• Human Factors
• Human Evolution
• Navigation
• Visual Perception

Jackson, R. E. & Willey, C. R. (2011). Evolved navigation theory and horizontal visual illusions.  Cognition, 119, 288-294.  doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2010.11.003

Jackson, R. E. & Cormack, L. K. (2010). Reducing the presence of navigation risk eliminates strong environmental illusions.  Journal of Vision, 10(5): 9, 1-8. doi:10.1167/10.5.9

Jackson, R. E. (2009). Individual differences in distance perception. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276, 1665-1669.

Jackson, R. E. & Cormack, L. K.  (2007).  Evolved navigation theory and the descent illusion.  Perception & Psychophysics, 69(3), 353-362. 

Jackson, R. E. (2005).  Falling towards a theory of the vertical-horizontal illusion.  Studies in Perception and Action, 8, 241-244.

Current research includes a virtual and physical reality investigation of the individual differences in navigation.

Psychology Professor of the Year, California State University San Marcos, Sole departmental award, given for student engagement in research and teaching, 2010-2011

Psychology Professor of the Year, California State University San Marcos, Sole departmental award, given for student engagement in research and teaching, 2010-2011

Human Behavior and Evolution Society Outstanding Post-Doctoral Research Award, Kyoto, Japan, One of only three awards given by HBES and the only one for this career stage, 2008

Janet Spence Commendation, University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Teaching, 2007

University of Texas Recruitment Fellowship, Top 1% of over 15,000 graduate students, 2002