We are a cognitive computational neuroscience lab led by Prof. Stephen Fleming and based across the Department of Experimental Psychology, the Max Planck-UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and the Functional Imaging Laboratory, University College London. Our research focuses on understanding the computational and neural basis of subjective experience and self-awareness.
We are interested in both metacognition - what people think or know about their own minds - and consciousness - our subjective experience of the world around us. We think there may be intimate links between both metacognition and consciousness, as formalized in recent computational frameworks we have developed. Much of the research in the lab uses computational models to develop predictions about how subjective variables (such as confidence and awareness reports) vary together with neural and behavioral measures.
We are also interested in the implications of our research for clinical conditions characterized by distortions in (self-) awareness and confidence - including affective disorders, dementia and psychosis. We collaborate with clinician colleagues on these questions.
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