Ariel Zylberberg is a research scientist at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute. He studies the neural and computational mechanisms of decision-making, with a particular focus on confidence and metacognition.
Ariel Zylberberg
Research scientist
Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University
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Is confidence a second thought—or part of the first one?
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Ariel Zylberberg
5 October 2026 | 6 min read
Selected articles
- “A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex” | Cell Reports
- “Behavioral signatures of post-decisional attention in preferential choice” | eLife
- “Decision prioritization and causal reasoning in decision hierarchies” | PLOS Computational Biology
- “Counterfactual reasoning underlies the learning of priors in decision making” | Neuron
- “The human Turing machine: a neural framework for mental programs” | Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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