With the start of the new academic year, new people have joined the lab. Yifan Luo will carry out his PhD (in collaboration with Hans Op de Beeck), implementing domain-general capacities (like metacognition) into domain-specific computational models (like DNNs). In addition, Jasper has joined the lab for his 6-months research internship, and both Jérémie and Francesca are visiting the lab for a couple of months. A very warm welcome to all, and good luck!

Very proud to announce that two lab members have successfully defended their PhDs. Both Gaia Corlazzoli and Pierre Le Denmat are now officially doctors—congratulations to both, dr Corlazzoli and dr Le Denmat! Their hard work, creativity, and dedication have made a lasting mark on the lab. We’re excited to see what comes next for each of them. Well done, Gaia and Pierre!

With the start of the new academic year new people have joined the lab. Yvonne Visser has joined the lab as a post-doc, Alexandre Lietard and Emily Van Hove have joined the lab as PhD students. Apart from that, Hanne, Helena and Tom have joined the lab for their 6-months internship. If you want to figure out what they are all doing, check their personal pages on the lab website. A very warm welcome to all, and good luck!

The lab is exploding! With the start of the new academic year five new people have joined the lab. Luc Vermeylen has joined the lab as a post-doc, Stef Herregods, Jintao Xing and Alikemal Karasu have joined the lab as PhD students, and finally Yue Yin has joined the lab for a one year visit. If you want to figure out what they are all doing, do visit their personal pages on the lab website. A very warm welcome to all, and good luck!

The first paper of Gaia her PhD has been published in Cognition! You can read the full paper here or read a brief summary in this post.

Desender, K., Vermeylen, L., & Verguts, T. (2022). Dynamic influences on static measures of metacognition. Nature Communications. [pdf] [data & code]

Are we mistaking response caution for metacognition? In our new paper, published in Nature Communications, we show that this might be the case, because measures of metacognitive accuracy that are based on signal detection theory (such as M-ratio) are confounded with response caution. Instead, we propose a novel dynamic measure of metacognitive accuracy, v-ratio, based on evidence accumulation models. Read the tweeprint here.

After lurking around in the lab for almost a year now, Alan now also officially joines the lab as a PhD student. It will be a joint PhD project, together with the lab of Andero Uusberg (Tartu University). To make it more official, he now also has his own page on our lab website! A very warm welcome Alan, and good luck!

We welcome a new (yet familiar) face to the lab: after a very succesfull internship last year, Hélène will now join the lab again to carry out her PhD! A very warm welcome, and good luck 🙂

Desender, K., K.R. Ridderinkhof, & Murphy, P.R. (2021). Understanding neural signals of post-decisional performance monitoring: An integrating review. eLife. [code] [pdf]

*Desender, K., *Teuchies, M.*, Gonzalez Garcia, C., De Baene, W., Demanet, J., & Brass, M., (2021). Metacognitive awareness of difficulty in action selection: the role of the cingulo-opercular network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [pdf]

Why do some actions feel easy whereas with others are experienced as more difficult?