Happy to share my first-ever pre-print !!!! 🚨 on the representational geometry across similarity properties using behavioral judgments, fMRI, and AI/CNNs models 🚨 !! 1/n🧵 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social

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 announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam! For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...

This reminded me that I used this quote to start my review of Maja Spener's recent book "Introspection". You can find the review here: shorturl.at/nUnNe. The review should come out in MIND fairly soon.

William James's take on psychophysics is *incredible*. Worth reading the whole quote. #psychSciSky #philsky #VisionScience "But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods,

Check out our work on change detection during saccades! 👀

On the "great consciousness debate" - as an outsider, I was fascinated by the magnitude of the response - it's so much larger than anything I've seen for, say, data falsification in the Alzheimer's space or outrage around claims about serotonin and depression. /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Re the Tononi paper: Both Tononi’s IIT (phi) and Friston’s FEP start from fundamental, axiomatic, and debatable assumptions. These assumptions are generally made without any humility. This logic allows them to make exceptionally broad claims. Which contributes to my unease about them.

New preprint from my lab: What are the computaitonal processes underlying serial dependence of confidence judgments? Through 3 experiments + model comparison, we showed that the metacognitive system systematically adjusts decision criteria in response to preceding conditions. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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...

congratulations everyone, we have now passed 12 million people total on bluesky!!! 🦋 over 1.2M new people have joined bluesky in the last two days — welcome!! 💙🕺🪩

New preprint! Do men and women differ in their metacognitive abilities? In a new preprint, we detail robust differences in global and local metacognition which span multiple cognitive domains. Read all about our findings in this thread! #psychology #neuroskyence osf.io/preprints/ps...

I have a bunch of things I have to get done, so naturally I decided to procrastinate by making an alignment chart of mathematical models

Ahm, Cortex - I have questions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

@saurabhr.bsky.social's first paper from my lab (on reality monitoring of memories) is ready to share! In our task, participants either perceived word pairs or voluntarily imagined the second word of a word pair. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n

The receptive fields of cells in primary auditory cortex show *opposite* impacts of attention to a tone if the detection of that tone means the animal should start vs stop licking. I find it hard to believe the brain really needs to be this integrated and complicated. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

from @alanlee.bsky.social "[..] Hoel argues [...] that the media have not exaggerated the empirical support for IIT. [...] The present article is a short reply [...] presenting the reality [..] with [...] a sample of 20 quotes from different articles in the media." psyarxiv.com/g35ak

The purpose of the first draft is to exist

Anyone else think it was weird that NYTimes called Francesca Gino a Harvard professor, but Professors Nelson (Berkeley), Simmons (Wharton) and Simonsohn (ESADE) are "bloggers"? www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/b...

How do we integrate prior beliefs with new experiences to guide metacognitive self-knowledge? psyarxiv.com/knsb4/ A brief 🧵 on our recent preprint👇, in which we found that this capacity for integrating different sources of uncertainty is highly domain specific. #psychscisky 🧠🤖 🧠🟦

Thinking about grad school? I'll be looking for PhD students through Cognition & Perception (https://as.nyu.edu/departments/psychology/graduate/phd-cognition-perception.html) & Data Science (https://cds.nyu.edu/phd-admissions-req/) at NYU. Research areas available here: https://lindsay-lab.github.io

Many psychophysics & brain mapping studies use small samples. This often deeply confuses editors & reviewers trained on population statistics. It can also make it difficult to preregister & interpret such studies. Here we attempt to change that: doi.org/10.1101/2023... #neuroscience #visionscience

Oooh I am so gonna use this to share results. Post to bsky from R in just a few lines!!

johnhorgan.org/cross-check/... Mind-body researchers are bickering over whether a popular theory of consciousness is "pseudoscience." amazingly good science journalism

You know you care about scientific rigor if you scrutinize the GitHub repo before reading the paper.

this is promised preprint. it addresses 3 things: 1)what i mean by (IIT as) 'pseudoscience' 2) what's wrong w/ the recently highly publicized adversarial collaborations 3) what's wrong w/ the field of consciousness in general psyarxiv.com/28z3y