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Dr Nabil Hasshim's Outputs (26)

Age-related changes in attentional selection: revealing processes underlying the degradation of task set quality. (2025)
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The present study further explored the age-related changes in attentional selection, first reported by Jackson and Balota Jackson and Balota (Psychology and Aging 28:3, 2013). To this end, response stimulus interval (RSI) was manipulated in in a Stro... Read More about Age-related changes in attentional selection: revealing processes underlying the degradation of task set quality..

Distributional analyses reveal the polymorphic nature of the Stroop interference effect: It's about (response) time (2024)
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The study addressed the still-open issue of whether semantic (in addition to response) conflict does indeed contribute to Stroop interference (which along with facilitation contributes to the overall Stroop effect also known as Congruency effect). To... Read More about Distributional analyses reveal the polymorphic nature of the Stroop interference effect: It's about (response) time.

EXPRESS: No pupillometric evidence for effortful proactive control in the proportion-congruent Stroop paradigm. (2024)
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Hasshim, N., Carruthers, M., Ferrand, L., Augustinova, M., & Parris, B. A. (2024). EXPRESS: No pupillometric evidence for effortful proactive control in the proportion-congruent Stroop paradigm. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241235671

Cognitive control is the ability to allocate attention away from stimuli that are irrelevant to achieving a goal, towards stimuli that are. When conflict is anticipated, attention is biased in a global, top-down manner called proactive control and th... Read More about EXPRESS: No pupillometric evidence for effortful proactive control in the proportion-congruent Stroop paradigm..

Linking cognitive control to language comprehension: proportion congruency effects in syntactic ambiguity resolution (2024)
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Hasshim, N., & Kukona, A. (2024). Linking cognitive control to language comprehension: proportion congruency effects in syntactic ambiguity resolution. #Journal not on list, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2314027

Two experiments investigated the effect of sustained cognitive control engagement on syntactic ambiguity resolution. Participants heard (Experiment 1) or read (Experiment 2) garden path sentences like “Put the kiwi on the rectangle on the circle”, in... Read More about Linking cognitive control to language comprehension: proportion congruency effects in syntactic ambiguity resolution.

Primacy of mouth over eyes to perceive audiovisual Mandarin lexical tones (2023)
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Zeng, B., Yu, G., Hasshim, N., & Hong, S. (2023). Primacy of mouth over eyes to perceive audiovisual Mandarin lexical tones. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 16(4), https://doi.org/10.16910/JEMR.16.4.4

The visual cues of lexical tones are more implicit and much less investigated than consonants and vowels, and it is still unclear what facial areas contribute to facial tones identification. This study investigated Chinese and English speakers’ eye m... Read More about Primacy of mouth over eyes to perceive audiovisual Mandarin lexical tones.

Onset complexity and task conflict in the Stroop task (2023)
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Parris, B. A., Hasshim, N., Ferrand, L., & Augustinova, M. (in press). Onset complexity and task conflict in the Stroop task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231214515

The present study examined the extent to which a key marker of task conflict, negative facilitation, is modified by onset complexity. Negative facilitation, slower RTs to congruent stimuli than to non-lexical neutral stimuli in the Stroop task, is th... Read More about Onset complexity and task conflict in the Stroop task.

Links between daytime napping, night-time sleep quality and infant attention: an eye-tracking, actigraphy and parent-report study (2022)
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The current study explored the potential influence of infant sleep, measured by parental report and actigraphy, and family functioning on attention development using eye tracking. The use of actigraphy in parallel with parental report, has the advant... Read More about Links between daytime napping, night-time sleep quality and infant attention: an eye-tracking, actigraphy and parent-report study.

The loci of Stroop effects: a critical review of methods and evidence for levels of processing contributing to color-word Stroop effects and the implications for the loci of attentional selection (2021)
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Parris, B. A., Hasshim, N., Wadsley, M., Augustinova, M., & Ferrand, L. (2021). The loci of Stroop effects: a critical review of methods and evidence for levels of processing contributing to color-word Stroop effects and the implications for the loci of attentional selection. Psychological Research, 86, 1029--1053. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01554-x

Despite instructions to ignore the irrelevant word in the Stroop task, it robustly influences the time it takes to identify the color, leading to performance decrements (interference) or enhancements (facilitation). The present review addresses two q... Read More about The loci of Stroop effects: a critical review of methods and evidence for levels of processing contributing to color-word Stroop effects and the implications for the loci of attentional selection.

The Role of Contingency and Correlation in the Stroop Task (2021)
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Hasshim, N., & Parris, B. A. (2021). The Role of Contingency and Correlation in the Stroop Task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(10), https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211032548

Facilitation (faster responses to Congruent trials compared with Neutral trials) in the Stroop task has been a difficult effect for models of cognitive control to explain. The current research investigated the role of word-response contingency, word-... Read More about The Role of Contingency and Correlation in the Stroop Task.

The effect of high-frequency rTMS of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on the resolution of response, semantic and task conflict in the colour-word Stroop task (2021)
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Parris, B. A., Wadsley, M. G., Arabaci, G., Hasshim, N., Augustinova, M., & Ferrand, L. (2021). The effect of high-frequency rTMS of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on the resolution of response, semantic and task conflict in the colour-word Stroop task. Brain Structure and Function, 226, 1241--1252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-021-02237-4

Previous work investigating the effect of rTMS of left Dorso-Lateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) on Stroop task performance reports no changes to the Stroop effect but reduced reaction times on both congruent and incongruent trials relative to sham sti... Read More about The effect of high-frequency rTMS of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on the resolution of response, semantic and task conflict in the colour-word Stroop task.

Look into my eyes: Pupillometry reveals that a post-hypnotic suggestion for word blindness reduces Stroop interference by marshalling greater effortful control (2021)
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Parris, B. A., Hasshim, N., & Dienes, Z. (2021). Look into my eyes: Pupillometry reveals that a post-hypnotic suggestion for word blindness reduces Stroop interference by marshalling greater effortful control. European Journal of Neuroscience, 53(8), 2819-2834. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15105

The mechanisms underpinning the apparently remarkable levels of cognitive and behavioural control following hypnosis and hypnotic suggestion are poorly understood. Numerous independent studies have reported that Stroop interference can be reduced fol... Read More about Look into my eyes: Pupillometry reveals that a post-hypnotic suggestion for word blindness reduces Stroop interference by marshalling greater effortful control.

An exploration of sleep and family factors in young children at familial risk for ADHD (2020)
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Keating, J., Bramham, J., McNicholas, F., Carr, A., Hasshim, N., & Downes, M. (2021). An exploration of sleep and family factors in young children at familial risk for ADHD. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 19(6), 754 -768. https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2020.1862119

Objective: The aim of the current study was to examine relations between sleep problems and family factors and early markers of ADHD in young children with and without a familial risk for ADHD.

Methods: Differences in sleep behavior and family fun... Read More about An exploration of sleep and family factors in young children at familial risk for ADHD.

An exploration of early sleep development in preschool children with and without a familial history of ADHD (2020)
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Keating, J., Hasshim, N., Bramham, J., McNicholas, F., Carr, A., & Downes, M. (2021). An exploration of early sleep development in preschool children with and without a familial history of ADHD. Sleep Medicine, 100(6), S27--S28. https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2020.1862119

Objective: The aim of the current study was to examine relations between sleep problems and family factors and early markers of ADHD in young children with and without a familial risk for ADHD.

Methods: Differences in sleep behavior and family fun... Read More about An exploration of early sleep development in preschool children with and without a familial history of ADHD.

The limits of super recognition: An other-ethnicity effect in individuals with extraordinary face recognition skills (2019)
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Bate, S., Bennetts, R., Hasshim, N., Portch, E., Murray, E., Burns, E., & Dudfield, G. (2019). The limits of super recognition: An other-ethnicity effect in individuals with extraordinary face recognition skills. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45, 363. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000607

In the last decade there has been increasing interest in super-recognizers, who have an extraordinary ability to recognize faces. However, it has not yet been investigated whether these individuals are subject to the same biases in face recognition a... Read More about The limits of super recognition: An other-ethnicity effect in individuals with extraordinary face recognition skills.

An fMRI study of response and semantic conflict in the Stroop task (2019)
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Parris, B. A., Wadsley, M. G., Hasshim, N., Benattayallah, A., Augustinova, M., & Ferrand, L. (2019). An fMRI study of response and semantic conflict in the Stroop task. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2426. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02426

An enduring question in selective attention research is whether we can successfully ignore an irrelevant stimulus and at what point in the stream of processing we are able to select the appropriate source of information. Using methods informed by rec... Read More about An fMRI study of response and semantic conflict in the Stroop task.

Response Time Distribution Analysis of Semantic and Response Interference in a Manual Response Stroop Task (2019)
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Hasshim, N., Downes, M., Bate, S., & Parris, B. A. (2019). Response Time Distribution Analysis of Semantic and Response Interference in a Manual Response Stroop Task. Experimental Psychology, 66(3), 231-238. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000445

Previous analyses of response time distributions have shown that the Stroop effect is observed in the mode (μ) and standard deviation (σ) of the normal part of the distribution, as well as its tail (τ). Specifically, interference related to semantic... Read More about Response Time Distribution Analysis of Semantic and Response Interference in a Manual Response Stroop Task.