Dr Nabil Hasshim

My primary research interest is in the cognitive mechanisms required in performing selective attention tasks. My current work focusus on how different experimental designs affects the measurement of cognitive processes, and the role of top-down control vs bottom-up associative learning, in the Stroop task. 

I am generally an experimental psychology and methods nerd, having worked on a variety of topics within cognitive psychology during my previous stints as a researcher at the Applied Cognitive Development Lab in NIE Singapore, and UCD BabyLab.

Institute for Psychological Science

Hasshim, N., Bramham, J., Keating, J., Gaffney, R. A., Keenan, L., Conroy, S., McNicholas, F., Carr, A., & Downes, M. (2022). Links between Daytime Napping, Night-Time Sleep Quality and Infant Attention: An Eye-Tracking, Actigraphy and Parent-Report Study. Children, 9(11), 1613. DOI:10.3390/children9111613

Parris, B.A., Hasshim, N., Wadsley, M. G., Augustinova, M., & Ferrand, L. (2022) The loci of Stroop effects: A critical review of methods and evidence for levels of processing contributing to colour-word Stroop effects and the implications for the loci of attentional selection. Psychological Research. 86, 1029–1053. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01554-x

Keating, J., Bramham, J., McNicholas, F., Carr, A., Hasshim, N., & Downes, M. (2022). An exploration of sleep and family factors in young children at familial risk for ADHD. Behavioral Sleep Medicine. 19 (6), 754-768 DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2020.1862119

Hasshim, N., & Parris, B.A.(2021) The role of contingency and correlation in the Stroop task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 74(10) 1657–1668  DOI:10.1177/17470218211032548

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 (4), 1241-1252 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02237-4

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. DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15105

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. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02426

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, 231-238. DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000445. 

Bate, S., Frowd, C., Bennetts, R., Hasshim, N., Portch, E., Murray, E., & Dudfield, G. (2019). The consistency of superior face recognition skills in police officers. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33(5), 828-842. DOI: 10.1002/acp.3525 

Bate, S., Bennetts, R., Hasshim, N., Portch, E., Murray, E., Burns, E., & Dufield, 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(3), 363-377. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000607 

Hasshim, N., & Parris, B.A. (2018). Trial type mixing substantially reduces the response set effect in the Stroop task. Acta Psychologica, 189, 43-53. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.03.002 

Bate, S., Frowd, C., Bennetts, R., Hasshim, N., Murray, E., Bobak, A. K., Wills, H., & Richards, S. (2018). Applied screening tests for the detection of superior face recognition. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3(1), 22. DOI: 10.1186/s41235-018-0116-5 

Hasshim, N., & Parris, B.A.(2015). Assessing stimulus-stimulus (semantic) conflict in the Stroop task using saccadic two-to-one color response mapping and pre-response pupillary measures. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 77(8), 2601-2610. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-015-0971-9 

Hasshim, N., & Parris, B.A.(2014). Two-to-one color-response mapping and the presence of semantic conflict in the Stroop task. Frontiers in Psychology. 5:1157. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01157 

Lee, K., Ng, S. F., Pe, M. L., Ang, S. Y., Hasshim, N., & Bull, R. (2012). The cognitive underpinnings of emerging mathematical skills: Executive functioning, patterns, numeracy, and arithmetic. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 82, 82-99. DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8279.2010.02016.x 

PhD in Psychology (Bournemouth University)

BSocSci in Psychology (National University of Singapore)

Experimental Psychology Society