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Raheleh Saryazdi, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

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I am a postdoctoral researcher at KITE-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network working with Dr. Jennifer Campos. I am also a trainee at the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA-Team 17). I received my PhD in Psychology in the Perception, Cognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience stream at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Craig Chambers.

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Research interests

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Cognitive

Aging

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Real-Time Language Processing

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Virtual Reality Therapy (VRx)

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Communication with Artificial Agents

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Aging & Technology

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Multisensory Integration

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Driving & Attention

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Real-World Cognition

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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


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.




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Presentations


Conference Talks


  1. Saryazdi, R., & Nuque, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2021). Mentalizing the mind of machines: Referential informativity in human-robot communication. Presented virtually at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Montreal, QC.
  2. Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2019). Age-related differences in communicative perspective taking in real-time comprehension. Presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, QC.
  3. Saryazdi, R., & Nuque, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2019). Interacting with a robot partner: Age-related differences in communicative perspective taking. Presented at the American Psychological Associations' Technology, Mind and Society Conference, Washington, DC.
  4. Saryazdi, R., & Nuque, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2019). Communicative perspective taking with artificial agents. Presented at the joint Embodied Situated Language Processing (ESLP) and the Attentive Listener in the Visual World (AttLis) conference, Berlin, Germany.
  5. Saryazdi, R., & Mostarac, T., & Chambers, C. G. (2019). The effects of elderspeak on real-time language comprehension. Presented at the annual meeting of Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Waterloo, ON.
  6. Saryazdi, R., & Nuque, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2019). Perspective taking while conversing with a social robot. Presentedat the annual meeting of Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Waterloo, ON.
  7. Saryazdi, R., & Chambers C. G. (2019). Reference and perspective taking across the adult lifespan. Presented at the annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO.
  8. Saryazdi, R., DeSantis, D., Chambers, C. G., & Johnson, E. K. (2017). Listeners' reactions to older and younger talkers'…uh…disfluencies. Presented at the International Conference on Aging and Speech Communication, Tampa, FL.
  9. Saryazdi, R., DeSantis, D., Chambers, C. G., & Johnson, E. K. (2017). Ageist preconceptions: A dissociation between implicit and explicit behaviour. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.
  10. Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2016). Are we getting the whole picture? Exploring differences in the processing of clipart versus photographs. Presented at the annual meeting of Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, ON.


Conference Posters


  1. Saryazdi, R., Appel, L., Lewis, S., Qi, D.*, Garcia-Giler, D. & Campos, J. L (2022). VRx@Home: A virtual reality at-home intervention for persons with dementia and their family caregivers. Presented at the annual AGE-WELL conference, Regina, SK.
  2. Saryazdi, R., & Nuque, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2021). Aging and social robots: How overspecification affects real-time language process. Presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vienna, Austria.
  3. Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2020). The value of linguistic redundancy in human-robot communication: A comparison of younger and older adults. Presented virtually at the International Conference of Gerontechnology. Trondheim, Norway.
  4. Saryazdi, R., Hou, Y., & Chambers, C. G. (2020). Tracking age-related cognitive decline: Insights from the detection of advertisement. Presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, ON.
  5. Saryazdi, R., Mostarac, T., & Chambers, C. G. (2019). How effective are speech adaptations? A closer look at the effects of elderspeak. Presented at the International Conference on Aging and Speech Communication, Tampa, FL.
  6. Saryazdi, R., Hou, Y., & Chambers, C. G. (2019). Reading and listening to real-world media: Younger and older adults’ ability to recognize advertisements. Presented at the International Conference on Aging and Cognition, Zürich, Switzerland.
  7. Saryazdi, R., Bak, K., & Campos, J. (2019). I never saw it coming: Inattentional blindness in younger and older drivers. Presented at the International Conference on Aging and Cognition, Zürich, Switzerland.
  8. Saryazdi, R., Mostarac, T., & Chambers, C. G. (2019). Speech rate and language processing in older adults: Is slow speech better? Presented at the annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO.
  9. Saryazdi, R., Hou, Y., & Chambers, C. G. (2018). Examining age-related differences in the ability to detect subtle advertisements in real-world media. Presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
  10. Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2018). Co-speech gestures and co-present objects: Attentional allocation in referential communication. Presented at the annual Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference, Berlin, Germany.
  11. Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2018). Factors influencing semantic competition during real-time language processing. Presented at the annual Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference, Berlin, Germany.
  12. Saryazdi, R., Bannon, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2018). Tailoring Referential Descriptions: Talking to Children, Adults, and Computers. Presented at the Socially Situated Language Processing workshop, Berlin, Germany.
  13. Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2018). Factors influencing the uptake of co-speech gestures in real-time language processing. Presented at the annual International Multisensory Research Forum, Toronto, ON
  14. Saryazdi, R., Bannon, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2018). Referential production in aging: A multi-measures study. Presented at the annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Sacramento, CA.
  15. Saryazdi, R., Grewal, J., & Chambers, C. G. (2017). When less is more: Visual detail and the activation of semantic associates. Presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC.
  16. Saryazdi, R., Rodrigues, A., & Chambers, C. G. (2017). Is referential overspecification a BIG problem, or just a problem? Presented at the annual Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference, Lancaster, England.
  17. Bannon, J., Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2017). Do older adults follow convention when designing referential expressions? Presented at the annual Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference, Lancaster, England.
  18. Saryazdi, R., DeSantis, D., Chambers, C. G. & Johnson, E. K. (2017). Investigating attributional models of disfluency processing with a YOYO paradigm: Younger and Older listeners’ reactions to Younger and Older talkers’ disfluencies. Presented at the annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, MA.
  19. Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2016). Does co-speech gesture aid real-time language comprehension? It depends. Presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
  20. Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2016). Appearances aren't everything (or are they?) Exploring effects of clipart versus photograph stimuli on measures of on-line language processing. Presented at the annual Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference, Bilbao, Spain.
  21. Saryazdi, R., Im-Bolter, N., & Bailey, K. (2016). Learning a new language: A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of immersion education. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Victoria, BC.
  22. Rodrigues, A., Saryazdi, R., & Chambers, C. G. (2016). Like water off a duck’s back: How listeners react to and recover from referential infelicity. Presented at the annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainesville, FL.
  23. Bailey, K., Owens-Jaffray, K., Saryazdi, R. & Im-Bolter, N. (2015). Balancing perspectives during social conflict: Mine, yours, or ours? Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, ON.
  24. Bailey, K., Owens-Jaffray, K., Saryazdi, R., & Im-Bolter, N. (2015). Negotiating conflict: Social problem solving in childhood epilepsy. Presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.
  25. Im-Bolter, N., Owens-Jaffray, K., Bailey, K., & Saryazdi, R. (2015). Individual differences in theory of mind: Predictive of successful conflict resolution? Presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.
  26. Bailey, K., Im-Bolter, N., Owens-Jaffray, K., & Saryazdi, R. (2015). Differences in theory of mind: Implications from epilepsy research. Presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.
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Education

University of Toronto

PhD in Psychology 2016-2021

MA in Psychology 2015-2016

Trent University

BSc in Psychology 2011-2015

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