Dr. Amir Jahanian Najafabadi

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Publication List

  • Gülpinar, Hakki E., Anastasiia Skryzhadlovska, Robert Haschke, Olga Abramov, and Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir. (2026). Emotional Modulation of Temporal Density in Natural Grasping: A Vision-Based Kinematic Study,  Frontiers in Psychology.
  • Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir., Rastegari, Alireza., & Longo, Matthew R. (2026).Tool Embodiment Across the Lifespan. Acta Psychologica, 264, 106463.
  • Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir., Rastegari, Alireza., Imani, Hadis., & Longo, Matthew R. (2026). A Lifespan Study on Body Schema and Perceived Reaching Distance. Acta Psychologica, 264, 106476.
  • Zhang, Hongchi., Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir., Bagh, Khaled., Colzato, Lorenza., & Hommel, Bernhard. (2026). Tracking the developing brain: Resting-state aperiodic activity reveals nonlinear cortical maturation in externalizing disorders. Behavioural Brain Research, 500, 115994.
  • Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir., Kroger, Carolyne. (2026). Altered Gravity and Time Perception: A Brief Review. Prospero Pre-registration ID: CRD42024577286; Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1735072.
  • Zhang, H., Jahanian Najafabadi, A., Bagh, K., Colzato, L., & Hommel, B. (2025). Analysis of aperiodic activity in obsessive-compulsive disorder and major depression. Scientific Report, 15, 40636.
  • Khosravi, Mohammad., Khosravi, Reza., Tavassoli, Amir.Reza. Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir.(2026). Optimizing non-invasive brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a systematic review of protocol heterogeneity, personalized targets, and adjunctive efficacy. BMC Psychiatry, 26, 101.
  • Heinrich, Nils. W., Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir., & Pérez-Osorio, J. (2025). Unsupervised Clustering Uncovers Two Distinct Types of Fixational Eye-Movements in Dynamic Environments, IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB), Philadelphia, PA, USA. IEEE
  • Bagh, Khaled; Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir; Kopp, Stefan. (2025). Multivariate Autoregressive Independent Component Analysis for Real-Time Resting-State Functional Connectivity in High-Density EEG, IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB), Philadelphia, PA, USA. (Preprint, IEEE).
  • Kelly, Charlotte. M., Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir., & Shams, Ladan. (2025). Psychophysiological Correlates of Emotion in Multisensory Music Perception, IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB), Philadelphia, PA, USA. (Preprint, IEEE).
  • Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir; Elaheh Davoodi. (2025). Cortical Activities Associated with Motor Learning in Healthy Aging: A Systematic Review; Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir., Küster, D., Putze, F., & Godde, B. (2025). Task Load Affects Tool Embodiment During Virtual Tool-use in Young and Older Adults (Preprint, Frontiers in Virtual Reality)
  • Naderi, Mahdi; Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir. (2025).A Systematic Review of EEG-Based Machine Learning Classifications for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Current Status and Future Directions, BMC Psychiatry, 25, 854.
  • Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir; J., Botev, J., Sun, N., & Kroger, C. (2025). Virtual tool embodiment in simulated gravity conditions. In The 17th International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE ’25), March 31-April 4, 2025, Stellenbosch, South Africa. ACM (Paper)
  • Bagh, Khaled; Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir (2024). Graph-Based Analysis of Brain Connectivity in Major Depressive Disorder Using EEG (Preprint, IEEE)
  • Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir; & Bagh, Khaled (2024). Resting-state Functional Connectivity for Major Depression Disorder Using Electroencephalography: A Deep Learning Approach (Preprint, IEEE)
  • Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir; Skryzhadlovska, A., & Valilai, O. F. (2024). Agile Product Development by Prediction of Consumers’ Behaviour; using Neurobehavioral and Social Media Sentiment Analysis Approaches. Procedia Computer Science, 232, 1683–1693.
  • Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir, & Bagh, Khaled. (2023). Resting-state EEG Classification of Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Major Depression Disorder Using Convolutional Neural Network (Preprint, IEEE).
  • Soraya, Shiva; Mahdavi, Mehri; Saeidi, Mahdieh; Seddigh, Ruohollah; Nooraeen, Sara; Sadri, Mehrdad; Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir. (2022). Prevalence of anxiety disorders and its co-occurrence with substance use disorder: a clinical study. Middle East Current Psychiatry, 29, 30.
  • Bhaskarachary,Chaitra; Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir; Godde, Ben. (2020). Machine Learning Supervised Classification Methodology for Autism Spectrum Disorder Based on Resting-State Electroencephalography (EEG) Signals. The 2020 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium, USA, IEEE Xplore, IEEE
  • Ciodaro, Gari; Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir; Godde, Ben (2020). Resting State EEG classification of children with ADHD (A Data Driven Approach with Extreme Gradient Boosting and Residual Convolutional Neural Networks). The 2020 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium, USA, IEEE Xplore, IEEE
  • Bhaskarachary, Chaitra; Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir; Godde, Ben. (2020). Machine Learning Supervised Classification Methodology for Autism Spectrum Disorder based on Resting-State Electroencephalography (EEG) Signals. Constructor University Bremen, Technical Report
  • Jahanian Najafabadi Amir, Salehi M, Rahmani M, Imani H.(2014). The Effect of Neurofeedback Training on Reduction of Anxiety. Journal of Research Behavioral Science; 11(6):657-664 (Published by Isfahan University of Medical Sciences). Paper
  • Jahanian Najafabadi Amir, Fooladchang, M.(2014). The Effect of Neurofeedback Training on solving problem ability and academic performance in elementary school students. Journal of Studies on Education and Learning; 5(2):65-85 (Published by University of Shiraz). Paper
Talk at the SPP The Active Self Symposium, Tutzing, Germany. November 2025

Talk at the SPP The Active Self Symposium, Tutzing, Germany. November 2025

Science Communication

Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir.(2023). Importance of Advanced Studies in Early Stages of Human Life: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective from Nu-lab, Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (Invited by Prof. Audrey van der Meer and Prof. Ruud van der Weel), Publication

Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir.(2025). Unlocking Infant Potential: The Critical Role of Early Stimulation in Brain Development, Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (Invited by Prof. Audrey van der Meer and Prof. Ruud van der Weel), Publication

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Scientific Conferences

Bagh, Khaled;Kayser, Christoph; Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir. (2025). The modulating role of saccadic and oculomotor behavior during a temporal reproduction task, 4th Timing Research Forum, Tokyo, Japan, Poster.

Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir; Argiro Vatakis;Kayser, Christoph.(2025). Spatial tool use modulates time perception in near and far space, 4th Timing Research Forum, Tokyo, Japan, Talk.

Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir ; Kroger, Carolyne; Sun, Ninguan ; Botev, Jean ; Kayser, Christoph.(2025). Simulated Gravitational Physics Shapes Time Perception in Virtual Reality, 4th Timing Research Forum, Tokyo, Japan, Poster.

Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir; Kayser, Christoph.(2025). Time Perception Is (only) Mildly Affected By Spatial Distance And Tool-use Training In Young And Older Adults, 15th  International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, 2025, Porto, Portugal.

Jahanian Najafabadi, Amir. (2025). Increased Subjective Feeling Of Ownership In Microgravity And Stable Sense Of Agency Are Associated With Task Load: A Virtual Tool-use Training In Simulated Gravitational Physics, 15th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, 2025, Porto, Portugal.