BI 073 Megan Peters: Consciousness and Metacognition

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BI 073 Megan Peters: Consciousness and Metacognition

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Megan and I discuss her work using metacognition as a way to study subjective awareness, or confidence. We talk about using computational and neural network models to probe how decisions are related to our confidence, the current state of the science of consciousness, and her newest project using fMRI decoded neurofeedback to induce particular brain states in subjects so we can learn about conscious and unconscious brain processing.

Notes:

• Visit Megan’s cognitive & neural computation lab.
• Twitter: @meganakpeters
• The papers we discuss or mention:
  • Human intracranial electrophysiology suggests suboptimal calculations underlie perceptual confidence
  • Tuned normalization in perceptual decision-making circuits can explain seemingly suboptimal confidence behavior.