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    Nazia Jassim

    University Position
    Research Associate

    Interests

    I am a Parke-Davis Research Fellow at the Prediction and Learning (PaL) lab. I use experimental psychology, ultra high-resolution 7T neuroimaging, and computational modelling to investigate the neurocomputational basis of sensory learning in adults with varying levels of autistic traits. I completed my PhD research at the Department of Psychiatry under the supervision of Profs. John Suckling and Simon Baron-Cohen of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) and Dr. Rebecca Lawson of the PaL lab. My PhD investigated the neurocognitive mechanisms of perceptual inference in autism. My research interests broadly encompass cognitive neuroscience, computational psychiatry, and functional brain imaging.

    Key Publications

    Stress in autism (STREAM): A study protocol on the role of circadian activity, sleep quality and sensory reactivity

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303209
    Journal: PLoS One
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2024
    Authors: CC Gernert, CM Falter-Wagner, V Noreika, B Jachs, N Jassim, K Gibbs, J Streicher, H Betts, TA Bekinschtein

    Publications

    The “Tetris effect”: Autistic and non-autistic people share an implicit drive for perceptual cohesion

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-025-00654-4
    Journal: Mol Autism
    E-pub date: 26 Mar 2025
    Authors: N Jassim, B McCoy, E Yip, C Allison, S Baron-Cohen, R Lawson

    Neurochemical markers of uncertainty processing in humans

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.19.639013
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 23 Feb 2025
    Authors: N Jassim, PT Waade, O Parsons, FH Petzschner, C Rua, CT Rodgers, S Baron-Cohen, J Suckling, C Mathys, RP Lawson

    The “Tetris effect”: Testing the implicit drive for perceptual cohesion in autism

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/echxf
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 28 Apr 2024
    Authors: N Jassim, B McCoy, E Yip, C Allison, S Baron-Cohen, RP Lawson

    Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac016
    Journal: Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci
    E-pub date: 3 Oct 2022
    Authors: TL Procyshyn, MV Lombardo, M-C Lai, N Jassim, B Auyeung, SK Crockford, JB Deakin, S Soubramanian, A Sule, D Terburg, S Baron-Cohen, RAI Bethlehem

    Perceptual decision-making in autism as assessed by “spot the difference” visual cognition tasks.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19640-4
    Journal: Sci Rep
    E-pub date: 14 Sep 2022
    Authors: N Jassim, AM Owen, P Smith, J Suckling, RP Lawson, S Baron-Cohen, O Parsons

    Visual scene discrimination: A perceptual advantage in autistic adults

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1611468/v1
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 5 May 2022
    Authors: N Jassim, AM Owen, P Smith, J Suckling, RP Lawson, S Baron-Cohen, O Parsons

    Visual scene discrimination: A perceptual advantage in autistic adults

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/hknqv
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 13 Apr 2022
    Authors: N Jassim, A Owen, P Smith, J Suckling, R Lawson, S Baron-Cohen, O Parsons

    Common and specific large-scale brain changes in major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, and chronic pain: a transdiagnostic multimodal meta-analysis of structural and functional MRI studies.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-022-01271-y
    Journal: Neuropsychopharmacology
    E-pub date: 1 Apr 2022
    Authors: F Brandl, B Weise, S Mulej Bratec, N Jassim, D Hoffmann Ayala, T Bertram, M Ploner, C Sorg

    Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity in autistic women while processing emotional faces

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/yjpe9
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 25 Jun 2021
    Authors: T Procyshyn, M Lombardo, M-C Lai, N Jassim, B Auyeung, S Crockford, J Deakin, S Soubramanian, A Sule, D Terburg, S Baron-Cohen, RAI Bethlehem

    Sensory perception in autism: an fMRI ALE meta-analysis

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p9n2z
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 23 Apr 2020
    Authors: N Jassim, S Baron-Cohen, J Suckling