Presentations

Saryazdi, R., Nuque, J.*, Herzi, S.*, Carsault, L.*, Qi, D.*, Appel, L., & Campos, J. L. (2023). One size does not fit all: Variability in device and content preferences of persons living with dementia and their family carers. Presented at the Challenge Area Staying Connected Symposium at the AGE-WELL annual conference, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Makani, A.*, Givetash, S.*, Saryazdi, R., & Keshavarz, B. (2023). How the feeling of presence affects motion sickness in virtual environments. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Guelph, ON, Canada.

Saryazdi, R., Appel, L., Lewis-Fung, S., Qi, D.*, Garcia-Giler, E., Young, J.*, & Campos, J. L.  (2023). VRx@Home pilot: Facilitating communication between people living with dementia and their care partners through a home-based virtual reality intervention. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Saryazdi, R. (2023). VR at Home: Facilitating communication between persons with dementia and their care partners in a Canadian Province. Presented at the annual Virtual Medicine Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Chambers, C. G., & Saryazdi, R. (2022). Revisiting the notion of "context" in aging and real-time spoken language processing. Presented at the Hearing Across the Lifespan conference, Lake Como, Italy.

Saryazdi, R., & Nuque, J.*, & Chambers, C. G. (2021). Mentalizing the mind of machines: Referential informativity in human-robot communication. Presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science [Symposium], Montreal, QC, Canada.

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, Canada.

Saryazdi, R., & Nuque, J.*, & Chambers, C. G. (2019). Interacting with a robot partner: Age-related differences in communicative perspective taking. Presented at the annual American Psychological Association Technology, Mind and Society Conference, Washington, DC, USA.

Saryazdi, R., & Nuque, J.*, & Chambers, C. G. (2019). Communicative perspective taking with artificial agents. Presented at the joint conference on Embodied Situated Language Processing (ESLP) and the Attentive Listener in the Visual World (AttLis), Berlin, Germany.

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, Canada.

Saryazdi, R., & Nuque, J.*, & Chambers, C. G. (2019). Perspective taking while conversing with a social robot. Presented at the annual meeting of Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

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, USA.

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, USA.

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, Canada.

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, Canada.

Pöhlmann, K. M. T.*, Makani, A.*, Saryazdi, R., & Keshavarz, B. (2023). Pupil dilation in virtual reality and its relation with measures of visually induced motion sickness. Presented at the Vision Research conference. Toronto, Ontario.

Saryazdi, R., Nuque, J.*, Herzi, S.*, Carsault, L.*, Qi, D.*, Appel, L., & Campos, J. L. (2023). One size does not fit all: Variability in device and content preferences of persons living with dementia and their family carers. Presented at the AGE-WELL annual conference, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Saryazdi, R., Yung, S., Pereira, A.*, Naglie, G., Rapoport, M.J., Stasiulis, E., Phillips, N., Pichora-Fuller, M.K., Wittich, W., & Campos, J. L. (2023). Driving habits of a cohort of older Canadians: A COMPASS-ND study. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia.

Saryazdi, R., Yung, S., Pereira, A.*, Naglie, G., Rapoport, M.J., Stasiulis, E. & Campos, J. L. (2023). Examining the driving habits of older Canadians as captured by the COMPASS-ND study. Presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Saryazdi, R., Young, J.*, Appel, L., Lewis-Fung, S., Qi, D.*, Garcia-Giler, E. & Campos, J. L (2023). Sharing Experiences through Virtual Reality: The communication outcomes of a VR at-home intervention pilot study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada

Saryazdi, R., Appel, L., Lewis, S., Qi, D.*, Garcia-Giler, E. & 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, Canada

Saryazdi, R., & Nuque, J.*, & Chambers, C. G. (2021). Aging and social robots: How overspecification affects real-time language processing. Presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vienna, Austria.

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.

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, Canada.

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, USA.

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.

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.

Saryazdi, R., Bak, K.*, & Campos, J. L. (2019). Driving under load: Comparing the characteristics of inattentional blindness in younger and older drivers. Poster presented at the Thoughts and Reactions: Cognition, Learning, and Technology Across the Lifespan workshop, Mississauga, ON, Canada.

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, USA.

Saryazdi, R., Bak, K.*, & Campos, J. L. (2019). Driving under load: Comparing the characteristics of inattentional blindness in younger and older drivers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada.

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, USA.

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.

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.

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.

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, Canada.

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, USA.

Saryazdi, R., Bannon, J.*, & Chambers, C. G. (2018). Referring to things in the here-and-now: A comprehensive examination of age-related differences between younger and older adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment, Niagara Falls, Canada.

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, Canada.

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.

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.

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, USA.

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, USA.

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.

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, Canada.

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, USA.

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, Canada.

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, USA.

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, USA.

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, USA.