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.
These projects are conducted together with:
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.
These projects are conducted together with:
- Sophie Bavard (postdoc)
- Lieke Hofmans (postdoc)
- Rayan Kouzy (PhD student, co-sup with V. Chambon)
Collaborations
- Paris Brain Institute (FR)
Topic: Doctors' confidence in their medical decision-making
- GHU Paris Psychiatrie & Neurosciences (FR)
Topic: Metacognitive evaluation in major depression
- University of Pavia (IT)
Topic: Metacognition in subjective cognitive decline
- University of Geneva (CH)
Topic: Metacognition in individuals with eating disorders
- University of Maryland (US)
Topic: Metacognitive abilities and negative symptoms in schizophrenia
- Paris Brain Institute (FR)
Topic: Does confidence influence the production of creative ideas?
- Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris (FR)
Topic: Characterisation of the general metacognitive mechanism using principles of neural adaptation
- Neurospin, CEA (FR)
Topic: Confidence decoding across domains in high resolution 11.7 T fMRI
- University College London (UK)
Topic: Local and global confidence in adolescents at school
- University of Stirling (UK)
Topic: Metacognitive accuracy in autistic individuals
Previous students
- Leïla Patsalides (Masters Biologie Intégrée et Physiologie (2024/2025). Co-supervised with J. Daunizeau (now medical school student)
- Nour Mohsen, M2 Dual Masters in Brain and Mind Sciences (01/2024) Co-supervised with J. Daunizeau
- Rayan Kouzy, M2 CogMaster, Paris (2023/2024) (now PhD student)
- 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)
