Dr. Naomi Nota

E-Mail
naomi.nota(at)oeaw.ac.at

… is a Research Data Manager in the Data Management and Preservation team within the DH Research and Infrastructure research unit at ACDH, where she supports (meta)data curation for ARCHE (A Resource Centre for the HumanitiEs).

She is also a postdoctoral researcher at the Central European University, where she investigates how social event construal shapes memory as part of the LISA project. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, studying how language prediction is affected under challenging conditions, and completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Donders Centre for Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, investigating the role of visual bodily signals in language processing.

Her past work combines behavioural experiments, eye-tracking, virtual-avatar paradigms, and conversation corpora, analysed using statistical and data-science methods. She is committed to Open Science and FAIR data practices and has taught university courses on topics including metadata, repositories, and ethical dissemination. She also enjoys science communication and is the co-author of The Language of Time, an illustrated children's book on language and cosmology. 

Publications (before ACDH)

* indicates shared first authors, italics indicate (co-) supervised students.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  • Nota, N., Trujillo, J. P., Jacobs, V. & Holler, J. (2023). Facilitating question identification through natural intensity eyebrow movements in virtual avatars. Scientific Reports, 13, 21295. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48586-4
  • Nota, N., Trujillo, J. P. & Holler, J. (2023), Conversational eyebrow frowns facilitate question identification: An online study using virtual avatars. Cognitive Science, 47, e13392. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13392 
  • Nota, N., Trujillo, J. P., & Holler, J. (2023). Specific facial signals associate with categories of social actions conveyed through questions. PloS one, 18(7), e0288104. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288104 
  • Nota, N., Trujillo, J. P., & Holler, J. (2021). Facial signals and social actions in multimodal face-to-face interaction. Brain Sciences, 11(8), 1017. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11081017 
  • Bosma, E., & Nota, N. (2020). Cognate facilitation in Frisian-Dutch bilingual children’s sentence reading: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 189, 104699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104699 

Preprints

  • Nota, N., Corps, R. E., Shehzad, M., Hadley, L. V., Naylor, G., & Pickering, M. J. (2026). Two temporally distinct prediction stages overlap under moderately faster speech. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tm23d_v1 
  • Nota, N.*, Trujillo, J. P.*, & Holler, J. (2026). Detecting facial signals in conversational corpora using OpenFace: Challenges and recommendations. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dtz5p_v2  
  • Nota, N., Corps, R. E., Hadley, L. V., Naylor, G., & Pickering, M. J. (2026). Cognitive load disrupts different stages of prediction in second-language speakers during a visual world task. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cuwvs_v1
  • Nota, N., Corps, R. E., Hadley, L. V., Naylor, G., & Pickering, M. J. (2026). The effect of cognitive load on different stages of language prediction: A visual-world eye-tracking study. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qphfc_v1 
  • Fernandez, L.*, Nota, N.*, Gamboa, J. C. B., Amos, R., Corps, R. E., Hadley, L. V., & Pickering, M. J. (2026). Visual-world paradigm and divergence point analysis with bootstrapping: Researcher degrees of freedom in real and simulated data with recommendations. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9wz5r_v2 
  • Nota, N., Trujillo, J. P., & Holler, J. (2022). Specific facial signals associate with categories of social actions conveyed through questions. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qrhdf 
  • Nota, N., Trujillo, J. P., & Holler, J. (2022). Conversational eyebrow frowns facilitate question identification: An online VR study. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fcj8b  

Doctoral dissertation