Sucharit Katyal

What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...

Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...

We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Claire and team did a remarkable job here, and you should read their reply. An updated preprint from us will be out shortly, reflecting our revised understanding of these issues.

We @smfleming.bsky.social, Marion Rouault and @seowxft.bsky.social and I) have posted a reply osf.io/preprints/ps... to a preprint that recently raised concerns about the validity of associations between mental health and metacognition from online studies. I hope you can take the time to read it.

I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Udbredt følelse kan stå i vejen for succes, siger forsker bag nyt studie. Men et bestemt værktøj kan være en løsning Læs mere her.

Also in Denmark's leading daily newspaper, Berlingske:
www.berlingske.dk/vores-liv/ud...

Study with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social

You did well — so why do you feel like a fraud? The psychology of impostor syndrome Academics can feel like they’ve tricked their colleagues into overestimating them. This researcher knows how to fight it.

Some coverage in Danish newspapers (with a very broad interpretation) of our recent study ☺️
uniavisen.dk/en/you-did-w...

Also, recently in Denmark's leading daily www.berlingske.dk/kommentarer/...

Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.

"In most scientific fields, AI is unlikely to be the solution to concerns about slowing progress." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Aarhus University Student Survey This questionnaire will take approximately 15- 25 minutes to complete. Please answer in a safe environment and as truthfully as possible. As a neurodiverse research team, we prioritize the comfort an...

Do you have #ADHD or #autism? We're running a short, anonymous survey on interoception. It takes just 15–20 minutes, and your input would mean a lot.
👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Why do we doubt our own abilities when we are good at something? A new study from the University of Copenhagen and University College London has unraveled why some people feel insecure in their abilities – even when they are actually good at what they do.

Actually thanks to Simon from UCPH's press release team for thinking of this first:
news.ku.dk/all_news/202...

Distorted learning from local metacognition supports transdiagnostic underconfidence - Nature Communications Individuals with symptoms of anxiety and depression exhibit persistent underconfidence. Here, the authors show that distortions in learning from local metacognition can explain how underconfidence is ...

Which is exactly what our study was designed to investigate: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you popular science 💪🫡

In the 4 years of working on this study, this idea never crossed my mind. But it makes complete sense because Imposter Syndrome is defined as "self-doubt in one's abilities and accomplishments compared with others, despite evidence to suggest the contrary"

Persistent underconfidence: Why we doubt our own abilities even when we're good at something A new study from the University of Copenhagen and University College London has unraveled why some people feel insecure in their abilities—even when they are actually good at what they do.

Our recent paper in Nat Comms on how people form global underconfidence despite good performance is being covered in popsci press as providing insight into the Imposter Syndrome
phys.org/news/2025-04...
@sciencex.bsky.social

En kur mod tvivl Bedragersyndrom. Mange veluddannede undervurderer kronisk egne evner. Nyt studie viser, at den rette feedback kan give dem et mere retvisende syn på sig selv.

Lovely spin on our recent study on underconfidence in the Danish weekly Weekendavisen
www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-13/idee...

Link to original study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@weekendavisen.dk
@smfleming.bsky.social

Paper out in PLOS Mental Health 2 weeks ago 🙈 but better late than never! Collab with @smfleming.bsky.social and @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social. We investigated how confidence is altered in transdiagnostic compulsivity across memory and perception, as memory confidence is typically lowered in OCD. (1/4)

We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang @shiyiliang.bsky.social:

'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)

@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

Great work by @sucharit.bsky.social suggesting that one failure mode in maintaining low self-esteem is the failure to integrate experiences of high confidence into self-esteem. Would be great to develop the intervention/therapeutic potential further.

This is a great study, if I may say. We have had a lot of data showing correlations between subjective assessments and behaviour between individuals. With this study, we are starting to see how they interact over days within individuals. Congratulations @samuelhewitt.bsky.social!

Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain Computational modeling reveals how uncertainty transforms harmless stimuli into perceptions of pain.

Pleased to share our latest collaborative publication, "Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain", out now in Science Advances! The first major output of our Visceral Mind Project, lead by the amazing @francescafardo.bsky.social! www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Very excited to organise the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting in Amsterdam just before the @cogcompneuro.bsky.social conference, on Monday 11th Aug 2025. More information to come soon but please save the date!

Love this (below); Here's a short piece to a similar tune from me, @alvanoe.bsky.social, & @evanthompson.bsky.social
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...

A graphical abstract titled "Can Beta-Blockers Manipulate Interoception? A Placebo-Controlled Study." The image illustrates how bisoprolol and propranolol affect interoception. On the left, a green figure represents bisoprolol, showing a zoomed-in synapse where it selectively blocks β1 receptors. On the right, a purple figure represents propranolol, blocking both β1 and β2 receptors, affecting both brain and body. A psychophysics graph models interoceptive responses, showing response intensity over trials. Below, line plots compare placebo, propranolol, and bisoprolol effects on interoception—cardioception (threshold) and respiroception (slope)—indicating drug effects on bodily awareness.

Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

Many congratulations on this excellent work @mkwittmann.bsky.social @yongling.bsky.social @cormacd.bsky.social

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"

To apply and for more details, please see:

RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

Processing of pain and itch information by modality-specific neurons within the anterior cingulate cortex in mice - Nature Communications How itch and pain, which are similar but distinct, are processed in the brain remains unclear. Here, the authors show modality-specific neural circuits between the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and ...

New study finds that pain and itch are processed by specific neurons in the cingulate cortex. I wonder what that means for theories that say that anything in these areas should be considered interoception? 🤔 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks Micah! Maybe we could collaborate on a follow up :)

We are proposing it as a domain general mechanism as we found the effect across two different cognitive domains. But certainly awaits more ecological investigation of these kinds.

Our paper where we use computational modelling to study how some people continue to be underconfident in their abilities despite having intact performance out in Nature Communications
@naturecomms.bsky.social
with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan