Nora Beier

@NoraBeier

PhD in Psychology | Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University @norabeier.bsky

Davis, CA eleonorajbeier.wixsite.com/ejbeier Joined July 2018

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Nora Beier @NoraBeier Sep 5, 2025

Very excited to share that I am starting a postdoc position with the amazing @GwilliamsL at Stanford University!

We will be measuring neural tracking of prosody and linguistic information load in intracranial EEG. Can’t wait to explore this really cool dataset! 🧠

Nora Beier @NoraBeier Nov 20, 2024

Do people talk to AI as if it were another human?

Read more about how speakers use prosody to focus important words when talking to AI devices in our new paper!

With Michelle Cohn, @TGTrammel, Fernanda Ferreira & Georgia Zellou
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…

psycnet.apa.org Marking prosodic prominence for voice assistant and human addressees. Prosodic prominence (realized with phonetic features such as increased intensity, duration, and pitch, among others) is thought to guide listeners’ attention by focusing new information. This study...

Nora Beier @NoraBeier Oct 25, 2023

How do our brains focus on important information when listening to someone speak?

Come see my first ever EEG results at poster D15, this afternoon at #SNL2023!

Nora Beier @NoraBeier May 27, 2023

It was a blast to talk about speech disfluencies and my current work on @becauselangpod !

Check out their podcast to hear me talk on (and also demonstrate a ton of) uhs and uhms! 🫢

Because Language @becauselangpod May 27, 2023

Yow! It's our biggest episode ever!
Why do we say stuff like UGH, OH, and UM? Amazing chats with @EMdoesCA and @NoraBeier about non-lexical vocalisations.
Wherever you get your podcasts.
becauselanguage.com/76-ooo-yum-uh/
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Nora Beier @NoraBeier Mar 30, 2023

Do we become more disfluent as we age?

@NeneChantavarin, @fernandaedi and I find out by analyzing 325 interviews with 91 famous people over their lives, gathered from YouTube and other social media!

researchgate.net/publication/36…

www.researchgate.net (PDF) Do Disfluencies Increase With Age? Evidence From a Sequential Corpus Study of Disfluencies PDF | Speech disfluencies such as repeated words and pauses provide information about the cognitive systems underlying speech production. Understanding... | Find, read and cite all the research you...