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yeshurun@research.haifa.ac.il

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משרד: 7085, קומה 7, בניין רבין

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פרסומים

Carrasco, M. & Yeshurun, Y. (1998). The contribution of covert attention to the set-size and eccentricity effects in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24(2), 673-692.
Yeshurun, Y. & Carrasco, M. (1998). Attention improves or impairs visual performance by enhancing spatial resolution. Nature, 396(6706), 72-75.
Yeshurun, Y. & Carrasco, M. (1999). Spatial attention improves performance in spatial resolution tasks. Vision Research, 39(2), 293-305.
Yeshurun, Y. & Carrasco, M. (2000) The locus of attentional effects in texture segmentation. Nature Neuroscience, 3(6), 622-627.
Carrasco M., Williams P. & Yeshurun Y. (2002) Covert attention increases spatial resolution with or without masks: Support for signal enhancement. Journal of Vision, 2(6), 467-479.
Yeshurun, Y. & Levy, L. (2003) Transient spatial attention degrades temporal resolution. Psychological Science, 14(3), 225-231.
Yeshurun, Y. (2004). Isoluminant stimuli and red background attenuate the effects of transient spatial attention on temporal resolution. Vision Research, 44, 1375–1387.
Kimchi, R., Yeshurun, Y. & Cohen-Savransky, A. (2007) Automatic, Stimulus-driven Attentional Capture by Objecthood. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14 (1), 166-172.
Yeshurun, Y. & Carrasco, M. (2008). The effects of transient attention on spatial resolution and the size of the attentional cue. Perception & Psychophysics, 70(1), 104-113.
Yeshurun, Y., Montagna, B. & Carrasco, M. (2008). On the flexibility of sustained attention and its effects on a texture segmentation task. Vision Research, 48(1), 80-95.
Avraham, T., Yeshurun, Y. & Lindenbaum, M. (2008). Predicting Visual-Search Performance by Quantifying Stimuli Similarities. Journal of Vision, 8(4):9, 1–22.
Yeshurun, Y. & Marom, G. (2008). Transient spatial attention and the perceived duration of brief visual events. Visual Cognition, 16(6), 826-848.
Yeshurun, Y., Carrasco, M. & Maloney, L. T. (2008). Bias and sensitivity in two-interval forced choice procedures. Vision Research, 48, 1837-1851.
Carrasco, M. & Yeshurun, Y. (2009). Covert Attention Effects on Spatial Resolution. In N. Srinivasan (Ed.) Progress in Brain Research. Vol 176, ATTENTION, The Netherlands: Elsevier, pp. 65-86.
Yeshurun, Y., Kimchi, R., Sha’shoua, G., & Carmel, T. (2009). Perceptual objects capture attention. Vision Research, 49, 1329–1335.
Yeshurun, Y. & Rashal, E. (2010). Precueing attention to the target location diminishes crowding and reduces the critical distance. Journal of Vision, 10(10):16, 1–12.
Marciano, H. & Yeshurun, Y. (2011). The Effects of Perceptual Load in Central and Peripheral Regions of the Visual Field. Visual Cognition, 19(3), 367 – 391.
Yeshurun, Y. & Hein, E. (2011). Transient attention degrades perceived apparent motion. Perception, 40, 905 – 918.
Marciano, H. & Yeshurun, Y. (2012). Perceptual load in central and peripheral regions and its effects on driving performance: Advertizing billboards. Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation, 41, 3181-3188.
Marciano, H., & Yeshurun, Y. (2012). Perceptual load in central and peripheral regions and its effects on driving performance with and without collision avoidance warning system. Actes INRETS, 299-311.
Yeshurun, Y. & Sabo, G. (2012). Differential effects of transient attention on inferred Parvocellular and Magnocellular processing. Vision Research, 74, 21-29.
Yeshurun, Y. & Marciano, H. (2013). Degraded stimulus visibility and the effects of perceptual load on distractor interference. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:289.
Baruch, O., Yeshurun, Y., shore, D. (2013). Space and time: An impact of spatial separation, apparent motion, and perceptual grouping on TOJ performance. Perception, 42(5), 551-561.
Eitam, B., Yeshurun, Y. & Hassan, K. (2013). Blinded by Irrelevance: Pure Irrelevance Induced ‘Blindness’. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(3), 611-615.
Baruch, O. & Yeshurun, Y. (2014). Attentional attraction of receptive fields can explain spatial and temporal effects of attention. Visual Cognition, 22(5), 704-736.
Rashal, E. & Yeshurun, Y. (2014). Contrast dissimilarity effects on crowding is not simply another case of target saliency. p. 1-31, Journal of Vision, 14(6):9, 1–12.
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.
Yeshurun, Y., Rashal, E. & Tkacz-Domb, S. (2015). Temporal crowding and its interplay with spatial crowding. Journal of Vision, 15(3):11, 1–16.
Marciano, H. & Yeshurun, Y. (2015). Perceptual Load in Different Regions of the Visual Scene and Its Relevance for Driving. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 57(4), 701-716.
Kimchi, R., Yeshurun, Y., Spehar, B., & Pirkner, Y. (2016). Perceptual organization, Visual attention, and Objecthood. Vision Research, 126, 34–51.
Snir, G., & Yeshurun, Y. (2017). Perceptual episodes, temporal attention, and the role of cognitive control: Lessons from the attentional blink. In C. Howard (Ed.): Temporal Sampling and Representation Updating, Vol 236, Progress in Brain Research, UK: Academic Press, pp. 53-74.
Yeshurun, Y., & Rashal, E. (2017). The typical advantage of object-based attention reflects reduced spatial cost. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(1), 69-77.
Rashal, E., Yeshurun, Y., & Kimchi, R. (2017). The time course of the competition between grouping organizations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(3), 608-618.
Tkacz-Domb, S. & Yeshurun, Y. (2017). Spatial attention alleviates temporal crowding, but neither temporal nor spatial uncertainty are necessary for the emergence of temporal crowding. Journal of Vision, 17(3):9, 1–12.
Marciano, H., & Yeshurun, Y. (2017). Large inter-individual and intra-individual variability in the effect of perceptual load. PLOS ONE, 12(4): e0175060.
Rashal, E., Yeshurun, Y., & Kimchi, R. (2017). Attentional requirements in perceptual grouping depend on the processes involved in the organization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(7), 2073-2087.
Bonder, T., Gopher, D., & Yeshurun, Y. (2018). The joint effects of spatial cueing and transcranial direct current stimulation on visual acuity. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 159.
Hochmitz, I., Lauffs, M. M., Herzog, M. H., & Yeshurun, Y. (2018). Sustained spatial attention can affect feature fusion. Journal of Vision, 18(6):20, p1-14.
Tkacz-Domb, S., & Yeshurun, Y. (2018). The size of the attentional window when measured by the pupillary response to light. Scientific reports, 8(1), 1-7.
Yeshurun, Y. (2019). The spatial distribution of attention. Current Opinion in Psychology, 29, 76-81.
Arazi, A., Yeshurun, Y. & Dinstein, I. (2019). Neural variability is quenched by attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 39 (30) 5975-5985.
Tapal, A., Yeshurun, Y., & Eitam, B. (2019). Relevance-based processing: Little role for task-relevant expectations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(4), 1426-1432.
Elbaz, A., & Yeshurun, Y. (2020). Can rhythm-induced attention improve the perceptual representation? PLOS ONE, 15(4): e0231200.
Vialatte, A., Yeshurun, Y., Khan, A. Z., Rosenholtz, R. & Pisella, L. (2021). Superior parietal lobule: a role in relative localization of multiple different elements. Cerebral Cortex, 31(1), 658-671.
Yeshurun, Y., & Tkacz-Domb, S. (2021). The time-course of endogenous temporal attention–Super fast voluntary allocation of attention. Cognition, 206, 104506.
Hochmitz, I., Hein, E., & Yeshurun, Y. (2021). The effects of spatial attention on temporal integration measured with the Ternus display. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(5), 662-672.
Tkacz-Domb, S., & Yeshurun, Y. (2021). Temporal crowding is a unique phenomenon reflecting impaired target encoding over large temporal intervals. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, pages 1885–1893.
Luzardo, F. & Yeshurun, Y. (2021). Inter individual variations in internal noise predict the effects of spatial attention. Cognition, 217, 104888.
Luzardo, F., Einhäuser, W., Michl, M., & Yeshurun, Y. (2023). Attention does not spread automatically along objects: Evidence from the pupillary light response. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(7), 2040–2051.
Sahar, T., & Yeshurun, Y. (2024). Temporal crowding with central vision reveals the fragility of visual representations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(2), 339–351.
Hochmitz, I., Abu-Akel, A. & Yeshurun, Y. (2024) Interference across time: dissociating short from long temporal interference. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1393065.
Jurkiewicz, T., Vialatte, A., Yeshurun, Y., & Pisella, L. (2025). Attentional modulation of peripheral pointing hypometria in healthy participants: an insight into optic ataxia?. Neuropsychologia, 109084.
Luzardo, F., & Yeshurun, Y. (2025). Large-scale examination of the benefit and cost of spatial attention and their individual variability. Cognition, 264, 106242.

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רקע אקדמי

1999 – דוקטורט אוניברסיטת ניו-יורק
2000 – עכשיו המחלקה לפסיכולוגיה, המכון לעיבוד מידע וקבלת החלטות, אוניברסיטת חיפה
אורחת:
2011 – 2012 אוניברסיטת New-south Wales, סידני אוסטרליה
2013 – ZiF Fellow אוניברסיטת בילפלד גרמניה
2019 – אוניברסיטת טוהוקו, סנדיי יפן
2023 – המרכז לחקר המוח, ליון צרפת

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