Marya Mazor
Biographic Data
| ID | 1631497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marya Mazor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marya |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazor |
| SIGNATURE | MAZOR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3601-0644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inference About Absence as a Window Into the Mental Self-Model
To represent something as absent, one must know that they would know if it were present. This form of counterfactual reasoning critically relies on a mental self-model: a simplified schema of one’s own cognition, which specifies expected perceptual and cognitive states under different world states and affords better monitoring and control over cognitive resources. Here I propose to use inference about absence as a unique window into the structure…
Individual differences do not mask effects of unconscious processing
A wave of criticisms and replication failures is currently challenging claims about the scope of unconscious perception and cognition. Such failures to find unconscious processing effects at the population level may reflect the absence of individual-level effects, or alternatively, the averaging out of individual-level effects with opposing signs. Importantly, only the first suggests that consciousness may be necessary for the tested process to t…
The Scientific Study of Consciousness Cannot and Should Not Be Morally Neutral
A target question for the scientific study of consciousness is how dimensions of consciousness, such as the ability to feel pain and pleasure or reflect on one’s own experience, vary in different states and animal species. Considering the tight link between consciousness and moral status, answers to these questions have implications for law and ethics. Here we point out that given this link, the scientific community studying consciousness may fac…
Mistaking imagination for reality
Visual experiences can be triggered externally, by signals coming from the outside world during perception; or internally, by signals from memory during mental imagery. Imagery and perception activate similar neural codes in sensory areas, suggesting that they might sometimes be confused. In the current study, we investigated whether imagery influences perception by instructing participants to imagine gratings while externally detecting these sam…
The Dunning-Kruger effect revisited
Really relativism
Really relativism
Mistaking imagination for reality
Visual experiences can be triggered externally, by signals coming from the outside world during perception; or internally, by signals from memory during mental imagery. Imagery and perception activate similar neural codes in sensory areas, suggesting that they might sometimes be confused. In the current study, we investigated whether imagery influences perception by instructing participants to imagine gratings while externally detecting these sam…
The Dunning-Kruger effect revisited
The Scientific Study of Consciousness Cannot and Should Not Be Morally Neutral
A target question for the scientific study of consciousness is how dimensions of consciousness, such as the ability to feel pain and pleasure or reflect on one’s own experience, vary in different states and animal species. Considering the tight link between consciousness and moral status, answers to these questions have implications for law and ethics. Here we point out that given this link, the scientific community studying consciousness may fac…
Inference About Absence as a Window Into the Mental Self-Model
To represent something as absent, one must know that they would know if it were present. This form of counterfactual reasoning critically relies on a mental self-model: a simplified schema of one’s own cognition, which specifies expected perceptual and cognitive states under different world states and affords better monitoring and control over cognitive resources. Here I propose to use inference about absence as a unique window into the structure…
Individual differences do not mask effects of unconscious processing
A wave of criticisms and replication failures is currently challenging claims about the scope of unconscious perception and cognition. Such failures to find unconscious processing effects at the population level may reflect the absence of individual-level effects, or alternatively, the averaging out of individual-level effects with opposing signs. Importantly, only the first suggests that consciousness may be necessary for the tested process to t…
Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Consciousness (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)