ABOUT ME
My name is Jason A. Davis, and I am an undergraduate researcher in the Psychology and Cognitive Science departments, advised by Viola Störmer and Tor Wager. I am on-track to receive my B.A. under both departments in Fall 2025 and seek to pursue a career in science after Dartmouth.
Broadly, I am interested in how we represent various characteristics of our subjective experience and how they bubble into conscious awareness. More specifically, I am interested in the nature of perception across different modalities (e.g. vision & audition), how such perceptual information enters conscious awareness (via attention), and how these processes differ during altered states and pathological conditions (e.g. dreaming & coma).
If I am not conducting research in the lab, I am likely either playing soccer, running, or cooking one of my signature bowls.
If you stay on my good side, I’ll make you one for free…
CURRENT RESEARCH
Currently, my research investigates the neural and psychological principles in multimodal perception and attentional selection. My approach utilizes a range of techniques including behavioral experiments, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to investigate both processes.
Long-term goals include:
- understanding how humans represent information across different modalities
- understanding how attentional selection filters such information into consciousness
- understanding how these processes differ in (a) pathological conditions such as blindsight & persistent vegetative state and (b) altered states such as hallucinations & dreaming
Want to learn more about my research?
Here's my award-winning video from this year's Made at Dartmouth (MAD) Undergraduate Research Contest that details my current research of experience-driven attention in the auditory domain!