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Daniel Fitousi is an associate professor of Psychology at Ariel University and director of the Cognitive Lab. His research focuses on face recognition, attention, and numerical cognition.

His work examines the cognitive mechanisms underlying high vision abilities such as face and number perception. He combines behavioral methods and mathematical modeling to investigate a broad scope of issues in human cognition.

Daniel Fitousi, PhD

associate professor

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Research Interests

Daniel Fitousi is a cognitive psychologist and researcher, an associate professor at Ariel University and the head of the Cognition Lab. Fields of interests include mathematical psychology, visual attention and perception processes.

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Publications

Fitousi, D., & Srulovich, H. (2026). Ensemble averaging of symbolic numbers: Criterion mean judgments beat heuristics. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, in press.

Fitousi, D. (2026). From features to identity: Evidence for a hierarchical model of unfamiliar face matching. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-20.

Algom, D., & Fitousi, D. (2026). The Five Garners: The psychological contributions of Professor Wendell R. Garner. Memory & Cognition, in press.

Kramer, R. S., Jones, A. L., & Fitousi, D. (2025). Face familiarity and similarity: Within- and between-identity representations are altered by learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51(7), 927-943. Winner of the British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Award, 2026.

Fitousi, D. (2025). Information-theoretic measures of metacognitive efficiency: Empirical validation with the face matching task. Entropy, 27(4), 353

Fitousi, D. (2025). Bits of confidence: Metacognition as uncertainty reduction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32, 2734-2762.

Fitousi, D. (2025). Capacity and architecture of emotional face-ensemble coding. Journal of Vision, 25(6), 10.

Kramer, R.S, Jones, A.L., Fitousi, D., & Tree, J. (2025). AI-generated images of familiar faces are indistinguishable from real photographs. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 10(70)

Algom, D., & Fitousi, D. (2025). Information Theory in Perception of Form: From Gestalt to Algorithmic Complexity. Entropy, 27(4), 434.

Fitousi, D. (2024). A signal-detection-based confidence-similarity model of face matching. Psychological Review, 131, 625-663.

Fitousi, D., & Algom, D. (2024). The quest for psychological symmetry through figural goodness, randomness, and complexity: A selective review. I-Perception, 15, 1-24.

Fitousi, D., & Noyman, R. (2024). Why Fractions Are Difficult? Modeling Optimal and Sub-Optimal Integration Strategies of Numerators and Denominators by Educated Adults. Cognition, 242, 1-26.

Fitousi, D., & Azizi, O. (2023). Navon letters and composite faces: same or different processing mechanisms? Frontiers in Psychology, 14.