Dr Matan Mazor

MSc, PhD

Life Sciences

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow since 2023

I use a combination of behavioural testing, human neuroimaging and computational modelling to study the cognitive machinery underlying humans’ internal metacognitive models of their own minds. Among the questions that keep me and my group busy are: what are the cognitive benefits of having an internal representation of one's own perception and cognition, and what happens when this representation is disturbed, biased, or not fully developed? In what way does a self-representation interact with memories of one's own actions and experiences, and with the feeling of being in control over one's actions? To what extent do people represent their own minds over and above a generic representation of minds? What is the scope of the human capacity to represent the hypothetical possibility of being someone else, and how does this capacity interact with moral decision-making and ethics?

Links

Email: matan.mazor@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

ORCID

Department of Experimental Psychology Web Profile

Google Scholar Profile

Oxford Self-Modelling Group

Research Areas

Self-models

Metacognition

Self Awareness

Self-representation

Sense of Agency

Autobiographical Memory

Selected Publications

Mazor, M., Firestone, C., & Phillips, I. (2026). Pretending not to know reveals a capacity for model-based self-simulation..

Psychological Science

Mazor, M., Seghezzi, S., & Manohar, S. (2026). Remembering what you did: episodic memory for self-actions.

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Mazor, M., Moran, R., & Press, C. (2025). Beliefs about perception shape perceptual inference: An ideal observer model of detection.

Psychological Review

Yaron, I., Faivre, N., Mudrik, L., & Mazor, M. (2025). Individual differences do not mask effects of unconscious processing.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Mazor, M. (2025). Inference about absence as a window into the mental self-model.

Open Mind

Mazor, M., Brown, S., Ciaunica, A., Demertzi, A., Fahrenfort, J., Faivre, N., ... & Lubianiker, N. (2023). The scientific study of consciousness cannot and should not be morally neutral.

Perspectives on Psychological Science