I am an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Lawrence Technological University. My main area of research is on semantic processing of metaphor and concepts. I use experimental, neuropsychological, and computational approaches.

A little more about me:

• I serve on editorial boards for Cognitive Processing, Metaphor and Symbol, and the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

• I recently organized and hosted the 17th Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) conference at LTU.

Latest research (pre-prints):

• Al-Azary, H., Hess, M., Koje, J., Ebaugh, A., Tran, S., & Adcock, Z. (2026, February 13). Losing Semantic Control: Anodal Stimulation of the Left-Inferior Frontal Gyrus Reduces Metaphor Comprehensibility. Retrieved from osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/f6vbm_v1 

• Mangiaterra, V., Al-Azary, H., Pietro, C. B. D. S., Canal, P., & Bambini, V. (2025). Can GPT replace human raters? Validity and reliability of machine-generated norms for metaphors. arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12444.