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Kristina Krasich

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Department: Psychology

Office and address: Psychology & Human Service Stu, Office 125N 2337 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244

Phone number: (336) 278-2947

Professional Expertise

visual attention, conscious perception, memory, causal & moral reasoning

Brief Biography

I study the psychophysical and neurocognitive mechanisms that support visual attention, conscious perception, and memory as well as how these constructs are related to causal and moral reasoning. I employ behavioral, eye tracking, and electroencephalogram (EEG) empirical techniques to conduct both basic-scientific investigation and translational research. I also consider how my research interacts with philosophical theories of consciousness, free will, and moral agency.

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Education

Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Notre Dame (2019)
M.S. in Psychology, University of Notre Dame (2016)
B.A. in Psychology, Duke University (2011)
B.A. in English, Duke University (2011)

Employment History

2023 - Present     Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Elon University
2019 - 2023         Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University
2014 - 2019         Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame
2012 - 2014         Lab Manager, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University

Courses Taught

PSY 2400 Behavioral Neuroscience
PSY 2970 Experimental Research Methods and Statistics

Grants Awarded

CURRENT RESEARCH

Agency: National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health
Title: Neural mechanisms underlying attentional resilience in older adults
Number: R01 – 1R01AG088329-01
Role: Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator of sub-award)
PI: Acker, L.
Date: 2024 - 2029

Publications

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

Simmons, C., Krasich, K., Chitre, A., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (in press). Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Krasich, K., Woldorff, M. G., De Brigard, F., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., & Mudrik, L. (2024). Prestimulus alpha phase, not only power, modulates conscious perception. Comment on “Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness” by G. Northoff, F. Zilio, & J. Zhang. Physics of Life Reviews, 50, 123-125.

Krasich, K., O’Neill, K., & De Brigard, F. (2024). Looking at mental images: Eye-tracking mental simulation during retrospective causal judgment. Cognitive Science. 48(3), e13426.

Krasich, K., O’Neill, K., Murray, S., Brockmole, J. R., De Brigard, F., & Nuthmann, A. (2024). A computational modeling approach to investigating mind wandering-related adjustments to gaze behavior during scene viewing. Cognition. 242, 105624.

Murray, S., Krasich, K., Irving, Z., Nadelhoffer, T., & De Brigard, F. (2023). Mental control and attributions of blame for negligent wrongdoing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(1), 120-138.

Irving, Z., Murray, S., Glasser, A., & Krasich, K. (2023). The Catch-22 of forgetfulness: Responsibility for mental mistakes. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1-19.

Krasich, K., Simmons, C., O’Neill, K., Giattino, C. M., De Brigard, F., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Mudrik, L., & Woldorff, M. G. (2022). Prestimulus oscillatory brain activity interacts with evoked recurrent processing to facilitate conscious visual perception. Scientific Reports, 12, 22126.

Krasich, K., Gjorgieva, E., Murray, S., Bhatia, S., Faber, M., De Brigard, F., & Woldorff, M. G. (2021). The impact of error-consequence severity on cue processing in importance-biased prospective memory. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 2(4), tgab056.

Krasich, K., Kim, J., Huffman, G., Klaffehn, A. L., & Brockmole, J. R. (2021). Does task-irrelevant music affect gaze allocation during real-world scene viewing?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28(6), 1944-1960.

Murray S. & Krasich, K. (2020). Can the mind wander intentionally?. Mind & Language, 37(3), 432-443.

Krasich, K., Huffman, G., Faber, M., & Brockmole, J. R. (2020). Where the eyes wander: The relationship between mind wandering and fixation allocation to visually salient and semantically informative static scene content. Journal of Vision, 20(9):10, 1-30.

Faber, M., Krasich, K., Bixler, R., Brockmole, J. R., & D’Mello, S. K. (2020). The eye-mind wandering link: Identifying gaze indices of mind wandering across tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(10), 1201-1221.

Murray, S., Krasich, K., Schooler, J. W., & Seli, P. (2020). What’s in a task? Complications in the study of the task-unrelated-thought (TUT) variety of mind wandering. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(3), 572-588.

Hutt, S., Krasich, K., Mills, C., Bosch, N., White, S., Brockmole, J. R., & D’Mello, S. K. (2019). Automated gaze-based mind wandering detection during computerized learning in classrooms. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction. 1-47.

Krasich, K., Biggs, A. T., & Brockmole, J. R. (2018). Attention capture during visual search: The consequences of distractor appeal, familiarity, and frequency. Visual Cognition. [Special Issue: Dealing with Distractors], 1-19.

Krasich, K., McManus, R., Hutt, S., Faber, M., D’Mello, S. K., & Brockmole, J. R. (2018). Gaze-Based signatures of mind wandering during real-world scene processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 147(8), 1111-1124.

Krasich, K., Ramger, B., Holton, L., Wang, L., Mitroff, S. R., & Appelbaum, L. G. (2016). Sensorimotor learning in a computerized athletic training battery. Journal of Motor Behavior, 48(5), 401-412.

Wang, L., Krasich, K., Bel-Bahar, T., Hughes, L., Mitroff S.R., & Appelbaum, L.G. (2015). Mapping the structure of perceptual and visual-motor abilities in healthy young adults. Acta Psychologica, 157. 74-84.

Conference Proceedings (peer-reviewed)
O’Neill, K., Krasich, K., Murray, S., Brockmole, J. R., Nuthmann, A., & De Brigard, F. (2022, August). Fixation duration variability increases with mind wandering during scene viewing. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. (pp. 588-590).

Krasich, K., O’Neill, K., & De Brigard, F. (2022, July). Eye tracking mental simulation during retrospective causal reasoning. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 1004-1010). UC Merced.

Hutt, S., Krasich, K., Brockmole, J. R., & D’Mello, S. K. (2021, May). A gaze-based attention-aware technology to address mind wandering during learning in classrooms. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference of on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. 1-14). AMC.

Mills, C., Bosch, N., Krasich, K., & D’Mello, S. K. (2019, June). Reducing Mind-Wandering During Vicarious Learning from an Intelligent Tutoring System. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 296-307). Springer, Cham.

Krasich, K., Hutt, S., Mills, C., Spann, C. A., Brockmole, J. R., & D’Mello, S. K. (2018, June). “Mind” TS: Testing a Brief Mindfulness Intervention with an Intelligent Tutoring System. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 176-181). Springer, Cham. 

Hutt, S., Mills, C., Bosch, N., Krasich, K., Brockmole, J., R. & D'Mello, S. K. (2017, July). Out of the Fr-Eye-ing Pan: Towards Gaze-Based Models of Attention during Learning with Technology in the Classroom. In Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 94-103). ACM.

Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)
Murray S., Irving Z., & Krasich, K. (2022). The scientific study of passive thinking: The methodology of mind wandering research. In De Brigard, F. & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (Eds.) Neuroscience and Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 389-426.

Service Activities

Neuroscience Advisory Committee
Neuroscience Program, Elon University
Advancing curriculum and undergraduate research in neuroscience
(2023 - present)