Publications

Preprints

  • Little evidence for a Dunning-Kruger Effect in face recognition: Global and local metacognition across the ability spectrum
    DeGutis, Joseph, Kusel, Kayla, He, Hanxinyi and Le, Linh Bao Khanh, Kirsch, Leah, Morales, Jorge, Dobbs, Mitch, Campbell, Alison, Wilmer, Jeremy B., Germine, Laura T. & Bate, Sarah (2026) SSRN
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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
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Articles

  • 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
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Book Chapters

  • 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
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Others

  • 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
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