Determining the psychological, computational, and neural bases of confidence and
uncertainty holds promise for understanding foundational aspects of human metacognition …

To study (un) conscious perception and test hypotheses about consciousness, researchers
need procedures for determining whether subjects consciously perceive stimuli or not. This …

Blindsight is a neuropsychological condition defined by residual visual function following
destruction of primary visual cortex. This residual visual function is almost universally held to …

In Consciousness We Trust is a synthesis of Hakwan Lau's 20-year research programme
exploring the neuroscience of consciousness. Discussing studies from his own laboratory …

We systematically misjudge our own performance in simple economic tasks. First, we
generally overestimate our ability to make correct choices—a bias called overconfidence …

Consciousness is currently a thriving area of research in psychology and neuroscience.
While this is often attributed to events that took place in the early 1990s, consciousness …

Biases in the consideration of evidence can reduce the chances of consensus between
people with different viewpoints. While such altered information processing typically leads to …

Despite the tangible progress in psychological and cognitive sciences over the last several
years, these disciplines still trail other more mature sciences in identifying the most important …

While navigating a fundamentally uncertain world, humans and animals constantly evaluate
the probability of their decisions, actions or statements being correct. When explicitly elicited …

Confidence in a perceptual decision is a subjective estimate of the accuracy of one's choice.
As such, confidence is thought to be an important computation for a variety of cognitive and …