We are a cognitive neuroscience lab based at the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London led by Prof. Stephen Fleming. Our research focuses on understanding the computational and neural basis of subjective experience.

We are interested in both metacognition - what people think or know about their own minds - and consciousness - our subjective experience of the world around us. We think there may be intimate links between both metacognition and consciousness, as formalized in recent computational frameworks we have developed. Much of the research in the lab uses computational models to develop predictions about how subjective variables (such as confidence and awareness reports) vary together with neural and behavioral measures.

We are also interested in the implications of our research for clinical conditions characterized by distortions in (self-) awareness and confidence - including affective disorders, dementia and psychosis. We collaborate with clinician colleagues on these questions.

Photo courtesy of Isaac Lee

Photo courtesy of Isaac Lee