On Saturday, 24 May, I'm taking part in Redcliffe's Memory Walk & Jog to raise funds to support Australians impacted by dementia. This is a cause close to my heart and I would love your support. Pleas...

Using a confidence-accuracy dissociation paradigm, the study finds that multisensory integration follows subjective confidence instead of objective accuracy. Further modeling suggests shared computati...

Sadnicka et al., overview experimental data that has examined metacognition in patients with functional neurological disorders (FND). Interestingly, most s

Abstract. Studying subjective experience is hard. We believe that pain is not identical to nociception, nor pleasure a computational reward signal, nor fea

Signal detection theory (SDT) has long provided the field of psychology with a simple but powerful model of how observers make decisions under uncertainty. SDT can distinguish sensitivity from respons...

Sentience is a puzzle - and an increasingly important one. The question of exactly what constitutes sentience, and which organisms possess it, is hotly contested. But with scientific evidence emerging...

Scientific Data - Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks

Author summary Research has long recognized that individuals display curiosity and explore their environments in order to learn. It is suggested that personal characteristics, including autistic trait...

BackgroundThe ability of large language models to generate general purpose natural language represents a significant step forward in creating systems able to...

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Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

Experiment code for our cognitive effort decision making paradigm published in Cognition. - julian-matthews/cognitive-fatigue-paradigm

Nature Human Behaviour - The Turing test is not a good benchmark for thought in LLMs

Corcoran et al. present a Bayesian treatment of adversarial collaboration that operationalizes competing theoretical hypotheses as generative models. This approach enables the evaluation of alternati...

Wakefulness, non-rapid eye-movement (NREM) and rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep differ from each other along three dimensions: behavioral, phenomenologi…

A key aspect of metacognition is metacognitive accuracy, i.e., the degree to which confidence judgments differentiate between correct and incorrect trials. To quantify metacognitive accuracy, research...

Our pains can be more or less intense, our mental imagery can be more or less vivid, our perceptual experiences can be more or less striking. These degrees of intensity of ...

Researchers from The University of Queensland and QUT have traced the unique evolution of Brisbane’s punks and goths, and their role in shaping the city’s ‘alternative’ identity.