Raheleh Saryazdi, PhD
Assistant Professor
rahelehsaryazdi@trentu.ca
Hello...
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Trent University Durham GTA and an Affiliate Scientist at KITE-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. I am also a member of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA-Team 17) and AGE-WELL (Canada's Aging and Technology Network).
I received my PhD in Psychology at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Craig Chambers. I completed my postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Jennifer Campos at KITE-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.
Please contact me to chat about graduate and undergraduate research opportunities in the CHAT Lab (Cognition, Health, Aging, & Technology).
Research interests
Cognitive
Aging
Aging & Technology
Real-World Cognition
Virtual Reality Therapy (VRx)
Multisensory Integration
Intergenerational Communication
Aging & Driving
Communication with Humans & Artificial Agents
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Saryazdi, R., Nuque, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2022). Linguistic redundancy and its effects on younger and older adults' real-time comprehension and memory. Cognitive Science, 46(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13123
Saryazdi, R., Nuque, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2022). Pragmatic inferences in aging and human-robot communication. Cognition, 223 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105017
Saryazdi, R., DeSantis, D., Johnson, E. K., & Chambers, C. G. (2021). The use of disfluency cues in spoken language processing: Insights from aging. Psychology and Aging, 36(8), 928-942. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000652
Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2021). Gesture and reference to objects in the here-and-now: Listeners’ use of gesture cues in quiet and in noise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001035
Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2021). Real-time communicative perspective taking in younger and older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(3), 439-454. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000890
Saryazdi, R., Bannon, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2019). Age-related differences in referential production: A multiple-measures study, Psychology and Aging, 34(6). 790. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000372
Saryazdi, R., Bak, K., & Campos, J. L. (2019). Inattentional blindness during driving in younger and older adults. Frontiers in Psychology,10, 880. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00880
Saryazdi, R., Bannon, J., Rodrigues, A., Klammer, C., & Chambers, C. G. (2018). Picture perfect: A stimulus set of 225 pairs of matched clipart and photographic images normed by Mechanical Turk and laboratory participants. Behavior Research Methods, 50(6), 2498-2510. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1028-5
Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2018). Mapping language to visual referents: Does the degree of image realism matter? Acta Psychologica, 182, 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.11.003
Peer-Reviewed Papers in Conference Proceedings
Pöhlmann, K. M. T., Makani, A., Saryazdi, R., & Keshavarz, B. (Accepted). VR Sickness Lies in the Eye of the Observer - Pupil Diameter as a Potential Indicator of Motion Sickness in Virtual Reality?. Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) on Virtual Reality, Orlando, Florida
Appel, L., Saryazdi R., Lewis S., Garcia-Gilier E., Qi. D., Garito I., Tesfaye, E., & Campos, J. L. (2023). VRx@Home pilot: Can virtual reality therapy impact quality of life for people with dementia living at home? Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Maui, Hawaii.
Thompson, A. A., Saryazdi, R., & Yoon, S. O. (2023). M & M: Modifiers and their effect on memory in younger and older adults. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia.
Axtell, B., Saryazdi, R., & Munteanu, C. (2022). Design is worth a thousand words: The effect of digital interaction design on picture-prompted reminiscence. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA.
Saryazdi, R., & Nuque, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2021). Younger and older speakers' use of linguistic redundancy with a social robot. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, Vienna, Austria.
Bannon, J., Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2020). Designing referential descriptions for children, young adults, and computers: A comprehensive examination of talker informativity. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2958-2964, Toronto, Ontario.
Keshavarz, B., Saryazdi, R., Campos, J. L., & Goldstein, J. G. (2019). Introducing VIMSSQ: Measuring susceptibility to visually induced motion sickness. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 63, 2267-2271, Seattle, Washington.
Saryazdi, R., & Chambers. C. G. (2017). Attentional factors in listeners’ uptake of gesture cues during speech processing. Proceedings of Interspeech, 869-873, Stockholm, Sweden.
Books/Manuals
Kennett, D., Saryazdi, R., Young, A. M., & Nobels, P. J. (2014). Applied Statistics Interfaced with R (1st Edition), Peterborough, Ontario: Trent University Publication.
Education
University of Toronto
PhD in Psychology 2016-2021
MA in Psychology 2015-2016
Trent University
BSc in Psychology 2011-2015
