ROY SHOVAL (PhD)

Roy is currently a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Tal Makovski at the Open University of Israel, and a Research Fellow at the MCL. He was the MCL's first lab manager, during the time he completed both his masters and PhD in the lab, under the supervision of Dr. Baruch Eitam.

Hs is interested in various fields of Social and Cognitive Psychology and took part in several lines of research. His masters and Ph.D. focused on the hedonic value of the process of choice and in the magnitude and origins of humans’ preference for choice over no-choice situations (and he aims to continue this line of work in the MCL in the future).

Additionally, during his work in the lab, he was involved in the research about task relevance and its effect on subjective phenomena.

His postdoctoral work focuses on Visual Short-Term Memory, specifically in interferences in this memory buffer and in factors that affect this buffer capacity.

PUBLICATIONS

    • Lecker, M., Shoval, R., Aviezer, H., & Eitam, B. (2017). Temporal integration of bodies and faces: united we stand, divided we fall?. Visual Cognition, 25(4-6), 477-491.

    • Eitam, B., Shoval, R., & Yeshurun, Y. (2015). Seeing without knowing: task relevance dissociates between visual awareness and recognition. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1339(1), 125-137.

    • Eitam, B., Glass-Hackel, R., Aviezer, H., Dienes, Z., Shoval, R., & Higgins, E. T. (2014). Are task irrelevant faces unintentionally processed? Implicit learning as a test case. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40(5), 1741.

    • Eitam, B., Glicksohn, A., Shoval, R., Cohen, A., Schul, Y., & Hassin, R. R. (2013). Relevance-based selectivity: the case of implicit learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(6), 1508.

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