Thank you so much to @newscientist.com Live for the opportunty to talk about AI consciousness (& how we really, really don't have a good way of testing for it)! Headlines & scientists saying "OMG it might be conscious, 5% chance" are sensationalism BS. Based on what? Vibes? Not good enough for me.

If your AI were conscious, how would you know?

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Our Registered Report on metacognition and the "richness of perception" debate is now online at Royal Society Open Science! *Iconic versus working memory metacognition to evaluate the richness of perception: a registered report* doi.org/10.1098/rsos... by Comay, Solovey & Barttfeld.

New pre-print! **Confidence phenotypes: a unified computational account of value and decision certainty in reinforcement learning** by @ncomay.bsky.social, @guillermosolovey.bsky.social & @pablobarttfeld.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps.... Feedback is welcome!

This new #RSOS Registered Report looks at iconic vs. working memory #metacognition to evaluate the richness of perception. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @cogscigroup.bsky.social @ncomay.bsky.social @guillermosolovey.bsky.social @pablobarttfeld.bsky.social

New study by @ncomay.bsky.social, @guillermosolovey.bsky.social & @pablobarttfeld.bsky.social at JEP:lmc: "Decisions are based on less information than metacognitive judgments in multialternative contexts" doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...

Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds

In a recent study, Goueytes and colleagues combined computational modeling with intracranial recordings to dissect the neural basis of confidence and changes of mind. They reveal a temporally organize...

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More than 1,000 scientists took to the streets yesterday in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina wearing gas masks to protest the collapse of science in the country, which they say was initiated by their government. https://go.nature.com/43QWX4f

‘Scienticide’ in Argentina sparks huge protest by researchers

Hundreds of activists wearing gas masks took to the streets to call out their government for slashing science funding.

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Happy to share our new paper: Misinformation belief 🤝 Signal Detection Theory and Bayesian modeling A registered-report study to understand how partisanship and cognitive reflection explain belief in (true/false) political statements. Key findings below. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Understanding belief in political statements using a model-driven experimental approach: a registere...

Scientific Reports - Understanding belief in political statements using a model-driven experimental approach: a registered report

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