Marius Usher
Biographic Data
| ID | 916642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marius Usher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marius |
| FAMILY NAME | Usher |
| SIGNATURE | USHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8041-9060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contrasting holistic-compensatory with probabilistic heuristic strategies in multi-attribute decisions
Recent research on multi-attribute decision-making has challenged the view that in open-view conditions, under time pressure, humans mostly rely on simplified strategies that only examine part of the choice information, as in Take the Best (TTB) or the priority heuristics. Here we examine and test a probabilistic extension of TTB which preserves the central heuristic idea that each decision is made based on a single attribute but selects this att…
Valence in perception: Are affective valence and visual brightness integral dimensions in visual experience
The effect of perceptual organization on numerical and preference-based decisions shows inter-subject correlation
Individual differences in cognitive processing have been the subject of intensive research. One important type of such individual differences is the tendency for global versus local processing, which was shown to correlate with a wide range of processing differences in fields such as decision making, social judgments and creativity. Yet, whether these global/local processing tendencies are correlated within a subject across different domains is s…
Evidence integration and decision confidence are modulated by stimulus consistency
Evidence integration is a normative algorithm for choosing between alternatives with noisy evidence, which has been successful in accounting for vast amounts of behavioural and neural data. However, this mechanism has been challenged by non-integration heuristics, and tracking decision boundaries has proven elusive. Here we first show that the decision boundaries can be extracted using a model-free behavioural method termed decision classificatio…
Refuting the unfolding-argument on the irrelevance of causal structure to consciousness
Agency, Teleological Control and Robust Causation
I propose a compatibilist theory of agency and responsibility, according to which an agent is responsible for an effect, if and only if, she is the earliest source of robust causation over it, via an action she carried out in the service of her long term interests. This theory deploys a notion of teleological control, which is a type of guidance‐control of the agent over the effect and it involves action plans and means‐end reasoning. The theory …
Anxiety, emotional distraction, and attentional control in the Stroop task
Using a Stroop task, we investigated the effect of task-irrelevant emotional distractors on attentional proactive control and its interaction with trait anxiety. On the basis of recent findings showing opposed neural responses in the dorsal-executive versus the ventral-emotional systems in response to emotional distractors and of the attentional control theory (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007), we hypothesized that negative distractors …
The time course of perceptual choice: The leaky, competing accumulator model.
The time course of perceptual choice is discussed in a model of gradual, leaky, stochastic, and competitive information accumulation in nonlinear decision units. Special cases of the model match a classical diffusion process, but leakage and competition work together to address several challenges to existing diffusion, random walk, and accumulator models. The model accounts for data from choice tasks using both time-controlled (e.g., response sig…
Agency, Teleological Control and Robust Causation
I propose a compatibilist theory of agency and responsibility, according to which an agent is responsible for an effect, if and only if, she is the earliest source of robust causation over it, via an action she carried out in the service of her long term interests. This theory deploys a notion of teleological control, which is a type of guidance‐control of the agent over the effect and it involves action plans and means‐end reasoning. The theory …
Evidence integration and decision confidence are modulated by stimulus consistency
Evidence integration is a normative algorithm for choosing between alternatives with noisy evidence, which has been successful in accounting for vast amounts of behavioural and neural data. However, this mechanism has been challenged by non-integration heuristics, and tracking decision boundaries has proven elusive. Here we first show that the decision boundaries can be extracted using a model-free behavioural method termed decision classificatio…
The time course of perceptual choice: The leaky, competing accumulator model.
The time course of perceptual choice is discussed in a model of gradual, leaky, stochastic, and competitive information accumulation in nonlinear decision units. Special cases of the model match a classical diffusion process, but leakage and competition work together to address several challenges to existing diffusion, random walk, and accumulator models. The model accounts for data from choice tasks using both time-controlled (e.g., response sig…
Anxiety, emotional distraction, and attentional control in the Stroop task
Using a Stroop task, we investigated the effect of task-irrelevant emotional distractors on attentional proactive control and its interaction with trait anxiety. On the basis of recent findings showing opposed neural responses in the dorsal-executive versus the ventral-emotional systems in response to emotional distractors and of the attentional control theory (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007), we hypothesized that negative distractors …
Agency, Teleological Control and Robust Causation
I propose a compatibilist theory of agency and responsibility, according to which an agent is responsible for an effect, if and only if, she is the earliest source of robust causation over it, via an action she carried out in the service of her long term interests. This theory deploys a notion of teleological control, which is a type of guidance‐control of the agent over the effect and it involves action plans and means‐end reasoning. The theory …
Refuting the unfolding-argument on the irrelevance of causal structure to consciousness
Evidence integration and decision confidence are modulated by stimulus consistency
Evidence integration is a normative algorithm for choosing between alternatives with noisy evidence, which has been successful in accounting for vast amounts of behavioural and neural data. However, this mechanism has been challenged by non-integration heuristics, and tracking decision boundaries has proven elusive. Here we first show that the decision boundaries can be extracted using a model-free behavioural method termed decision classificatio…
The effect of perceptual organization on numerical and preference-based decisions shows inter-subject correlation
Individual differences in cognitive processing have been the subject of intensive research. One important type of such individual differences is the tendency for global versus local processing, which was shown to correlate with a wide range of processing differences in fields such as decision making, social judgments and creativity. Yet, whether these global/local processing tendencies are correlated within a subject across different domains is s…
Valence in perception: Are affective valence and visual brightness integral dimensions in visual experience
Contrasting holistic-compensatory with probabilistic heuristic strategies in multi-attribute decisions
Recent research on multi-attribute decision-making has challenged the view that in open-view conditions, under time pressure, humans mostly rely on simplified strategies that only examine part of the choice information, as in Take the Best (TTB) or the priority heuristics. Here we examine and test a probabilistic extension of TTB which preserves the central heuristic idea that each decision is made based on a single attribute but selects this att…
Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)