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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Jay Pratt is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and specializes primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their research portfolio includes a strong focus in Cognitive Neuroscience as well as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Their work further spans areas such as Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The main topics addressed in their research cover a variety of psychological and neural phenomena. These include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Child and Animal Learning Development, Multisensory perception and integration, Face Recognition and Perception, Visual Attention and Saliency Detection, and Neural dynamics and brain function.

Jay Pratt has contributed extensively to multiple academic journals, with notable frequent publication venues including Journal of Vision, Attention Perception & Psychophysics, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, Visual Cognition, and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Their recent significant papers consist of:

  • Salience matters: Distractors may, or may not, speed target-absent searches (2021, Attention Perception & Psychophysics)
  • Does feature-based attention play a role in the episodic retrieval of event files? (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance)
  • When do response-related episodic retrieval effects co-occur with inhibition of return? (2020, Attention Perception & Psychophysics)
  • Re-examining Maljkovic and Nakayama (1994): Conscious expectancy does affect the Priming of Pop-out effect (2020, Attention Perception & Psychophysics)
  • Tuning the ensemble: Incidental skewing of the perceptual average through memory-driven selection. (2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance)

Their frequent collaborators include Susanne Ferber, Rebecca K. Lawrence, Brett A. Cochrane, Ryan Williams, and Y. Isabella Lim.

In recognition of their contributions, Jay Pratt was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018 by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Playing an Action Video Game Reduces Gender Differences in Spatial Cognition

    Jing Feng;Ian Spence;Jay Pratt

  • Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention

    Martin H Fischer;Alan D Castel;Michael D Dodd;Jay Pratt

  • The effects of action video game experience on the time course of inhibition of return and the efficiency of visual search

    Alan D. Castel;Alan D. Castel;Jay Pratt;Emily Drummond

  • Symbolic Control of Visual Attention

    Bernhard Hommel;Jay Pratt;Lorenza Colzato;Richard Godijn;Richard Godijn

  • Time flies like an arrow: Space-time compatibility effects suggest the use of a mental timeline

    Ulrich W. Weger;Jay Pratt

  • Rapid aimed limb movements: age differences and practice effects in component submovements.

    Jay Pratt;Alison L. Chasteen;Richard A. Abrams

  • It’s Alive! Animate Motion Captures Visual Attention

    Jay Pratt;Petre V. Radulescu;Ruo Mu Guo;Richard A. Abrams

  • Inhibition of return is composed of attentional and oculomotor processes.

    Alan Kingstone;Jay Pratt

  • Visuospatial experience modulates attentional capture: evidence from action video game players.

    Greg L. West;Sara A. Stevens;Carson Pun;Jay Pratt

  • The Spatial Distribution of Inhibition of Return

    Patrick J. Bennett;Jay Pratt

  • Color-based inhibition of return

    Mark B. Law;Jay Pratt;Richard A. Abrams

  • The time to detect targets at inhibited and noninhibited locations: Preliminary evidence for attentional momentum.

    Jay Pratt;Thomas M. Spalek;Frederick Bradshaw

  • Inhibition of return in location- and identity-based choice decision tasks.

    Jay Pratt;Alan Kingstone;Wayne Khoe

  • Symbolic Control of Visual Attention: The Role of Working Memory and Attentional Control Settings

    Jay Pratt;Bernhard Hommel

  • Hand Position Alters Vision by Biasing Processing through Different Visual Pathways.

    Davood G. Gozli;Greg L. West;Jay Pratt

  • Thinking of God Moves Attention

    Alison L. Chasteen;Donna C. Burdzy;Jay Pratt

  • Adult Age Differences in the Time Course of Inhibition of Return

    Alan D. Castel;Alison L. Chasteen;Charles T. Scialfa;Jay Pratt

  • Visual search elicits the electrophysiological marker of visual working memory.

    Stephen M. Emrich;Naseem Al-Aidroos;Jay Pratt;Susanne Ferber

  • A new estimation of the duration of attentional dwell time.

    Jan Theeuwes;Richard Godijn;J. A. Y. Pratt

  • Inhibition of return in a discrimination task.

    Jay Pratt

  • Actions modulate attentional capture.

    Timothy N. Welsh;Jay Pratt

  • Hand position alters vision by biasing processing through different visual pathways

    Jay Pratt;Davood Gozli;Stephanie Goodhew;Penelope Lockwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Susanne Ferber
Susanne Ferber University of Toronto
Alison L. Chasteen
Alison L. Chasteen University of Toronto
Richard A. Abrams
Richard A. Abrams Washington University in St. Louis
Jos J. Adam
Jos J. Adam Maastricht University
Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer University of Potsdam
Alan D. Castel
Alan D. Castel University of California, Los Angeles
Harold Bekkering
Harold Bekkering Radboud University
Adam K. Anderson
Adam K. Anderson Cornell University
Bernhard Hommel
Bernhard Hommel Shandong Normal University
Lynn Hasher
Lynn Hasher University of Toronto

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