Calling on the community to band together and contribute to this Replication Project. Check out Luca’s poster if you’re at #CCN2026!

@re-vision-init.bsky.social · 4d ago

(1/6) Do our visual neuroscience findings actually replicate? And do they generalize beyond the datasets they were found in? We've lauched re:vision, a community-driven initiative to answer these questions, and we are looking for scientistis to participate. re-vision-initiative.org

Today is the 5th anniversary of the #MetaCogSci meeting! With @dobyrahnev.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social -- cannot wait! www.metacognitivescience.org

Excited for our 5th Metacognitive Science meeting today as a satellite of CCN in NYC! Organised with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @dobyrahnev.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social with keynotes of Janel Metcalfe and Simona Ghetti. All programme here: www.metacognitivescience.org/location-age...

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🚨New position piece! “Deception-Enabling Cognitive Capabilities in AI Systems” 🧠🤖 w/ @dobyrahnev.bsky.social @apurvaratan.bsky.social @neuranna.bsky.social To better identify and mitigate deceptive AI behaviors, we need a deeper understanding of their complex and multifaceted nature...🧵👇

Excited to participate in a GAC discussion at #CCN2026 on Aug 4th! Is NeuroAI on the right track? What are the most glaring issues? Comment below and help us prepare for our panel discussion! sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/...

CogCompNeuro@cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#CCN2026 will feature three GAC debates: Does NeuroAI adopt suitable methods & frameworks to understand mind & brain? Do world models emerge in prediction networks? Should neural population activity explain representations or transformations? The review period is now open. 🖥️ 2026.ccneuro.org/gac

Now officially published: our paper "Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision" w/ @smfleming.bsky.social, with the commentaries, and our response: Article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Turns out that 2-choice tasks strongly underestimate the natural relationships between accuracy, confidence, and RT. This is true both in simulations and empirical data. See our new preprint. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Serial effects in choice and confidence are typically studied separately. In a new paper just out in Cognition, we show that choice and confidence serial effects strongly interact. This is true for both perceptual and memory tasks across 26 experiments. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nPcy_Ebvv...

(1/6) My first first-author paper is now out in @nconsc.bsky.social! Part of my PhD work with @mamassian.bsky.social at @lsp-ens.bsky.social. We looked at how confidence behaves during a perceptual learning task with no feedback. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Perceptual learning without feedback is accompanied with systematic changes in confidence processing

Abstract. Perceptual learning can occur without external feedback, raising questions about what internal signals might guide this learning. Here, we test t

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5-year post-doctoral fellowships at All Souls College (application deadline: 4 September 2026) www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... maybe there's a way to study metacognitive monitoring w/o collecting confidence? could be handy for studying animals and infants?

Response Time as a Proxy for Decision Confidence: Insights From Type-2 ROC Analysis

Abstract. This study explores the use of response time (RT) data in type-2 receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, a method traditionally used to examine the relationship between confidence ...

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Now out in Imaging Neuroscience! The language network responds robustly to sentences across tasks doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Ruimin Gao 高睿敏@ruimingao.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A left frontal-temporal network selectively supports language comprehension and production. Are computations in this language network driven primarily by bottom-up input, or by top-down task demands? 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I'm not a consciousness researcher, but I really enjoyed this essay. Rings very true to me. I also always kinda fell into "consciousness has no scientific definition, so I'm not sure what we're talking about"

Consciousness friends: I'm genuinely curious what you'd respond to Brad's essay? My typical response to the question if I study consciousness is that "I don't know what consciousness is". Perhaps this is my poor way of expressing discomfort with studying scientifically a first-person concept.

Russ Poldrack@russpoldrack.org · 2mo ago

"Nobody needs convincing that a science of the Meaning of Life is the wrong project. I will argue that a science of phenomenal consciousness is wrong for exactly the same reason: neither is amenable to the third-person perspective science requires." by @profdata.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.00226

"Nobody needs convincing that a science of the Meaning of Life is the wrong project. I will argue that a science of phenomenal consciousness is wrong for exactly the same reason: neither is amenable to the third-person perspective science requires." by @profdata.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.00226

Consciousness, AI, and the Limits of Scientific Explanation

Science is constitutively third-personal: its findings are in principle reproducible by any observer, independent of perspective, and answerable to measurement. This is the source of its power and als...

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1/n New preprint: What biology can, and cannot, tell us about conscious AI arxiv.org/abs/2606.02121 With @ulysse-klatzmann.bsky.social

What biology can, and cannot, tell us about conscious AI

Progress in AI is turning machine consciousness from a philosophical curiosity into a societal issue, and has led to criticism of the widespread computational functionalism framework. Biological Natur...

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New paper: "Introspection and Scientific Data" for the Handbook of Introspection, about the role of introspection in the production of scientific data. My view: introspection doesn't deliver a special 'subjective' kind of data and there's nothing special about studying consciousness.

Fully funded PhD position @sussex.ac.uk, at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. Stipend plus fees for 3.5 years, kindly supported by the School of Engineering & informatics. Apply by May 31st. More details here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Confidence dinner at #VSS last night. The group is getting larger each year!

In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Introducing meta-🔼! (meta-delta) Really excited about this one. We provide a principled, performance-corrected measure of metacognitive bias, placing it on an equal methodological footing with meta-d, and showing robust test-retest reliability to boot. Check out Kevin's thread for more details! 🧠🧪

Kevin O’Neill@kevingoneill.github.io · 3mo ago

In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

What does it mean for cognition to be Bayesian? The view that cognition is Bayesian inference is often intended at Marr's computational level. In a new paper in Nat Rev Psych, @kaixue98.bsky.social and I formulate the "explicit-Bayes" hypothesis that lives at the algorithmic level. rdcu.be/ff1XA

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

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My review on the "Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making" is now published. I think that this will be useful to both experts and newcomers to the field. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Doby Rahnev@dobyrahnev.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New preprint: Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making. A review I was supposed to write 3 years ago for my VSS Young Investigator Award. Better late than never 😅 I tried to organize the literature and explore the likely mechanisms. Feedback welcome! osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 Announcing another edition of the Metacognitive Science satellite in NYC, August 2nd 2026 (day before CCN) 🧠 🧪 Abstract submission is now open and closes May 15th! metacognitivescience.org Co-organised with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social @dobyrahnev.bsky.social

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This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations.

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SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

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SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

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In a new preprint, we use a combination of 2AFC and discrimination tasks to quantify sensory, decisional, and metacognitive noise in units of the physical stimulus. We find that, across two experiments, sensory and decisional noise are comparable, while meta noise is lower. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Fantastic opportunity here 👇

Anna (Anya) Ivanova@neuranna.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Language, Intelligence & Thought lab is looking for a lab manager! This is a 2-year postbac position that will allow you to gain experience in human neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research prior to applying to PhD programs. Express interest here: forms.gle/npXEGUjGUbp5...

If you're not at Cosyne - and you are in or around Atlanta - you could do worse than drop by the CoCo conference! Tomorrow from 8am coco.psych.gatech.edu/coco-confere...

New paper from the lab in which we test whether DDM and confidence distributions can be used to distinguish between perceptual and decisional effects. We show that putative signatures of perceptual effects emerge in a purely cognitive task. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Signatures proposed to index perceptual effects emerge in a purely cognitive task - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

A central question in many studies on perception and consciousness is whether the effects of a given manipulation are perceptual or cognitive. Typically, studies seek to find evidence that the raw sen...

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