Tamas Makany

About me
I am a research consultant interested in applied and academic ideas on how humans learn, navigate and use technology.

I have extensive research and teaching experience in cognitive, behavioural and clinical domains. See my peer-reviewed publications and presentations.

Implicit cognition & me
I was one of the founding member of Implab Association in 2005. My friend Balazs Aczel had convinced me that despite my firm belief that I was doing research in the conscious domain of spatial cognition, I was in fact knee down with unconscious or implicit cognition. Balazs helped me realize that most of our learning about the surrounding space is happening without too much conscious efforts.

Soon after this I have started to develop a working hypothesis (link in Hungarian only!) that assumes two types of spatial learning systems depending on their level of consciousness. A more explicit mechanism exists for egocentric-landmark based learning whereas we acquire allocentric-geometric information via implicit learning.

If you are interested discussing any of this hypothesis or any of the above issues, drop me an [mailto:tamas.makany@gmail.com email].

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