Prof. Castro’s research focuses on word retrieval in aging adults and adults with language impairments (e.g., aphasia, dementia), with a particular focus on how words are organized in memory. Her research uses behavioral studies and computational modeling 

• Early Career Research Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2023
• Lessons for Success Fellow, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2022
• Fellow, Psychonomic Society, 2021
• Pathways Fellow, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2019

• Vitevitch, M. S., & Castro, N. (2015). Using network science in the language sciences and clinic. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 17(1), 13-25. 
• Castro, N. & Siew, C. S. Q. (2020). Contributions of modern network science to the cognitive sciences: Revisiting research spirals of representation and process. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 476(2238), 20190825.
  
• Castro N., Stella, M., & Siew, C. S. Q. (2020). Quantifying the interplay of semantics and phonology during failures of word retrieval by people with aphasia using a multiplex lexical network. Cognitive Science, 44(9), e12881.
• Ashaie, S., & Castro, N. (2021). Exploring the complexity of aphasia with network analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(10), 3928-3941.
  
• Castro, N., Nadeau, S. E., & Kendall, D. L. (2022). The challenge of achieving greater generalization in phonological treatment of aphasia. Aphasiology, 36(2), 170-197.

For a list of all publications, see Google Scholar profile.

• CDS 151: Introduction to Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
• CDs 491/687: Special Topics: Communication in Aging Adults
• CDS 564: Language Disorders in Adults