Prof. Castro’s research focuses on the precision rehabilitation of anomia, or word retrieval impairment. She takes a multi-pronged approach by modeling how words are organized in and retrieved from memory, maximizing treatment designs to increase acquisition of trained words and generalization of treatment to untrained words and contexts, and understanding how clinicial decisions are made for specific clients receiving anoma treatment. 

• UB Exceptional Scholar: Young Investigator Award, 2024
• 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

• Castro, N., & Ashaie, S. A. (2024). What impacts what: Clinicians' perspectives of causality in aphasia rehabilitation. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 33(6), 2012-3025. LINK
• Castro, N., & Siew, C. S. Q. (2024). Preliminary evidence for two patterns of phonological similarity judgments of word-pairs by persons with aphasia. Aphasiology, 38(11), 1745-1765. LINK
• Castro, N., & Hawes, O. K. (2024). Factors impacting clinician selection of words used in anomia treatment. Aphasiology, Advance online publication. LINK
• Castro, N., Hula, W. D., & Ashaie, S. A. (2023). Defining aphasia: Content analysis of six aphasia test batteries. Cortex, 166, 19-32. LINK
• 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. LINK
• 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. LINK

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

• CDs 491/687: Special Topics: Communication in Aging Adults
• CDS 564: Language Disorders in Adults