My research relates to human metacognition, this ability we have to monitor and evaluate our own cognitive capacities.
Specifically I examine how a sense of confidence changes in the presence and absence of feedback, and its relationship with metacognition, at the behavioural, computational and neural levels. I investigate how confidence is built and maintained, and the functional role of confidence signals in guiding learning and decision-making.
In addition, I aim at understanding how a global sense of confidence such as individual self-esteem is built from local, task-dependent confidence. Extensions of this work include the study of metacognitive impairments in psychiatric disorders characterised by changes in self-evaluation.
You can hear about some of my recent research from presentations at the Transcontinental Computational Psychiatry Workshop and at the Neuromatch conference.
In an effort to improve replicability of research findings, I share data and code whenever possible on my GitHub page.
Specifically I examine how a sense of confidence changes in the presence and absence of feedback, and its relationship with metacognition, at the behavioural, computational and neural levels. I investigate how confidence is built and maintained, and the functional role of confidence signals in guiding learning and decision-making.
In addition, I aim at understanding how a global sense of confidence such as individual self-esteem is built from local, task-dependent confidence. Extensions of this work include the study of metacognitive impairments in psychiatric disorders characterised by changes in self-evaluation.
You can hear about some of my recent research from presentations at the Transcontinental Computational Psychiatry Workshop and at the Neuromatch conference.
In an effort to improve replicability of research findings, I share data and code whenever possible on my GitHub page.
Main Collaborations
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (FR)
Valentin Wyart
(former postdoc advisors)
Topic: Role of confidence in information-seeking
- Paris Brain Institute (FR)
Topic: Generality of confidence judgments
Fabien Vinckier
Topic: Metacognitive evaluation in major depression
Benjamin Rohaut, Camille Lakhlifi and Mehdi Khamassi
Topic: Doctors' confidence in their medical decision-making
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Ophelia Deroy
Topic: The role of confidence and responsibility in joining groups for decision-making
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
Judy Luigjes
Ruth van Holst
Topic: Global confidence and compulsivity symptoms
- University of Stirling (UK)
Topic: Metacognitive accuracy in autistic individuals
- University College London (UK)
(former postdoc advisor)
Topic: Local and global confidence in perception and memory
Current and previous students
- Nour Mohsen, M2 Dual Masters in Brain and Mind Sciences (01/2024) Co-supervised with J. Daunizeau
- Rayan Kouzy, M2 CogMaster, Paris (2023/2024)
- Margot Rémeau, Masters Psychologie de l'Education et de la Formation, Univ. Paris Cité
- Flora Chartier, Masters Biologie Intégrée et Physiologie, Parcours neurosciences cognitives
- Martina Kavanova, Dual Masters in Brain and Mind Sciences
- Juliana Sporrer, Dual Masters in Brain and Mind Sciences (now PhD student at Univ. College London)
- Shaima Alsuwaidi, UCL MSc. in Neuroscience (now PhD student at McGill University)
- Alice Viterbo, Medical School, Paris VI (now intern in psychiatry at Hotel Dieu hospital AP-HP)
- Flora Bouchachourt, MRes. Ecole des Neurosciences de Paris (now postdoc at Princeton University)