Two new preprints on the neural mechanisms of temporal attention! We used MEG to study how people selectively attend to items at specific time points within a sequence, when temporal predictability is controlled. With Jiating Zhu Karen Tian The Carrasco Lab David Heeger 🧵

PhD studentship on perceptual metacognition in childhood as part of a Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network of 10 labs across Europe, see: sites.google.com/view/confident… 5 days left, APPLY HERE!! bcbl.eu/en/join-us/job… Please RT!

Come work with Ratan! He is doing some of the most exciting work in visual neuroscience right now. And Georgia Tech is such a vibrant and exciting place (ok, I may be a little biased).

In this new preprint (doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…), with Doby Rahnev Kai Xue Medha Shekhar, we investigated whether metacognitive noise, hypothesized to affect only Type-2 confidence ratings, also appears in Type-1 perceptual decisions influenced by expectations or rewards.

our perceptual metacognition satellite happening NOW! launching w/ hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social's keynote on metacognition's role in consciousness big thanks to @smfleming Lucie Charles Shao-Min (Sean) Hung and Doby Rahnev for helping launch this--150 people registered! sites.google.com/view/asscmetac…

Kicking off our metacognition satellite meeting with a talk by hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social! Huge thank you to Shao-Min (Sean) Hung for helping organising with @smfleming Doby Rahnev and megan peters 🧠

Rafiei, Medha Shekhar and Doby Rahnev develop a neural network (RTNet) that generates stochastic decisions and human-like RT distributions. RTNet reproduces features of human responses and predicts human behavior on novel images. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Exciting new work from Doby Rahnev ‘s lab!

Press release from Georgia Tech about our work: research.gatech.edu/new-neural-net…

Excited to share our piece in Trends in Cognitive Sciences on anosognosia for visual deficits which challenges the view that our conscious experiences are what we know best. We propose a model to explain these striking failures of awareness Matthias Michel Doby Rahnev cell.com/trends/cogniti…

When visual metacognition fails: widespread #anosognosia for visual deficits cell.com/trends/cogniti… by Matthias Michel Matan Mazor Doby Rahnev Isaiah Kletenik et al.; could sensory substitution help inform the metacognitive system of perceptual errors?

Excited about this new paper! Suppose you lost half a field of view, or color vision, would you notice? In a new paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, we show that you probably wouldn’t! You can find out more about those striking failures of visual metacognition here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jsFQ4sIRvTB….

This was a really fun project. If you have never heard of Anton Syndrome or anosognosia but are interested in subjective perception, you're in for a treat. Great work by Matthias Michel, Yi Gao, Matan Mazor, and Isaiah Kletenik.

When visual metacognition fails: widespread anosognosia for visual deficits Opinion by Matthias Michel (Matthias Michel), Yi Gao, Matan Mazor (Matan Mazor), Isaiah Kletenik (Isaiah Kletenik), & Dobromir Rahnev (Doby Rahnev) Free access before Nov 20: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jsFQ4sIRvTB…

Out today in PNASNews with Medha Shekhar and my supervisor Doby Rahnev! Our findings challenge the Bayesian confidence hypothesis, showing humans use confidence-in-raw-evidence-space (CRES) computations when rating confidence. Here is the paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Excited to share this new work with Doby Rahnev and Medha Shekhar where we tested how people compute confidence in perceptual decisions using a novel dot numerosity task. We introduced a simple yet powerful way to model multi-alternative decisions: osf.io/preprints/psya… (1/5)