Dr. Nazia Jassim

Biography

Nazia Jassim is a post-doctoral research associate at the Prediction Learning Lab within the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research utilizes a variety of cognitive neuroscience techniques and behavioral experiments, specifically employing ultra high-resolution 7T MRI Spectroscopy. She investigates neurocomputations related to perception, learning, decision-making, and mental health, with a focus on neurodiversity. Previously, she was part of the Parke-Davis Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship, which allowed her to visit the Carney Institute of Brain Sciences at Brown University, USA, to be trained in computational psychiatry methods. Nazia completed her PhD at the Autism Research Centre (ARC), University of Cambridge, where she explored the neurocognitive mechanisms of perceptual inference in autism.

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