Dr Samuel Recht

College Lecturer in Experimental Psychology

I joined Pembroke as a lecturer in 2022. My research is on the behavioural and neuronal mechanisms of attention, confidence, and learning during decision-making. The distinction between the percept and its cognitive processing is one of the bases of modern investigation in psychology and neuroscience: questioning the difference between believing and seeing, between what passes the retina and what sense one makes of it. Broadly, I investigate how we introspect about the accuracy of our decisions when attention fluctuates in space and time, and how it affects learning. At Pembroke, I teach Behavioural Neuroscience, Prelims Psychobiology, and Experimental Design & Methods.

I am currently a member of the Computational Neurology Group (Department of Experimental Psychology / NDCN, PI: Sanjay Manohar). Previously, I was a member of the Attention & Cognitive Control Lab (ACCLab, PI: Nick Yeung) and a Fyssen Research Fellow (Department of Experimental Psychology / University College).

Dr Samuel Recht

College Lecturer in Experimental Psychology

I joined Pembroke as a lecturer in 2022. My research is on the behavioural and neuronal mechanisms of attention, confidence, and learning during decision-making. The distinction between the percept and its cognitive processing is one of the bases of modern investigation in psychology and neuroscience: questioning the difference between believing and seeing, between what passes the retina and what sense one makes of it. Broadly, I investigate how we introspect about the accuracy of our decisions when attention fluctuates in space and time, and how it affects learning. At Pembroke, I teach Behavioural Neuroscience, Prelims Psychobiology, and Experimental Design & Methods.

I am currently a member of the Computational Neurology Group (Department of Experimental Psychology / NDCN, PI: Sanjay Manohar). Previously, I was a member of the Attention & Cognitive Control Lab (ACCLab, PI: Nick Yeung) and a Fyssen Research Fellow (Department of Experimental Psychology / University College).