Dr Samuel Recht

College Lecturer in Experimental Psychology

I am a Fyssen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology, and a Stipendiary Lecturer at Pembroke. My research is on the behavioural and neuronal mechanisms of attention and confidence during perceptual 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 perception when attention fluctuates in space and time, and how it affects learning.

I am currently a member of the Attention & Cognitive Control lab (ACCLab), where I work with Nick Yeung. Prior to joining Oxford in 2020, I completed my PhD at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS-PSL) in Paris, France, under the supervision of Pascal Mamassian and Vincent de Gardelle.

Dr Samuel Recht

College Lecturer in Experimental Psychology

I am a Fyssen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology, and a Stipendiary Lecturer at Pembroke. My research is on the behavioural and neuronal mechanisms of attention and confidence during perceptual 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 perception when attention fluctuates in space and time, and how it affects learning.

I am currently a member of the Attention & Cognitive Control lab (ACCLab), where I work with Nick Yeung. Prior to joining Oxford in 2020, I completed my PhD at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS-PSL) in Paris, France, under the supervision of Pascal Mamassian and Vincent de Gardelle.