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 research after graduating from Dartmouth.
Broadly, I am interested in how we represent various aspects of our subjective experience and how these aspects ultimately reach 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 processes in auditory and nociceptive perception as well as how attention mediates the process of such information reaching conscious awareness. My approach utilizes a range of techniques including behavioral measures, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to investigate conscious perception and attentional selection.
Long-term goals include:
- understanding the mediating role of attention in conscious perception across different modalities
- understanding how these processes differ in pathological conditions such as blindsight & persistent vegetative state
- understanding how these processes differ in 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 in the auditory domain!