Research groups
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Collaborators
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Kia Nobre
Visiting Wu Tsai Professor of Psychology
Dejan Draschkow
PhD
Associate Professor
Dejan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Experimental Psychology, a Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College, and affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA) at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN).
Dejan leads the Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition Lab. The lab's research programme focuses on understanding how cognition unfolds during ecologically valid and naturalistic behaviour in real-world contexts. In particular, they are interested in how memories of different timescales form during natural tasks and, in turn, how these memories ultimately guide a wide variety of behaviours. The group further studies how we select and prioritise information within memory in service of ongoing behaviour.
An important part of advancing this research has been the development and utilisation of methods necessary to measure cognitive processes during unconstrained behaviour. This work has covered topics such as open and reproducible research practices, Virtual Reality, permutation tests in MEG/EEG data, online behavioural experiments, and mixed-effects/multilevel models.
Dejan teaches Core Practicals and R Hackathons for undergraduate students and Statistical Methods & Theory for graduates. For his work, he was awarded the Early Career Excellent Teacher Award under the Medical Science's Division's 2021 Teaching Excellence Awards scheme.
More publications: google scholar
Key publications
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When Natural Behavior Engages Working Memory.
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Draschkow D. et al, (2021), Curr Biol, 31, 869 - 874.e5
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Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory.
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Draschkow D. et al, (2022), Nat Hum Behav, 6, 536 - 544
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Heading Direction Tracks Internally Directed Selective Attention in Visual Working Memory.
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Thom JL. et al, (2023), J Cogn Neurosci, 35, 856 - 868
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Reading scenes: how scene grammar guides attention and aids perception in real-world environments.
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Võ ML-H. et al, (2019), Curr Opin Psychol, 29, 205 - 210
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Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior.
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Helbing J. et al, (2022), Psychol Sci, 33, 1463 - 1476
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Remote virtual reality as a tool for increasing external validity
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DRASCHKOW D., (2022), Nature Reviews Psychology
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Search superiority: Goal-directed attentional allocation creates more reliable incidental identity and location memory than explicit encoding in naturalistic virtual environments.
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Helbing J. et al, (2020), Cognition, 196
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Using XR (Extended Reality) for Behavioral, Clinical, and Learning Sciences Requires Updates in Infrastructure and Funding
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DRASCHKOW D. et al, (2023), Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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Estimating power in (generalized) linear mixed models: An open introduction and tutorial in R.
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Kumle L. et al, (2021), Behav Res Methods, 53, 2528 - 2543
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No evidence from MVPA for different processes underlying the N300 and N400 incongruity effects in object-scene processing.
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Draschkow D. et al, (2018), Neuropsychologia, 120, 9 - 17
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Scene grammar shapes the way we interact with objects, strengthens memories, and speeds search.
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Draschkow D. and Võ ML-H., (2017), Sci Rep, 7
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Cluster-based permutation tests of MEG/EEG data do not establish significance of effect latency or location.
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Sassenhagen J. and Draschkow D., (2019), Psychophysiology, 56