{"id":22,"date":"2026-06-28T08:44:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/in-the-media\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:32:20","slug":"news-and-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/news-and-events\/","title":{"rendered":"News and Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n    \n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-section-2\" id=\"sec-9971\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-lg u-valign-middle-md u-valign-middle-sm u-valign-middle-xs u-sheet-1\">\n        <h2 class=\"u-align-center u-text u-text-default u-text-1\"> News and Events<br>\n        <\/h2>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-align-left u-clearfix u-container-align-left u-section-3\" id=\"block-3\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle u-sheet-1\">\n        <div class=\"fr-view u-clearfix u-rich-text u-text u-text-1\">\n          <p id=\"isPasted\">\n            <strong>Talk by Marius Usher at the CRCNS conference<\/strong>, TEl-Aviv University, July 2023:\n          <\/p>\n          <p>\n            <a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-1\" href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2023\/07\/CRCNS-2023.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rationality in preference formation; Gilad Pessach, Konstantions Testsos &amp; Marius Usher<\/a>\n          <\/p>\n          <p>\n            <strong>Talk by Marius Usher at the ASIC 2023 conference<\/strong>, Slovenia.\n          <\/p>\n          <p>\n            <a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-2\" href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2023\/07\/MetaCogPresentation4.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Cognition\/Metacognition tradeoff.<\/a> David Rosenbaum, Moshe Glickmann, Steve Fleming &amp; Marius Usher.\n          <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-section-4\" id=\"block-2\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-top-lg u-valign-top-md u-valign-top-sm u-valign-top-xs u-sheet-1\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-expanded u-image u-image-default u-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG-20221218-WA0002-1-768x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-image-width=\"768\" data-image-height=\"576\">\n        <p class=\"u-text u-text-default u-text-1\">Pre-Christmas lab-event with Yasmeen at Nazareth (Dec-17, 2022) <\/p>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-image u-image-default u-image-2\" src=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG-20221217-WA0003-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-image-width=\"1600\" data-image-height=\"1200\">\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-section-5\" id=\"block-4\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle u-sheet-1\">\n        <div class=\"fr-view u-clearfix u-rich-text u-text u-text-1\">\n          <ul id=\"isPasted\">\n            <li>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AxX65k1TTTE\">\n                <strong>MU-talk at the Free-Will conference&nbsp;<\/strong> (Nazareth, Sep-2022; <strong>in Hebrew<\/strong>)\n              <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li>\n              <strong>Final lab-meeting of 2022<\/strong> (June-2022) <strong>at Gilad's home<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/20220622_190106\/\">picture-1<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/20220622_210106\/\">&nbsp;picture-2&nbsp;<\/a> (Welcome to Douglas in our lab; David has won the football juggling competition for the second consecutive year). <strong>Good luck ALL for the summer break (enjoy and have a productive writing)!&nbsp;<\/strong>(Douglas in Barcelona\/Rome, Marius in London, Gal in Crete, Gilad in Sinai)\n            <\/li>\n            <li>From <strong>Michael's wedding (May-2022)<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/photo-by-www-tomermontilia-com-054-5866566-4\/\">picture-1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/photo-by-www-tomermontilia-com-054-5866566-3\/\">picture-2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/photo-by-www-tomermontilia-com-054-5866566\/\">picture-3<\/a> (<strong>Good luck!)<\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n            <li>Moshe's new paper in<strong>&nbsp;Nature Human Behaviour: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-022-01318-6.epdf?sharing_token=b62C1f-hbFsJevmnyNmHRdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0M9tkpVBxjpF3y4kxcaMurS91seNCcdiZCo2V6CZbSnQ98NtYopHhZUiIDw0zcPncPT2DrjGA8InhKpWmhpZcA6NMgTWPIDUATy8UwVLTPmCt3FWUS1O899hDwQceak2UA%3D\">Evidence integration and decision confidence are modulated by stimulus consistency<\/a>\n              <\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n            <li>April 2022:<strong>&nbsp;Congrats to David for successful PhD defense &nbsp;and getting the go ahead to write up his PhD without any modifications!<\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-section-6\" id=\"block-5\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-top-lg u-valign-top-md u-valign-top-sm u-valign-top-xs u-sheet-1\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-image u-image-default u-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2022\/04\/IMG-20220406-WA0153-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-image-width=\"2000\" data-image-height=\"1500\">\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-section-7\" id=\"block-6\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-sheet-1\">\n        <div class=\"fr-view u-clearfix u-rich-text u-text u-text-1\">\n          <ul id=\"isPasted\">\n            <li>March 2022: David's new paper in <strong>Psych Sci: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/09567976211043428\">The Cognition\/Metacognition Trade-Off<\/a>\n              <\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n            <li>\n              <strong>June-2020<\/strong>: Football Lab event: David won football juggling competition with the lab record of <strong>22!<\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n            <li>\n              <strong>Feb-2018: <a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-1\" href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2018\/02\/ISCOP-2018.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Workshop on evidence-accumulation<\/a>\n              <\/strong> (Marius and Moshe at ISCOP, Akko)\n            <\/li>\n            <li>\n              <strong>June 2017: Moshe gave a talk about his research - look at the presentation&nbsp;<\/strong>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2015\/06\/Ushers-Lab-Moshe-Glickman-2017.pdf\">\n                <strong>here<\/strong>\n              <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li>\n              <a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-2\" href=\"https:\/\/featuredcontent.psychonomic.org\/popout-and-the-airbus-a380-serial-vs-parallel-models-of-visual-search\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700;\">Featured bog post on our Visual-Search model: <\/span>\u201cPopout\u201d and the Airbus A380: Serial vs. parallel models of visual search\n              <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li><span style=\"font-weight: 700;\">Marius Usher: Popular talk at Friends of TA<br><\/span>\n              <a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-3\" href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2017\/06\/Popular-talk2_moshe.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;\u05d0\u05d9\u05da \u05de\u05e7\u05d1\u05dc\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05d7\u05dc\u05d8\u05d5\u05ea<\/span>\n              <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 700;\">\n                <br>\u05d7\u05d9\u05d3\u05ea \u05d4\u05e8\u05e6\u05d9\u05d5\u05e0\u05dc\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea \u05d5\u05db\u05d5\u05d7 \u05d4\u05d0\u05d9\u05e0\u05d8\u05d5\u05d0\u05d9\u05e6\u05d9\u05d4<\/span>\n            <\/li>\n            <li>\n              <a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4MIzWPn6LGU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u05d7\u05d5\u05db\u05de\u05d4 \u05d0\u05d9\u05e0\u05d8\u05d5\u05d0\u05d9\u05d8\u05d9\u05d1\u05d9\u05ea: \u05de\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8 \u05dc\u05d2\u05d1\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05ea \u05ea\u05d5\u05e8\u05ea \u05d4\u05de\u05e9\u05d7\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd<\/a>\n              <br>\n              <strong>(Marius Usher at Scientists Nights, TAU: Nov-2016)<\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n            <li>Aug\/2016:<strong>&nbsp;Marius Usher talk at the ESPP<\/strong> (<a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-5\" href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2017\/02\/ESPP.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\n                <strong><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Symposium on Phenomenal vs Access Consciousness<\/span>\n                <\/strong>\n              <\/a>)\n            <\/li>\n            <li>\n              <strong>06\/04\/2016 - \"<a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-6\" href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/611122\/sometimes-best-irrational\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sometimes, it's best to be irrational<\/a>\" &nbsp;<a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-7\" href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2017\/02\/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%94.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">(a Hebrew version from Globes<\/a>)\n              <\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n            <li>\n              <strong>07\/09\/2015 - Congratulations to&nbsp;Rani for&nbsp;successfully&nbsp;defensing his thesis and getting&nbsp;his PhD !<\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n            <li>\n              <strong>03\/03\/2016<\/strong> - <strong>\n                <a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychonomic.org\/news\/298342\/Popout-and-the-Airbus-A380-Serial-vs.-parallel-models-of-visual-search.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A step towards resolving the challenge of serial vs parallel in attention<\/a>\n              <\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n            <li>\n              <strong>23-27\/08\/2015 -&nbsp;European Conference on Visual Perception, Liverpool<\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n          <p>Marius presented: \"<a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-9\" href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2015\/06\/ECVP2_RM2.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Serial vs parallel models of Visual Search: model comparison to RT-distributions<\/a>\"\n          <\/p>\n          <ul>\n            <li>\n              <strong>June&nbsp;2015 -&nbsp;Information &amp; Cognitive Science Symposium, Jeruslaem<\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n          <p>Marius presented: \"<a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-10\" href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2015\/06\/Info2.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">From Mutual Information and Bayesian decision models to Mental Representations (and Misrepresentation)<\/a>\"\n          <\/p>\n          <ul>\n            <li>\n              <strong>01\/06\/2015 - School of Psychology's annual event<\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-section-8\" id=\"block-7\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-md u-valign-middle-xs u-sheet-1\">\n        <div class=\"fr-view u-clearfix u-rich-text u-text u-text-1\">\n          <p>Zohar and Noam gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2015\/06\/School-Conf-2015.pdf\" id=\"isPasted\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\n            <a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-1\" href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2015\/06\/School-Conf-2015.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">presentation <\/a>and here are pictures from the poster session, where Gil and Moshe presented their latest work: \n          <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"u-expanded-width u-gallery u-layout-grid u-lightbox u-no-transition u-show-text-none u-gallery-1\">\n          <div class=\"u-gallery-inner u-gallery-inner-1\">\n            <div class=\"u-effect-hover-zoom u-gallery-item\">\n              <div class=\"u-back-slide\" data-image-width=\"2285\" data-image-height=\"1286\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-back-image u-expanded\" src=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2015\/06\/SchoolConf.jpg\">\n              <\/div>\n              <div class=\"u-over-slide u-shading u-over-slide-1\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"u-effect-hover-zoom u-gallery-item\">\n              <div class=\"u-back-slide\" data-image-width=\"768\" data-image-height=\"512\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-back-image u-expanded\" src=\"https:\/\/people1.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2015\/06\/00014-768x512.jpg\">\n              <\/div>\n              <div class=\"u-over-slide u-shading u-over-slide-2\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-section-9\" id=\"block-8\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-lg u-valign-middle-md u-valign-middle-sm u-valign-middle-xl u-sheet-1\">\n        <div class=\"fr-view u-clearfix u-rich-text u-text u-text-1\">\n          <ul id=\"isPasted\">\n            <li>\n              <strong>24\/11\/2014 - <strong>Cognitive&nbsp;Psychology&nbsp;&amp; Brain and Cognition&nbsp;Colloquium<\/strong>\n              <\/strong>\n            <\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n          <p>Marius presented: <a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/usherlab\/files\/2015\/06\/coloq_2014.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"Intuitive averaging of perceptual properties and numerical values: &nbsp;behavioral data and neural mechanism\"<\/a>\n          <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    \n    \n    \n  \n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News and Events Talk by Marius Usher at the CRCNS conference, TEl-Aviv University, July 2023: Rationality in preference formation; Gilad Pessach, Konstantions Testsos &amp; Marius Usher Talk by Marius Usher at the ASIC 2023 conference, Slovenia. The Cognition\/Metacognition tradeoff. David Rosenbaum, Moshe Glickmann, Steve Fleming &amp; Marius Usher. 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