Nida Latif
Postdoctoral Fellow
MSc/PhD in Psychology from Queen's University
BSc in Psychology from McMaster University
Transforming Autism Care Consortium
Nida Latif's work focuses on uncovering the socio-cognitive mechanisms responsible for our ability to engage in everyday conversations easily and effortlessly in an effort to understand which ones of these mechanisms is involved in the communication challenges observed in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).
Relevant publications:
Latif N, Capozzi F, & Ristic J (2019). Taking it out of context: The role of contextual coherence during social event segmentation. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 81(6), 2003-2013.
Latif N, Alsius A, & Munhall KG (2017). Knowing when to respond: The role of visual information in conversational turn exchanges. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 80(1), 27-41.
Latif N, Alsius A, & Munhall KG (2017). Seeing the way: The role of vision in conversation turn exchange perception. Multisensory Research, 30(7-8), 653-679.
Latif N, Barbosa AV, Vatikiotis-Bateson E, Castelhano MS, & Munhall KG. (2014). Movement coordination during conversation. PLoS ONE 9(8): e105036 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105036.
Relevant Published Abstracts:
Latif N, Di Francesco C & Nadig A. Using interpersonal movement coordination to investigate gender differences in adults with Autism. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Sciences Society, p3504
Latif N, DiFrancesco C & Nadig AS. Interpersonal movement coordination in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A potential tool for addressing ‘female camouflage’? Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Autism Research, p. 79.
