Dr. Jason Tsukahara is a post-doctoral researcher in the Jha Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. He graduated with his Ph.D. in Cognition and Brain Sciences at Georgia Tech in the Attention & Working Memory Lab working with Randy Engle.
Dr. Tsukahara’s expertise is in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Using behavioral, self-report, pupil size, and neuroimaging methods, he has studied how individuals differ on their ability to control attention. His program of research focuses on 1) how attention control relates to other cognitive abilities such as working memory capacity and fluid intelligence, 2) how to improve the measurement of attention control, and 3) brain mechanisms underlying differences in attention control.
Website: https://jasontsukahara.com/
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Attention Control and Cognition
Tsukahara, J.S., Harrison, T.L., Draheim, C., Martin, J., & Engle, R.W. (2020). Attention control: The missing link between sensory discrimination and intelligence. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02044-9
Burgoyne, A.P., Mashburn, C.A., Tsukahara, J.S., & Engle, R.W. (2022). Attention control and process overlap theory: Searching for cognitive processes underpinning the positive manifold. Intelligence, 91, 101629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2022.101629
The Measurement of Attention Control
Draheim, C., Tsukahara, J.S., Martin, J.D., & Engle, R.W. (2021). A toolbox approach to improving the measurement of attention control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(2), 242-275. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000783
Draheim, C., Tsukahara, J.S., & Engle, R.W. (2023). Replication and extension of the toolbox approach to measuring attention control. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02140-2
Brain Mechanisms of Attention Control
Tsukahara, J.S., & Engle, R.W. (2021). Fluid intelligence and the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(46) e2110630118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2110630118
Tsukahara, J.S., Harrison, T.L., & Engle, R.W. (2016). The relationship between baseline pupil size and intelligence. Cognitive Psychology, 91, 109-123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.10.001
