Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science Contemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks—structuralist versus functionalist, universal versus local, intrinsic versus extrinsic—appear to be inducing philo...

New open-access paper out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences:

Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science
Francesco Ellia & Naotsugu Tsuchiya

A thread 1/n🧵

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

What makes adaptive decision-making possible?
New preprint connecting cognitive, social, biological, and computational views! w/ Dorst, FeldmanHall, @smfleming.bsky.social, @catehartley.bsky.social, Gottlieb, Lejarraga, Müller-Trede, @angelaradulescu.bsky.social, and Rosati
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.

"Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex" 🧠😊

Exciting new work in Nature led by Yuelin Shi with Doris Tsao

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroskyence #faces

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

🚨 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

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

🚨 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

Public communication alters private confidence Andreassen et al. demonstrate that confidence exhibited in public affects our private assessment of confidence.

Public communication alters private confidence - cool study from @danieljamesyon.bsky.social and team

www.cell.com/current-biol...

🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉
What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health:
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

another neat feature is that we have implemented a new measure of metacognitive bias that (unlike mean confidence) is independent from task-level performance and metacognitive sensitivity. we have a paper on this measure in progress so stay tuned!

happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉

building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax

Scientific Publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published Taking a radical new approach to the publication process resulted in eLife losing its impact factor, but authors, reviewers, editors and funders support the journal and its efforts to reform scientifi...

Scientific publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published

Review of how the loss of impact factor affected submissions at eLife - uneven drop across countries, but generally holding up remarkably well and shows a new model is possible

elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Exciting work by @kevingoneill.github.io to extend / rewrite the HMetad toolbox in R and STAN 🥳

We supercharge meta-d modeling within a bayesian regression framework, wrapped in a user-friendly R package with bespoke plotting tools (+ a new principled measure of metacognitive bias, meta-delta!)

🧠🧪

It's Cosyne time!!

Here are some contributions from my lab and some of my close collaborator labs (Thomas Akam, @melgaby.bsky.social, Steve Kennerley, @sameershethmd.bsky.social )

In this week’s Consciousness Club we’re hosting @matanmazor.bsky.social who will be telling us about “Mind-body dualism as social signalling”

Wednesday 11th March 11am-1230pm UK time

All welcome! For more info and how to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

Brain, think on thyself What the science of self-awareness can tell us about confident decision-making

In my latest Q&A for @knowablemag.bsky.social, @smfleming.bsky.social‬ explains his research investigating what we know about what we know, think about what we think, and believe about what we believe. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Stimulus reliability but not boundary distance manipulations violate the folded-X pattern of confidence The folded-X pattern has been identified as a critical signature of confidence: as conditions become easier, confidence increases for correct trials b…

Our new paper is out in Cognition! What determines whether confidence follows the classic "folded-X" pattern vs. the "double-increase" pattern? The answer lies in the type of stimulus manipulation. Big thanks to my advisor Doby @dobyrahnev.bsky.social and co-first author @herrickfung.bsky.social !

A cubic millimetre of the human brain. The whole thing is about 960,000 times this size, giving you some idea of the mind-boggling complexity we have yet to encounter. But you have to start somewhere.

yes will DM you the details

Brain and breathing-obsessed friends - this week's talk from @smfleming.bsky.social Metalab's Consciousness Club might be of interest?

👇🫁🧠#neuroskyence

Next Consciousness Club is this Wednesday 25th Feb at 11am UK time!

Anat Arzi @anatarzi.bsky.social will be talking about "The Dynamics of (Un)Consciousness: Insights from Olfaction and Respiration"

All welcome, for more info and how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

Congratulations Nico!! Really looking forward to welcoming you to UCL

At this week’s Consciousness Club we have @svangaal.bsky.social speaking on “Linking arousal state fluctuations and recurrent processing to conscious perception”

Looking forward to it!

All welcome, Wednesday 28th Jan 11am-1230pm UK time

metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

Personality Genomics Recent research advances have precipitated the era of personality genomics: the study of how variation in human DNA sequence predicts individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, fee...

A very comprehensive review of the genetics of personlity led by @tedmond.bsky.social This is a great onramp for those who haven't checked into psychiatric genetics or bahviour genetics in a while. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

#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.

Check out our *preprint* for some cool correlations with behavior (for foblique effect fans). For now, I’m just happy that these fun data are out in the world. It’s been a minute Chaipat Chunharas & I ventured to dissociate allocentric and retinocentric reference frames (7+ years ago?! 🤫)... 10/n

We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.

For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

Our new paper on different types of underconfidence in relation to anxiety symptoms and gender out now in Psychological Medicine 😊
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
with @smfleming.bsky.social

Two types of underconfidence linked to anxiety and gender Women and people with anxiety are both prone to low confidence in their own abilities, but a new study by UCL researchers has found that the two groups are prone to two distinct types of underconfiden...

Women and people with anxiety are both prone to low confidence in their own abilities, but a new study by Dr @sucharit.bsky.social and Prof @smfleming.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social has found that the two groups are prone to two distinct types of underconfidence

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...

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.

My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.