Hélène Van Marcke
helenevanmarcke.bsky.social
Hélène Van Marcke
@helenevanmarcke.bsky.social
PhD student, Brain & Cognition @KULeuven | metacognition & decision-making
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Warning: this is *not* fake news! New preprint out w/ S. Kunkle & @kobedesender.bsky.social on how confidence-driven information seeking is suboptimal in the context of fake news 📰🔍🧵 (1/6):
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There is always a bit of time for fun! Last week we had a LBP social event with a customised quiz about our colleagues and faculty, pizza and..
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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 ↓↓↓
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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"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
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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"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
September 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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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
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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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 ↓↓↓
September 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Warning: this is *not* fake news! New preprint out w/ S. Kunkle & @kobedesender.bsky.social on how confidence-driven information seeking is suboptimal in the context of fake news 📰🔍🧵 (1/6):
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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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
August 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Happy to share my latest work with @kobedesender.bsky.social on the context-dependent role of confidence in information-seeking 🔍now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social --
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lGLb2Hx2-... 🧵⬇️ (1/7)
authors.elsevier.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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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...
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PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
www.kuleuven.be
March 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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....
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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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January 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM