Dr Jason Rajsic

Assistant Professor

Department: Psychology

In most situations, there is more information available than we can, or do, make use of. I am broadly interested in how and when we selectively process some of this information that suits our goals, particularly in the case of vision. In my research, I take an experimental approach to testing how we use attention and memory in visual tasks (e.g., visual search).

I completed my MSc in Canada with Daryl Wilson (Queen's University) and my PhD with Jay Pratt (University of Toronto) and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University with Geoff Woodman before joining Northumbria University in 2019.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research focuses on the cognitive processes that help us control what we attend to and remember. To investigate these processes I make use of behavioural measures, eye-tracking, and electroencephalograpy (EEG).

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Does cognitive reflection predict attentional control in visual tasks?, Dorigoni, A., Rajsic, J., Bonini, N. 1 Jun 2022, In: Acta Psychologica
Do we remember templates better so that we can reject distractors better?, Rajsic, J., Woodman, G. 1 Jan 2020, In: Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
Visual working memory load does not eliminate visuomotor repetition effects, Rajsic, J., Hilchey, M., Woodman, G., Pratt, J. 1 Apr 2020, In: Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
When do response-related episodic retrieval effects co-occur with inhibition of return?, Hilchey, M., Rajsic, J., Pratt, J. 1 Aug 2020, In: Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
Contralateral delay activity tracks the storage of visually presented letters and words, Rajsic, J., Burton, J., Woodman, G. 1 Jan 2019, In: Psychophysiology
Does changing distractor environments eliminate spatiomotor biases?, Hilchey, M., Weidler, B., Rajsic, J., Pratt, J. 21 Apr 2019, In: Visual Cognition
Ironic capture: Top-down expectations exacerbate distraction in visual search, Huffman, G., Rajsic, J., Pratt, J. 1 Jul 2019, In: Psychological Research
It is not in the details: Self-related shapes are rapidly classified but their features are not better remembered, Constable, M., Rajsic, J., Welsh, T., Pratt, J. 15 Aug 2019, In: Memory and Cognition
The Contralateral Delay Activity Tracks the Sequential Loading of Objects into Visual Working Memory, Unlike Lateralized Alpha Oscillations, Wang, S., Rajsic, J., Woodman, G. Nov 2019, In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Discriminating scene categories from brain activity within 100ms, Lowe, M., Rajsic, J., Ferber, S., Walther, D. 4 Jul 2018, In: Cortex

Qualifications

Psychology PhD November 09 2017

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