Jay Pratt is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He received his BA in Psychology and his MSc in Kinesiology from the University of Alberta. He went on to receive his PhD in Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, and upon receiving that degree started his faculty position at the University of Toronto. With his research on visual cognition, attention, visual working memory, motor control, eye movements, and aging, he has published more than 250 papers. This research has been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He has been an Associate Editor for Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Visual Cognition. He is a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Royal Society of Canada. He has been awarded a Premier’s Research Excellence Award from the Government of Ontario and a Faculty Award of Excellence from the University of Toronto. One of his papers in Attention, Performance, & Psychophysics also received the Clifford T. Morgan Best Article Award from the Psychonomic Society. In addition to his research, he has served, in order, as the Chair of the Department of Psychology, Acting Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Life, Vice-Dean for Research & Infrastructure, and Acting Vice Dean for Graduate Education.

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