New paper published in Nature Neuroscience

Our paper "Neural mediators of changes of mind about perceptual decisions" is now out in Nature Neuroscience. This study was carried out by Steve while he was a postdoc at NYU in collaboration with Nathaniel Daw and Illy van der Putten, and used manipulations of post-decision evidence to identify differential contributions of subregions of the prefrontal cortex during changes of mind. Redmond O'Connell and Peter Murphy wrote a nice commentary on the study (from which the image below is taken from) in the same issue which can be accessed here.

MetaLab at the Tate!

Over the weekend members of the MetaLab descended on the Tate Modern to take part in the fantastic Self-Impressions event organized by the Institute of Philosophy. We used this as an opportunity to get some user feedback of a prototype of "MetacogMission" - an app we're developing together with London-based technology company DamnFine to quantify metacognition via a series of decision-making games. Thanks for everyone who came along, we got tons of useful feedback that we are now busily implementing!

Here are some photos of the day. We are very grateful to WCHN Public Engagement coordinator Cassie, to DamnFine gurus Tristam and George, and Andy McWilliams who is leading the development of MetacogMission. And of course all the lab who pitched in to help make it a great event - thank you to all!

New paper published in Journal of Neuroscience

A paper entitled "Domain-General and Domain-Specific Patterns of Activity Supporting Metacognition in Human Prefrontal Cortex" has been published in Journal of Neuroscience. Congratulations to Jorge!

New paper accepted in Biological Psychiatry

A paper entitled "Psychiatric symptom dimensions are associated with dissociable shifts in metacognition but not task performance" has been accepted in Biological Psychiatry. Congratulations to Tricia and Marion!

Welcome to new lab members

A big welcome to new lab members Matan Mazor, Andrew McWilliams and Xiao Hu. See the people page for more about them and their research plans.

Congratulations to Steven and Shaima!

Steven Chau and Shaima Alsuwaidi, last year's MetaLab MSc students, have both achieved distinction awards for their neuroscience MSc projects. Congratulations to both of them!

Dan Bang on BBC 5 Live

Dan gave an interview to The Naked Scientists about his recent paper with Chris Frith on how to make better group decisions (published in Royal Society Open Science here). This was aired on BBC 5 Live and BBC Cambridgeshire. You can download and listen to the interview here.

Steve awarded Sir Henry Dale Fellowship

Steve has been awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society, to start in June 2018. The award will fund research to study the cognitive and neural structure of self-beliefs, and how these beliefs can be modified over time.

Goodbye and good luck to Jason Carpenter!

Jason is leaving the lab to start a Masters in Computer Science at UCSF after two years of working in the group as an RA. We wish him all the best with his studies!

MetaLab presentations at SFN

Several of the lab will be presenting our latest stuff at SFN in Washington D.C. Congratulations to Dan Bang whose abstract was selected for a nanosynmposium presentation!

MetaLab presentations at SBDM

Marion Rouault and Dan Bang will be presenting their recent work at the Symposium on Biology of Decision-Making in Bordeaux, May 14th-16th.

HMeta-d toolbox is out!

We have published a paper in Neuroscience of Consciousness on our new toolbox for estimating metacognitive efficiency (how well confidence ratings track performance) using hierarchical Bayes. The toolbox is available for download here. The main result is that we can obtain robust estimates of meta-d' with small numbers of trials, which may be useful for future studies in clinical settings.

New paper published in PLoS Computational Biology

A new paper in collaboration with NYU colleagues Elyse Norton, Nathaniel Daw and Mike Landy, "Suboptimal criterion learning in static and dynamic environments" has been published in PLoS Computational Biology

Welcome to new lab members!

Max Rollwage has joined the MetaLab as a PhD student (co-supervised with Ray Dolan). Max is part of the new 4-year PhD programme in Computational Psychiatry at UCL. We also welcome new Masters students - Steven Chau and Shaima Alsuwaidi.

Steve wins Wiley Prize in Psychology

Steve has won the Wiley Prize for Psychology from the British Academy, for his contribution to the study of the neuropsychology of human metacognition. Read more here

Goodbye and good luck to Tricia Seow

Tricia Seow has accepted a PhD position at Claire Gillan's new lab at Trinity College Dublin. We will miss her and wish her all the best in her studies!

New paper accepted in Nature Human Behaviour

A new paper in collaboration with Benedetto De Martino's group, "Explicit representation of confidence informs future value-based decisions" has been accepted in Nature Human Behaviour.

New paper accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness

Our paper "Metacognition about the past and future: Quantifying common and distinct influences on prospective and retrospective judgments of self-performance" by Fleming SM, Massoni S, Gajdos T & Vergnaud J-C is in press at Neuroscience of Consciousness.

New paper accepted in Psychological Review

A new paper "Self-evaluation of decision-making: A general Bayesian framework for metacognitive computation" by Steve and Nathaniel Daw has been accepted in Psychological Review. A preprint  is available here.