Tal Makovski Research Associate Department of Psychology University of Minnesota Contact: 75 East River Road, N218 Elliott Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Phone: 612-624-9483 (office). Fax: 612-626-2079.Email: tal.makovski@gmail.com Research Interest Whether it is crossing the street, playing team sports or even just watching TV, our visual world is in constant flux. Our ability to keep a sense of continuity in this dynamic environment is especially challenging given our highly limited visual cognitive resources. My research focuses on several aspects of visual cognition including attention, working memory and implicit learning. In particular, I am interested in studying the complex interactions among these mechanisms. Background I began my academic studies atBar-ilan University (1996-1999) where I got my bachelor degree in Psychology and Philosophy. Later I have received my Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology from Tel Aviv University (1999-2005, advisor: Prof. Yehoshua Tsal). Since then I have been a post-doc associate in Yuhong Jiang's Lab, first at Harvard University (2005-2007) and now at the University of Minnesota.
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| Publications Lahav, A. Makovski T., & Tsal, Y. (in press). Task difficulty and to be-ignored distractors: Exploring the boundaries of the attentional white bear phenomenon. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics Makovski , T., & Jiang, Y.V. (2011). Investigating the role of response in spatial context learning. Quarterly journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 1563-1579. Makovski , T., Swallow, K.M., & Jiang, Y.V. (2011). Attending to unrelated targets boosts color short-term memory for color arrays. Neuropsychologia, 49, 1498-1505. Makovski , T., Watson, L.M., Koutstaal, W. & Jiang, Y.V. (2010). Method matters: Systematic effects of testing procedure on visual working memory sensitivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 36, 1466-1479. Makovski , T., Swallow, K.M., & Jiang, Y.V. (2010). The visual attractor illusion. Journal of Vision, 10(1), 1-16. Makovski, T., & Jiang, Y.V. (2010). Contextual cost: When a visual-search target is not where it should be. Quarterly journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 216-225. Makovski , T., & Jiang, Y.V. (2009). The role of visual working memory in attentive tracking of unique objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35,. 1687-1697. Mednick, S.C., Makovski, T., Cai, D. & Jiang, Y.V. (2009). Sleep and rest facilitate implicit memory in a visual search task. Vision Research, 49, 2557-2565. Makovski , T., & Jiang, Y.V. (2009). Feature binding in attentive tracking of distinct objects. Visual Cognition, 17, 180-194. Jiang, Y.V., Makovski, T., & Shim, W.M. (2009). Visual memory for features, conjunctions, objects, and locations. In J.R.Brockmole (Ed.), The Visual World in memory (pp. 33-65). Hove, UK: Psychology Press. Jiang, Y.V., Shim, W.M., & Makovski, T. (2008) .Visual working memory for line orientations and face identities. Perception & Psychophysics, 70(8), 1581-1591. Makovski, T., & Jiang, Y.V. (2008). Indirect assessment of visual working memory for simple and complex objects. Memory & Cognition, 36(6), 1132-1143. Makovski , T., Vázquez , G.A., & Jiang, Y.V. (2008). Visual learning in multiple object tracking. PLoS ONE, 3(5), e2228. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002228. Makovski, T., Sussman, R, & Jiang, Y.V. (2008). Orienting attention in visual working memory reduces interference from memory probes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 34(2), 369-380. Makovski, T., & Jiang, Y.V. (2008). Proactive interference from items previously stored in visual working memory. Memory & Cognition, 36(1), 43-52. Makovski, T., & Jiang, Y.V. (2007). Distributing versus focusing attention in visual short-term memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 1072-1078. Rausei, V., Makovski, T., & Jiang, Y.V. (2007). Attention dependency in implicit learning of repeated search context. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(10), 1321-1328. Tsal, Y., & Makovski, T. (2006). The attentional white bear phenomenon: the mandatory allocation of attention to expected distractor locations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 32, 351-363. Makovski, T., Shim, W.M., & Jiang, Y.V. (2006). Interference from filled delays on visual change detection. Journal of Vision, 6, 1459-1470. |
