Jason Forte

Jason Forte is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, at the University of Melbourne. He directs the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, investigating behavioural and physiological responses to visual stimuli using techniques such as millisecond reaction time measures, EEG, eye tracking, and pupil responses. The lab explores effects of electrophysiological stimulation on these responses and models relationships between visual input and behavioural or physiological outputs. Forte earned his PhD, Master's degree by coursework, and Bachelor's degree with Honours from the University of Western Australia. His research interests encompass cognitive neuroscience, visual perception, visual neuroscience, visuospatial attention, motion perception, visual processing, gaze tracking, vision science, number cognition, and brain stimulation.

Forte's scholarly output includes publications in leading journals such as 'Predicting perceptual decision biases from early brain activity' (Bode et al., The Journal of Neuroscience, 2012), 'Spatial limitations of fast temporal segmentation are best modelled by V1 receptive fields' (Goodbourn & Forte, Journal of Vision, 2013), 'The relationship between vertical stimulation and horizontal attentional asymmetries' (Nicholls et al., Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2012), 'Cognitive load effects on early visual perceptual processing' (Liu, Forte & Carter, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2018), and 'Enumeration strategy differences revealed by saccade-terminated eye tracking' (2020). Additional works address visual snow syndrome, visuo-motor biomechanics, and transcranial direct current stimulation efficacy. He has received Australian Research Council funding, including Discovery Project DP0346611 as an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow. Forte teaches subjects including Biological Psychology and Neuroscience and the Mind, and his research featured in the Pursuit article 'Do you think better when you're moving?' (2021), highlighting improved cognition during walking.

Professional Email: jdf@unimelb.edu.au