Jackson Colvett

Dr. Jackson Colvett is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Berry College's Psychological Science department. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from Wake Forest University (2017), an M.A. in Psychological and Brain Sciences from Washington University in St. Louis (2019), and a Ph.D. in Psychological and Brain Sciences with a focus on Brain, Behavior, and Cognition (2023). His research explores attentional control processes at the intersection of attention, learning, and memory, particularly how individuals use environmental features to adjust cognitive control during goal-directed tasks. Current work examines how learners predict and adapt to distractors based on item or location features, and the dominance of item-level learning over contextual cues.

His publications span cognitive control mechanisms, task switching, and perceptual processing costs, with recent focus on item-specific control dynamics and cross-modal adaptation. Research methods include behavioral experiments and experimental paradigms measuring attentional allocation and response modulation. Colvett’s work has implications for understanding cognitive flexibility in dynamic environments and applications to educational and workplace settings.

Notable articles include investigations into stimulus repetition effects in task choice, media multitasking differences in task performance, and object-based attention in dynamic scenarios. His findings contribute to theoretical frameworks around adaptive cognitive control and the neural underpinnings of attentional filtering.