🚨Our new reviewed preprint is out at eLife! 🎉 Using bi-daily gamified smartphone 📱 tracking, we ask: • Does depressive mood precede under-confidence, or vice versa? • How does depression affect the integration of local confidence into global confidence over time? elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

New MIT Press journal for the intersection between cognitive science, neuroscience and machine learning research. Looking forward to being involved in this!

Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB)@mmb-journal.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

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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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

heading to nyc to give a talk at the Metacognition Science Satellite at #CCN2026 this sunday🗽🤔 catch me in the metacognition in novel task domains session @ 2:30🤗 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 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

Research Assistant Position in the Consciousness Group, BCBL, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain Application deadline: 5 September 2026

who wants to go to Princeton to work with Taylor Webb? he's hiring docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

WOW, just one week from new paper to new feature! Thanks @jspsych.org team 🙏🤩

jsPsych@jspsych.org · last wk.

Response duration tracking is now an option in jsPsych 8.3.0. Decide whether to trigger responses on key press (current default) or wait for key release to get both initial response time and response duration. We handle edge cases like multiple keys being pressed and tabbing away from the browser.

I'm recruiting two postdocs (or potentially PhD students) to work on projects at the intersection of cognition, neuroscience, and AI (with a particular emphasis on mechanistic interpretability). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and please share!

Fascinating and important. Including the provocative finding “What we believe about our bodily sensing may have little to do with how we actually sense it.” A place where subject report diverges (read the thread). Congrats to this team!!

Leah Banellis@leahbanellis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

well on time for my bi-yearly post I'm sharing the final version of this very cool work we started with @cjungerius.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @svangaal.bsky.social @fahrenfort.bsky.social in 2021, when I was young and full of hope. Now out in @natcomms.nature.com 1/11

The act of detecting a stimulus contaminates measures of conscious experience with decision biases - Nature Communications

A central challenge in consciousness research is determining whether people truly experience a stimulus. Here, the authors show that context biases traditional detection measures, whereas continuous r...

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Excited for all the MetaLab presentations at #CogSci2026 - see @kevingoneill.github.io‘s thread below for details

Kevin O’Neill@kevingoneill.github.io · 2w ago

I'm heading to #CogSci2026 @cogscisociety.bsky.social this evening, looking forward to seeing lots of new & familiar faces! 🇧🇷 I'll be presenting this paper: A measure of metacognitive bias you can be confident in 📍: T.18.3 🗓️: July 24th, 2-3:30pm 👥: @tianqizhan.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social

Geometry is not something humans invented from scratch —congratulations to Jialin Li on her first, first author paper. More to come from this team… @spiantado.bsky.social @wenjieli.bsky.social @jialin21.bsky.social @emilymsanford.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Finally, @jasondasilvac.bsky.social is also presenting a poster on planning, attention, and imagination:

Jason da Silva Castanheira@jasondasilvac.bsky.social · 3w ago

Interested in how we plan over our imagination? Come to Brazil 🇧🇷 & my poster P1-E-37 at #CogSci2026! Here, @smfleming.bsky.social and I use computational modelling to demonstrate that planning over our imaginations, untethered from perception, relies on mental representations.

The longitudinal data for this project was collected by @tianqizhan.bsky.social- she will be presenting a poster on this experiment as well!

Tianqi ZHAN@tianqizhan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Are you interested in metacognition/ individual differences/ Bayesian modeling/ psychometrics? I'm thrilled to present our poster at #CogSci2026 🇧🇷 next week! Come check it out and chat! 📍Poster number P1-E-41 📅 2:45 pm, July 23 👥 @jasondasilvac.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social

I'm heading to #CogSci2026 @cogscisociety.bsky.social this evening, looking forward to seeing lots of new & familiar faces! 🇧🇷 I'll be presenting this paper: A measure of metacognitive bias you can be confident in 📍: T.18.3 🗓️: July 24th, 2-3:30pm 👥: @tianqizhan.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social

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...

Interested in how we plan over our imagination? Come to Brazil 🇧🇷 & my poster P1-E-37 at #CogSci2026! Here, @smfleming.bsky.social and I use computational modelling to demonstrate that planning over our imaginations, untethered from perception, relies on mental representations.

The postdoc position in our lab closes 20 July - get applying! :)

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · last mo.

The postdoc position is advertised here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline: 20 July. 2/3

Are you interested in metacognition/ individual differences/ Bayesian modeling/ psychometrics? I'm thrilled to present our poster at #CogSci2026 🇧🇷 next week! Come check it out and chat! 📍Poster number P1-E-41 📅 2:45 pm, July 23 👥 @jasondasilvac.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social

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...

Download this book (it's open access) and read it now! It is a detailed and rigorous presentation of an illusionist theory of consciousness, and in my opinion it is one of the most important books about consciousness ever written. Congratulations, @lovingautomaton.bsky.social!

François Kammerer@lovingautomaton.bsky.social · 3w ago

My book on consciousness at Oxford University Press is now available! It is titled House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness. The (open access) pdf can be downloaded for free on Oxford Academic: academic.oup.com/book/62981 Printed copies should be available at the end of July.

My book on consciousness at Oxford University Press is now available! It is titled House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness. The (open access) pdf can be downloaded for free on Oxford Academic: academic.oup.com/book/62981 Printed copies should be available at the end of July.

House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness

Abstract. This book provides a defense and an exploration of illusionism regarding phenomenal consciousness. Phenomenal consciousness supposedly encompasse

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Out now in eLife, our new and improved paper on Attention and planning. Here, we explore how attention acts like an inductive bias that selects relevant information on which to plan. 📍🗺️👀 (1/5) elifesciences.org/articles/108... @smfleming.bsky.social

How attention simplifies mental representations for planning

Spatial attention controls the information people become aware of and, in turn, incorporate into simplified perceptual representations for use in multi-step planning.

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This is one of my favourite things. Direct replication of MEG and fMRI findings in intracranial recordings and a demonstration that cortical representations update in the right direction around hippocampal ripples.

Blake Richards@tyrellturing.bsky.social · 4w ago

For a long time I felt like there was a hesitation in neuroscience to ascribe anything like a planning function to the various "replay" events we see in the hippocampus, but I think this is rapidly changing. Here's another new entry in human epilepsy patients: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪

We're finally getting the tools to study replay in humans. But why bother? What can we learn from it that we don't know from rodent recordings? Our thoughts are now out in a new TICS Forum Great fun writing this w @smfleming.bsky.social + @maritpetzka.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

What can we learn from studying replay in humans?

Noninvasive methods are making it possible to study neural replay in humans. Although focused on alignment with rodent findings, human research often …

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This is why thinking about the enabling conditions of consciousness matters so much (as opposed to just focusing on what theories of consciousness say). See here: philarchive.org/rec/MICOCA-3

Stanislas Dehaene@standehaene.bsky.social · last mo.

The global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/research/glo...

The massive 7T-fMRI Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) has been extended to Neuropixels recordings in macaques! Exciting resource for inter-species comparisons by Li et al. @natneuro.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Also nice News & Views by Kay and colleagues! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In their recent BBS article (doi.org/10.1017/S014...), Steve Fleming (@smfleming.bsky.social) and Matthias Michel (@matthiasmichel.bsky.social) discuss the slowness of conscious vision and the predictions generated by an internal model of the world. 1/2

This paper is an absolutely beautiful combination of a deep set of cognitive ideas, a super creative task, a surprisingly impressive behaviour, and an elegant modelling framework. One of my favourite things in the last year.

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · last mo.

I concur that it’s great to see all the responses on so many aspects of consciousness! So much so I can’t even be mad at the target article’s vision-centrism 😆

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · last mo.

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...