CODE - Confident Decision Network

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

How does uncertainty transmit from one head to another? Our new paper out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how public communication alters private confidence.

w/ Einar Andreassen & @cdfrith.bsky.social

@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
@leverhulme.ac.uk

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🤔 Confidence Control. Our sense of confidence is a powerful guide for our behavior. It shapes many of the decisions we make every day: we might search for more information when we feel uncertain, ignore irrelevant feedback when we feel very confident, or adjust how we approach learning.

🤔Confidence Matching is the tendency for people making decisions together to unconsciously align their expressed confidence levels with each other,rather than with the actual reliability of their own knowledge, turning confidence into a social signal rather than a metacognitive measure. 💭

@mamassian.bsky.social, @kobedesender.bsky.social, @smfleming.bsky.social @dsotob.bsky.social @silvialogu.bsky.social @lauradelaere.bsky.social @alelorcavyhmeister.bsky.social @tianqizhan.bsky.social @rioraimundo.bsky.social @francisca-c-matias.bsky.social

Just wrapped up our amazing CODE intermediate meeting at @bcbl.bsky.social in San Sebastián 🌊!
Our PhD students shared their progress, and we got to hear incredible keynotes from Silvia Lopez-Guzman, Máté Lengyel, and Robbe Goris. So many great conversations! Excited for what’s next🚀!
#MSCA

International Day of Women in Science! Congratulations to all the women we have in this consortium! 🥁 🤩 Our PhDs: @Alessandra @francisca-c-matias.bsky.social @thelucidneuron.bsky.social @lauradelaere.bsky.social @tianqizhan.bsky.social Our PIs:Elisa Filevich,Janneke Jehee,Ruth van Holst,Uta Noppeney

Are you sure there’s no mosquito in the room?
With @matanmazor.bsky.social, Chichi Dézier, @nfaivre.bsky.social & Louise Goupil, we study how we combine multiple sensory sources to be confident in presence and absence: While detection rely on one modality, confidence requires both channels to align!

Indecision and recency-weighted evidence integration in non-clinical and clinical settings - Nature Human Behaviour This research finds a strong recency bias in information gathering, attenuated in those on the OCD spectrum—a possible mechanism for indecisiveness. Behavioural and MEG data show reduced evidence updating in high-OC individuals.

This research by @magdadelrio.bsky.social et al. finds a strong recency bias in information gathering, attenuated in those on the OCD spectrum. Behavioural and MEG data show reduced evidence updating and in high-OC individuals. #OCD #GAD #MEG

So excited to see this lovely paper with @benjyb.bsky.social, @matanmazor.bsky.social and @giuliacabbai.bsky.social published in @nconsc.bsky.social!

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New pre-print! **Confidence phenotypes: a unified computational account of value and decision certainty in reinforcement learning** by @ncomay.bsky.social, @guillermosolovey.bsky.social & @pablobarttfeld.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps.... Feedback is welcome!

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!

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Perceptual and attentional uncertainty impact global performance monitoring Abstract. We have a fair understanding of what contributes to our confidence when performing individual trials of a task. However, little is known regardin

🚨 New article in #NCONSC

Perceptual and attentional uncertainty impact global performance monitoring
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Marika's latest study is out, showing that her previous results (priors affect confidence more than decisions) hold and generalise to long-term, "real" priors, not just those fake ones we induce in the lab.
This is one of two recent articles from my two wonderful (ex) PhD-students.

Congratulations to Francisca Campos, a PhD student of our network 🥳. She was recently interviewed about her research! 🎉

"How disconfirmatory evidence shapes confidence in decision-making"! Now out in @commspsychol.nature.com
w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence

Get to know our PhD students!👁️‍🗨️🎉 Thomas Hawkins, supervised by Janneke Jehee and Uta Noppeney, investigates the temporal dynamics of perceptual uncertainty and develops new methods to measure uncertainty directly from brain signals.

Get to know our PhD students!👁️‍🗨️🎉 Alexandre Lietard, supervised by Kobe Desender, studies how confidence helps us balance exploring new possibilities and exploiting what we already know, using a Bayesian framework to model adaptive behavior.

Get to know our PhD students!👁️‍🗨️🎉 Francisca Matias, supervised by David Soto and Pascal Mamassian, studies metacognition in children: how confidence develops, how peers shape self-monitoring, and how neuropsychiatric traits influence learning.

Get to know our PhD students!👁️‍🗨️🎉 Luis Glenzer, supervised by Uta Noppeney and Janneke Jehee, explores perceptual and causal uncertainty in multisensory perception using fMRI, Bayesian modelling, and neural decoding.

Get to know our PhD students!👁️‍🗨️🎉 Tianqi Zhan, supervised by Steve Fleming, investigates the individual differences in metacognitive monitoring and control using behavioral experiments and computational approaches.

Get to know our PhD students!👁️‍🗨️🎉 Laura De Laere, supervised by Ruth van Holst and Pascal Mamassian, studies how decision confidence is altered in compulsive disorders using computational modeling.

Get to know our PhD students!👁️‍🗨️🎉 Rodrigo Raimundo, supervised by Janneke Jehee, investigates how uncertainty in sensory inputs shapes our confidence and decision-making using fMRI.

Get to know our PhD students!👁️‍🗨️🎉 Alejandro Lorca-Vyhmeister, supervised by Pascal Mamassian, studies how audiovisual integration shapes metacognitive monitoring and control. 🧠✨

Get to know our PhD students!👁️‍🗨️🎉 Gayatri, supervised by Elisa Filevich and Uta Noppeney, is exploring how metacognition and multisensory integration shape fine-motor skill learning in guitar playing.

Metacognition in putative magno- and parvocellular vision Abstract. A major distinction in early visual processing is the magnocellular (MC) and parvocellular (PC) pathways. Prior work has theorized that the PC pa

🚨 New article in #NCONSC

Metacognition in putative magno- and parvocellular vision
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Individual differences in decision-making shape how mesolimbic dopamine regulates choice confidence and change-of-mind - Nature Neuroscience Differences in neuroeconomic decision-making influence nucleus accumbens dopamine dynamics and reflect choice confidence during evaluation, as well as past and future value during re-evaluation, which...

Nature Neuroscience

Individual differences in decision-making shape how mesolimbic dopamine regulates choice confidence and change-of-mind

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Exciting news ✨

A new collab between cognitive neuroscience🧠 + dance💃 exploring how we experience and evaluate our movements.

We'll be sharing insights 🌍💫

Find more information on: www.scienceonthedancefloor.com

#MetaCognition #Dance #MotorAwareness #MSCA #CODE #InterdisciplinaryResearch

Perceptual metacognition beyond confidence In this issue of Neuron, Dijkstra et al. showed that deciding whether a perceived stimulus is actually present or whether it is just one’s own imagination depends on specific signals in the fusiform g...

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Perceptual Metacognition Beyond Confidence -

a little commentary piece by Tomoya Nakayama & yours truly (on @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social, & @smfleming.bsky.social’s recent Neuron paper)

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I love this paper