Tamar R Makin

Tamar Makin (תמר. מייקין) is an Israeli Professor of Neuroscience at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Her research considers brain augmentation and motor function.

Early life and education

Makin studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was awarded Fellowship to study brain plasticity at the University of Oxford, where she was eventually made a Principle Investigator.

Research and career

In 2016, Makin joined the faculty at University College London, where she was made a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience. Her research considers brain plasticity. At UCL Makin studied how artificial limbs were represented in the brains of people with amputations. She moved to the University of Cambridge in 2022, where was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant.

She is a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Unit. Makin is interested in the reorganisation of the adult brain. She is interested in how habitual behaviour (e.g. the use of a prosthesis or motor augmentation) impacts the reorganisation of the brain. Makin combines neuroscience, psychology and bioengineering and to help people benefit from brain plasticity.

Select publications

• Tamar R Makin; Nicholas P Holmes; H Henrik Ehrsson (7 March 2008). "On the other hand: dummy hands and peripersonal space". Behavioural Brain Research. 191 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1016/J.BBR.2008.02.041. ISSN 0166-4328. PMID 18423906. Wikidata Q37142736.
• Tamar R Makin; Nicholas P. Holmes; Ehud Zohary (1 January 2007). "Is that near my hand? Multisensory representation of peripersonal space in human intraparietal sulcus". The Journal of Neuroscience. 27 (4): 731–740. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3653-06.2007. ISSN 0270-6474. PMC 6672897. PMID 17251412. Wikidata Q48298721.
• Tamar R Makin; Jan Scholz; Nicola Filippini; David Henderson Slater; Irene Tracey; Heidi Johansen-Berg (1 January 2013). "Phantom pain is associated with preserved structure and function in the former hand area". Nature Communications. 4: 1570. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.1570M. doi:10.1038/NCOMMS2571. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 3615341. PMID 23463013. Wikidata Q36736894.