Jason Bell is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia, where he also holds an affiliation with the UWA Defence and Security Institute. He heads the Sensory Neuroscience Attention and Perception (SNAP) Laboratory. Bell obtained his BA Honours in Psychology in 2003 and PhD in 2008 from the University of Western Australia. His postdoctoral research from 2008 to 2010 was conducted at the McGill Vision Research Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. From 2011 to 2013, he served as a Lecturer in the Research School of Psychology at the Australian National University. Since 2013, he has been at the University of Western Australia, initially as Senior Lecturer and progressing to Associate Professor. He held an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 2011.

Bell's research encompasses visual perception, clinical applications, and sensory neuroscience. In visual perception, he studies the processing of shapes and objects for recognition, hemispheric specialization in symmetry, the time course of visual perception, mechanisms for visual number, and serial dependencies. His clinical research explores perceptual and attentional biases in eating disorders and obesity, such as biases to high- and low-calorie foods or body shapes, perceived healthiness of foods, body size estimation, and attentional retraining. He also investigates ADHD-related alterations in time perception, timing retraining, and emotional regulation's role. In sensory neuroscience, his work examines brain functional specialization, effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on attention and perception, and neuro-synchronization in theta and alpha bands for perception and action. Key publications include 'Past visual experiences weigh in on body size estimation' (Scientific Reports, 2018), 'The mediating role of rumination in the relation between attentional bias towards thin female bodies and eating disorder symptomatology' (PLoS One, 2017), 'Global shape aftereffects have a local substrate: A tilt aftereffect field' (Journal of Vision, 2010), 'Detection of shape in radial frequency contours: Independence of local and global form information' (Vision Research, 2007), and recent articles such as 'Adaptable Automation Transparency: Should Humans Be Provided Flexibility to Self-Select Transparency Information?' (2026). Bell has earned the Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (2020), Scientific Reports Top 100 award (2018), Guild Student Choice Award for PSYC1101 (2017), nomination for Faculty of Science Rising Stars (2017), and PhD with Distinction (2008).

Professional Email: jason.bell@uwa.edu.au