Raja Marjieh

Department of Psychology

Peretsman-Scully Hall

Princeton, NJ 08540

I’m a PhD candidate at Princeton Psychology working in the Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab. I also collaborate closely with the Cornell Computational Cognition Lab.

Prior to that I completed an MSc in Physics, and a joint BSc in Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Technion.

News

Feb 05, 2025	This is my new website, more updates soon!

Selected Publications

Large language models predict human sensory judgments across six modalities

Raja Marjieh, Ilia Sucholutsky, Pol Rijn, and 2 more authors

Scientific Reports, 2024

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@article{marjieh2024large,
  title = {Large language models predict human sensory judgments across six modalities},
  author = {Marjieh, Raja and Sucholutsky, Ilia and van Rijn, Pol and Jacoby, Nori and Griffiths, Thomas L},
  journal = {Scientific Reports},
  volume = {14},
  number = {1},
  pages = {21445},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK London},
  url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-72071-1},
}

The universal law of generalization holds for naturalistic stimuli.

Raja Marjieh, Nori Jacoby, Joshua C Peterson, and 1 more author

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Selected as Editor’s Choice , 2024

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@article{marjieh2024universal,
  title = {The universal law of generalization holds for naturalistic stimuli.},
  author = {Marjieh, Raja and Jacoby, Nori and Peterson, Joshua C and Griffiths, Thomas L},
  journal = {Journal of Experimental Psychology: General},
  volume = {153},
  number = {3},
  pages = {573},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {American Psychological Association},
  url = {https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-56632-001},
}

Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales

Raja Marjieh, Peter MC Harrison, Harin Lee, and 2 more authors

Nature Communications. Listen to the experiments here , 2024

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@article{marjieh2024timbral,
  title = {Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales},
  author = {Marjieh, Raja and Harrison, Peter MC and Lee, Harin and Deligiannaki, Fotini and Jacoby, Nori},
  journal = {Nature Communications},
  volume = {15},
  number = {1},
  pages = {1482},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK London},
  url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45812-z},
}

Analyzing Diffusion as Serial Reproduction

Raja Marjieh, Ilia Sucholutsky, Thomas A Langlois, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023

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@inproceedings{pmlr-v202-marjieh23a,
  title = {Analyzing Diffusion as Serial Reproduction},
  author = {Marjieh, Raja and Sucholutsky, Ilia and Langlois, Thomas A and Jacoby, Nori and Griffiths, Thomas L.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages = {24005--24019},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {202},
  series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  publisher = {PMLR},
}

Words are all you need? Language as an approximation for human similarity judgments

Raja Marjieh, Pol Van Rijn, Ilia Sucholutsky, and 4 more authors

In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023

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@inproceedings{marjieh2023words,
  title = {Words are all you need? Language as an approximation for human similarity judgments},
  author = {Marjieh, Raja and Rijn, Pol Van and Sucholutsky, Ilia and Sumers, Theodore and Lee, Harin and Griffiths, Thomas L. and Jacoby, Nori},
  booktitle = {The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year = {2023},
}

Gibbs Sampling with People

Peter Harrison^*, Raja Marjieh^*, Federico Adolfi, and 5 more authors

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Oral Presentation , 2020

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@inproceedings{NEURIPS2020_7880d722,
  author = {Harrison, Peter and Marjieh, Raja and Adolfi, Federico and van Rijn, Pol and Anglada-Tort, Manuel and Tchernichovski, Ofer and Larrouy-Maestri, Pauline and Jacoby, Nori},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  title = {Gibbs Sampling with People},
  volume = {33},
  year = {2020},
}