Steve Fleming

At this week’s Consciousness Club we have @svangaal.bsky.social speaking on “Linking arousal state fluctuations and recurrent processing to conscious perception”

Looking forward to it!

All welcome, Wednesday 28th Jan 11am-1230pm UK time

metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

Personality Genomics Recent research advances have precipitated the era of personality genomics: the study of how variation in human DNA sequence predicts individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, fee...

A very comprehensive review of the genetics of personlity led by @tedmond.bsky.social This is a great onramp for those who haven't checked into psychiatric genetics or bahviour genetics in a while. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

#PhiMiSci published a new article in the special issue on structuralism: “Neurophenomenal structuralism and the role of computational context” by M. Paßler and A. Doerig.
It aims to challenges local structuralist theories that overlook the content-constituting role of computational context.

Check out our *preprint* for some cool correlations with behavior (for foblique effect fans). For now, I’m just happy that these fun data are out in the world. It’s been a minute Chaipat Chunharas & I ventured to dissociate allocentric and retinocentric reference frames (7+ years ago?! 🤫)... 10/n

We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.

For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

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

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!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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.

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)!

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...

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...

Now you recall it, now you don’t: Working memory performance fluctuates with a theta rhythm
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...

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.

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...

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 ↓

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

Representational Momentum Transcends Motion Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science

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.🧵

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...

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/...

YouTube video by Michigan Medicine Sensory Horizons and Visual Consciousness in Non-Human Animal

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.

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

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...

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...

Detecting absence: A dedicated prediction-error signal emerging in the auditory thalamus
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21605

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.

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...

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...

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!

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What can science tell us about consciousness?

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