Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon@qoto.org
Psychologist and neuroscientist. Studying how we perceive, act and decide | Birkbeck, University of London | https://psyc.bbk.ac.uk/uncertainty/
Prior expectations still shape activity in the sensory brain - even when the world tells us our predictions won't come true.
Pleased to see this paper just accepted at Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
w/ Emily Thomas, Sam Gilbert, Floris de Lange, Peter Kok & @ClarePress
@dstephenlindsay Thanks Steve! Hope you’re well.
The first paper from my PhD student Helen Olawole-Scott has now officially come out in JEP:G! 🥂
Expectations about precision bias metacognition and awareness.
First toot! New NBR article w @danieljamesyon & @emilythomas : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763422005012. Recent evidence shows that action predictions do not necessarily attenuate perception; the relationship is more nuanced. Here we outline suggestions for how to thus remove/replace "cancelling" assumptions from agency & action control theories.
Preprint: psyarxiv.com/cmf9n
How do we know if we can trust our senses?
Very pleased to start the year w/ news that the 1st paper from @OlawoleHelen’s PhD - on precision, predictions & awareness - has just been accepted at JEP:G!🥂
Congratulations Helen!
How can we manipulate our worlds to improve our minds?
If you listen to this week’s episode of “All in the Mind” on BBC Radio 4, you can catch the inimitable Sam Gilbert talking about his work on “cognitive offloading” and metacognitive control.
We can introspect on the quality of our own mental states. But can we introspect on how well we introspect?
Really enjoyed this paper from @SamuelRecht, @BalsdonTarryn & co describing an elegant new way to measure how much we know about how much we know.
@ciaolongbao@mastodon.world Thanks Lia! I completely agree. One of the big questions we’re interested in is how our models of the world can control what we perceive.
You might like this piece I wrote a couple of years ago on this topic: https://aeon.co/essays/how-our-brain-sculpts-experience-in-line-with-our-expectations
@matan Some have replied telling me I can change clients if I want to see them. Masochists!
If I can’t see how many likes each post has, how will I know which scientist to agree with?
#MastodonTips for #birdsite people
#MastodonTips for #birdsite people
@keithwilson Thanks Keith! I have absolutely no idea how this works, so these tips are a great help 😅
Time for an #introduction?
The world is an uncertain place. My lab and I study how our brains deal with this uncertainty – building models of ourselves and the world arounds us to guide perception, action and belief.
https://psyc.bbk.ac.uk/uncertainty/
Looking forward to finding others interested in how the mind works. And curious to see what kind of discussions Mastodon will create!
Psychologist and neuroscientist. Studying how we perceive, act and decide | Birkbeck, University of London | https://psyc.bbk.ac.uk/uncertainty/
