Jason Tsukahara
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Jason Tsukahara, PhD

Post-Doctoral Researcher in Cognitive Psychology at
University of Miami

I do research in cognitive psychology with a focus on understanding the nature and potential of our ability to focus attention, it’s biological basis, and how it impacts our life and mind in meaningful ways.

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Research Areas

 

Attention Control and Cognition
How people differ on their ability to control attention and how that predicts performance in other sensory, cognitive, and real-world domains.

The Measurement of Attention Control
Development of cognitive tasks that are both reliable and valid measures of attention control.

Brain Mechanisms of Attention Control
How pupil size, the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system, and organization of large-scale brain networks are related to differences in attention control.
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Featured Publications

 

  • Sustaining the focus of attention and how it relates to performance in complex cognitive tasks

    Jason S. Tsukahara, Randall W. Engle

    2023,  PsyArxiv

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  • Fluid intelligence and the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system

    Jason S. Tsukahara, Randall W. Engle

    2021,  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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  • A toolbox approach to improving the measurement of attention control

    Christopher Draheim, Jason S. Tsukahara, Jessie D. Martin, Cody A. Mashburn, Randall W. Engle

    2021,  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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R Packages

 

englelab
Helpful functions for processing and scoring complex-span and attention control tasks downloaded from the EngleLab.

semoutput
An R package to create nice looking output for CFA and SEM analyses using lavaan and semPlot packages.

pupillometry
An easy to use R package to preprocess pupil data for researchers that are not experts in either pupillometry or working with data in R.
R Workshop for the Psychology Student
The purpose of this course is for you to gain a basic level of proficiency in 1) working with data, 2) data visualization, and 3) statistical computation in R.
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