I will be accepting applications for doctoral students for Fall 2024.

My lab conducts research into the cognitive processes that contribute to human language processing, including memory operations such as encoding, storage and retrieval. We also study the effect of cognitive decline on human memory and language processing systems. We use behavioral techniques such as sentence completion, reaction times and eye-tracking as well as non-behavioral techniques such as EEG to investigate our questions. Below you can find some recent publications. If you are interested in this line of research and would like to join the lab, do not hesitate to get in touch with me at h.karimi@msstate.edu.

• Karimi, H., Diaz, M., & Ferreira, F. (2020). Misspoken words affect the perception and retrieval of intended words. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-17.

• Karimi, H., & Diaz, M. (2020). When phonological neighborhood density both facilitates and impedes: Age of acquisition and name agreement interact with phonological neighborhood during word production. Memory & cognition, 48(6).

• Karimi, H., Brothers, T., & Ferreira, F. (2019). Phonological versus Semantic Prediction in Focus and Repair Constructions: No Evidence for Differential Predictions. Cognitive psychology, 112, 25-47.

• Karimi, H., & Ferreira, F. & Diaz., M. (2019). “A cruel king” is not the same as “a king who is cruel”: Modifier position affects how words are encoded and retrieved from memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 

• Karimi, H., Swaab, T., & Ferreira, F. (2018). Electrophysiological Evidence for an Independent Effect of Memory Retrieval on Referential Processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 102, 68-82.