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.
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 !
Do our social interactions influence what we become aware of?
In ourânew preprintâ@danieljamesyon.bsky.social and I delve into this question: asking whether joint decision making in a detection task can bias awareness reports.
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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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Andreassen et al. demonstrate that confidence exhibited in public affects our private
assessment of confidence.
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.
Excited to be in Vancouver and to be part of the CNS Rising Stars session this afternoon. Iâll be talking about âStubborn and Flexible Predictions in Perception and Belief Updatingâ #CNS2026 đ§
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...