Raja Marjieh

Kempner Institute

Science & Engineering Complex

Harvard University,

Boston, MA 02134

I am a Kempner Research Fellow at Harvard University. I recently completed my PhD at Princeton Psychology in the Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab, where I also closely collaborated 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.

In Fall 27-28 I will be joining the Department of Psychology at Tufts University as an Assistant Professor. Please reach out if you’re interested in working with me!

News

Nov 14, 2026	Three new papers in press: two in Psychological Review, and one in PNAS. More soon!
Aug 02, 2026	Check out our recent papers in TMLR, PNAS, and ICLR.
Jul 22, 2026	Six papers accepted to CogSci 2026!
Oct 24, 2025	New paper out in Cognitive Science. You can check it out here!
Apr 16, 2025	Five papers accepted to CogSci 2025!

Selected Publications

What is a Number, That a Large Language Model May Know It?

Raja Marjieh, Veniamin Veselovsky, Thomas L. Griffiths, and 1 more author

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2026

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@article{marjieh2025numberlargelanguagemodel,
  title = {What is a Number, That a Large Language Model May Know It?},
  author = {Marjieh, Raja and Veselovsky, Veniamin and Griffiths, Thomas L. and Sucholutsky, Ilia},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
}

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},
}

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},
}

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},
}