Jason is a Lecturer in Psychology at UWL. He is a cognitive scientist whose research focuses on revealing the psychological and neural processes underlying visual perception, memory, and consciousness. Jason has a B.A. (Hons) in Classical Studies (University College London), an M.A. in Psychology (New School for Social Research), and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (New School for Social Research).
Jason taught at The New School for Social Research in New York City from 2011-2018. Here, he was also a Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow, working in the Sensation and Perception Laboratory of Arien Mack (2014-2017) on visual awareness, attention, and expectation. He was a part-time lecturer at the City University of New York, USA (2017–2019), The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York (2015-2018), and William Paterson University in New Jersey, USA (2013-2018). Most recently, he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Farmingdale State College (2018-2020), and a part-time lecturer at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, based at Princeton University (2018-2019).
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Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Classical Studies (University College London)
- MSc Psychology (New School for Social Research
- PhD Cognitive Psychology (New School for Social Research)
Teaching
Jason's main teaching areas are cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and sensation and perception.
Research
Jason in a cognitive scientist. He has published research on visual perception, time perception, memory, and the role that visuospatial attention and expectation play in conscious and unconscious perception. He is currently using prediction errors (violations of expectations about visual experience) to explore cognitive models.
Jason is the director of the Cognitive Psychology Laboratory at UWL.
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Research and publications
Clarke, J. (in press). Constructing experience: Expectation and attention in perception. Cambridge University Press.
Clarke, J., & Tyler, B. (2024). Expecting the future: Entropy-based predictions in time perception. Timing & Time Perception (published online ahead of print 2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10105
Porubanova, M., Clarke, J., Erol, M., & Priefer, R. (2020). Prioritization and interference of emotional information in briefly presented scenes: Selection advantage for positive emotional scenes. Studia Psychologica.
Clarke, J. & Porubanova, M. (2020). Scene and object violations cause subjective time dilation. Timing and Time Perception, 1-20.
Webster, A., Clarke, J., Ro, T, & Mack, A. (2018). Effects of canonical color, luminance, and orientation on sustained inattentional blindness for natural scenes. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.
Mack, A., Clarke, J., & Erol, M. (2018). Attention, expectation, and iconic memory: A reply to Aru and Bachmann (2017). Consciousness and Cognition, 59, 60-63.
Mack, A., Clarke, J., Erol, M., & Bert, J. (2017). Scene incongruity and attention. Consciousness and Cognition, 48, 87-103.
Mack, A., Erol, M., & Clarke, J. (2017). When expectation confounds iconic memory: A reply to Bachman and Aru, 2016. Consciousness and Cognition, 49, 363-364.
Mack, A., Erol, M., Clarke, J., & Bert, J. (2016). No iconic memory without attention. Consciousness and Cognition, 40, 1-8.
Clarke, J. & Mack, A. (2015). Iconic memory for natural scenes: Evidence using a modified change-detection procedure. Visual Cognition, 23(7),917-938.
Mack, A., Clarke, J., & Erol, M. (2015). Reply to Bachmann and Aru. Consciousness and Cognition, 35, 156-157.
Mack, A., Erol, M., & Clarke, J. (2015). Iconic memory is not a case of attention-free awareness. Consciousness and Cognition, 33, 291-299.
Clarke, J. & Mack, A. (2014). Iconic memory for the gist of natural scenes. Consciousness and Cognition, 30, 256-265.
Clarke, J., Ro, T., & Mack, A. (2013). The persistence of inattentional blindness and the absence of priming from natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 13, 9.
Mack, A. & Clarke, J. (2012). Gist perception requires attention. Visual Cognition, 20 (3), 300-327.
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Conferences
Clarke, J., Porubanova, P, Mazzoli, A., & Kut, G. (2021). Perception of time’s arrow and entropy: Violations to the second law of thermodynamics disrupt time perception. European Conference on Visual Perception, Poster, Online.
Clarke, J., Kuvaldina, M., & Mack, A. (2018). Frames of reference determine the direction of the motion aftereffect (MAE): Evidence supporting the influence of perceived motion in the MAE. Vision Sciences Society Annual Conference, Florida, USA, Poster.
Erol, M, Mack, A., & Clarke, J. (2018). Expectation blindness: Seeing a face when there is none. Vision Sciences Society Conference, USA, Poster.
Porubanova, M., Kuvaldina, M., Clarke, J., & Erol, M. (2017). Emotional inattentional blindness effect. OPAM: Object Perception, Visual Attention, and Visual Memory, Vancouver, Canada.
Porubanova, M., Brocker, D., Geiger, E., Clarke, J., Erol, M, and Mack, A. (2017). Directed inhibition of emotional scenes in iconic memory: Interference of positive information. Perception 46 ECVP Abstract, European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany.
Erol, M., Mack, A., Clarke, J., & Bert, J. (2016). Inattentional blindness to absent stimuli: The role of expectation. Vision Sciences Society Annual Conference, Florida, USA, Poster.
Clarke, J. & Mack, A. (2015). Evidence for iconic memory of natural scenes before change blindness. Vision Sciences Society Conference, USA, Poster.
Holder, L., Erol, M., Mack, A., Bert, J., & Clarke, J. (2015). Action video game playing does not reduce inattentional blindness. Vision Sciences Society Conference, USA, Poster.
Webster, K., Clarke, J., Mack, A., & Ro, T. (2014). Appropriately colored scenes reduce inattentional blindness. Vision Sciences Society Conference, USA, Poster.
Clarke, J., Ro, T., & Mack, A. (2013). The persistence of inattentional blindness and the absence of priming from natural scenes. Vision Sciences Society Conference, USA, Poster.
Clarke, J., Mack, A., Kuvaldina, M., Slesar, C., & Erol, M. (2011). No gist perception without attention. Vision Sciences Society Conference, USA, Poster.
Slesar C., Mack, A., Clarke, J., & Erol, M. (2011). Two object subliminal priming. Vision Sciences Society Conference, USA, Poster.
