BIOGRAPHY
Catherine completed a BSc in Psychology at University College London. This was followed by a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the UCL Institute of Neurology and post-doctoral research at the UCL Institute of Child Health and the Centre for Research in Autism and Education, Institute of Education. She joined the Department of Psychology, University of Essex as a lecturer in April 2011.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
My research falls into two broad categories. First, I have been exploring the cognitive phenotype of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), with a particular interest in how basic perceptual processing mechanisms impact on higher-order cognition and behaviour. Second, I pursue an interest in temporal processing, including investigation of the neural mechanisms associated with motor and perceptual timing and exploration of how timing behaviour manifests in individuals with neurological (Parkinson’s disease) and developmental (ASD) disorders.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Ricketts, J., Jones, C.R.G., Happé, F., Charman, T. (in press) Reading comprehension in autism spectrum disorders: The role of oral language and social functioning. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Simonoff, E., Jones, C.R.G., Baird, G., Pickles, A., Happé, F., Charman, T. (2013) The persistence and stability of psychiatric problems in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54, 186-194.
Jones, C.R.G. (2013). Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. In F. Volkmar (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. New York: Springer.
Claassen, D.O., Jones, C.R.G., Yu, M., Dirnberger, G., Malone, T., Parkinson, M., Giunti, P., Kubovy, M., Jahanshahi, M (2012) Deciphering the impact of cerebellar and basal ganglia dysfunction in accuracy and variability of motor timing. Neuropsychologia. Special issue: How does the brain process time?, 51, 267-274.
Simonoff, E., Jones, C.R.G., Pickles, A., Happé, F., Baird, G., Charman, T. (2012) Severe mood problems in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53, 1157-1166.
Megnin, O., Flitton, A., Jones, C.R.G., de Haan, M., Baldeweg, T., Charman, T. (2012) Audiovisual speech integration in autism spectrum disorder: ERP evidence for atypicalities in lexical-semantic processing. Autism Research, 5, 39-48.
Jones, C.R.G., Claassen, D.O., Yu, M., Spies, J.R., Malone, T., Dirnberger, G., Jahanshahi, M., Kubovy, M. (2011) Modeling accuracy and variability of motor timing in treated and untreated Parkinson’s disease and healthy controls. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 5:81. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00081, Special issue: Interval timing and time-based decision making.
Jones, C.R.G., Jahanshahi, M. (2011) Dopamine modulates striato-frontal functioning during temporal processing. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 5:70. doi: 10.3389/ fnint.2011.00070 Special issue: Interval timing and time-based decision making.
Jones, C.R.G., Swettenham, J., Charman, T., Marsden, A.J.S., Tregay, J., Baird, G., Simonoff, E., Happé, F. (2011) No evidence for a fundamental visual motion processing deficit in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Autism Research, 4, 347-357.
Charman, T. Jones, C.R.G., Pickles, A., Simonoff, E., Baird, G., Happé, F. (2011) Defining the cognitive phenotype of autism. Brain Research, 1380, 10-21.
Jones, C.R.G., Happé, F., Pickles, A., Marsden, A.J.S., Tregay, J., Baird, G., Simonoff, E., Charman, T. (2011) ‘Everyday Memory’ Impairments in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41, 455-464.
Jones, C.R.G., Pickles, A., Falcaro, M., Marsden, A.J.S., Happé, F., Scott, S.K., Sauter, D., Tregay, J., Phillips, R.J., Baird, G., Simonoff, E., Charman, T. (2011) A Multimodal Approach to Emotion Recognition Ability in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52, 275-285.
Jahanshahi, M., Jones, C.R.G., Zijlmans, J., Katzenschlager, R., Lee, L., Quinn, N., Frith, C.D., Lees, A.J. (2010) Dopaminergic modulation of striato-frontal connectivity during motor timing in Parkinson’s disease. Brain, 133, 727-745.
Jones, C.R.G., Happé, F., Baird, G., Simonoff, E., Marsden, A.J.S., Tregay, J., Phillips, R.J., Goswami, U., Thomson, J.M., Charman, T. (2009) Auditory Discrimination and Auditory Sensory Behaviours in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2850-2858.
Jones, C. R. G., Happé, F., Golden, H., Marsden, A. J. S., Tregay, J., Simonoff, E., Pickles, A., Baird, G., & Charman, T. (2009) Reading and arithmetic in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders: Peaks and dips in attainment. Neuropsychology, 23, 718-728.
Jones, C.R.G., Jahanshahi, M. (2009) The substantia nigra, the basal ganglia, dopamine and temporal processing. In G Di Giovanni, V Di Matteo and E Esposito (Eds.), Birth, Life and death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. Journal of Neural Transmission Wien-New York: Springer-Verlag Supplementa 73, 161-171.
Jahanshahi, M., Pieter, S., Alusi, S.H., Jones, C.R.G., Glickman, S., Stein, J.F., Aziz, T.Z., Bain, P.G. (2008) Effects on cognition of stereotactic lesional surgery for the treatment of tremor in multiple sclerosis. Behavioural Neurology, 20, 1-9.
Jones, C.R.G., Malone, T.J., Dirnberger, G., Edwards, M., Jahanshahi, M, (2008) Basal ganglia, dopamine and temporal processing: Performance on three timing tasks on and off medication in Parkinson's disease. Brain and Cognition, 68, 30-41.
Jahanshahi, M., Jones, C.R.G., Dirnberger, G., Frith, C. (2006) The substantia nigra pars compacta and temporal processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 12266-73.
Charman, T., Jones, C.R.G., Marsden, A. (2005) Identifying clinical subgroups and associations between cognition and behaviour: Challenges for the experimental neuropsychology of autism. Current Psychology of Cognition, 23, 94-103.
Jones, C.R.G., Rosenkranz, K., Rothwell, J.C., Jahanshahi, M. (2004) The right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is essential in time reproduction: An investigation with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Experimental Brain Research, 158, 366-372.
