
prediction and learning lab
Preprints
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McCoy, B., Lawson, R. P., & Theeuwes, J. (2020). Attention and reinforcement learning in Parkinson’s disease. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.12.294702
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Dercon, Q., Mehrhof, S. Z., Sandhu, T., Hitchcock, C., Lawson, R. P., Pizzagalli, D. A., & Nord, C. (2022). A core component of psychological therapy causes adaptive changes in computational learning mechanisms. PsyArXiv. 10.31234/osf.io/jmnek
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Ilingworth, B. J. G., Sandhu, T. R., Smith, E. S., Lage, C., McCoy, B., & Lawson, R. P (2022) Transdiagnostic approaches to precision medicine: A Computational Psychiatry Primer. Authorea. DOI: 10.22541/au.166672691.16173006/v1
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Lage, C., Smith, E., Lawson, R.P (2022). A meta-analysis of cognitive flexibility in autism.
Publications
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Jassim, N., Owen, A. M., Smith, P., Suckling, J., Lawson, R. P., Baron-Cohen, S., & Parsons, O. (2022). Perceptual decision-making in autism as assessed by “spot the difference” visual cognition tasks. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1–7.
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Lawson, R. P., Bisby, J., Nord, C. L., Burgess, N., & Rees, G. (2021). The computational, pharmacological, and physiological determinants of sensory learning under uncertainty. Current Biology, 31(1), 163–172.
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Nord, C. L., Lawson, R. P., & Dalgleish, T. (2021). Disrupted dorsal mid-insula activation during interoception across psychiatric disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 178(8), 761–770.
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Perrykkad, K., Lawson, R. P., Jamadar, S., & Hohwy, J. (2021). The effect of uncertainty on prediction error in the action perception loop. Cognition, 210, 104598.
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Sandhu, T. R., Rees, G., & Lawson, R. P. (2020). Preserved low-level visual gain control in autistic adults. Wellcome Open Research, 4(208), 208.
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Browning, M., Carter, C. S., Chatham, C., Den Ouden, H., Gillan, C. M., Baker, J. T., Chekroud, A. M., Cools, R., Dayan, P., …Lawson, R.P., … & Gold, J. (2020). Realizing the clinical potential of computational psychiatry: Report from the Banbury Center Meeting, February 2019. Biological Psychiatry, 88(2), e5–e10.
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Watanabe, T., Lawson, R. P., Walldén, Y. S., & Rees, G. (2019). A neuroanatomical substrate linking perceptual stability to cognitive rigidity in autism. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(33), 6540–6554.
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Palmer, C. J*., Lawson, R. P*., Clifford, C. W., & Rees, G. (2019). Establishing the scope of the divisive normalisation theory of autism: A reply to Rosenberg and Sunkara. Cortex. Feb; 111:319-323
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Wright, N. D., Grohn, J., Song, C., Rees, G., & Lawson, R. P. (2018). Cultural effects on computational metrics of spatial and temporal context. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 1–11.
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Nord, C., Lawson, R., Huys, Q. J., Pilling, S., & Roiser, J. P. (2018). Depression is associated with enhanced aversive Pavlovian control over instrumental behaviour. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 1–10.
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Lawson, R. P., Aylward, J., Roiser, J. P., & Rees, G. (2018). Adaptation of social and non-social cues to direction in adults with autism spectrum disorder and neurotypical adults with autistic traits. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 29, 108–116.
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Lawson, R., Bisby, J., Imber, S., Burgess, N., & Rees, G. (2018). A Causal Role for Noradrenaline in Balancing Beliefs Against Reality. Biological Psychiatry, 83(9), S321.
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CJ Palmer, R. L., S. Shankar, CWG Clifford, Rees G. (2018). Autistic adults show preserved normalisation of sensory responses in gaze processing. Cortex, 103, 13–23.
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Lawson, R. P., Mathys, C., & Rees, G. (2017). Adults with autism overestimate the volatility of the sensory environment. Nature Neuroscience, 20(9), 1293–1299.
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Palmer, C. J., Lawson, R. P., & Hohwy, J. (2017). Bayesian approaches to autism: Towards volatility, action, and behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 143(5), 521.
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Lawson, R., Johnstone, A., & Rees, G. (2017). Reduced visual metacognitive efficiency in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Vision, 17(10), 638–638.
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McGettigan, C., Jasmin, K., Eisner, F., Agnew, Z. K., Josephs, O. J., Calder, A. J., Jessop, R., Lawson, R. P., Spielmann, M., & Scott, S. K. (2017). You talkin’to me? Communicative talker gaze activates left-lateralized superior temporal cortex during perception of degraded speech. Neuropsychologia, 100, 51–63.
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Lawson, R. P., Nord, C. L., Seymour, B., Thomas, D. L., Dayan, P., Pilling, S., & Roiser, J. P. (2016). Disrupted habenula function in major depression. Molecular Psychiatry, 22, 202–208.
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Rivolta, D., Lawson, R. P., & Palermo, R. (2016). More than just a problem with faces: Altered body perception in a group of congenital prosopagnosics. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 26, 1–11.
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Lawson, R. P., & Calder, A. J. (2016). The “where” of social attention: Head and body direction aftereffects arise from representations specific to cue type and not direction alone. Cognitive Neuroscience, 7(1–4), 103–113.
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de Haas, B., Schwarzkopf, D. S., Alvarez, I., Lawson, R. P., Henriksson, L., Kriegeskorte, N., & Rees, G. (2016). Perception and processing of faces in the human brain is tuned to typical feature locations. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(36), 9289–9302.
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Lawson, R., Johnstone, A., Kelly, J., & Rees, G. (2016). CRT-based Dark Adaptometry in Adults with Autism. Journal of Vision, 16(12), 475–475.
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Lawson, R. P., Aylward, J., White, S., & Rees, G. (2015). A striking reduction of simple loudness adaptation in autism. Nature Scientific Reports, 5, 16157.
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Lawson, R. P., Friston, K. J., & Rees, G. (2015). A more precise look at context in autism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(38), E5226–E5226.
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Lawson, R. P., Nord, C. L., Seymour, B., Thomas, D. L., Dolan, R. J., Dayan, P., Weiskopf, N., & Roiser, J. P. (2014). Habenula responses during appetitive and aversive conditioning in major depressive disorder. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 85(8), e3–e3.
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Lawson, R. P., Rees, G., & Friston, K. J. (2014). An aberrant precision account of autism. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 302.
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Lawson, R. P., Seymour, B., Loh, E., Lutti, A., Dolan, R. J., Dayan, P., Weiskopf, N., & Roiser, J. P. (2014). The habenula encodes negative motivational value associated with primary punishment in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(32), 11858–11863.
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Lawson, R. P., Drevets, W. C., & Roiser, J. P. (2013). Defining the habenula in human neuroimaging studies. Neuroimage, 64, 722–727.
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Friston, K. J., Lawson, R., & Frith, C. D. (2013). On hyperpriors and hypopriors. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(1), 1.
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Lutti, A., Josephs, O., Thomas, D., Lawson, R.P., Roiser, J. P., Hutton, C., & Weiskopf, N. (2011). Optimized Physiological Noise Correction for 3D EPI Time Series. Proceedings of the International Society of. Magnetic Resonance Medicine, 19 19, 3635.
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Lawson, R. P., Clifford, C. W., & Calder, A. J. (2011). A real head turner: Horizontal and vertical head directions are multichannel coded. Journal of Vision, 11(9), 17–17.
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Lawson, R. P., Ewbank, M. P., Henson, R. N., & Calder, A. J. (2010). Does your EBA response to my bum look big? Differential sensitivity to body orientation in the extrastriate body area. Journal of Vision, 10(7), 686–686.
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Ewbank, M. P., Lawson, R. P., Henson, R. N., Rowe, J. B., Passamonti, L., & Calder, A. J. (2011). Changes in “top-down” connectivity underlie repetition suppression in the ventral visual pathway. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(15), 5635–5642.
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Lawson, R. P., Clifford, C. W., & Calder, A. J. (2009). About turn: The visual representation of human body orientation revealed by adaptation. Psychological Science, 20(3), 363–371.
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Lawson, R. P., & Calder, A. J. (2008). Adaptation reveals multichannel-coded cells tuned to body orientation in humans. Journal of Vision, 8(6), 1142–1142.