Steve Fleming
@smfleming.bsky.social
Psychologist and neuroscientist at UCL https://metacoglab.org
Author, Know Thyself (2021) https://metacoglab.org/book
Dad and assistant to the Diplomat
Author, Know Thyself (2021) https://metacoglab.org/book
Dad and assistant to the Diplomat
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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
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
with @smfleming.bsky.social
Gender and anxiety reveal distinct computational sources of underconfidence | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Gender and anxiety reveal distinct computational sources of underconfidence - Volume 56
doi.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
with @smfleming.bsky.social
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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
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...
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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
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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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osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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January 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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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.
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.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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.
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.
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Looking forward to talk about our recent rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT) work as part of the Conscious Club - online talks organized by @smfleming.bsky.social, @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, and others at UCL.
Tune in tomorrow (note the time below is in UK time)!
Tune in tomorrow (note the time below is in UK time)!
Looking forward to the first Consciousness Club of the year tomorrow!
@suryagayet.bsky.social will be talking to us about “Tracking perceptual competition with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT)”
Wed 14th Jan at 11am UK time
All welcome, to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
@suryagayet.bsky.social will be talking to us about “Tracking perceptual competition with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT)”
Wed 14th Jan at 11am UK time
All welcome, to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
January 13, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Looking forward to talk about our recent rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT) work as part of the Conscious Club - online talks organized by @smfleming.bsky.social, @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, and others at UCL.
Tune in tomorrow (note the time below is in UK time)!
Tune in tomorrow (note the time below is in UK time)!
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Very excited about this! If you're interested in consciousness and state-of-the-art cognitive neuroscience, please come along!
Looking forward to the first Consciousness Club of the year tomorrow!
@suryagayet.bsky.social will be talking to us about “Tracking perceptual competition with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT)”
Wed 14th Jan at 11am UK time
All welcome, to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
@suryagayet.bsky.social will be talking to us about “Tracking perceptual competition with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT)”
Wed 14th Jan at 11am UK time
All welcome, to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
January 13, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Very excited about this! If you're interested in consciousness and state-of-the-art cognitive neuroscience, please come along!
Looking forward to the first Consciousness Club of the year tomorrow!
@suryagayet.bsky.social will be talking to us about “Tracking perceptual competition with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT)”
Wed 14th Jan at 11am UK time
All welcome, to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
@suryagayet.bsky.social will be talking to us about “Tracking perceptual competition with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT)”
Wed 14th Jan at 11am UK time
All welcome, to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
January 13, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Looking forward to the first Consciousness Club of the year tomorrow!
@suryagayet.bsky.social will be talking to us about “Tracking perceptual competition with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT)”
Wed 14th Jan at 11am UK time
All welcome, to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
@suryagayet.bsky.social will be talking to us about “Tracking perceptual competition with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT)”
Wed 14th Jan at 11am UK time
All welcome, to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
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Now you recall it, now you don’t: Working memory performance fluctuates with a theta rhythm
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
Now you recall it, now you don’t: Working memory performance fluctuates with a theta rhythm
In this issue of Neuron, Han et al. leverage a change-identification working memory
task coupled with electrophysiological recordings in the macaque frontal eye field
to show that information retrieva...
www.cell.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Now you recall it, now you don’t: Working memory performance fluctuates with a theta rhythm
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
The 3rd annual Minds and Machines Initiative meeting is this Tuesday 6th afternoon at UCL - all welcome!
To register and for more details, see www.uclmmi.com/uncategorize...
To register and for more details, see www.uclmmi.com/uncategorize...
Jan 6, 2026: The Third Annual MMI Meeting – Minds & Machines Initiative
www.uclmmi.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:26 PM
The 3rd annual Minds and Machines Initiative meeting is this Tuesday 6th afternoon at UCL - all welcome!
To register and for more details, see www.uclmmi.com/uncategorize...
To register and for more details, see www.uclmmi.com/uncategorize...
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Here is a list of our lab's recent outputs as either a poster or a talk at recent conferences in Australia (Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Philosophy and Psychology). All downloadable / watchable on YouTube.
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Here is a list of our lab's recent outputs as either a poster or a talk at recent conferences in Australia (Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Philosophy and Psychology). All downloadable / watchable on YouTube.
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This Thursday, 12pm (ET) The MIT Consciousness Club is thrilled to host:
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This Thursday, 12pm (ET) The MIT Consciousness Club is thrilled to host:
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
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Excited to announce our symposium on how AI and humans shape each other
“Humans and Artificial Minds: Mutual Influences”
9 Jan at ENS Paris.
Talks by @smfleming.bsky.social, Valeria Giardino, Silvia Tulli, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Laurence Devillers & @summerfieldlab.bsky.social .
Program ↓
“Humans and Artificial Minds: Mutual Influences”
9 Jan at ENS Paris.
Talks by @smfleming.bsky.social, Valeria Giardino, Silvia Tulli, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Laurence Devillers & @summerfieldlab.bsky.social .
Program ↓
December 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Excited to announce our symposium on how AI and humans shape each other
“Humans and Artificial Minds: Mutual Influences”
9 Jan at ENS Paris.
Talks by @smfleming.bsky.social, Valeria Giardino, Silvia Tulli, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Laurence Devillers & @summerfieldlab.bsky.social .
Program ↓
“Humans and Artificial Minds: Mutual Influences”
9 Jan at ENS Paris.
Talks by @smfleming.bsky.social, Valeria Giardino, Silvia Tulli, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Laurence Devillers & @summerfieldlab.bsky.social .
Program ↓
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Only one more week until the Brain and Cognition conference @brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social starts in Egmond aan Zee with @smfleming.bsky.social and Maryam Alimardhani as keynote speakers! www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl
Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition
www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Only one more week until the Brain and Cognition conference @brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social starts in Egmond aan Zee with @smfleming.bsky.social and Maryam Alimardhani as keynote speakers! www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl
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When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion
Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science
subjectivitylab.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
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Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception | PNAS
Conscious awareness refers to the subjective experience of perceiving, thinking, and
feeling and the ability to report these experiences. These per...
www.pnas.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Recording of a talk on "Sensory Horizons and Visual Consciousness in Non-human Animals" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Pz...) at the University of Michigan. Based on the recent BBS paper on sensory horizons and consciousness w/ @smfleming.bsky.social.
Sensory Horizons and Visual Consciousness in Non-Human Animal
YouTube video by Michigan Medicine
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Recording of a talk on "Sensory Horizons and Visual Consciousness in Non-human Animals" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Pz...) at the University of Michigan. Based on the recent BBS paper on sensory horizons and consciousness w/ @smfleming.bsky.social.
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We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026.
2026.ccneuro.org
2026.ccneuro.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026.
2026.ccneuro.org
2026.ccneuro.org
Today! 👇
Last Consciousness Club of term tomorrow, Wed 3rd Dec 11am-1230pm UK time
Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social will be telling us about “The private life of public confidence”
Looking forward to it!
All welcome- for more info see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social will be telling us about “The private life of public confidence”
Looking forward to it!
All welcome- for more info see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
December 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Today! 👇
Last Consciousness Club of term tomorrow, Wed 3rd Dec 11am-1230pm UK time
Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social will be telling us about “The private life of public confidence”
Looking forward to it!
All welcome- for more info see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social will be telling us about “The private life of public confidence”
Looking forward to it!
All welcome- for more info see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Last Consciousness Club of term tomorrow, Wed 3rd Dec 11am-1230pm UK time
Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social will be telling us about “The private life of public confidence”
Looking forward to it!
All welcome- for more info see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social will be telling us about “The private life of public confidence”
Looking forward to it!
All welcome- for more info see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
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The special issue celebrating John Duncan's retirement is now out! Check out all the gem articles here:
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10QN6R7VQSM
and the editorial (see next figure in the thread for an entertaining analysis)
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10QN6R7VQSM
and the editorial (see next figure in the thread for an entertaining analysis)
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The special issue celebrating John Duncan's retirement is now out! Check out all the gem articles here:
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10QN6R7VQSM
and the editorial (see next figure in the thread for an entertaining analysis)
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10QN6R7VQSM
and the editorial (see next figure in the thread for an entertaining analysis)
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Detecting absence: A dedicated prediction-error signal emerging in the auditory thalamus
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21605
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21605
arxiv.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Detecting absence: A dedicated prediction-error signal emerging in the auditory thalamus
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21605
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21605
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Very good indeed. @stevefleming.bsky.social thinks consciousness is a process - what something does. In that case he says it’s theoretically possible for AI to be conscious. Not so, says @anilseth.bsky.social.
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Very good indeed. @stevefleming.bsky.social thinks consciousness is a process - what something does. In that case he says it’s theoretically possible for AI to be conscious. Not so, says @anilseth.bsky.social.
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Perceptual Dysregulation in Psychiatric Nosology has been released! I'm pleased to see that the cover is pretty close to my initial mockup. You can find the entire collection here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Perceptual Dysregulation in Psychiatric Nosology has been released! I'm pleased to see that the cover is pretty close to my initial mockup. You can find the entire collection here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Entertaining and wide-ranging panel discussion on consciousness at the @crick.ac.uk hosted by @profbriancox.bsky.social and featuring me, @anilseth.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social and @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social
Check it out, let us know what you think!
www.lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...
Check it out, let us know what you think!
www.lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...
What is consciousness?
Professor Brian Cox and an expert panel explore the elusive science of consciousness – what it is, how it arises, whether it can be observed in the brain, and the most compelling theories explaining i...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Entertaining and wide-ranging panel discussion on consciousness at the @crick.ac.uk hosted by @profbriancox.bsky.social and featuring me, @anilseth.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social and @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social
Check it out, let us know what you think!
www.lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...
Check it out, let us know what you think!
www.lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...
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What can science tell us about consciousness?
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the nature of consciousness.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the nature of consciousness.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
What can science tell us about consciousness?
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the nature of consciousness.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the nature of consciousness.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...