Education Academic and Professional Experience Visiting Positions

YEHOSHUA TSAL
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
1967-1970: Hebrew University of Jerusalem Psychology & Philosophy B.A.
1973-1979: Brandeis University Experimental Psychology Ph.D.
Academic and Professional Experience
2011: Chair, Psychology Department, College of Management - Academic Studies.
1985-2011: Lecturer (senior lecturer, Associate Professor) to Professor, Department of
Psychology, Tel Aviv University.
2007-2011: Professor, College of Management - Academic Studies.
1981-1983: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cognitive Science, Brown University
1980-1981: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Visiting Positions
Fall 2005:
Visiting Professor, Sloan Graduate School, MIT
Summer 2000: Visiting Professor, New York University
July 1999-
October 1999: International Scholar, Department of Psychology
and Center for Neural Science, New York University

1987-1991: Visiting Associate Professor - Spring Quarters, University of Rochester
1984-1985: Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University
1983-1984: Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Academic and Professional Awards
2010-2014: The Israel Science Foundation ($144,000). Identifying the major determinants of
effective attentional selection
2009: Association for Psychological Science: Elected Fellow ("for sustained and outstanding
contributions to psychological science")
2007-2010: The Israel Science Foundation ($100,000). The attentional white bear phenomenon:
Validation and extension.
2004-2007: The Israel Science Foundation ($90,000): A model for identifying impaired attentional
functions in ADHD.
2001-2004: Binational Science Foundation ($100,000): “Top-down and bottom-up processes in
visual selection” (with Howard Egeth and Dominique Lamy)
July 1999-
Oct 1999:
International Visitors Program Grant Winner, New York University,
Psychology and Center for Neural Science.
1998-2001: The Israel Science Foundation ($101,000): “Visual representations of
attended and unattended objects".
1995-1998: The Israel Science Foundation ($59,000): "Preattentive and attentive
representations of visual information".
1994-1999: Member of the Advisory Council of the International Association for the Study of
Attention and Performance.
1992-1995: The Israel Science Foundation ($ 55,000): "Effects of attention on length, brightness
and orientation judgments".
1992-1994: The Ford Foundation: "Effects of attention on length and brightness judgments”
(Approved but declined because of Academy parallel grant).

1988-1990: Tel Aviv University, The Fund for Basic Research Grant: "The distribution of
Spatial Attention over Complex Visual Stimuli".
1986-1988: Tel Aviv University, The Israel Institute of Business Research Grant: “Processing
information from advertisements”.
1983-1984: Lady Davis Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships, Jerusalem, Israel (declined).
1982-1983: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Postdoctoral Fellowship
1981-1982: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Postdoctoral Fellowship
1980-1981: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Summer 1977: Brandeis University: NIH Biomedical Support Grant RR-07044-12
1973-1978: Foster Academic Enrichment Fund: Fellowships; Teaching Assistantships
Administrative Responsibilities
2010 - Binational Science Foundation: Chairperson of the psychology committee allocating
Grants for submitted research proposals
2008 - Binational Science Foundation: Chairperson of the psychology committee allocating
Grants for submitted research proposals
2003 – 2007: Faculty representative in the University MA Committee
2004 – 2007: Faculty representative in the University Research Committee
2004 – 2005: Promotions and Appointments Committee, School of Education
1999 – 2001: Teaching Committee of the University Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding
Students
1998 – 2001: Faculty Ph.D. Committee
1998 – 2001: Chair Ph.D. Committee
1995 – 2001: University Students Appeal Committee

1995 – 1998: Chair, M.A. Committee
1994 – 1998: Ph.D. Committee
1994 – 1995: Chair, Cognitive Program
1993 – 1995: M.A. Committee
1992 – 1995: B.A. Committee
1987 – 1992: Faculty Research Committee
Membership in Professional Societies
The Psychonomic Society
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Vision Sciences Society
Association for Psychological Sciences
The European Society of Cognitive Psychology
The Israeli Society of Cognitive Psychology
Editorial Boards
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance – Consulting Editor
Attention and Performance: Member of the Advisory Council of the International Association for
the Study of Attention and Performance.
American Psychological Science: Elected Fellow
Reviewer
Extensive reviewing of articles for:
Psychological Review
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Perception and Psychophysics
Perception
Cognitive Psychology
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Visual Cognition
Neuropsychologia
Spatial Vision
Acta Psychologica
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Psychological reports
Journal of General Psychology
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Extensive reviewing of proposals for:
National Science Foundation
Binational Scientific Foundation
Israel Science Foundation
Israel Foundation Trustees
Charles Smith Foundation of Psychobiology
Supervision of Doctoral Students
1. Nilli Lavie: Perceptual load and physical distinctiveness as determinants of the locus of
attentional selection. Psychology Department, Tel Aviv University. Graduated-1992.
Currently Professor, University College of London.
2. Nachshon Meiran: Reading ability differences in immediate repetition priming: Evidence for
an activation dumping mechanism. Psychology Department, Tel Aviv University. Graduated-1993.
Currently Professor, Ben Gurion University.
3. Lilach Shalev-Mevorach: Effects of attention on length judgments of vertical lines. Psychology
Department, Tel Aviv University. Graduated-1995.
Currently Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University.
4. Dominique Lamy: On the status of location in visual attention. Psychology Department, Tel
Aviv University. Graduated –2000.
Currently Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University.
5. Tal Bareket: Effects of attention on localizing stimuli in the visual field. Psychology
Department, Tel Aviv University. Graduated-1998.
6. Ilan Losovsky: Resolution theory of visual attention: An empirical investigation. Psychology
Department, Tel Aviv University. Graduated: 2003.

7. Avner Caspi: (Joint supervision with Prof. Wolfgang Prinz-Head, Max Planc Institute).
Attentional priority cause negative asynchrony. Psychology Department, Tel Aviv University.
Graduated: 2003.
Currently Lecturer, Open University.
8. Tal Makovsky: On the precedence and dominance of features vs. dimensions. Psychology
Department, Tel Aviv University. Graduated: 2005
Currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University-University of Minnesota.
9. Alon Avissar: The four-component model of attention and ADHD. Psychology Department,
Tel Aviv University. graduated 2009.
10. Michl Shapira: The influence of observer and stimulus related factors on the attentioanl white
bear effect. Psychology Department, Tel Aviv University. graduated 2009.
Currently Lecturer, College of Kiryat Ono.
11. Aya Lahav: The attentioanl white bear phenomenon: Extensions and boundaries. Psychology
Department, Tel Aviv University. Candidacy approved 2006.
12. Hanna Benoni: The dilution of perceptual load. Psychology Department, Tel Aviv University.
Candidacy approved 2006.
13. Ricardo Max: Alternative interpretations to Perceptual Load. Psychology Department, Tel
Aviv University.
Candidacy approved 2009.
14. Rotem Avital: Mechanisms of facilitation and inhibition in visual selection. Psychology
Department, Tel Aviv University.
Candidacy approved 2010.

Active Participation in Scientific Meetings
Tsal, Y. (1979). The role of capacity in visual focused attention. Paper presented at the annual meeting of
the American Psychological Association, New York, NY.
Ryder, J. & Tsal, Y. (1980). Attention demands of global and local visual processing. Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Hartford, CT.
Tsal, Y. (1980). Capacity demands of visual focused attention. Paper presented at the Cognitive Science
Meeting, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Tsal, Y. (1981). Movements of attention across the visual field. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA.
Tsal, Y. (1983). The role of attention in the interpretation of ambiguous figures. Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Anaheim, CA.
Tsal, Y. (1987). Allocating visual attention to location, color, and shape. Paper presented at the Israeli
Psychological Association, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Tsal, Y. (1987). Location precedence in processing visual information. Invited lecture, The Bat Sheva
International Seminar in Attention and Sensory Processing. Jerusalem.
Tsal, Y., & Lavie, N. (1989). Attending to locations in the selective processing of colors. Paper presented at
the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Atlanta, Georgia.
Tsal, Y., & Mevorach, L. (1990). Effects of attention on brightness perception. Paper presented at The First
Conference of the Israeli Cognitive Society, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Tsal, Y., Mevorach, L. (1991). Effects of attention on length and distance estimates. Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, California.
Tsal, Y., and Mevorach, L. (1991). Effects of visual attention on perceptual representations of length and
distance. Invited lecture, The Israeli Psychological Association, Jerusalem.

Tsal, Y., and Mevorach, L. (1992). Effects of attention on length and brightness judgments. Paper presented
at The Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Psychology, Brussels.
Tsal, Y. and Mevorach, L., and Lubow, R. E. (1992). Directional effects of attention on perceptual
judgments. Paper presented at the Fifth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive
Psychology, Paris.
Tsal, Y., Mevorach, L. and Meiran, N. (1992). Effects of attention on early perceptual processes: Attention
as a corrective mechanism. Invited paper, the Conference on Attention, Haifa, Israel.
Tsal, Y. (1992). Effects of attention on perception of features and figural organization. Invited paper.
Workshop on “Perceptual Organization and Object Recognition". Brussels.
Tsal, Y. and Meiran, N. (1993). Towards a resolution theory of visual attention. Paper presented at The
Second Conference of the Israeli cognitive Society, Bar Ilan, Israel.
Tsal, Y. (1993). Theoretical and applied aspects of attention. Invited symposium. The Israeli Psychological
Association, Bar Ilan, Israel.
Mevorach, L. & Tsal, Y. (1993). Effects of attention on perception of brightness, length and orientation.
Paper presented at The Israeli Psychological Association, Bar Ilan, Israel.
Tsal, Y. (1993). Towards a resolution theory of visual attention. Invited paper, the Sixth Conference of the
European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Copenhagen.
Shalev-Mevorach, L. & Tsal, Y. (1993). Effects of visual attention on the perceptual representation of length.
Paper presented at The Second Conference of the Israeli cognitive Society, Bar Ilan, Israel.
Tsal, Y. and Meiran, N. (1993). Toward a resolution theory of visual attention. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, D. C.
Tsal, Y. (1993) Chair, Attention I. annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, D. C.
Tsal, Y. (1995). Theories of Visual Attention. Symposium presented at the Eighth Conference of the
European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Rome.

Tsal, Y. (1995). A theory of attentional receptive fields. Eighth Conference of the European Society for
Cognitive Psychology, Rome.
Tsal, Y. & Bareket T. (1995). Effects of attention on localization of visual stimuli: Evidence for attentional
fields. Eighth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Rome.
Bareket, T. & Tsal, Y. (1995). Effect of attention on localization of stimuli in the visual field. Paper
presented at The Third Conference of the Israeli cognitive Society, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Tsal, Y. & Bareket, T. (1996). Effects of attention on localization of stimuli in the visual field: Evidence for
attentional receptive fields. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Attention
Conference, Pomona, California.
Lamy, D. & Tsal, Y. (1996). Task demands determine spatial vs. non-spatial grouping in perceptual
organization. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Attention Conference,
Pomona, California.
Zakay, D., Block, R. & Tsal, Y. (1996). Time production as a workload measure. Paper presented at the
annual meeting of Attention and Performance XVII, Haifa, Israel.
Tsal, Y. & Bareket, T. (1996). Effects of attention on localization of stimuli in the visual field: Evidence for
attentional receptive fields. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Chicago, Illinois.
Shalev, L. & Tsal, Y. (1996). Detecting gaps with and without attention. Paper presented at the Ninth
Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Wurzburg.
Tsal, Y. Shalev, & Lubow R.E. (1997). The lengthening effect is due to attention, not to spatial cues. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Tsal, Y. & Lamy, D. (1997). The shadow effect: Object-based selection is more space-based than we
thought. Paper pesented at The Second Conference of the Israeli cognitive Society, Tel Aviv,
Israel.

Tsal, Y. (1998). Invited paper. Effects of attention on length perception, gap detection, and visual
localization: Towards a theory of attentional receptive fields. Max Plank Symposium on Cognitive
Contributions to the Perception of Spatial and Temporal Events. Ohlstadt, Germany.
Lamy, D. & Tsal, Y. (1998). Object location, object identity and object files: Which does attention selects
and when? Tenth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Jerusalem,
Israel.
Tsal, Y. (1998). Chair: Spatial Attention. Tenth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive
Psychology. Jerusalem, Israel.
Lamy, D. & Tsal, Y. (1998). Object features, object location and object files: Which does selective attention
activate and when? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas,
Texas.
Mevorach, C. & Tsal, Y. (1998). Further tests of atentional receptive fields. Tenth Conference of the
European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Jerusalem Israel.
Lamy, D. & Tsal, Y. (1999). A salient distractor does not disrupt conjunction search. The Third Conference
of the Israeli cognitive Society, Haifa, Israel.
Tsal, y., Lamy, D. & Ilan C. (2000). The two-object cost is a space-based phenomenon. Paper presented at
the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, Luisiana.
Tsal, Y., Shalev, L. & Mevorach, C. (2003). The diversity of attention deficits in attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience
Society, New York, New York.
Shalev, L., Tsal, Y. & Mevorach, C. (2003). Proressive attentional training of ADHD. Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
Tsal, Y., Shalev, L. & Mevorach, C. (2003). The diversity of attention deficits in attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder: Towards a four-facet model of ADHD. Paper to be presented at the annual
Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Granada, Spain.

Tsal, Y. & Makovski, L. (2004). Uncertainty of distractors locations reduces interference: The
attentional white bear hypothesis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Makovski, T. & Tsal, Y. (2004). Features and dimensions are inherently inseparable. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Tsal, Y. & Makovski, L. (2005). The attentional white bear phenomenon. Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
Benoni, H. & Tsal, Y. (2008). Diluting the burden of load: Perceptual load effects are simply
dilution effects. Paper presented at the Annual Conference Annual Conference Vision
Science Society, Florida, U.S.A.
Tsal, Y. & Benoni, H. Perceptual load theory: Much ado about nothing (2009). Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, U.S.A.
Benoni, H. & Tsal, Y. Effects of sensory load and perceptual load are effects of dilution. (2009). Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, U.S.A.
Lahav, A. & Tsal, Y. The attentional white bear: Boundaries and extensions. (2009). Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, U.S.A
Tsal, Y. & Benoni, H. Dilution and task difficulty, but not load, affect selective attention. (2010). Paper
presented at the International Conference on Selection and Control Mechanism in Perception and
Action, Jerusalem, Israel.
Benoni, H. & Tsal, (2010). Y. Effects of sensory load and perceptual load are effects of dilution.
The Selection and Control Mechanisms in Perception and Action, Israel.
Lahav, A. & Tsal, Y. (2010). The attentional white bear: Boundaries and extensions. The
Selection and Control Mechanisms in Perception and Action, Israel.
Tsal, Y. & Benoni. (2010). Dilution and task difficulty, but not load, affects selective attention. The
Selection and Control Mechanisms in Perception and Action, Israel.

Tsal, Y. & Benoni, H. (2011). Dilution and task difficulty, but not load, affects selective attention.
Paper presented at the VSS Annual meeting, Naples Florida.
Tsal, Y. & Avital R. (2011). Its All In Your Head: Distractor Interference Produced By Top
Down Expectations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle,
U.S.A.
Avital, R. & Tsal, Y. (2011). It's All In Your Head: Congruency Effects Can Be Determined By
Context Rather Than By Stimulus Identity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
Psychonomic Society, Seattle, U.S.A.
Lahav, A. & Tsal, Y. (2011). Attention allocated to distractor locations is based on top down
expectations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle,
U.S.A.
Max, R. & Tsal, Y. (2011). Efficient Selection Modulated by Implicit Discriminability.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, U.S.A.
Benoni, H. & Tsal, Y. (2011). How does perceptual load differ from sensory constraints. Paper
presented at the 27 th meeting of the international society of Psychophysics. Tel Aviv,
Israel.
Benoni, H., Zivoni, A. & Tsal, Y. Attentional sets do not impair the effects of dilution in selective
attention. Paper presented at the 27 th meeting of the international society of
Psychophysics. Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ricardo, M. & Tsal, Y. Efficient Selection Modulated By Implicit Inter-Trial Patterns:
Convergent Dissociations from Perceptual Load. Paper presented at the 27 th meeting of
the international society of Psychophysics. Tel Aviv, Israel.
Lahav, A. & Tsal, Y. (2011). Attention allocated to distractor locations is based on top down
expectations. Paper presented at the 27 th meeting of the international society of
Psychophysics. Tel Aviv, Israel.

Yehoshua Tsal - Publications
Tsal, Y. (1977). Symmetry and transitivity assumptions about a nonspecified logical relation.
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 29, 677-684.
Tsal, Y. (1983). Movements of attention across the visual field. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 9, 523-530.
Tsal, Y. (1983). On interpreting the effects of location preknowledge: A critique of Duncan.
Perception and Psychophysics, 9, 297-298.
Tsal, Y. (1984). A Mueller-Lyer illusion induced by selective attention. The Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology: A. Human Experimental Psychology, 36A,
319- 333.
Tsal, Y., & Kolbet, L. (1985). Disambiguating ambiguous figures by selective attention. The
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: A. Human Experimental
Psychology, 37A, 25-37.
Tsal, Y. (1985). Effects of verbal and visual information on brand attitudes. In E. Hirschman
and Holbrook, M. (Eds.), Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. XII, 265-267.
Tsal, Y. (1985). On the relationship between cognitive and affective processes: A critique of
Zajonc and Markus. Journal of Consumer Research, 12, 358-362.
Tsal, Y., & Lavie, N. (1988). Attending to color and shape: The special role of location in
selective visual processing. Perception and Psychophysics, 44, 15-21.
Tsal, Y. (1989). Do illusory conjunctions support the feature integration theory: A critical
review of theory and findings. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception and Performance, 15, 394-400.

Tsal, Y. (1989). Further comments on feature integration: A reply to Briand and Klein.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 15, 407-
410.
Tsal, Y. (1989). Attending to horizontal, diagonal and vertical positions in space. Bulletin of
the Psychonomic Society, 27, 133-134.
Zakay, D., & Tsal, Y. (1989). Awareness of attention allocation and time estimation. Bulletin
of the Psychonomic Society, 27, 209-210.
Tsal, Y. & Lavie, N. (1989). Attending to locations in the selective processing of colors.
Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 27, 507-507.
Tsal, Y., & Lavie, N. (1990). The dominance of stimulus location in processing visual
information: Extending the spotlight theory. מיקום הגירוי בעיבוד מידע חזות)‏ ‏(עליונות In: K.
Benyamini, A. Dolev, M. Amir, & I. M. Schlesinger (Eds.) Theory and Application in
Psychology: Volume in Memory of Israel Lieblich. (pp. 77-83) Jerusalem: Magnes.
(Hebrew).
Zakay, D., & Tsal, Y. (1991). Review of Inventory Perceptual Skills. In Keiser, N. (Ed.), Test
Critiques, Vol. VIII. (pp. 332-336) Kansas City: Test Corporation of America
Zakay, D., Hayduk, L. A. & Tsal, Y. (1992). Personal space and distance misperception:
Implications of a novel observation. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 30, 33-35.
Tsal, & Mevorach, L. (1992). Effects of attention on length and brightness judgments. Journal
of International Psychology, 27, 24-24.
Tsal, Y., & Lavie, N. (1993). Location dominance in attending to color and shape. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19, 131-139.
Zakay, D., & Tsal, Y. (1993). The impact of using forced decision-making strategies on postdecisional
confidence. Journal of Behavioral Decision making, 6, 53-68.

Tsal, Y., Meiran, N., & Lavie, N. (1994). The role of attention in illusory conjunctions.
Perception and Psychophysics, 55, 350-358.
Lubow, R. E., Tsal, Y., Mirkin, & A. Mazliah, G. (1994). The stimulus control of covert
attention: Reporting English and Hebrew letters by English and Hebrew native speakers.
Brain and Cognition, 25, 34-51.
Zakay, D., Tsal, Y., Moses, M. & Shahar, I. (1994). The role of segmentation in prospective
and retrospective time estimation processes. Memory and Cognition, 22, 344-351.
Tsal, Y., Shalev, L., Zakay, D. & Lubow, R. E. (1994). Attention reduces perceived brightness
contrast. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: A. Human Experimental
Psychology, 47A, 865-893.
Tsal, Y. (1994). Effects of attention on perception of features and figural organization.
Perception, 23, 441-452.
Lavie, N. & Tsal, Y. (1994). Perceptual load as a major determinant of the locus of selection in
visual attention. Perception and Psychophysics, 56, 183-197.
Tsal, Y. (1995). Attention. קשב(‏ ) Hebrew Encyclopedia.
השפעת קשב על ( processes. Tsal, Y. & Shalev, L. (1995). Effects of attention on early perceptual
Psychology, 5(1) 18-28. (Hebrew).
‏)שלבים מוקדמים של תפיסה
Tsal, Y., & Meiran, N. & Lamy, D. (1995). Towards a resolution theory of visual attention.
Visual Cognition, 2, 313-330.
Tsal, Y. & Shalev, L. (1996). Inattention magnifies perceived length: The attentional receptive
field hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 22(1), 233-243.
Lamy, D. & Tsal, Y. (1999). A salient distractor does not disrupt conjunction search.
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 6, 93-98.

Tsal, Y. & Bareket, T. (1999). Effects of attention on localization of stimuli in the visual field.
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 6, 292-296.
Zakay, D., Block, R. & Tsal, Y. (1999). Prospective duration estimation and performance. In:
D. Gopher and A. Koriat (Eds.). Attention and Performance XVII: Cognitive regulation
of performance: Interaction of theory and application. Pp: 557-580. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press.
Tsal, Y. (1999). Effects of attention on length perception, gap detection, and visual localization:
Towards a theory of attentional receptive fields. In: G. Aschersleben, T. Bachman and J.
Musseler (Eds.). Cognitive contributions to the perception of spatial and temporal
events. Amsterdam, North-Holland: Elsevier Press. Pp: 155-166.
Lamy, D. & Tsal, Y. (2000). Object features, object locations and object-files: Which does
selective attention activates and when?" Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception and Performance, 26, 1387-1400.
Tsal, Y. & Lamy, D. (2000). Attending to an object's color entails attending to its location:
Support for location-special views of visual attention. Perception and Psychophysics, 62,
960-968.
Lamy, D. & Tsal, Y. (2001). On the status of location in visual attention. European Journal
of Cognitive Psychology, 13, 305-342.
Shalev, L. & Tsal, Y. (2002). Detecting gaps with and without attention: Further evidence for
attentional receptive fields. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 14, 3-26.
Shalev, L.& Tsal, Y. (2003). The wide attentional window: A major deficit of children
with attention difficulties. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 36, 517-527.
Lamy, D., Tsal, Y. & Egeth, H. (2003). Does a salient distractor capture attention early in
processing? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 185-190.

Tsal, Y., Shalev, L. & Zakai, D. (2005). The lengthening effect revisited. Psychonomic
Bulletin and Review, 12, 185-190.
Tsal, Y. & Bareket, T. (2005). Localization judgments under various levels of attention.
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 559-565.
Tsal, Y., Shalev, L & Mevorach, C. (2005). The diversity of attention deficits in attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder: The prevalence of four cognitive factors in ADHD vs. controls.
Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38, 142-157.
Tsal, Y., & Makovsky, T. (2006). The attentional white bear phenomenon: The mandatory
allocation of attention to expected distractors locations. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 351-363.
Shalev, L., Tsal, Y.& Mevorach C. (2007). Computerized progressive attentional training
(CPAT): Effective direct intervention for chilfren With ADHD. Journal of Child
Neuropsychology. 13, 382-388.
Epstein, J. & Tsal, Y. (2009) .Evidence for cognitive training as a treatment strategy for children
with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Adhd and Related Disorders. 1,
1-16.
Benoni, H. & Tsal, Y. (2010). Where have we gone wrong? Perceptual load does not affect
selective attention. Vision Research, 50, 1292-1298.
Tsal, Y. & Benoni H. (2010). Diluting the burden of load: Perceptual load effects are simply
dilution effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,
36, 1645-1656.
Tsal, Y. & Benoni, H. (2010). Much dilution little load in Lavie and Torralbo’s (2010) response:
A reply. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,
36, 1665-1668.
Shalev, L., Ben-Simon, A., Mevorach, C., Cohen, Y. & Tsal, Y. (2011). Conjunctive continuous
performance test (CCPT)-A pure measure of sustained attention. Neuropsychologia, 49,
2584-2591.

Lahav, A., Makovski, T. & Tsal, Y. (under review). Task difficulty and to-be-ignored
distractors: Exploring the boundaries of the attentional white bear phenomenon. Attention,
Perception and Performance.
Benoni, H. & Tsal, Y. (2011). How does perceptual load differ from sensory constraints.
Proceedings of the 27 th meeting of the ISP
Benoni, H., Zivoni, A. & Tsal, Y. (2011). Attentional sets do not impair the effects of dilution in
selective attention. Proceedings of the 27 th meeting of the ISP
Ricardo, M. & Tsal, Y. Efficient Selection Modulated By Implicit Inter-Trial Patterns:
Convergent Dissociations from Perceptual Load. Proceedings of the 27 th meeting of the
ISP.
Lahav, A. & Tsal, Y. (2011). Attention allocated to distractor locations is based on top down
expectations. Proceedings of the 27 th meeting of the ISP.
Tsal, Y., & Makovsky, T. (accepted pending minor revision). On the precedence of features vs.
dimensions: Features and dimensions are inherently inseparable. Perception and
Psychophysics.
Lahav, A., Makovski, T. & Tsal, Y. (under review). Task difficulty and to-be-ignored distractors:
Exploring the boundaries of the attentional white bear phenomenon. Attention, Perception
and Performance.
Benoni, H. & Tsal, Y. (under review). Manipulating load while controlling for dilution: Sensory and
perceptual constraints are two aspects of task difficulty. Psychonomic Bulletin and
Review.