Why does it feel good to be sure? In new work @voalan.bsky.social @andero.bsky.social and I bridge confidence and affect. In perceptual DM, we found a remarkably consistent association between both measures! ↓↓↓ link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

New preprint with @lucvermeylen.bsky.social, @boevesam.bsky.social, and @caplab.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... Perceptual decoupling underlies internal shielding benefit during switches between external and internal attention: Evidence from early sensory ERP components

How is confidence related to confidence RTs? @stefherregods.bsky.social @lucvermeylen.bsky.social and I showcase how our recent EAM of confidence accounts for various relationships observed in empirical data. link: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

New publication in Psychological Research led by Nancy Wang with @lucvermeylen.bsky.social, Ivan Grahek, and Gilles Pourtois! We investigated how hypervigilance affects balance of external and internal attention, specifically asymmetrical switch costs. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Some great news to start the week: our paper on ideomotor theory and voluntary control over autonomic processes inside the body (“interoactions”) was accepted in Psych Review!🧠💓🥳 With @mgblr.bsky.social and Marcel Brass Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #cogpsych #interoception

“Regressing common choice signals away does not make them artifacts" Please check out our commentary on the Frömer et al paper (2024, Nature Human Behaviour) in which we highlight important problems with the analysis and interpretation of their perceptual choice data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us for the inaugural CIMCYC International Doctoral Summer School, focusing on Representations in Cognitive Neuroscience. Mark your calendars for September 4-7, 2024. Applications from PhD students and postdoctoral researchers are now open: sl.ugr.es/cimcycschool

Our meta-analyses (together with Tom Verguts), using computational models to investigate shifts in learning strategies across learning environments is now finally out in Psychological Review! doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

Now the article is available on Cognition: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iv1f2Hx2x... check it out if you are interested in dynamic cognitive control !

A causal manipulation of prior beliefs influences the confidence we have in our decisions! Very excited to see this paper work published in Psychological Science. Get the final paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38427319/ #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

How do the LC and VTA systems respond to rewards and valence? Our study used high-res fMRI to explore their activation during a reward-emotion recognition task www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PhD and Post-Doc positions in my Lab! We are currently recruiting (i) a Marie-Curie "CODE" PhD student to work on confidence and reinforcement learning, (ii) a Post-Doc to work on metacognitive insight into latent cognitive parameters. Deadline 31 March, pls RT! Apply: desenderlab.com/job-openings/

We are recruiting for a Marie Curie "CODE" PhD student 💻🧠🚨 (sites.google.com/view/confide...) The project will focus on neurocomputational approaches to information seeking, offloading and metacognitive control across the lifespan www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline 22 Feb, pls share!

We wrote a brief opinion article, with @chaimengqiao, Leslie Held, and @ShengjieXu0813, on why we believe most cognitive control processes should not be considered off-the-shelf processes that can be readily applied in any task, whenever asked to: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iSXH8MqMi... (1/3)

New review paper out with Tom Verguts! osf.io/preprints/ps... We argue that cognitive flexibility requires hierarchy and modularity. However, adding these computational features to classic learning rules comes with several challenges. Challenges that can be addressed by AI and cognitive scientists.

🚨 Very excited to share the first preprint of my PhD project. Working with Clay Holroyd, Marcel Brass, and @sebraem.bsky.social , we designed a novel paradigm to investigate dynamic changes in task preparation in a multi-task environment. A thread 🧵(1/13)