Nazbanou Nozari MD, PhD

Nazbanou Bonnie Nozari received her MD degree from the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, followed by a Ph.D. degree in cognitive psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. After completing a double postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology respectively, She accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University with a joint appointment in the Department of Cognitive Science. In 2018 She was promoted to the level of Associate Professor. A year later, She joined the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.

Nazbanou's research focuses on the cognitive and neural basis of translating abstract thought into words and sentences. She is specifically interested in questions of automaticity and control over the process of language production, and in how people detect and correct errors in their spoken, written, or typed production. The main contribution of our lab’s work has been the demonstration of the applicability of many domain-general computational principles from other domains of cognition to the domain of language production.