Jason Tsukahara

Dr. Jason Tsukahara

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Academic Career Length

11Years (2016-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 February 2021 in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
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CDChristopher Draheim
Christopher Draheim
JTJason Tsukahara
Jason Tsukahara
JMJessie D. Martin
Jessie D. Martin
CMCody A. Mashburn
Cody A. Mashburn
RERandall W. Wayne Engle
Randall W. Wayne Engle
Cognitive tasks that produce reliable and robust effects at the group level often fail to yield reliable and valid individual differences. An ongoing debate among attention researchers is whether conflict resolution mechanisms are task-specific or domain-general, and the lack of correlation between most attention measures seems to favor the view that attention control is not a unitary concept. We have argued that the use of difference scores, particularly in reaction time (RT), is the primary cause of null and conflicting results at the individual differences level, and that methodological issues with existing tasks preclude making strong theoretical conclusions. The present article is an empirical test of this view in which we used a toolbox approach to develop and validate new tasks hypothesized to reflect attention processes. Here, we administered existing, modified, and new attention tasks to over 400 participants (final N = 396). Compared with the traditional Stroop and flanker tasks, performance on the accuracy-based measures was more reliable, had stronger intercorrelations, formed a more coherent latent factor, and had stronger associations to measures of working memory capacity and fluid intelligence. Further, attention control fully accounted for the relationship between working memory capacity and fluid intelligence. These results show that accuracy-based measures can be better suited to individual differences investigations than traditional RT tasks, particularly when the goal is to maximize prediction. We conclude that attention control is a unitary concept. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

1 December 2016 in Cognitive Psychology
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JTJason Tsukahara
Jason Tsukahara
THTyler L. Harrison
Tyler L. Harrison
RERandall W. Engle
Randall W. Engle

1 June 2021 in Cognition
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JTJason Tsukahara
Jason Tsukahara
RERandall W. Engle
Randall W. Engle

8 June 2020 in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
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JTJason Tsukahara
Jason Tsukahara
THTyler L. Harrison
Tyler L. Harrison
CDChristopher Draheim
Christopher Draheim
JMJessie D. Martin
Jessie D. Martin
RERandall W. Wayne Engle
Randall W. Wayne Engle

30 May 2023 in Behavior Research Methods
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CDChristopher Draheim
Christopher Draheim
JTJason Tsukahara
Jason Tsukahara
RERandall W. Wayne Engle
Randall W. Wayne Engle

1 November 2020 in Learning and Motivation
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Alex BurgoyneAlex Burgoyne
Alex Burgoyne
JTJason Tsukahara
Jason Tsukahara
CDChristopher Draheim
Christopher Draheim
RERandall W. Wayne Engle
Randall W. Wayne Engle