Preprints
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Artificial phantasia: Emergent mental imagery in large language models
McCarty, M. & Morales, J. (2026) arXiv
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Self-interpretability: LLMs can describe complex internal processes that drive their decisions, and improve with training
Plunkett, D., Morris, A., Reddy, K. & Morales, J. (2025) arXiv
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Starting from zero: Task learning in completely naïve individuals
Wang, A., Williams, L., Ogunlade, O., Morales, J. & Kuchibhotla, K. (2023) PsyArXiv
Articles
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The relative psychometric function: A general analysis framework for relating psychological processes
Maniscalco, B., Graham Castaneda, O., Odegaard, B., Morales, J., Rajananda, S., Denison, R. & Peters, M. (2026) Psychological Review
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Representational momentum transcends motion
Plunkett, D. & Morales, J. (2025) Psychological Science
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Confidence in consciousness science
Morales, J. (2025) Journal of Consciousness Studies
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What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific
IIT-Concerned et al. (2025) Nature Neuroscience
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Aphantasia as imagery blindsight
Michel, M., Morales, J., Block, N. & Lau, H. (2025) Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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Neuroscience of consciousness
Wu, W. & Morales, J. (2025) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Introspection is signal detection
Morales, J. (2024) The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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Empirical evidence for perspectival similarity
Morales, J. & Firestone, C. (2024) Psychological Review
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Democrats are better than Republicans at discerning true and false news but do not have better metacognitive awareness
Dobbs, M., DeGutis, J., Morales, J., Joseph, K. & Swire-Thompson, B. (2023) Communications Psychology
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Mental strength: A theory of experience intensity
Morales, J. (2023) Philosophical Perspectives
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Philosophy of perception in the psychologist’s laboratory
Morales, J. & Firestone, C. (2023) Current Directions in Psychological Science
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Tracing the origins of consciousness
Morales, J. (2023) Philosophical Psychology
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A new perspective on mental rotation
Morales, J. & Firestone, C. (2022) Current Biology
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Perspectival interference up close
Morales, J., Bax, A. & Firestone, C. (2021) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Sustained representation of perspectival shape
Morales, J., Bax, A. & Firestone, C. (2020) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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The fundamental problem with no-cognition paradigms
Phillips, I. & Morales, J. (2020). Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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Minority reports: Consciousness and the prefrontal cortex
Michel, M. & Morales, J. (2020). Mind & Language
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Domain-general and domain-specific patterns of activity support metacognition in human prefrontal cortex
Morales, J., Lau, H. & Fleming, S. (2018). Journal of Neuroscience
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Measuring away an attentional confound?
Morales, J., Mouradi, Y., Sergent, C., Block, N., Taschereau-Dumouchel, V., Rosenthal, D., Grimaldi, P. & Lau, H. (2017). Neuroscience of Consciousness
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Controlling for performance capacity confounds in neuroimaging studies of conscious awareness
Morales, J., Chiang, J. & Lau, H. (2015). Neuroscience of Consciousness
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Low attention impairs optimal incorporation of prior knowledge in perceptual decisions
Morales, J., Solovey, G., Maniscalco, B., Rahnev, D., de Lange, F. P. & Lau, H. (2015). Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Book Chapters
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Confidence tracks consciousness
Morales, J. & Lau, H. (2022). In J. Weisberg (Ed.), Qualitative Consciousness: Themes from the Philosophy of David Rosenthal. Cambridge University Press
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The neural substrates of conscious perception without performance confounds
Morales, J., Odegaard, B. & Maniscalco, B. (2022). In F. De Brigard & W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Eds.), Neuroscience and Philosophy. MIT Press.
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The neural correlates of consciousness
Morales, J. & Lau, H. (2020). In U. Kriegel (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness. Oxford University Press
Others
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Do my signals deceive me?
(2024). Long-format interview with Jorge Morales. Stance
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What is mental imagery good for? Mental rotation in aphantasia as a case study
Morales, J. (2023). The Junkyard
