List of Publications

h-index: 4 on March 15, 2009

Makany, T., & Makowsky, M. (in prep). Human spatial heuristics in an agent-based model.


Makany, T., Kemp, J., & Dror, I.E. (2009). Optimising the use of note-taking as an external cognitive aid for increasing learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 40(4), 619-635.

Makany, T., Redhead, E.S., & Dror, I.E. (2007). Spatial exploration patterns determine navigation efficieny: Trade-off between memory demands and distance travelled. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1594-1602.

Makany, T., Engelbrecht, P.C., Meadmore, K., Dudley, R., Redhead, E.S., & Dror, I.E. (2007). Giving the learners control of navigation: Cognitive gains and losses. In L. Gomez Chova, D. Marti Belenguer, & I. Candel Torres (Eds.), INTED2007 Proceedings CD. Valencia: IATED.

Engelbrecht, P.C., Makany, T., Meadmore, K., Dudley, R., & Dror, I.E. (2007). It is not worth learning if it is not remembered: Designing e-learning to increase memory.  In L. Gomez Chova, D. Marti Belenguer, & I. Candel Torres (Eds.), INTED2007 Proceedings CD. Valencia: IATED.

Kallai, J., Makany, T., Csatho, A., Karadi, K., Horvath, D., Kovacs-Labadi, B., Jarai, R., Nadel, L., & Jacobs, W.J. (2007). Cognitive and affective aspects of thigmotaxis strategy in humans. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 21-30.

Makany, T. (2006, October 1). [Review of the book by Peter Csermely - Weak Links: Stabilizers of Complex Systems from Proteins to Social Networks]. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations, 9. Retrieved October 1, 2006, from http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/9/4/reviews/tamas.html

Karadi, K., Kallai, J., Kover, F., Nemes, J., Makany, T., & Nagy, F. (2006). Endogenous testosterone concentration, mental rotation, and size of the corpus callosum in a sample of young Hungarian women. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 102, 445-453.

Makany, T. & Makowsky, M. (2006). Human navigational heuristics in solving the Euclidean travelling salesman problem. Proceedings of the Complex Systems Summer School 2006, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico. 

Makowsky, M., Tavares, J., Makany, T., & Meier, P. (2006). An agent-based model of crisis-driven migration. Proceedings of the Complex Systems Summer School 2006, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico.

Makany, T., Dror, I.E., & Redhead, E.S. (2006). Spatial strategies in real and virtual environments. Cognitive Processing, 7 (Suppl. 1): S63.

Makany, T. (2006). Optimality and cognition: Shortest paths and smartest brains. Periodicals of Implicit Cognition, 4, 1-6.

Kallai, J., Csatho, A., Kover, F., Makany, T., Nemes, J., Horvath, K., Kovacs, N., Manning  J. T., Nadel, L., & Nagy, F. (2005). MRI-assessed volume of left and right hippocampi in females correlates with the relative length of the second and fourth fingers (the 2D:4D ratio). Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 140, 199-210.

Kallai, J., Makany, T., Karadi, K., & Jacobs, W. J. (2005). Spatial orientation strategies in Morris-type virtual water task for humans. Behavioural Brain Research, 159, 187-196.

Makany, T. & Kallai, J. (2004). Human spatial orientation and way-finding analysis with Ethovision in a real arena maze. Noldus News, 11, 3-4.

Kallai, J., Labadi, B., Osvath, A., Makany, T., & Karadi, K. (2004). A teri reprezentacio kulönbözo szintjei valos es virtualis terben. In J. Laszlo, J. Kallai, & T. Bereczkei (Szerk.), A reprezentacio szintjei. Budapest: Gondolat. [book chapter - In Hungarian]

Makany, T., Karadi, K., Kallai, J., & Nadel, L. (2002). Interference between verbal concept formation and spatial mental rotation in female subjects. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 95, 227-232.

Kallai, J., Kerekes, Zs., Osvath, A., Makany, T., & Jarai, R. (2003). Korai navigacios tapasztalatok, valamint a szorongas es felelmek hatasa nok es ferfiak tajekozodasi strategiainak alakulasara. Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle, 58, 319-340. [In Hungarian]

Makany, T. (2001). Az intelligencia es a teri tajekozodas összefuggesei noknel. Tudomany es Lelek, 4, 80-90. [In Hungarian]

Makany, T. (2007, March). Optimization strategies in spatial cognition: Trade-off between cognitive demands and distance travelled. Unpublished MPhil to PhD transfer thesis, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.


Makany, T. (2005, Sept). Strategy representation and spatial knowledge acquisition: Exploration patterns determine navigation efficiency. Unpublished master's (M.Sc.) thesis, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.


Makany, T. (2004, Sept). Motional strategies of spatial orientation in a virtual Morris maze task. Unpublished master's (M.A.) thesis, Institute of Psychology, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary.