(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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New paper out in JEP:HPP! psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... Can we learn from things we're not paying attention to? We used a contextual cueing paradigm to pit selective attention against spatial prediction during visual search in 2 high-powered (N=104) experiments — and found they actively compete.

🏰 New preprint! 🏰 (w/ the excellent @neuronomist.bsky.social & Prof. Jason Mattingley) For my PhD I've been using EEG, psychophysics and modelling to explore how the brain uses uncertainty to balance sensory information against expectations about what's out there. 🧵1/n

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Late Integration of Prior Expectations During Precision Weighted Perceptual Decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.13.718329v1

🔎Updated preprint "Humans use a dual policy to improve inferences during epistemic information seeking" by Yinan Cao, Clémence Alméras, Junseok Lee, Inès Maye, and Valentin Wyart. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper alert 📣 #Neuroskyence "Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain" @natcomms.nature.com together with @ycaoneuro.bsky.social @maryamtohidi.bsky.social @donnerlab.bsky.social @ktsetsos.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/

Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain - Nature Communications

How humans process competing information when making multi-alternative decisions remains unclear. Here, the authors show that the brain resolves the trade-off between “evaluating within” and “comparin...

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Are you sure there’s no mosquito in the room? With @matanmazor.bsky.social, Chichi Dézier, @nfaivre.bsky.social & Louise Goupil, we study how we combine multiple sensory sources to be confident in presence and absence: While detection rely on one modality, confidence requires both channels to align!

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Audiovisual congruency drives confidence in presence and absence: https://osf.io/sqpmk

#PhiMiSci published a new article in the special issue on structuralism: “Neurophenomenal structuralism and the role of computational context” by M. Paßler and A. Doerig. It aims to challenges local structuralist theories that overlook the content-constituting role of computational context.

🥳Our review of intracranial EEG research on the neural correlates of consciousness is out in eLife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...! We think these methods offer a unique window on consciousness!🧠 A thread 👇

Glad to share my first paper in postdoc! This was a huge undertaking by many people over the years. I hope you read it! But the short version is this: ACC integrates evidence from self experience and observed experience, and it weighs these sources differently by aligning readout more to the self.

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Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.638172v1

Are we ready to tackle perceptual segmentation of natural scenes? Finally the review on perceptual segmentation you’ve been waiting for! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy New year! Warm wishes to you all. Sharing a recent paper in which we compared bodily and external agency using behavioral & EEG data. Behavior looked similar across conditions, but Mratio did not correlate and neural signals differed — distinct processes? www.eneuro.org/content/earl...

Comparing metacognitive representations of bodily and external agency

We studied the role of movement and outcome information in forming metacognitive representations of agency. Human participants (N = 40; 25 female, 15 male, 0 diverse) completed a goal-oriented task: a...

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🎉 Excited to share this! Low-level, naturally formed priors influence our perceptual inferences, but do they impact our confidence in the same way? With @elifilevich.bsky.social and @mamassian.bsky.social we found: they influence confidence even more strongly! More👇 1/5 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Long-term perceptual priors drive confidence bias that favors prior-congruent evidence

Author summary Prior expectations play a critical role in shaping not only the perceptual inferences that we make, but also how confident we feel about those inferences. Bayesian confidence models cap...

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Our #sEEG study is now published in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eIkoG! 🧠 Key finding: We discovered neural evidence accumulation for visual perception that's independent of report preparation—recorded from >3000 channels across 3 experiments! #Neuroscience #Consciousness #OpenAccess

Cortical evidence accumulation for visual perception occurs irrespective of reports

Nature Communications - Perception can occur in the absence of report. Here, the authors use intracranial recordings to show that sequential sampling of sensory evidence in the ventral visual...

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François Stockart@francoisstock.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new sEEG study is out on BioRxiv: tinyurl.com/4afh3b9n! Using 3 face detection experiments and recording from >3000 channels, we found a neural code that reflected evidence accumulation for conscious perception and perceptual confidence! 👇

New from my lab: "Priors for natural image statistics inform confidence in perceptual decisions" We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵 Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thrilled to share a new preprint on Neurophenomenal Structuralism (NPS) by @adriendoerig.bsky.social & myself! We show why neural structures alone aren’t enough to capture conscious contents. We must consider computational context! (arxiv.org/abs/2412.20873). A Thread (1/15):

Neurophenomenal Structuralism and the Role of Computational Context

Neurophenomenal structuralism posits that conscious experiences are defined relationally and that their phenomenal structures are mirrored by neural structures. While this approach offers a promising ...

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🎉 Excited that our latest paper, on touch and agency with @elifilevich.bsky.social and Anthony Ciston is now published in JEP:Genl!! 🚀 Check it out, share with your network, and reach out with any questions or feedback. We can't wait to hear your thoughts 🙌📚 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Fresh off the press: rdcu.be/dLYz8 Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual decision-making With Andrea Pisauro and Marios Philiastides @ccniuofg.bsky.social Confidence is used for learning even when explicit feedback is provided

Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual decision-making

Nature Communications - Confidence could act as an implicit learning signal when explicit feedback is unavailable. The authors show confidence can also provide a distinct value signal in the...

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Excited to share our latest work with Itay Yaron, Dan Biderman, Natalie Biderman, Rotem Bennet, Meir Plotnik and @liadmudrik.bsky.social introducing a multi-trial IB paradigm in virtual reality ✨ 🥽 doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02401-8 all the materials are open access here >> osf.io/648bp/

Is there a (reverse) hierarchy in perceptual metacognition? If you want to know, check this collaborative work with @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social and V. Wyart. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... #visionscience

Lots of Oliver's blood sweat and tears in this new preprint. We found BOLD signals reflecting predicted-but-omitted shapes in the CA23 and pre/para-subiculum subfields of the hippocampus, as well as the parahippocampal cortex. #neuroskyence #compneurosky 1/2

Communication of perceptual predictions from the hippocampus to the deep layers of the parahippocampal cortex

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Super excited to share the very first preprint from my PhD: Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations encode stimulus-specific visual predictions. [1/8] #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #compneurosky biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations encode stimulus-specific visual predictions

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A causal manipulation of prior beliefs influences the confidence we have in our decisions! Very excited to see this paper work published in Psychological Science. Get the final paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38427319/ #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

Will I see something, and if so, what will it be? I am excited to share my very first paper, in collaboration with @jhaarsma.bsky.social , @smfleming.bsky.social and @peterkok.bsky.social. 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.22.581334v1

New preprint!!! doi.org/10.1101/2023... We studied the role of tactile information in forming our sense of agency. The feeling that we are the authors of our actions. (Spoiler alert ;) we argue for a role in shaping our experience of acting voluntarily)

Contributions of tactile information to the sense of agency and its metacognitive representations

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