Steve Fleming
I am a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology and Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging where I lead the Metacognition Group.
The question that drives most of what we do in the lab is: what supports the remarkable capacity for human self-awareness? To address this question we combine experimental and theoretical approaches (psychophysics, computational modelling, neuroimaging) to understand how people become self-aware of aspects of their cognition and behaviour (such as perception, memory and decision-making), and why such awareness is often impaired in psychiatric and neurological disorders. Current interests focus on understanding contributions of human prefrontal cortex to metacognition, and how self-awareness and social cognition may share a core neurocomputational basis.
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Recent publications
- Why and When Beliefs Change. External link Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17456916221082967-17456916221082967 DOI: 10.1177/17456916221082967
- Identifying Cultural Differences in Metacognition External link Journal of Experimental Psychology: General DOI: 10.1037/xge0001209
- Neurocomputational mechanisms of confidence in self and others External link Nature Communications, 13 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31674-w
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