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Dominique Makowski

Research Fellow

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

About me

Trained as neuropsychologist, CBT psychotherapist (and hypnotherapist), I am currently working as a postdoc at the Clinical Brain Lab in Singapore on the neuroscience of deception 😏. I’m fluent in French, English, Polish, Python, and currently learning Italian (A2). My main figures of reference are Epictetus, Churchill and Yoda. My interests include scientific methodology, history of art and religion, as well as philosophy. My research focuses on aspects of reality bending (e.g., fiction, deception or altered states of consciousness such as through meditation or immersion).

Interests

  • Sense of reality
  • Emotion regulation
  • Cognitive control
  • Neuropsychological practice
  • Neuroaesthetics
  • History of psychiatry
  • Neapolitan pizze 🍕

Education

  • PhD in Psychology, 2018

    University of Sorbonne Paris Cité

  • MSc in Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Psychology, 2014

    University of Sorbonne Paris Cité

  • BA in Psychology, 2012

    University of Sorbonne Paris Cité

Skills

R

100%

Neuropsychology

100%

Python

100%

Star Wars

100%

Reality

0%

Honest Science

100%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Certified Hypnotherapist (CH)

National Guild of Hypnotists

Sep 2019 – Dec 2019
  • Hypnosis course completed at the Petra Hypnosis & Training Centre in Singapore.
  • Note that although trained and qualified, I do not endorse nor practice hypnosis.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Fellow (postdoc)

Clinical Brain Lab

Jan 2019 – Present Singapore
  • Managing a research project on deception and lying.
  • Provide guidance and support for lab students.
 
 
 
 
 

PhD in Psychology

Université de Paris

Oct 2014 – Nov 2018 France
  • “Cognitive Neuropsychology of Implicit Emotion Regulation Through Fictional Reappraisal” supervised by Pr. Serge Nicolas, Pr. Pascale Piolino and Dr. Marco Sperduti.
  • Teaching assistant (208 hours over 3 years) for Experimental Psychology, Differential Psychology and Cognitive Psychology
 
 
 
 
 

Certified CBT Psychotherapist

French Association for Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (AFTCC)

Sep 2014 – Jun 2017 France
  • 3 years-long training in cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy.
 
 
 
 
 

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Université de Paris

Sep 2009 – Jun 2014 France
  • BA in Psychology and MSc in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology.
  • Clinical internships in neurology, geriatric psychiatry and adult psychiatry.

Research

See the complete list of publications by clicking here.

Preprint - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Evidence from a common mnemonic advantage between aesthetics judgement and self-reference

A long-lasting and unresolved debate in the field of aesthetics is whether beauty is inherent to the object of appreciation or to the …

2020 - Extracting, Computing and Exploring the Parameters of Statistical Models using R

The recent growth of data science is partly fuelled by the ever-growing amount of data and the joint important developments in …

2020 - Methods and Algorithms for Correlation Analysis in R

Correlations tests are arguably one of the most commonly used statistical procedures, and are used as a basis in many applications such …

Creations

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bayestestR

An R package designed to help with Bayesian statistics

Cognitive Control

A neuropsychological task measuring different aspects of cognitive control (processing speed, inhibition, conflict resolution…)

easystats

A collection of R packages to make the usage statistics and the implementation of good practices easy

Music

Piano arrangements and scores

NeuroKit

A Python toolbox for neurophysiological signal processing (EEG, EDA, ECG, EMG…)

Neuropsydia

A Python module for creating experiments, tasks and questionnaires

Patient Assessment

An web application to facilitate the neuropsychological assessment of patients

psycho

An R tooldbox for psychological science

Pyllusion

A Python Module for Generating Visual Illusions

report

An R package to help with reproducibility and statistical best practices

Blog

What is Reality Bending?

As you know, reality bending is my primary research direction. However, it is not (yet) a well-established scientific topic, nor is it …

How to extract individual scores from repeated measures

We compare different methods (individual models, Bayesian models with informative priors, random effects from mixed models) to extract …

What is neuropsychology?

In which I discuss the place of neuropsychology in the galaxy of sciences, its structure and its definition.

Contact

  • dom.makowski@gmail.com
  • 48 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639818
  • HSS #04-18, Nanyang Technological University
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