my gesture or my word? How do listeners choose the information channel during communication? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001253
  • Shekari, E., & Nozari, N. (2023). A narrative review of the anatomy and function of the white matter tracts in language production and comprehension. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1139292

2022

2021

  • Oppenheim, G., & Nozari, N. (accepted). Behavioral interference or facilitation does not distinguish between competitive and noncompetitive accounts of lexical selection in word production. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Tessmar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society. psyarxiv.com/rjezp
  • Pinet, S., & Nozari, N. (2021). The role of visual feedback in detecting and correcting typing errors: A signal detection approach. Journal of Memory and Language. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104193
  • Riès, S., Pinet, S., Nozari, N., & Knight, R. T. (2021). Characterizing multi-word speech production using event-related potentials. Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13788
  • Brown-Schmidt, S., Cho, S. J., Nozari, N., Klooster, N., & Duff, M. (2021). The limited role of hippocampal declarative memory in transient semantic activation during online language processing. Neuropsychologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107730
  • Martin, C. D., & Nozari, N. (2021). Language control in bilingual production: Insights from error rate and error type in sentence production. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24(2), 374-388. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000590

2020

  • Nozari, N. (2020). Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Nazbanou Nozari (2020). American Psychologist, 75(9), 1260–1262. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000789
  • Hepner, C. R., & Nozari, N. (2020). The dual origin of lexical perseverations in aphasia: Residual activation and incremental learning. Neuropsychologia, 147. Neuropsychologia
  • Nozari, N. (2020). A comprehension- or a production-based monitor? Response to Roelofs (2020). Journal of Cognition, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.102
  • Harrison, W., Hepner, C. R., & Nozari, N. (2020). Is segmental interference position-dependent? In S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B. C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 681-687). Cognitive Science Society. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
  • McDonagh, D., Fisher, A., & Nozari, N. (2020). Do taxonomic and associative relations affect word production in the same way? In S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B. C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 544-550). Cognitive Science Society. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Pinet, S., & Nozari, N. (2020). Using signal detection theory to investigate the role of visual information in performance monitoring in typing. In S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B. C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 1789-1794). Cognitive Science Society. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Nozari, N. (2020). Neural basis of word production. In L. R. Gleitman, A. Papafragou, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mental Lexicon.
  • Nozari, N., & Pinet, S. (2020). A critical review of the behavioral, neuroimaging, and electrophysiological studies of co-activation of representations during word production. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2019.100875
  • Pinet, S., & Nozari, N. (2020). Electrophysiological correlates of monitoring in typing with and without visual feedback. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(4), 603–620. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01500

2019

  • Breining, B. L., Nozari, N., & Rapp, B. (2019). Learning in complex, multi-component cognitive systems: Different learning challenges within the same system. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(6), 1093–1106. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000630
  • Hepner, C. R., & Nozari, N. (2019). Resource allocation in phonological working memory: Same or different principles from vision? Journal of Memory and Language, 106, 172–188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.03.003
  • Nozari, N. (2019). The dual origin of semantic errors in access deficit: Activation vs. inhibition deficit. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 36(1–2), 31–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1587397
  • Nozari, N., & Hepner, C. R. (2019). To select or to wait? The importance of criterion setting in debates of competitive lexical selection. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 36(5–6), 193–207. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2018.1476335
  • Nozari, N., & Hepner, C. R. (2019). To select or to wait? Response to the commentaries. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 36(5–6), 226–233. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1632280
  • Nozari, N., Martin, C. D., & McCloskey, N. (2019). Is repairing speech errors an automatic or a controlled process? Insights from the relationship between error and repair probabilities in English and Spanish. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(9), 1230–1245. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1637007

2018

2017

2016

  • Akhavan, N., Göksun, T., & Nozari, N. (2016). Disfluency production in speech and gesture. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 716–721). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Breining, B., Nozari, N., & Rapp, B. (2016). Does segmental overlap help or hurt? Evidence from blocked cyclic naming in spoken and written production. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(2), 500–506. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0900-x
  • Freund, M., Gordon, B., & Nozari, N. (2016). Conflict-based regulation of control in language production. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1625–1630). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Hanley, J. R., Cortis, C., Budd, M.-J., & Nozari, N. (2016). Did I say dog or cat? A study of semantic error detection and correction in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142, 36–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.09.008
  • Nozari, N., Freund, M., Breining, B., Rapp, B., & Gordon, B. (2016). Cognitive control during selection and repair in word production. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(7), 886–903. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1157194
  • Nozari, N., & Mirman, D. (2016). Using determiners as contextual cues in sentence comprehension: A comparison between younger and older adults. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1192–1198). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Nozari, N., Mirman, D., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2016). The ventrolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates processing of sentential context to locate referents. Brain and Language, 157–158, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.04.006
  • Nozari, N., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2016). Left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in processing of words and sentences. In G. Hickok & S. L. Small (Eds.), Neurobiology of Language (pp. 569–584). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-407794-2.00046-8
  • Nozari, N., Trueswell, J. C., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2016). The interplay of local attraction, context and domain-general cognitive control in activation and suppression of semantic distractors during sentence comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(6), 1942–1953. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1068-8

2015

  • Akhavan, N., Nozari, N., & Göksun, T. (2015). Motion event expressions in language and gesture: Evidence from Persian. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 60–65). Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Nozari, N., Dell, G. S., Schneck, K., & Gordon, B. (2015). Implementation of selective attention in sequential word production. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1745–1750). Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Nozari, N., Göksun, T., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Chatterjee, A. (2015). Phonological similarity affects production of gestures, even in the absence of overt speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01347

2014

  • Dell, G. S., Nozari, N., & Oppenheim, G. M. (2014). Word production: Behavioral and computational considerations. In M. Goldrick, V. S. Ferreira, & M. Miozzo (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Production (pp. 88–104). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199735471.013.014
  • Nozari, N., Arnold, J. E., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2014). The effects of anodal stimulation of the left prefrontal cortex on sentence production. Brain Stimulation, 7(6), 784–792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2014.07.035
  • Nozari, N., Woodard, K., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2014). Consequences of cathodal stimulation for behavior: When does it help and when does it hurt performance? PLOS ONE, 9(1), e84338. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084338

2013

2012

  • Budd, M.-J., Hanley, J. R., & Nozari, N. (2012). Evidence for a non-lexical influence on children’s auditory repetition of familiar words. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 41(4), 253–266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-011-9189-8
  • Nozari, N., & Dell, G. S. (2012). Feature migration in time: Reflection of selective attention on speech errors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(4), 1084–1090. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026933

2011

2010 and earlier

  • Nozari, N., Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (2010). Naming and repetition in aphasia: Steps, routes, and frequency effects. Journal of Memory and Language, 63(4), 541–559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2010.08.001
  • Nozari, N., & Dell, G. S. (2009). More on lexical bias: How efficient can a "lexical editor" be? Journal of Memory and Language, 60(2), 291–307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2008.09.006
  • 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(3), 604–605. https://doi.org/10.1017/S104161020900845X
  • Behzadi, A., Nozari, N., & Ekhtiari, H. (2006). Reasoning, induction and language; Literature review and practical methods of assessment. Iranian Journal of Cognitive Science, 4, 24–29.