Faces, identity & familiarity
How facial identity is represented and recognized, and how variability and similarity shape unfamiliar face matching.
Cognitive psychologist · Mathematical psychology
Daniel
Fitousi.
Understanding how the mind sees, decides, and represents the world.
Research directions.
Behavioral experiments and quantitative models reveal the mechanisms underlying visual cognition and decision-making.
Confidence & uncertainty
Information-theoretic approaches to confidence, metacognitive efficiency, and the evaluation of perceptual decisions.
Attention & cognitive control
Selective attention, feature integration, Garner interference, and the architecture of cognitive processing.
Numbers & integration
How people perceive, compare, and integrate symbolic numerical information using competing decision strategies.
Cognition Lab · Ariel University
Questions about minds.
Answers through models.
The Cognition Lab combines carefully designed behavioral experiments with mathematical and computational analysis to study perception, attention, and decision-making.
Meet the lab members ↗Research recognition
2026 · British Psychological SocietyCognitive Psychology Section Annual Award
For research on face familiarity and similarity (Kramer, Jones, & Fitousi, 2025).
For research on face familiarity and similarity (Kramer, Jones, & Fitousi, 2025).
Israel Science FoundationResearch grants: 2021–2024 and 2026–2030
Tools & Code.
Practical information-theoretic approaches to measuring cognition, confidence and response-time uncertainty.
Bits of Confidence
Measures of information conveyed by confidence judgments and uncertainty reduction.
CRE & metacognitive efficiency
Computational measures and methodological references, with documented code releases forthcoming.
Publications.
Selected recent work and a searchable archive of peer-reviewed research, drawn from the academic CV.
Experiments and participation
Information about laboratory experiments is currently available on the existing experiment page ↗. This link can be migrated after review.
Information about laboratory experiments is currently available on the existing experiment page ↗. This link can be migrated after review.
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research.
For academic collaborations, research enquiries, or student projects.
Daniel Fitousi
Department of Psychology
Ariel University · Israel