Publications: Dr Rani Moran

Fradkin I, Adams RA, Siegelman N, Moran R, Dolan RJ ( 2024 ) . Latent mechanisms of language disorganization relate to specific dimensions of psychopathology . Nature Mental Health1 - 12 .

Luettgau L, Erdmann T, Veselic S, Stachenfeld KL, Kurth-Nelson Z, Moran R, Dolan RJ ( 2024 ) . Decomposing dynamical subprocesses for compositional generalization . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 121 , ( 46 ) e2408134121 - e2408134121 .

Gronau QF, Moran R, Eidels A ( 2024 ) . Efficiency in redundancy . Scientific Reports vol. 14 , ( 1 )

Russek EM, Moran R, Liu Y, Dolan RJ, Huys QJM ( 2024 ) . Heuristics in risky decision-making relate to preferential representation of information . Nature Communications vol. 15 , ( 1 )

Fradkin I, Adams R, Siegelman N, Moran R, Dolan R ( 2023 ) . 71. A Transdiagnostic Investigation of the Computational Mechanisms of Formal Thought Disorder . Biological Psychiatry vol. 93 , ( 9 ) s122 - s123 .

Fradkin I, Adams R, Siegelman N, Moran R, Dolan R ( 2023 ) . A Transdiagnostic Investigation of the Computational Mechanisms of Formal Thought Disorder . BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY . vol. 93 , S122 - S123 .

Luettgau L, Moran R, Erdmann T, Veselic S, Stachenfeld KL, Kurth-Nelson Z, Dolan RJ ( 2023 ) . Factorization of graphs in the compositional reuse of experience . Conference: 2023 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Vidal-Perez J, Dolan RJ, Moran R ( 2023 ) . Learning from Disinformation . Conference: 2023 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Bang D, Moran R, Daw ND, Fleming SM ( 2022 ) . Neurocomputational mechanisms of confidence in self and others . Nature Communications vol. 13 , ( 1 )

Dubois M, Bowler A, Moses-Payne ME, Habicht J, Moran R, Steinbeis N, Hauser TU ( 2022 ) . Exploration heuristics decrease during youth . Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience vol. 22 , ( 5 ) 969 - 983 .

Navajas J, Armand O, Moran R, Bahrami B, Deroy O ( 2022 ) . Diversity of opinions promotes herding in uncertain crowds . Royal Society Open Science vol. 9 , ( 6 ) 191497 - 191497 .

Glickman M, Moran R, Usher M ( 2022 ) . Evidence integration and decision confidence are modulated by stimulus consistency . Nature Human Behaviour vol. 6 , ( 7 ) 988 - 999 .

Mazor M, Moran R, Fleming SM ( 2021 ) . Erratum to: Stage 1 registered report: metacognitive asymmetries in visual perception and Stage 2 registered report: metacognitive asymmetries in visual perception . Neuroscience of Consciousness vol. 2021 , ( 1 )

Mazor M, Moran R, Fleming SM ( 2021 ) . Metacognitive asymmetries in visual perception . Neuroscience of Consciousness vol. 2021 , ( 1 )

Deserno L, Moran R, Michely J, Lee Y, Dayan P, Dolan RJ ( 2021 ) . Dopamine enhances model-free credit assignment through boosting of retrospective model-based inference . eLife vol. 10 ,

Niv L, Moran R, Algom D ( 2021 ) . The nature of Garner interference: The role of uncertainty, information, and variation in the breakdown in selective attention . Cognition vol. 218 ,

Bullmore E, Dolan RJ, Goodyer I, Fonagy P, Jones P, Moutoussis M, Hauser T, Neufeld S et al. ( 2021 ) . Assigning the right credit to the wrong action: compulsivity in the general population is associated with augmented outcome-irrelevant value-based learning . Translational Psychiatry vol. 11 , ( 1 ) 564 - 564 .

Deserno L, Moran R, Lee Y, Michely J, Dayan P, Dolan R ( 2021 ) . Dopamine Enhances Model-Free Credit Assignment Through Boosting of Retrospective Model-Based Inference . Biological Psychiatry vol. 89 , ( 9 )

Moran R, Dayan P, Dolan RJ ( 2021 ) . Efficiency and prioritization of inference-based credit assignment . Current Biology vol. 31 , ( 13 ) 2747 - 2756.e6 .

Mazor M, Moran R, Fleming SM ( 2021 ) . Metacognitive asymmetries in visual perception . Neuroscience of Consciousness vol. 2021 , ( 2 )

Moran R, Dayan P, Dolan RJ ( 2021 ) . Human subjects exploit a cognitive map for credit assignment . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 118 , ( 4 )

Moran R, Keramati M, Dolan RJ ( 2021 ) . Model based planners reflect on their model-free propensities . PLOS Computational Biology vol. 17 , ( 1 )

Dubois M, Habicht J, Michely J, Moran R, Dolan RJ, Hauser TU ( 2021 ) . Human complex exploration strategies are enriched by noradrenaline-modulated heuristics . eLife vol. 10 ,

Mark S, Moran R, Parr T, Kennerley SW, Behrens TEJ ( 2020 ) . Transferring structural knowledge across cognitive maps in humans and models . Nature Communications vol. 11 , ( 1 )

Ereira S, Hauser TU, Moran R, Story GW, Dolan RJ, Kurth-Nelson Z ( 2020 ) . Social training reconfigures prediction errors to shape Self-Other boundaries . Nature Communications vol. 11 , ( 1 )

Rollwage M, Loosen A, Hauser TU, Moran R, Dolan RJ, Fleming SM ( 2020 ) . Confidence drives a neural confirmation bias . Nature Communications vol. 11 , ( 1 )

Russek EM, Moran R, McNamee D, Reiter A, Liu Y, Dolan RJ, Huys QJM ( 2020 ) . Opportunities for emotion and mental health research in the resource-rationality framework . Behavioral and Brain Sciences vol. 43 ,

Panis S, Moran R, Wolkersdorfer MP, Schmidt T ( 2020 ) . Studying the dynamics of visual search behavior using RT hazard and micro-level speed–accuracy tradeoff functions: A role for recurrent object recognition and cognitive control processes . Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics vol. 82 , ( 2 ) 689 - 714 .

Maimon-Mor RO, Schone HR, Moran R, Brugger P, Makin TR ( 2020 ) . Motor control drives visual bodily judgements . Cognition vol. 196 ,

Shahar N, Moran R, Hauser TU, Kievit RA, McNamee D, Moutoussis M, Dolan RJ, Bullmore E et al. ( 2019 ) . Credit assignment to state-independent task representations and its relationship with model-based decision making . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 116 , ( 32 ) 15871 - 15876 .

Herce Castañón S, Moran R, Ding J, Egner T, Bang D, Summerfield C ( 2019 ) . Human noise blindness drives suboptimal cognitive inference . Nature Communications vol. 10 , ( 1 )

Moran R, Keramati M, Dayan P, Dolan RJ ( 2019 ) . Retrospective model-based inference guides model-free credit assignment . Nature Communications vol. 10 , ( 1 )

Shahar N, Hauser TU, Moutoussis M, Moran R, Keramati M, consortium N, Dolan RJ ( 2019 ) . Improving the reliability of model-based decision-making estimates in the two-stage decision task with reaction-times and drift-diffusion modeling . PLOS Computational Biology vol. 15 , ( 2 )

Moran R, Tsetsos K ( 2019 ) . The standard Bayesian model is normatively invalid for biological brains . Behavioral and Brain Sciences vol. 41 ,

Mark S, Moran R, Parr T, Kennerley S, Behrens T ( 2019 ) . A mechanistic account of transferring structural knowledge across cognitive maps . Conference: 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Rollwage M, Hauser T, Loosen A, Moran R, Dolan R, Fleming S ( 2019 ) . Confidence Drives a Neural Confirmation Bias . Conference: 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Dubois M, Habicht J, Michely J, Moran R, Dolan R, Hauser T ( 2019 ) . Dissociating different forms of random exploration . Conference: 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Sadeh T, Moran R, Stern Y, Goshen-Gottstein Y ( 2018 ) . A Remember/Know Examination of Free-recall Reveals Dissociative Roles of Item- and Context-Information over Time . Scientific Reports vol. 8 , ( 1 )

Shahar N, Pereg M, Teodorescu AR, Moran R, Karmon-Presser A, Meiran N ( 2018 ) . Formation of abstract task representations: Exploring dosage and mechanisms of working memory training effects . Cognition vol. 181 , 151 - 159 .

Bang D, Aitchison L, Moran R, Herce Castanon S, Rafiee B, Mahmoodi A, Lau JYF, Latham PE et al. ( 2017 ) . Confidence matching in group decision-making . Nature Human Behaviour vol. 1 , ( 6 )

Moran R, Liesefeld HR, Usher M, Müller HJ ( 2017 ) . An appeal against the item's death sentence: Accounting for diagnostic data patterns with an item-based model of visual search . Behavioral and Brain Sciences vol. 40 ,

Müller HJ, Liesefeld HR, Moran R, Usher M ( 2017 ) . Parallel attentive processing and pre-attentive guidance . Behavioral and Brain Sciences vol. 40 ,

Moran R ( 2016 ) . Thou shalt identify! The identifiability of two high-threshold models in confidence-rating recognition (and super-recognition) paradigms . Journal of Mathematical Psychology vol. 73 , 1 - 11 .

Tsetsos K, Moran R, Moreland JC, Chater N, Usher M, Summerfield C ( 2016 ) . Reply to Davis-Stober et al.: Violations of rationality in a psychophysical task are not aggregation artifacts . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 113 , ( 33 ) e4764 - e4766 .

Liesefeld HR, Moran R, Usher M, Müller HJ, Zehetleitner M ( 2016 ) . Search Efficiency as a Function of Target Saliency: The Transition From Inefficient to Efficient Search and Beyond . Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance vol. 42 , ( 6 ) 821 - 836 .

Tsetsos K, Moran R, Moreland J, Chater N, Usher M, Summerfield C ( 2016 ) . Economic irrationality is optimal during noisy decision making . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 113 , ( 11 ) 3102 - 3107 .

Moran R, Zehetleitner M, Liesefeld HR, Müller HJ, Usher M ( 2015 ) . Serial vs. parallel models of attention in visual search: accounting for benchmark RT-distributions . Psychonomic Bulletin & Review vol. 23 , ( 5 ) 1300 - 1315 .

Bronfman ZZ, Brezis N, Moran R, Tsetsos K, Donner T, Usher M ( 2015 ) . Decisions reduce sensitivity to subsequent information . Proceedings of the Royal Society B vol. 282 , ( 1810 )

Teodorescu AR, Moran R, Usher M ( 2015 ) . Absolutely relative or relatively absolute: violations of value invariance in human decision making . Psychonomic Bulletin & Review vol. 23 , ( 1 ) 22 - 38 .

Moran R, Goshen-Gottstein Y ( 2015 ) . Old processes, new perspectives: Familiarity is correlated with (not independent of) recollection and is more (not equally) variable for targets than for lures . Cognitive Psychology vol. 79 , 40 - 67 .

Moran R, Teodorescu AR, Usher M ( 2015 ) . Post choice information integration as a causal determinant of confidence: Novel data and a computational account . Cognitive Psychology vol. 78 , 99 - 147 .

Sadeh T, Moran R, Goshen-Gottstein Y ( 2014 ) . When items ‘pop into mind’: variability in temporal-context reinstatement in free-recall . Psychonomic Bulletin & Review vol. 22 , ( 3 ) 779 - 790 .

Moran R ( 2014 ) . Optimal decision making in heterogeneous and biased environments . Psychonomic Bulletin & Review vol. 22 , ( 1 ) 38 - 53 .

Brainerd CJ, Gomes CFA, Moran R ( 2014 ) . The Two Recollections . Psychological Review vol. 121 , ( 4 ) 563 - 599 .

Moran R, Goshen-Gottstein Y ( 2013 ) . The conditional-recency dissociation is confounded with nominal recency: Should unitary models of memory still be devaluated? . Psychonomic Bulletin & Review vol. 21 , ( 2 ) 332 - 343 .

Moran R, Zehetleitner M, Müller HJ, Usher M ( 2013 ) . Competitive guided search: Meeting the challenge of benchmark RT distributions . Journal of Vision vol. 13 , ( 8 ) 24 - 24 .

Ossmy O, Moran R, Pfeffer T, Tsetsos K, Usher M, Donner TH ( 2013 ) . The Timescale of Perceptual Evidence Integration Can Be Adapted to the Environment . Current Biology vol. 23 , ( 11 ) 981 - 986 .

Shachar AB, Lazarov A, Goldsmith M, Moran R, Dar R ( 2012 ) . Exploring metacognitive components of confidence and control in individuals with obsessive-compulsive tendencies . Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry vol. 44 , ( 2 ) 255 - 261 .

Chayet H, Kost O, Moran R, Lozovsky I, Dimroth F, Kurtz S, Sala G, Bett AW ( 2011 ) . Efficient, Low Cost Dish Concentrator for a CPV Based Cogeneration System . AIP Conference Proceedings . vol. 1407 , 249 - 252 .