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Mukesh Makwana

@makwana.bsky.social

- Perception, Action, Agency, Social psychology, Meditation, Self - Psychophysics, action tracking, neural decoding - Research Associate @ Brown University

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Saurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Most LLM eval tools ask "did it get the right answer." Cognitive psychology experiments ask "under which manipulated condition, with which controls, measured how." We open-sourced PsychScanner: an experimental harness for LLMs, not a benchmark, a lab. 🧵

psych scanner: a tool for cognitive evaluations for large language models

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Saurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Can an AI tell its own words from yours? This is "reality monitoring." In humans, failing at it is linked to hallucinations and delusions. In this work we investigated reality monitoring in 6 LLMs of different sizes in collaboration with @lazyneuron.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social.

Diagram of the word-pair task, external words given to the model vs. internal words the model generates itself, then judged as
internal or external.

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