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

Adolescence is a period of social re-orientation in which we are generally more prone to
peer influence and the updating of our beliefs based on social information, also called social …

Decisions are made with different degrees of consistency, and this consistency can be
linked to the confidence that the best choice has been made. Theoretical work suggests that …

Decisions vary in difficulty. Humans know this and typically report more confidence in easy
than in difficult decisions. However, confidence reports do not perfectly track decision …

Scientific thinking about the minds of humans and other animals has been transformed by
the idea that the brain is Bayesian. A cornerstone of this idea is that agents set the balance …

Humans are immensely curious and motivated to reduce uncertainty, but little is known
about the neural mechanisms that generate curiosity. Curiosity is inversely associated with …

Perception is a probabilistic process dependent on external stimulus properties and one's
internal state. However, which internal states influence perception and via what mechanisms …

Foundational work in the psychology of metacognition identified a distinction between
metacognitive knowledge (stable beliefs about one's capacities) and metacognitive …

The study of the brain's representations of uncertainty is a central topic in neuroscience.
Unlike most quantities of which the neural representation is studied, uncertainty is a property …

An accessible introduction to constructing and interpreting Bayesian models of perceptual
decision-making and action. Many forms of perception and action can be mathematically …