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

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Advancing healthcare practice and education via data sharing: demonstrating the utility of open data by training an artificial intelligence model to assess cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills, Constable, M., Zhang, F., Conner, A., Monk, D., Rajsic, J., Ford, C., Park, L., Platt, A., Porteous, D., Grierson, L., Shum, H. 1 Feb 2025, In: Advances in Health Sciences Education
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Performance:: Video, Demographic and Evaluation Data, 2023, Constable, M., Zhang, F., Conner, A., Monk, D., Rajsic, J., Ford, C., Park, L., Barker, S., Platt, A., Porteous, D., Grierson, L., Shum, H. 30 Apr 2024
On the basketball court: How territorial context impacts information processing and responses, Constable, M., Kvederavičiūtė, M., Strachan, J., Rajsic, J. 3 Jan 2024, Experimental Psychology Society Meeting
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