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Steve Fleming

6 months

Now published in Ann Rev Psych, just in time for Christmas! 🎅 I lay out a framework for bridging between neuroscientific work on (subpersonal) confidence and a psychology of personal-level metacognition

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

2 years

Misty morning @UniofOxford

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

2 years

Currently one month in to parental leave with our daughter. Wasn’t sure whether to post about this but then I learnt than in the UK only 2% (two percent!) of Dads take it up: 1/N

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

"Out of ~40,000 recorded single neurons, ~70% showed a significant correlation with Bitcoin or Ethereum prices"

Neurons in the mouse brain correlate with cryptocurrency price: a cautionary tale

In this paper I report the discovery of neurons which showed a neural correlate with ongoing fluctuations of Bitcoin and Ethereum prices at the time of the recording. I used the publicly available...

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

My book on the science of self-awareness and metacognition, "Know Thyself", is being published @BasicBooks in US and @johnmurrays in UK in April. Here’s a short thread on what it covers, and why I’m excited about it! 1/N

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

10 months

I am over the moon to receive the Francis Crick Medal and Lecture from the @royalsociety - a huge honour, and an exciting recognition of consciousness science. V grateful to my generous mentors, and to lab members who have pushed boundaries I did not realise could be pushed!

UCL Brain Sciences

@UCLBrainScience

10 months

Huge congratulations to Prof @smfleming ( @UCLPALS ), who has been awarded the ⁦ @royalsociety Francis Crick Medal & Lecture for his outstanding work on the neurobiology of conscious experience and the neural & computational basis of metacognition 👏👏👏 ⬇️

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

2 years

Delighted that my @ERC_Research Consolidator proposal “ConsciousComputation” has been funded 🥳🍾 - though also poignant as due to Brexit we cannot hold in UK Hoping UKRI guarantee holds firm against (domestic) politics, and we can still get going on this project 🧠💻

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

1 year

New review paper on metacognition 🥳 (coming out soon in Ann Rev of Psych): Aims to bridge between a neuroscience of (subpersonal) uncertainty/confidence, and a psychology of personal-level beliefs about self-performance

Metacognition and confidence: A review and synthesis

Determining the neural basis of confidence and uncertainty holds promise for understanding foundational aspects of human metacognition. While a neuroscience of confidence has focused on the mechani...

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

6 years

I wrote some thoughts about what to think about when starting a lab

Thoughts on starting a lab

It’s nearly three years since I moved to UCL to set up our Metacognition Group or “MetaLab” for short (www.metacoglab.org). This has been a steep learning curve, and now feels as good a time as any…

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

Metacognition (and Know Thyself!) on the cover of this week's New Scientist 🥳 A brief tour of the field and preview of the book (£)

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

6 years

Super excited and honoured to learn I've been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Psychology by @LeverhulmeTrust alongside @ucl colleague @nicholaraihani - will be putting it towards a new line of work on visual awareness @WCHN_UCL @MPC_CompPsych @UCLIoN

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

Out today in the US! 🥳

Basic Books

@BasicBooks

3 years

"What a wonderful book. From self-doubt to self-awareness, and everything in between." — @theamygdaloid KNOW THYSELF by @smfleming on sale now unlocks the surprising science of the human mind's greatest power: introspection. Learn more: #psychology

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

5 years

I’m excited to announce that I will be joining brilliant colleagues at @EP_UCL in Jan 2020 in tandem with continuing as PI at @WCHN_UCL - looking forward to lots of new collaborations on consciousness and metacognition and building links between @UCLPALS and Queen Sq!

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

2 years

3 yo son thoroughly believes unconscious perception is a thing: Him: “My body is full of knowers that know everything” Me: “Cool! Do you know what they know?” Him: “No I don’t know what they know. But they know everything!”

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

5 months

We are recruiting for a Marie Curie "CODE" PhD student 💻🧠🚨 () The project will focus on neurocomputational approaches to information seeking, offloading and metacognitive control across the lifespan Deadline 22 Feb, pls RT!

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

2 years

Re-reading @hakwanlau 's In Consciousness We Trust - if you're working on consciousness, this is essential reading... a compelling argument for performance control and an empirical manifesto for charting a path between local and global theories

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

11 months

New blogpost on everything that was exciting about @ASSC26nyc , the state of consciousness science, the value of adversarial collaborations, and why we the media got it wrong about IIT

The state of consciousness science – and why the media got it wrong

I have just returned from my favourite conference– the Association of the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), which this year held its 25th anniversary meeting in New York. This was an exciti…

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

6 years

Can you improve metacognition through ~2 weeks of training? Yes - and it transfers to an untrained task! Our latest by @jcarpenter542 with @anilkseth @maxine_sherman @rogierK @hakwanlau

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

1 year

Great to be back at @NYUPsych for @ASSC26nyc (standing outside my old postdoc apartment building) Brilliant first day at the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite meeting, and now on to @theASSC !

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

5 years

Excited to announce our "Consciousness Club" seminar series @WCHN_UCL featuring a great speaker lineup including @TrikBek @LucieCharlesCog @KaterinaFoto @cecilymwhiteley @elisabethpares @anilkseth @MatthiasMichel_ @micahgallen and others not on twitter!

Consciousness Club — the MetaLab

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

Some cracking news to get on holiday 😎🍾 Grateful to @WCHN_UCL and @EP_UCL colleagues for all the support - and most of all to our brilliant #MetaLab students and postdocs who make it all happen 🥳

Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

@WCHN_UCL

3 years

Congratulations to our Centre's senior staff who have been awarded promotions, @bachlab_cog @smfleming @LitvakVladimir and @clambert112358 !🎉

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

11 months

New blogpost on the state of consciousness science, my excitement about @ASSC26nyc , the value of adversarial collaborations - and why the media got it wrong about IIT vs GWT

The state of consciousness science – and why the media got it wrong

I have just returned from my favourite conference– the Association of the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), which this year held its 25th anniversary meeting in New York. This was an exciti…

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

9 months

I was one of the original ten authors of this opinion piece and have been trying to follow the debate here over the weekend (was traveling with the kids, and now catching up) A few thoughts 🧵

hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social

@hakwanlau

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in light of the spread of some misinformation on public media (including news articles in Nature & Science), a group of 124 researchers weigh in & consider it necessary to label the integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness as pseudoscience

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

2 years

Why is it I can add or subtract +1 with reasonable competence in other areas of life but timezones defeat me

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

4 years

Really excited to get started on this @EPSRC Programme Grant with @oxfordrobots We’ll be leading work on metacognition in human-robot teams, and exploring novel neuroscience-inspired architectures for artificial metacog. Postdoc advert to come in early 2021!

UCL Brain Sciences

@UCLBrainScience

4 years

Congrats to Prof. @smfleming and @nadiaberthouze (both @UCLPALS ) on receiving an EPSRC Programme Grant for an ambitious five-year programme of work on Engineering, Exploring and Exploiting the Building Blocks of Embodied Intelligence:

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

Really enjoyable conversation with @SamHarrisOrg on @MakingSenseHQ - we talked about the relationship between self-awareness and intelligence, self-monitoring, theory of mind, deception and self-deception, metacognitive failures, dementia and lots more

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

New piece in @aeonmag - I make the case for an inferential model of metacognition and self-knowledge that might share machinery with how we think about other minds

Aeon Magazine

@aeonmag

3 years

Is there a symmetry between metacognition and mindreading? @smfleming

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

7 years

Excited that I'll be continuing @WTCN_UCL as a @wellcometrust Sir Henry Dale Fellow from Jan 2018! is spooling up :)

the MetaLab

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

6 years

Karl Friston told me the other day “Chris Frith is going to give you a brain on legs”. I smiled politely as I had no idea what he was talking about. Then this morning @cdfrith indeed gave me a brain on legs, now living on my desk. Must be a metaphor in here somewhere...

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

6 years

Very proud of our latest paper by @DanBang_ disentangling decision confidence from perceptual certainty Behind a £wall as PNAS open access not WT compliant, but PDF preprint is here @WCHN_UCL @MPC_CompPsych

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

4 years

Some optimism to start the day - with labs starting to reopen, we're recruiting for a new Wellcome-funded postdoc to join us @EP_UCL @WCHN_UCL later this year. Advert and link to apply is here (closes 29th July): Please RT!

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

1 year

After an amazing week of consciousness science in NYC (metacognition satellite, @ASSC26nyc , @CIFAR_News BMC), we are straight back to London for the @UCL_Global - @psl_univ Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition 🥳

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

6 months

Hacking the predictive mind - my review of @CogsAndy ’s “The Experience Machine” in @Brain1878 , a bracingly clear and accessible account of the power of predictive processing

Hacking the predictive mind

Twenty years ago, in October 2003, I was a naive undergraduate student sat in the lecture theatre of the old Experimental Psychology building at the Univer

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

2 years

New 2-yr postdoc position available in the #MetaLab on our @EPSRC project with @oxfordrobots examining how and whether metacognition contributes to collaboration and trust in human-machine interactions

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

The first annual UCL-PSL Summer School in Consciousness and Metacognition is now open for applications! Both interactive and observer tracks are available, with priority for interactive track given to UCL/PSL students. For more info and how to apply see

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

1 year

Thrilled to be part of @CIFAR_News Brain, Minds and Consciousness programme- exciting times for consciousness science!

UCL Brain Sciences

@UCLBrainScience

1 year

Many congratulations to Prof Steve Fleming @smfleming ( @UCLPALS @WCHN_UCL @UCLIoN ) who has been appointed a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research ( @CIFAR_News ) programme in Brain, Mind and Consciousness 👏👏👏 Find out more ⬇️

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

6 years

First paper from new lab in Biol Psychiatry, great work by Marion Rouault, Tricia Seow & @clairegillanTCD ! We find symptom dimensions in general population are associated with changes in metacognition but not task performance in perceptual decision-making

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

5 years

Proud of this opinion piece led by @MatthiasMichel_ @hakwanlau & me in @NatureHumBehav with no fewer than 56 co-authors (!!) on opportunities and challenges for a science of consciousness- including roadmap for funding, jobs and more. Shareable PDF here:

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

Lovely review of Know Thyself in @ScienceMagazine by @ChristianCRuff - "Long neglected by researchers, metacognition has made its way to the scientific spotlight"

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

5 years

New preprint from @mazormatan , Karl Friston and me: Distinct neural contributions to metacognition for detecting (but not discriminating) visual stimuli 1/N

Distinct neural contributions to metacognition for detecting (but not discriminating) visual stimuli

Being confident in whether a stimulus is present or absent (a detection judgment) is qualitatively distinct from being confident in the identity of that stimulus (a discrimination judgment). In...

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

4 years

We're excited to host @meganakpeters at this week's Consciousness Club (Wed 18th, 5pm UK) to tell us about "Quantifying qualitative experience with computational cognitive neuroscience approaches". More info and instructions on how to join here:

Consciousness Club — the MetaLab

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

1 year

Now out in @NatureComms , led by superstar @nadine_dijkstra 🥳 A model in which subjective signal strength distinguishes reality from imagination captures (large-scale, one-trial) psychophysical + neuroimaging data @EP_UCL @WCHN_UCL @CIFAR_News

Subjective signal strength distinguishes reality from imagination

Nature Communications - How humans distinguish perception from mental imagery is not well understood. Here, the authors show that reality judgements are based on the intensity of a mixture of...

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Nadine Dijkstra

@nadine_dijkstra

3 years

I am VERY excited to share our new preprint “Fundamental constraints on distinguishing reality from imagination” with @smfleming in which we use large-scale single-trial psychophysics, computational modelling and neural decoding analysis. A thread!

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

6 years

Connecting changes of mind and metacognition! new paper with @nathanieldaw in @NatureNeuro & all modelling code here @WCHN_UCL

GitHub - metacoglab/FlemingVdPuttenDaw: Neural mediators of changes of mind about perceptual...

Neural mediators of changes of mind about perceptual decisions - metacoglab/FlemingVdPuttenDaw

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

Can't wait for the first Consciousness Club of 2021 - @axelcleeremans will be telling us about "Probing perception in the submillisecond range" - Wednesday 13th Jan, 11am GMT (see for how to join and for future talks in the series)

Consciousness Club — the MetaLab

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own - "When information is at our fingertips, we may mistakenly believe that it originated from inside our heads."

People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own | PNAS

People frequently search the internet for information. Eight experiments (n = 1,917) provide evidence that when people “Google” for online informat...

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

4 years

what do people think about correcting a reviewer's original typos in a rebuttal letter? that way when they come around and read it again they pat themselves on the back for a a beautifully written review and are in a good mood for the rest of the process 😂

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@smfleming

4 years

MetaLab PhD student @M_Rollwage 's paper is out today in @NatureComms , in collaboration with @AlisaLoosen , @TobiasUHauser , @moran_rani & Ray Dolan. We were interested in how people process new information, and how confidence affects this. Thread 1/N

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

6 years

Very proud that our first #MetaLab postdoc @DanBang_ has been awarded a @wellcometrust Henry Wellcome Fellowship to to work on linking neurochemistry, confidence and social context. Exciting times ahead!

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

Videos from this term's Consciousness Clubs are now online here (click on each speaker image): Thank you @ADemertzi @rndenison @DobyRahnev @birchlse for wonderful talks. Merry xmas all and see you next term! 🎄

Consciousness Club — the MetaLab

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@smfleming

5 years

We're glad to announce the first beta "release" of the HMeta-d toolbox for metacognition - v0.2, available here (accompanying paper can be found here ) This includes a few new features, explained in the thread below 1/N

HMeta-d: hierarchical Bayesian estimation of metacognitive efficiency from confidence ratings

Abstract. Metacognition refers to the ability to reflect on and monitor one’s cognitive processes, such as perception, memory and decision-making. Metacogn

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

4 years

Can't wait for our autumn line-up of Consciousness Club Online speakers - first talk on Oct 7th from Jason Samaha. See for more details and how to join the mailing list

Consciousness Club — the MetaLab

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

6 months

This is embarrassing and sad - a short-term political win exchanged for long-term costs to higher education, science, and the international competitiveness of the UK

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

6 months

From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK. In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

3 years

Many congratulations to the MetaLab's one and only @nadine_dijkstra on being promoted to Senior Research Fellow! 🥳

UCL Brain Sciences

@UCLBrainScience

3 years

A massive congratulations to the 16 early career staff from across the Faculty of Brain Sciences who have been awarded a promotion in this year's UCL academic promotions round! 🎉 👉 @UCLPALS @UCLIoN @UCLeye @UCLPsychiatry

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@smfleming

4 years

I’ll be giving the @EP_UCL seminar tomorrow at 1pm on confidence, social context and hierarchical models of metacognition (and trying to do justice to recent data from @marion_rouault and @DanBang_ ) - Teams link here for anyone who fancies it!

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Steve Fleming

@smfleming

2 years

Very exciting to see Peter Dayan weighing in with a novel and elegant metric of metacognition grounded in information theory

CLaE

@leafs_s

2 years

Metacognitive Information Theory

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@smfleming

3 years

We still have an open postdoc position to join myself, @docqhuys and Ray Dolan at the @MPC_CompPsych with a focus on developing and testing models of metacognitive training. Feel free to get in touch with informal queries - closes July 1st, please RT!

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@smfleming

5 years

Out today in @NatureComms - @marion_rouault , Peter Dayan and I reveal how global beliefs about self-performance are constructed from local estimates of decision confidence #openaccess

Forming global estimates of self-performance from local confidence

Nature Communications - Human confidence tracks current performance, but little is known about the formation of ‘global’ self-performance estimates over longer timescales. Here, the...

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@smfleming

3 years

Excited to have @n_faivre join us for tomorrow's Consciousness Club, Wednesday 11am GMT. He will be telling us about recent (human!) single-unit recordings revealing shared correlates of perceptual consciousness and metacognition. More details here:

Consciousness Club — the MetaLab

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@smfleming

1 year

UCL colleague and superstar @DrSFink giving wonderful talk on clinical trial data showing improving interoceptive accuracy reduces anxiety in autism, and dampens down bodily self-awareness @ASSC26nyc

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@smfleming

4 years

Great to see @mazormatan 's first paper from his PhD now out in @eLife - we show intriguing differences between metacognition about performance-matched visual detection and discrimination tasks @WCHN_UCL @EP_UCL

Distinct neural contributions to metacognition for detecting, but not discriminating visual stimuli

Combining psychophysics and functional MRI reveals a qualitative asymmetry in neural engagement when reflecting on whether a stimulus is seen (detection) compared to reflecting on what a stimulus is...

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@smfleming

10 months

New blogpost, part 2: IIT vs. GNWT and the meaning of evidence in consciousness science - where I think about what it means to test a theory

IIT vs. GNWT and the meaning of evidence in consciousness science

This post follows one I wrote earlier in the summer, after ASSC. Since then I have been trying (in a first-person therapy sort of way) to figure out what made me so worried after the IIT vs. GNWT s…

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@smfleming

4 years

As a brief distraction and recognition that life goes on- delighted to see our paper on modeling state spaces for conscious awareness out now in @NeuroConsc #openaccess

Jakob Hohwy

@hohwy

4 years

"Awareness as inference in a higher-order state space". New in @NeuroConsc from @smfleming "...Internal states supporting awareness reports...are simple and abstract, varying along a 1D continuum from absent to present."

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Excited that we now have a lab manual for the MetaLab - a big thank you to @mazormatan for putting it together. Really glad we took the time to do this, and hope it can be a useful resource for others too

Home

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@smfleming

3 years

Noooo meta. All those ERC acronyms are going to need redoing

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@smfleming

5 years

All the code from our @CompPsychiatry tutorial on hierarchical models of metacognition now online here: Walkthrough and visualizations of the model written by the brilliant Olivia Faull

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@smfleming

1 year

New from the MetaLab in Cognition - global and local metacognition across the lifespan! 🧵

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1 month

Neural Signatures of Evidence Accumulation Encode Subjective Perceptual Confidence Independent of Performance cool stuff from Jason Samaha and co

Neural Signatures of Evidence Accumulation Encode Subjective Perceptual Confidence Independent of...

Confidence is an adaptive computation when environmental feedback is absent, yet there is little consensus regarding how perceptual confidence is computed in th...

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@smfleming

5 months

Very exciting to see former MetaLab postdoc @ClaraColombatto setting up her own lab at @UWaterloo 🥳

Clara Colombatto | Psychology

BS (Duke), PhD (Yale) Contact information Personal website View my profile on Google Scholar. Dr. Clara Colombatto's CV

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@smfleming

6 years

I've been locked out of the UCL HR portal because I can't remember the name of my favourite TV program from when I was a kid. Spent the past ten minutes searching through lists of late 80s children's cartoons

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5 years

Awareness reports as inference in a higher-order state space - keen to get feedback on this, will also be presenting it at #ASSC23

Awareness as inference in a higher-order state space

Humans have the ability to report the contents of their subjective experience - we can say to each other, "I am aware of X". The decision processes that support these reports about mental contents...

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@smfleming

10 months

Perceptual Awareness Occurs Along a Graded Continuum: No Evidence of All-or-None Failures in Continuous Reproduction Tasks

Perceptual Awareness Occurs Along a Graded Continuum: No Evidence of All-or-None Failures in...

Does sensory information reach conscious awareness in a discrete, all-or-nothing manner or a gradual, continuous manner? To answer this question, we examined be...

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@smfleming

2 years

What a week- @assc25 and then metacognition satellite today… consciousness science is going places! Thank you Simon van Gaal, @jjfahrenfort and @LucieCharlesCog for all the hard work behind the scenes. Roll on NYC 2023!

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@smfleming

11 months

Our @LeverhulmeTrust Consciousness Club talk series is breaking for summer 😎 You can watch recordings of many of the talks by clicking on speaker images here: Or on YouTube: Speakers for autumn 2023 to be announced soon!

Consciousness Club

Videos of talks from the UCL Consciousness Club seminar series - more information can be found at: http://metacoglab.org/consciousness-club

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@smfleming

1 year

Me to 4 yo son: There are these cool new things called language models that are clever and can answer almost any question. Do you want to ask it something? 4 yo son: Yes! How about: "Can you give me a chocolate biscuit?"

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@smfleming

5 years

"I found that deep neural networks trained exclusively for object recognition exhibit the Müller-Lyer illusion, but not other illusions." - new preprint on perceptual illusions from @Amyunimus

Exploring Perceptual Illusions in Deep Neural Networks

Perceptual illusions—discrepancies between what exists externally and what we actually see—reveal a great deal about how the perceptual system functions. Rather than failures of perception, illusions...

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@smfleming

3 years

Very much looking forward to the resumption of Consciousness Club this term with a great lineup of speakers including @ADemertzi @DobyRahnev @rndenison @birchlse See for more information and how to join

Consciousness Club — the MetaLab

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@smfleming

3 years

Bad practice of course to peek at the data before it’s been collected, but having secretly analysed the first week of 2021 the mean doesn’t look that different from 2020 😱

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3 years

Ever since I started thinking of my toddler son as a (very) noisy softmax parenting has become a lot easier 😂

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3 years

Delighted that @mkwittmann is joining the MetaLab next month and bringing stellar experience from the Rushworth lab @OxExpPsy . Looking forward to exciting work at the interface of decision-making / metacognition / awareness. Welcome Marco! 🥳 @EP_UCL @WCHN_UCL

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Just finished reading @CeliaHeyes 's fantastic “Cognitive gadgets: The cultural evolution of thinking” ( ). An important book for psychologists everywhere – regardless of whether you agree or disagree it will make you think. Thread on a few key points…

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Boostered! 🌈

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4 years

If you missed you can rewatch the talks here: really great initiative by @KordingLab and co

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Steve Fleming

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If you are looking for books to buy people for Xmas, a book on metacognition should be at the top of your list! I'm not promising miracles (Amazon reviewer Bob said that he still doesn't know himself), but you do get plenty of facts about the brain

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I wrote a piece for the FT on the potential for artificial metacognition - something we’re working on with @oxfordrobots @EP_UCL

FT Weekend Magazine

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‘AI researchers have known for some time that machine-learning technology tends to be overconfident’: how scientists are trying to give AI the benefit of doubt

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Beautiful paper from @DEMelnikoff and colleagues - takes subjective experience of flow, derives computational hypothesis (flow = mutual info between desired ends & means of attaining them), tests with a novel task and rules out a number of confounders

A computational theory of the subjective experience of flow

Nature Communications - Flow is a desired but elusive state characterized by the subjective experience of immersion and engagement in an activity. Here, the authors develop and empirically validate...

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Steve Fleming

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3 years

Cool stuff here: Bayesian cognitive model of the Dunning–Kruger effect supports insensitivity to evidence in low performers

A rational model of the Dunning–Kruger effect supports insensitivity to evidence in low performers

Nature Human Behaviour - Reinvestigating the well-known Dunning–Kruger effect, Jansen et al. apply rational models to the decisions and metacognitive judgments of participants in two large...

www.nature.com

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Steve Fleming

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1 year

We're looking for RA + postdoc to join us @EP_UCL @WCHN_UCL working on computational foundations of conscious awareness (see eg ) Start date is flexible, deadline for applications is 5th April. Please RT!

Distinguishing neural correlates of prediction errors on perceptual content and awareness of content

Accounting for why sensitivity to perceptual input (as assayed by discrimination judgments) is not always accompanied by conscious awareness (as assayed by detection judgments) remains a challenge...

osf.io

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1 year

Beautiful morning at @ucl - view from @EP_UCL

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Delighted to be part of a new European Commission Doctoral Network on metacognition and confidence led by Janneke Jehee @DondersInst News about available PhD positions coming soon!

Donders Institute

@DondersInst

11 months

Janneke Jehee and her team have been awarded the prestigious Doctoral Networks award by the European Commission, for their work on decision confidence! 🎉🔬Read more: 👇 #DecisionConfidence #decision #confidence #science #brain #cognition #behaviour #phd

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3 years

Exciting to see Know Thyself in this list of top psychology books of 2021 by @five_books - in esteemed company with @anilkseth @LFeldmanBarrett and @russpoldrack

New Psychology Books - Five Books Expert Recommendations

New psychology books, our roundup of some of the latest books being published that shed light on human psychology and habits.

fivebooks.com

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Steve Fleming

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2 months

We have lost a giant of consciousness science - a wonderful writer, thinker and human being, and an inspiration to so many

Jim Al-Khalili

@jimalkhalili

2 months

Very sad to hear that the philosopher Daniel Dennett has died. He was a hero of mine and his book, Consciousness Explained, was quite wonderful. I interviewed him on The Life Scientific back in 2017

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The inaugural (and free!) Perceptual Metacognition Meeting at this year's @theASSC (16th July) was sold out of in-person tickets... so we got a bigger room! 🥳 See here for more details and for how to register:

Perceptual Metacognition Meeting

The inaugural Perceptual Metacognition Meeting will take place as a satellite event of the ASSC (https://theassc.org) on Saturday 16th July.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Steve Fleming

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4 years

Finishing touches on home office complete, ready to welcome @EP_UCL students for first virtual seminar this week!

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1 year

RT @seeingwithsound @mas .to Subjective signal strength distinguishes reality from imagination by nadine_dijkstra smfleming; "when virtual or imagined signals are strong enough, they become subjectively indistinguishable from reality"; it has this (1/2)

Subjective signal strength distinguishes reality from imagination

Nature Communications - How humans distinguish perception from mental imagery is not well understood. Here, the authors show that reality judgements are based on the intensity of a mixture of...

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Steve Fleming

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6 years

Turns out UCL library have an original Green & Swets. Revisiting the classics...

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Metacognition in space! 🚀 Microgravity Induces Overconfidence in Perceptual Decision-making

Microgravity induces overconfidence in perceptual decision-making

Does gravity affect decision-making? This question comes into sharp focus as plans for interplanetary human space missions solidify. In the framework of Bayesian brain theories, gravity...

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4 years

Best thing to do on the first Monday after Brexit is to get on the Eurostar and go give a talk in Paris, tomorrow 1130am 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇫🇷 @Cognition_ENS

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Steve Fleming

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3 years

Excited for Michael Graziano’s talk at this week’s Consciousness Club who will be telling us “Why Brain-Machines Think They’re Conscious” - Wednesday at 3pm GMT. For more information and how to join see:

Consciousness Club — the MetaLab

metacoglab.org

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Steve Fleming

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Really excited by this endorsement of our @wellcometrust @royalsociety funded work on metacognition from @BPSOfficial - all credit due to Ray Dolan @cdfrith & @nathanieldaw for patient mentorship / putting up with my incoherent babbling

BPS honours researcher into how the brain becomes self-aware

Sir Henry Dale Fellow at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Dr Stephen Fleming, is set to receive the 2019 Spearman Medal, the British Psychological Society’s (BPS) premier early-career award

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Conversation on models of consciousness with @pgmid and @hakwanlau - we cover reality monitoring, higher-order state spaces, lucid dreaming, and the “gurus and backscratchers” problem... and lots more!

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My discriminator counted @hakwanlau and @smfleming as real, but it's possible I imagined them. I could differentiate them, so I was conscious of something at least, since nothing has no content. Either way, the higher order discussion made my day.

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