Pleased to say "Space, Time, and Memory", an academic book by Oxford University Press edited by the inimitable Lynn Nadel & Sara Aronowitz is now out. I contributed a chapter, "Memory and Planning in Brains and Machines". You can download the entire book for free: library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

like a metacognitive evaluation? in my understanding metacog is at best weird, but more likely just not even present in most if not all LLMs. they don't do anything like "decide when more context is needed" anything like we do. not an LLM expert but i do know abt metacog! arxiv.org/abs/2504.14045

Great work by Changde Du from Huiguang He's lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. How similar are visual and conceptual representations in (multimodal) large language models to those found in humans? It turns out quite similar! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

We have a PhD position for an upcoming project in metacognition research in Potsdam / Berlin. A great opportunity for those interested in cognitive modeling of confidence and EEG. More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025 Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

Very happy this is finally out 🎉. In this paper, we show that conf. reports are biased by a visual illusion, an asymmetrical base rate and a payoff scheme. Crucially, we show that only the visual illusion affects subj. experience, suggesting decision bias leaks onto confidence reports.

Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

New preprint! Serial dependence is assumed to be attractive, but some studies consistently show repulsion. We tried to replicate a surprising repulsive serial bias that switches to an attractive one when people get distracted during the memory maintenance. It worked! osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

Episode II of how are durations stored in working memory: Besides replicating our previous findings, we find that alpha power reflects a universal signature of WM load and mediates recall precision, even for abstract information like duration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🔽 co-authors below

Great to see our research, led by @johannakuci.bsky.social, covered in The Transmitter. One of the more surprising findings to have come out of the lab.

Dynamic modulation of confidence based on the metacognitive skills of collaborators! Now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social New work from @felixhermans.bsky.social Simon Gaia @majafr.bsky.social and me! Paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40262423/ Details ↓↓↓

I'm super excited that our new preprint titled "Intrinsic rewards guide visual resource allocation via reinforcement learning" with Rodrigo Raimundo and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is finally out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n #visionscience #compneurosky #neuroskyence

If you work with perceptual confidence judgments, you may be interested in our CNCB model of confidence ratings. Joint work with Vincent de Gardelle. Uncorrected proofs here: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... (🧵 1/4)

Very happy to see our work finally in print! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... TLDR: Tilt illusion is not a bug, but a feature of a well-designed visual system that maximizes information capacity adaptively based on spatial context. (1/6)

Very proud of João VX Cardoso from the #DugueLab for the first preprint of his PhD on a computational model of traveling waves. Work in collaboration with David J. Heeger and Hsin-Hung Li. @erc.europa.eu www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hey Bluesky! I’m excited to share my new preprint with @matanmazor.bsky.social and @ruvidar.bsky.social, where we show that surface-level questionnaire filling behaviours drive correlations between mental health and metacognition (confidence ratings). osf.io/preprints/ps... [1/14]

Our "I would have seen it if it were there" paper — a collaboration with @ranimo.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social — is now out in Psych. Review. There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Lovely/comprehensive review of metacognition and functional neurological disorder; a condition that demands a metacognitive interpretation: doi.org/10.1093/brai... The emerging picture aligns with findings in psychopathology more broadly—metacognitive performance is often equivalent to controls.

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

My article "A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition" is finally out in Nature Communications 🎉 If you work on metacognition and think you know the psychometric properties of your favorite measure, you may be surprised. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How aggregated opinions shape beliefs Review by Kerem Oktar & Tania Lombrozo Web: go.nature.com/40lJX56 PDF: rdcu.be/d5tor

Please, spread! 🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇 dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr... @c-brains.bsky.social

How can sharing our uncertainty with others alter our confidence when we're alone? Delighted to share the lab's new paper, with Einar Andreassen and @cdfrith.bsky.social. Particularly pleased as it's Einar's first! Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

My first paper out 🎉 Huge thanks to project supervisor & lead author @sam.re and my collaborators!

Humans are curious not just about the world, but also about their own minds. In our new paper, we describe a specific form of curiosity in which people strategically seek information not only about their decisions but also about the accuracy of their self-evaluations. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Meta-analysis (n=52 studies, 195 effect sizes) confirms the incubation effect: taking breaks away from a problem leads to more creative solutions (d=0.39)

"The Illusion-Illusion: Vision Language Models See Illusions Where There are None" osf.io/preprints/ps... (this is a more systematic examination of the thing I was looking at a few days ago)

Check out @bkhmsi.bsky.social's summary of our new paper: We identify "language network" units in LLMs using neuroscience approaches and show that ablating these units (but not random ones) drastically impair LLM language performance--moreover, these units better align with human brain data.

Short letter in TiCS where we (@matthiasmichel.bsky.social, @hakwan.bsky.social & @neddo.bsky.social) explore the possibility that aphantasia is unconscious mental imagery. Given aphantasics’ high performance, we propose thinking about it as blindsight of the mind’s eye. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

In a new study, we show that while metacognitive confidence is domain-general, updating self-beliefs is highly domain-specific across memory, vision, and semantic knowledge. Our findings illuminate how metacognitive experiences refine self-assessments. #psych 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Busy bookworm or targeted hunter? Check out this amazing work on using computational modeling for exploring #curiosity in book selection!

New paper out in #Neuron: A general theory of sequential working memory in prefrontal cortex and RNN/SSMs with their exact neural mechanism. Plus unifying this new mechanism with the alternate mechanism of hippocampal cognitive maps! (1/9) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Useful reading list on neurodiversity from @iammirela.bsky.social and colleagues elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Psychologists, Perspectives has been resurrected and is now accepting submissions again.

New study by Davidson, Aiyer & Yeung showing that a domain-general, automatic error signal predicts confidence across vision and audition! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Perception" and "i-Perception" are on Bluesky! For those who don’t know Perception, this is where Horace Barlow published his neuron doctrine: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/... Disclosure: I’m currently one of the editors-in-chief of these journals.

First post on here to share our fresh-from-the-oven preprint showing the flexible and dynamic (yet, dissociable) nature of visual and motor working-memory content prioritisation 👀 🙌 With the brilliant Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social, and Kia Nobre ✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

✨Our paper is out in Nature today! ✨ In this work, we investigated how we can leverage study designs to improve the replicability of brain-wide association studies (BWAS) 👇👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8

About a year ago, I wrote about our lab's adventure in building a novel eye-tracker to give us superior data and novel functionality. Now, we are lucky to have been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant so that we can develop it further and see if it has any commercialisation potential 👀

Our work on inductive biases in reinforcement learning is out: tinyurl.com/yfc74e3u By the fantastic @noahedrich.bsky.social Ppl learn faster from slowly changing features; we argue this reflects an inductive bias. Teamwork w @ericschulz.bsky.social & S HallMcMaster #neuroskyence #compneuro

New paper with the BRILLIANT and always amazing @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social! Developmental declines in optimism and their potential causes:

Our PNAS paper "Action similarity warps visual feature space in working memory" is out! www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10..... Thanks to @haslagter.bsky.social and Chris Olivers for guiding me through this project, and thanks to Luigi Falanga and Jannik Jeske for their great lab work. What a team! 🤩🤓

I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Alex Pouget and I wrote a perspective a few years ago on Major Sources of Computational Complexity in Complex Decision-Making 🧠. We never got around to publishing it, and so now uploaded it to OSF Preprints: doi.org/10.31219/osf.... I hope some of you might find it useful.

Diamond open access (free to read AND to publish in) experimental psychology-adjacent journals we have accredited at freejournals.org. Do you know of others? Lemme know; could suggest they check they meet our standards at freejournals.org, and join our community. #openaccess #scientificPublishing

New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

"We found that, when informed about task difficulty, humans barely shift their confidence criteria." Awesome new work by Xue, Shekhar and @dobyrahnev.bsky.social questioning the Bayesian confidence hypothesis in perception: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...