Tony Jack obtained a BSc in Psychology and Philosophy from Oxford University, a PhD in experimental psychology from University College London, and trained in the emerging field of cognitive neuroscience at Washington University in St Louis Medical School. He has published on consciousness, attention and social cognition, examining these topics from the perspectives of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience. His current work focuses on the use of fMRI to elucidate the neural bases of individual differences in socio-emotional and spatio-visual cognition.