Psychologist and neuroscientist. Studying how we perceive, act and decide
Reader (Associate Professor) - Birkbeck, University of London
https://psyc.bbk.ac.uk/uncertainty/
Daniel Yon
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Is your brain a scientist? Then where do its theories come from? And how do those paradigms shift?
Lots of fun recording this with Dave Edmonds for Social Science Bites.
Check out Benjy’s new paper, the first from his postdoc in the lab! 👁️ 🧠
It reveals how our inferences about what’s present and absent in the external world are calibrated by perceiving w/ others. And we come to detect what our partners can. Thread below 👇
@benjyb.bsky.social
@leverhulme.ac.uk
Public communication alters private confidence - cool study from @danieljamesyon.bsky.social and team
www.cell.com/current-biol...
A real pleasure to be at #APS26BCN, and to meet and learn about the work of the other Spence Award winners. Thanks @psychscience.bsky.social !
Excited to be in Vancouver and to be part of the CNS Rising Stars session this afternoon. I’ll be talking about “Stubborn and Flexible Predictions in Perception and Belief Updating” #CNS2026 🧠
Great to be at Hampstead Theatre Press Night yesterday for Blanche McIntyre's production of STAGE KISS. And lots of fun writing my notes for the programme on fantasy and reality in the brain.
Really delighted to have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship by the @britishacademy.bsky.social , which I’ll be using to work on a new book about the human imagination 🧠
Today is official publication day for the paperback of A TRICK OF THE MIND. Surreal as ever to see on the shelves (this time thanks to Waterstones Gower St for indulging me).
More here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...
Do our social interactions influence what we become aware of?
In our❗new preprint❗@danieljamesyon.bsky.social and I delve into this question: asking whether joint decision making in a detection task can bias awareness reports.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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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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