Reposted by Alan LeeJorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 06/02/2026I have news! After 4 fabulous years at Northeastern, this July I will be moving to Duke—with tenure! It’s hard to convey how grateful I am to everyone who has made this possible: from old professors in Mexico and mentors in the US to students, colleagues, and, of course, my amazing wife and family. 3827015
Reposted by Alan LeeAlejandro Gamba (he/him) @alejogamba.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Happy to share my first-ever pre-print !!!! 🚨 on the representational geometry across similarity properties using behavioral judgments, fMRI, and AI/CNNs models 🚨 !! 1/n🧵 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 184
Reposted by Alan LeeMichał Klincewicz @michalk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.socialrdcu.beAdversarial collaborations: all theories must be subject to critical evaluation | NatureLetter to the Editor 0156
Reposted by Alan LeePascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 22/04/2025If you work with perceptual confidence judgments, you may be interested in our CNCB model of confidence ratings. Joint work with Vincent de Gardelle. Uncorrected proofs here: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... (🧵 1/4) 17232
Reposted by Alan LeeMatthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵doi.orgSensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge CoreSensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision 618069
Reposted by Alan LeeSteve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 18/03/2025We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam! For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...sites.google.comHomeThis satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations. About this meeting The Metacognitive Science Meeting grew out of an ... 27830
Reposted by Alan LeeMatthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This reminded me that I used this quote to start my review of Maja Spener's recent book "Introspection". You can find the review here: shorturl.at/nUnNe. The review should come out in MIND fairly soon.580d4178-4a2a-40ee-b753-91905f0859e6.filesusr.com 0185
Reposted by Alan LeeJorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 17/03/2025William James's take on psychophysics is *incredible*. Worth reading the whole quote. #psychSciSky #philsky #VisionScience "But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods, 48122
Alan Lee @alanlee.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Check out our work on change detection during saccades! 👀 020
Reposted by Alan LeeNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 10/03/2025On the "great consciousness debate" - as an outsider, I was fascinated by the magnitude of the response - it's so much larger than anything I've seen for, say, data falsification in the Alzheimer's space or outrage around claims about serotonin and depression. /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 8477
Reposted by Alan LeeKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Re the Tononi paper: Both Tononi’s IIT (phi) and Friston’s FEP start from fundamental, axiomatic, and debatable assumptions. These assumptions are generally made without any humility. This logic allows them to make exceptionally broad claims. Which contributes to my unease about them. 99117
Alan Lee @alanlee.bsky.social · 12/03/2025New preprint from my lab: What are the computaitonal processes underlying serial dependence of confidence judgments? Through 3 experiments + model comparison, we showed that the metacognitive system systematically adjusts decision criteria in response to preceding conditions. osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 2164
Reposted by Alan LeeDoby Rahnev @dobyrahnev.bsky.social · 16/01/2025My article "A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition" is finally out in Nature Communications 🎉 If you work on metacognition and think you know the psychometric properties of your favorite measure, you may be surprised. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition - Nature CommunicationsMeasuring metacognitive ability is one of the enduring challenges in cognitive science. The current paper develops formal tests of the quality of different measures and assesses how current metrics pe... 312450
Reposted by Alan LeeBluesky @bsky.app · 18/10/2024congratulations everyone, we have now passed 12 million people total on bluesky!!! 🦋 over 1.2M new people have joined bluesky in the last two days — welcome!! 💙🕺🪩 21148484611709
Reposted by Alan LeeMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 31/01/2024New preprint! Do men and women differ in their metacognitive abilities? In a new preprint, we detail robust differences in global and local metacognition which span multiple cognitive domains. Read all about our findings in this thread! #psychology #neuroskyence osf.io/preprints/ps... 48635
Reposted by Alan LeeAndrew Perfors @perfors.net · 19/12/2023I have a bunch of things I have to get done, so naturally I decided to procrastinate by making an alignment chart of mathematical models 1722877
Reposted by Alan LeeSam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 13/11/2023Ahm, Cortex - I have questions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSkysciencedirect.comEnhanced Mind-Matter Interactions Following rTMS Induced Frontal Lobe InhibitionA major barrier to acceptance of psi is that effects are small and hard to replicate. To address this issue, we developed a novel neurobiological mode… 95023
Reposted by Alan LeeBrian Odegaard @brianodegaard.bsky.social · 18/10/2023@saurabhr.bsky.social's first paper from my lab (on reality monitoring of memories) is ready to share! In our task, participants either perceived word pairs or voluntarily imagined the second word of a word pair. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n 11711
Reposted by Alan LeeGrace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 13/10/2023The receptive fields of cells in primary auditory cortex show *opposite* impacts of attention to a tone if the detection of that tone means the animal should start vs stop licking. I find it hard to believe the brain really needs to be this integrated and complicated. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... 183
Reposted by Alan Leehakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 10/10/2023from @alanlee.bsky.social "[..] Hoel argues [...] that the media have not exaggerated the empirical support for IIT. [...] The present article is a short reply [...] presenting the reality [..] with [...] a sample of 20 quotes from different articles in the media." psyarxiv.com/g35ak 0117
Reposted by Alan LeeJack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 01/10/2023The purpose of the first draft is to exist 922148
Reposted by Alan LeeUma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 02/10/2023Anyone else think it was weird that NYTimes called Francesca Gino a Harvard professor, but Professors Nelson (Berkeley), Simmons (Wharton) and Simonsohn (ESADE) are "bloggers"? www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/b...nytimes.comThe Harvard Professor and the BloggersWhen Francesca Gino, a rising academic star, was accused of falsifying data — about how to stop dishonesty — it didn’t just torch her career. It inflamed a crisis in behavioral science. 65212
Reposted by Alan LeeMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 02/10/2023How do we integrate prior beliefs with new experiences to guide metacognitive self-knowledge? psyarxiv.com/knsb4/ A brief 🧵 on our recent preprint👇, in which we found that this capacity for integrating different sources of uncertainty is highly domain specific. #psychscisky 🧠🤖 🧠🟦 17831
Reposted by Alan LeeGrace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 24/07/2023Thinking about grad school? I'll be looking for PhD students through Cognition & Perception (as.nyu.edu/departments/psychology/g…) & Data Science (cds.nyu.edu/phd-admissions-req) at NYU. Research areas available here: lindsay-lab.github.iolindsay-lab.github.ioLindsay Lab - HomeArtificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change 12617
Reposted by Alan LeeSam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Many psychophysics & brain mapping studies use small samples. This often deeply confuses editors & reviewers trained on population statistics. It can also make it difficult to preregister & interpret such studies. Here we attempt to change that: doi.org/10.1101/2023... #neuroscience #visionsciencedoi.orgA simple statistical framework for small sample studiesbioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution 511364
Reposted by Alan LeeMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2023Oooh I am so gonna use this to share results. Post to bsky from R in just a few lines!! 1125
Reposted by Alan Leehakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 23/09/2023johnhorgan.org/cross-check/... Mind-body researchers are bickering over whether a popular theory of consciousness is "pseudoscience." amazingly good science journalism 11312
Reposted by Alan LeeKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 23/09/2023You know you care about scientific rigor if you scrutinize the GitHub repo before reading the paper. 1132
Reposted by Alan Leehakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 17/09/2023this is promised preprint. it addresses 3 things: 1)what i mean by (IIT as) 'pseudoscience' 2) what's wrong w/ the recently highly publicized adversarial collaborations 3) what's wrong w/ the field of consciousness in general psyarxiv.com/28z3y 63124