Matan Mazor
Post-doctoral research fellow in cognitive neuroscience (Oxford),
interested in complex systems and in simple systems who believe they are complex systems
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- Reposted by Matan MazorAre we “strangers to ourselves”? Classic theories say people have limited insight into how they decide. Our new paper at @natcomms.nature.com challenges this view. With @rcarl.bsky.social sky.social, @hedykober.bsky.social y.social, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵
- Reposted by Matan MazorNow officially out in Psychological Review 🥳 "Causation, Meaning, and Communication" by Ari Beller and me. 📃 (paper): psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... 📜 (preprint): osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Matan MazorSORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
- Reposted by Matan MazorSuppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can! Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...
- This is great. Interesting from a metamemory perspective, especially given that the effect seems more linked to people's beliefs about the number of presentations, rather than the actual number.
- Reposted by Matan MazorJohn Flavell, a giant of developmental psychology, who introduced the study of metacognition, died peacefully at age 96. www.amacad.org/person/john-...
- Reposted by Matan MazorCould you do with £10k for some humanities or social science research? We’ve opened the call for our small grants. These are assessed using partial randomisation - after applications meet our quality threshold awards are allocated at random, reducing bias www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
- Reposted by Matan MazorDo you have a research interest in how AI can harm or benefit non-human animals? I'm recruiting a Research Officer to drive forward the "Animals and AI" priority area of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE. Please apply by 6 May! 🐖🐔🐟 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Matan MazorHey, it's also Eadweard Muybridge's birthday! We love him!
- Reposted by Matan MazorAn emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...
- Reposted by Matan Mazor🧵1/5 The Israeli cabinet approved on Sunday a no-confidence motion against Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, the first step in a process to dismiss her. The ministers still face a lengthy process to secure her removal
- Our "I would have seen it if it were there" paper — a collaboration with @ranimo.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social — is now out in Psych. Review. There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
- Reposted by Matan MazorAND, importantly for scientists, the universities got our back. The leadership (presidents) are really taking a stand against the government and have been striking this week without pay and very publicly.
- Thanks, Claire, and thanks again for engaging with our work in such a constructive way — this feels like the kind of exchange that pushes science forward.
- Reposted by Matan MazorTens of thousands Israelis demonstrating for peace and the return of the hostages. In face of hatred and war we must bring hope and peace.
- Reposted by Matan MazorWe think we now understand what is going on. We show that correlations of confidence with mental health in online studies are largely driven by two surface-level properties of questionnaire-filling behaviour: rating biases and inattentive responding. [5/14]
- Reposted by Matan MazorWe are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam! For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
- Reposted by Matan MazorHey Bluesky! I’m excited to share my new preprint with @matanmazor.bsky.social and @ruvidar.bsky.social, where we show that surface-level questionnaire filling behaviours drive correlations between mental health and metacognition (confidence ratings). osf.io/preprints/ps... [1/14]
- Kahneman took his science seriously. www.themarker.com/wallstreet/2...
- Revising an ethics application, and making sure not to make the participants that I am experimenting upon feel like they are being 'experimented upon'
- This was an absolute pleasure to work on together with @itayyaron.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social and @nfaivre.bsky.social aivre.bsky.social. Beyond our empirical findings, Itay's R package github.com/mufcItay/sig... is an extremely useful tool to add to your statistical toolkit.
- Do null group-level effects reflect the mixture of true subject-level effects at opposing directions? In a new paper, now accepted at Psychological Bulletin & Review (osf.io/preprints/ps...), we turn this question to the field of unconscious processing (1/14)
- Reposted by Matan MazorWatch this video. Do you remember seeing a ball in the second half of the video? Up to 37% of our participants reported seeing a ball, even though it wasn’t there. Why? In a new paper in press @ Cognition, Brent Strickland and I ask what causes event completion. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Matan MazorHow do children understand causal expressions? In "Cause and burn in development", we explore how children map different causal expressions like "burn" or "caused to burn" to different kinds of causes. 📃 osf.io/preprints/ps... 📎 github.com/davdrose/cau... 🧵
- Reposted by Matan MazorThrilled to see this monumental work in @thelancet.bsky.social! A single subretinal injection led to staggering improvements in nearly blind children, while behavioural and EEG data from our lab reveal a dramatic boost in function and cortex activity. A major leap for vision restoration! t.ly/fvdQy
- Reposted by Matan MazorNew preprint: elaborating the domain-general prediction error driven account of paranoia and delusion contents: osf.io/preprints/ps... Awesome to work with @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe, @juliasheffield.bsky.social, Santiago Castiello, and @celiaheyes.bsky.social on this
- Reposted by Matan MazorHello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
- Reposted by Matan MazorIncredible dataset!!
- Reposted by Matan MazorFor social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- Reposted by Matan MazorWonderful lecture by @smfleming.bsky.social this evening at the @royalsociety.org. A full house paying full attention and lots of questions after. Congrats again on a well deserved Francis Crick Medal 🎖️
- Reposted by Matan MazorFieldwork tip: if, in the course of a long elicitation session, your consultant translates "black pepper" as "may it get into your eyes", it may be time for a break. (from Barth's 1850 vocabulary of Emghedesie. My reconstruction: nda a-hur ni-n moo-yo if 3SG-enter 2SG-GEN eye-PL)
- I'll be talking about all things metacognitive on 23rd Jan in a public lecture at the @royalsociety.org It's free to attend and will also be broadcast live on the RS YouTube channel (no pressure then 😅) royalsociety.org/science-even...
- Reposted by Matan MazorAre you a cognitive psychologist with some free time this September? Then plz consider spending your time with us in ESCOP, hosted in Sheffield, UK ESCOP is going to be brilliant, and Sheffield is so great. If you're unsure, just google "peak district" to give you some motivation www.escop2025.com
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- Reposted by Matan MazorExcited to share that our paper 'Distinguishing Neural Correlates of Prediction Errors on Perceptual Content and Detection of Content' is now published! With @smfleming.bsky.social, @peterkok.bsky.social and heroic scanning during the pandemic by Oliver Warrington! direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
- Reposted by Matan MazorThe main source of protein for intensively farmed animals is soy, which is also a complete protein source for humans. The whole edifice of factory farming is nutritionally pointless - essentially a highly inefficient soy laundering operation.
- Reposted by Matan MazorBirkbeck School of Psychological Sciences is getting ready for the second exciting part of our seminar series! Starting on the 15th of January!! @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
- Reposted by Matan MazorHumans are curious not just about the world, but also about their own minds. In our new paper, we describe a specific form of curiosity in which people strategically seek information not only about their decisions but also about the accuracy of their self-evaluations. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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- On behalf of the #ASSC28 Scientific Program Committee, the Symposia and Tutorials are now announced 🥳 assc2025.gr/programme/sy....
