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Kobe Desender

@kobedesender.bsky.social
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Assistant professor at @KU_Leuven, working on #confidence, #decisionmaking and #cognitivecontrol => DesenderLab.com

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"A single evidence accumulation process informs perceptual choices and subsequent confidence reports"! Reviewed Preprint at @elife.bsky.social led by @johnpgrogan1.bsky.social , @lucvermeylen.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, and others PDF: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Thread ↓↓↓
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Adaptive Regulation of Confidence Following Metacognitive Conflict: Evidence From Behavior and Computational Modeling"! Now out in #JEPGeneral led by @jintaoxing.bsky.social @stefherregods.bsky.social @lucvermeylen.bsky.social and me. PDF: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u.... "Conflicting" Thread ↓↓↓
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Trial-by-trial fluctuations in decision criterion shape confidence"! Now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com led by Robin Vloeberghs, Lara Navarette, @anne-urai.bsky.social and me. PDF: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Fluctuating Thread ↓↓↓
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Really cool modeling work about mechanisms underlying biased reasoning by rising star @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social
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Konstantinos Tsetsos @ktsetsos.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳ We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r... www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...
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Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
1/13 New paper with @wimdeneys.bsky.social accepted at @cognitionjournal.bsky.social 🥳 Is creativity intuitive? 👩‍🎨 A 🧵👇
the heading of the paper "Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking" at Cognition
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Modeling Speed–Accuracy Trade-Offs in the Stopping Rule for Confidence Judgments! Now out in #PsychologicalReview (aka we can finally say we do comp models)! Led by @stefherregods.bsky.social @lucvermeylen.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Modeling Speed–Accuracy Trade-Offs in the Stopping Rule for Confidence Judgments! Now out in #PsychologicalReview (aka we can finally say we do comp models)! Led by @stefherregods.bsky.social @lucvermeylen.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 09/12/2025
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
subjectivitylab.org
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion
Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science
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Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception | PNAS
Conscious awareness refers to the subjective experience of perceiving, thinking, and feeling and the ability to report these experiences. These per...
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Well this is exciting! The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank! Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Brace yourself: neural and computational insights into the experience of mental effort! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social Led by Gaia Corlazzoli. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u.... Thread ↓↓↓
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Brace yourself: neural and computational insights into the experience of mental effort! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social Led by Gaia Corlazzoli. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u.... Thread ↓↓↓
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"How disconfirmatory evidence shapes confidence in decision-making"! Now out in @commspsychol.nature.com w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio. led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"Learning to be confident: How agents learn confidence based on prediction errors"! Now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social led by @pierreledenmat.bsky.social Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Can we use confidence-driven information-seeking as a tool to combat fake news!? Really cool study by really cool @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social ↓↓↓
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Full-Force at #ccn2025 in Amsterdam. Come along for a chat if you're interested in metacognition, confidence, computational modelling, reasoning, etc. @yfvisser.bsky.social @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @alexandre-lietard.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Impressive behavioral + modelling + eeg work, led by @lucvermeylen.bsky.social , relating time-on-task changes in comp parameters to changes in metacognitive reports!
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Performance feedback counterintuitively _increases_ overconfidence in young children. Great Collab @dsotob.bsky.social
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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Performance feedback triggers liberal detection andperceptual confidence biases inearly childhood: Implications formetacognitive training @kobedesender.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40555904/
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Performance feedback triggers liberal detection and perceptual confidence biases in early childhood: Implications for metacognitive training - PubMed
Metacognition allows us to monitor our own mental processes and the quality of our decisions in order to promote adaptive behavior and learning across different domains. Despite its potential, the rol...
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Very cool new work led by the incredible @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social Go and Read if you're into information seeking, metacognitieve confidence and (!) _beautiful_ figures :)
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Impressive study led by @johnpgrogan1.bsky.social and @lucvermeylen.bsky.social combining evidence accumulation modeling and EEG to find a computatioanl account that explains the computations of confidence. So many answers in this manuscript :)
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
If you're in Dublin, go and talk to @yfvisser.bsky.social she's doing some really cool stuff on insight into our own biases!!
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Matthias Guggenmos @mguggenmos.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We have a PhD position for an upcoming project in metacognition research in Potsdam / Berlin. A great opportunity for those interested in cognitive modeling of confidence and EEG. More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025 Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!
coconeuro.github.io
Computation and Cognition @ HMU Potsdam
Computation and Cognition @ HMU Potsdam
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Become our new colleague at the #kuleuven!↓↓↓ The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences invites applications for a full-time Research Professorship in Experimental Cognitive Psychology within the B&C research unit. #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Dynamic modulation of confidence based on the metacognitive skills of collaborators! Now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social New work from @felixhermans.bsky.social Simon Gaia @majafr.bsky.social and me! Paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40262423/ Details ↓↓↓
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Last day(s) to apply!
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience! Join us, & investigate how we can endow domain-specific models of vision (eg DNNs) with domain-general processes such as metacognition or working memory. All details => www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Why does it feel good to be sure? In new work @voalan.bsky.social @andero.bsky.social and I bridge confidence and affect. In perceptual DM, we found a remarkably consistent association between both measures! ↓↓↓ link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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Metacognitive confidence and affect – two sides of the same coin?
Decision confidence is a prototypical metacognitive representation that is thought to approximate the probability that a decision is correct. The perception of being correct has also been associate...
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Optimal confidence = P(correct|evidence, time), but how do humans compute this? @pierreledenmat.bsky.social Tom Verguts and I provide a low-dimensional approximation of optimal confidence (the LDC model). paper: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
How is confidence related to confidence RTs? @stefherregods.bsky.social @lucvermeylen.bsky.social and I showcase how our recent EAM of confidence accounts for various relationships observed in empirical data. link: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
A causal manipulation of prior beliefs influences the confidence we have in our decisions! Very excited to see this paper work published in Psychological Science. Get the final paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38427319/ #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
PhD and Post-Doc positions in my Lab! We are currently recruiting (i) a Marie-Curie "CODE" PhD student to work on confidence and reinforcement learning, (ii) a Post-Doc to work on metacognitive insight into latent cognitive parameters. Deadline 31 March, pls RT! Apply: desenderlab.com/job-openings/
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
PhD and Post-Doc positions in my Lab! We are currently recruiting (i) a Marie-Curie "CODE" PhD student to work on confidence and reinforcement learning, (ii) a Post-Doc to work on metacognitive insight into latent cognitive parameters. Deadline 31 March, pls RT! Apply: desenderlab.com/job-openings/
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