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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Marius Usher is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and specializes primarily in Neuroscience. Their research broadly encompasses several subfields, with a strong focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, and Statistics and Probability. The interdisciplinary nature of their work reflects a wide engagement across neural, psychological, and economic frameworks.

Their scientific contributions cover multiple topics of study, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills

Usher has published extensively in several key academic venues. Their frequent publication journals and repositories include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychological Review
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Consciousness and Cognition

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Visual attention modulates the integration of goal-relevant evidence and not value" (2020, eLife)
  • "Causal Responsibility and Robust Causation" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "Evidence integration and decision confidence are modulated by stimulus consistency" (2022, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "Visual attention modulates the integration of goal-relevant evidence and not value" (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • "Value certainty in drift-diffusion models of preferential choice." (2021, Psychological Review)

Marius Usher often collaborates with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Moshe Glickman
  • Konstantinos Tsetsos
  • You-Ping Yang
  • Dino J. Levy
  • Veit Stuphorn

In recognition of their contributions, Usher was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999.

Best Publications

  • The time course of perceptual choice: The leaky, competing accumulator model.

    Marius Usher;James L. McClelland

  • The Role of Locus Coeruleus in the Regulation of Cognitive Performance

    Marius Usher;Jonathan D. Cohen;David Servan-Schreiber;Janusz Rajkowski

  • The Demise of Short-Term Memory Revisited: Empirical and Computational Investigations of Recency Effects

    Eddy J. Davelaar;Yonatan Goshen-Gottstein;Amir Ashkenazi;Henk J. Haarmann

  • Loss aversion and inhibition in dynamical models of multialternative choice.

    Marius Usher;James L. McClelland

  • Lateral interactions in primary visual cortex: a model bridging physiology and psychophysics

    Martin Stemmler;Marius Usher;Marius Usher;Marius Usher;Ernst Niebur

  • Visual synchrony affects binding and segmentation in perception

    Marius Usher;Nick Donnelly

  • Salience driven value integration explains decision biases and preference reversal

    Konstantinos Tsetsos;Nick Chater;Marius Usher

  • Extending a biologically inspired model of choice: multi-alternatives, nonlinearity and value-based multidimensional choice

    Rafal Bogacz;Marius Usher;Jiaxiang Zhang;James L. McClelland

  • Economic irrationality is optimal during noisy decision making

    Konstantinos Tsetsos;Konstantinos Tsetsos;Rani Moran;James Moreland;Nick Chater

  • Post choice information integration as a causal determinant of confidence: Novel data and a computational account

    Rani Moran;Andrei R. Teodorescu;Marius Usher

  • Preference reversal in multiattribute choice

    Konstantinos Tsetsos;Marius Usher;Nick Chater

  • The Timescale of Perceptual Evidence Integration Can Be Adapted to the Environment

    Ori Ossmy;Rani Moran;Thomas Pfeffer;Thomas Pfeffer;Konstantinos Tsetsos

  • Maintenance of semantic information in capacity-limited item short-term memory.

    Henk Haarmann;Marius Usher

  • Hick's law in a stochastic race model with speed-accuracy tradeoffs

    Marius Usher;Zeev Olami;James L. McClelland

  • Disentangling decision models: from independence to competition

    Andrei R. Teodorescu;Marius Usher

  • Individual differences in semantic short-term memory capacity and reading comprehension

    Henk J Haarmann;Eddy J Davelaar;Marius Usher

  • Modeling the temporal dynamics of it neurons in visual search: A mechanism for top-down selective attention

    Marius Usher;Ernst Niebur

  • Confirmation Bias through Selective Overweighting of Choice-Consistent Evidence.

    Bharath Chandra Talluri;Anne E. Urai;Anne E. Urai;Konstantinos Tsetsos;Marius Usher

  • Dynamic pattern formation leads to 1/f noise in neural populations.

    Marius Usher;Martin Stemmler;Zeev Olami

  • We See More Than We Can Report: “Cost Free” Color Phenomenality Outside Focal Attention

    Zohar Z. Bronfman;Noam Brezis;Hiilla Jacobson;Marius Usher

  • The "benefits" of distractibility: mechanisms underlying increased Stroop effects in schizophrenia.

    Carter Cs;Hachten Pc;Usher M

  • Modelling Natural Action Selection: Extending a biologically inspired model of choice: multi-alternatives, nonlinearity, and value-based multidimensional choice

    Rafal Bogacz;Marius Usher;Jiaxiang Zhang;James L. McClelland

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermann J. Müller
Hermann J. Müller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
Tobias H. Donner
Tobias H. Donner Universität Hamburg
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Dan Zakay
Dan Zakay Reichman University
Avishai Henik
Avishai Henik Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Christof Koch
Christof Koch Allen Institute for Brain Science
David A. Lagnado
David A. Lagnado University College London
Rafal Bogacz
Rafal Bogacz University of Oxford

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