Kobe Desender
@kobedesender.bsky.social
Assistant professor at @KU_Leuven, working on #confidence, #decisionmaking and #cognitivecontrol => DesenderLab.com
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Kobe Desender
@kobedesender.bsky.social
· Sep 19
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.
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⏳ 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...
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...
January 14, 2026 at 12:43 PM
⏳ 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...
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...
Reposted by Kobe Desender
1/13
New paper with @wimdeneys.bsky.social accepted at @cognitionjournal.bsky.social 🥳
Is creativity intuitive? 👩🎨
A 🧵👇
New paper with @wimdeneys.bsky.social accepted at @cognitionjournal.bsky.social 🥳
Is creativity intuitive? 👩🎨
A 🧵👇
January 7, 2026 at 5:40 PM
1/13
New paper with @wimdeneys.bsky.social accepted at @cognitionjournal.bsky.social 🥳
Is creativity intuitive? 👩🎨
A 🧵👇
New paper with @wimdeneys.bsky.social accepted at @cognitionjournal.bsky.social 🥳
Is creativity intuitive? 👩🎨
A 🧵👇
Reposted by Kobe Desender
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
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December 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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
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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
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desenderlab.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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
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Reposted by Kobe Desender
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.🧵
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion
Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science
subjectivitylab.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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.🧵
Reposted by Kobe Desender
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/...
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...
www.pnas.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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/...
Reposted by Kobe Desender
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
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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December 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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
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
Reposted by Kobe Desender
Brace yourself: neural and computational insights into
the experience of mental effort! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social Led by Gaia Corlazzoli.
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the experience of mental effort! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social Led by Gaia Corlazzoli.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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 ↓↓↓
the experience of mental effort! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social Led by Gaia Corlazzoli.
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u.... Thread ↓↓↓
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 ↓↓↓
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
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 ↓↓↓
the experience of mental effort! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social Led by Gaia Corlazzoli.
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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
w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun
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#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"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
w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence
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
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#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
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#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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
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#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
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#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
"Learning to be confident: How agents learn confidence based on prediction errors"! Now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social led by @pierreledenmat.bsky.social
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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
September 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
"Learning to be confident: How agents learn confidence based on prediction errors"! Now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social led by @pierreledenmat.bsky.social
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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
Reposted by Kobe Desender
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.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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 ↓↓↓
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
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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September 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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.
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Can we use confidence-driven information-seeking as a tool to combat fake news!? Really cool study by really cool @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social ↓↓↓
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...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
September 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Can we use confidence-driven information-seeking as a tool to combat fake news!? Really cool study by really cool @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social ↓↓↓
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
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
Impressive behavioral + modelling + eeg work, led by @lucvermeylen.bsky.social , relating time-on-task changes in comp parameters to changes in metacognitive reports!
The study suggests a few metacognitive states correlate with rational behavioural adjustments; this might help steering behaviour towards optimality.
@lucvermeylen.bsky.social @sebraem.bsky.social @kobedesender.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @mruz.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@lucvermeylen.bsky.social @sebraem.bsky.social @kobedesender.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @mruz.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The temporal dynamics of metacognitive experiences track rational adaptations in task performance - Communications Psychology
Using computational modeling and EEG, the study suggests several metacognitive states correlate with rational adjustments in behavior; this might benefit steering behavior towards optimality
www.nature.com
July 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Impressive behavioral + modelling + eeg work, led by @lucvermeylen.bsky.social , relating time-on-task changes in comp parameters to changes in metacognitive reports!
Performance feedback counterintuitively _increases_ overconfidence in young children. Great Collab @dsotob.bsky.social
Performance feedback triggers liberal detection andperceptual confidence biases inearly childhood: Implications formetacognitive training @kobedesender.bsky.social
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40555904/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40555904/
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...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
June 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Performance feedback counterintuitively _increases_ overconfidence in young children. Great Collab @dsotob.bsky.social
Reposted by Kobe Desender
Performance feedback triggers liberal detection andperceptual confidence biases inearly childhood: Implications formetacognitive training @kobedesender.bsky.social
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40555904/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40555904/
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...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
June 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Performance feedback triggers liberal detection andperceptual confidence biases inearly childhood: Implications formetacognitive training @kobedesender.bsky.social
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40555904/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40555904/
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 :)
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/a/1lGLb2Hx2-... 🧵⬇️ (1/7)
authors.elsevier.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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 :)
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 :)
Our newest preprint is out (doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.05.658071), with @lucvermeylen.bsky.social,Dasha Monakhovych, Cameron McCabe, Sarah-Louise Mannion, @kobedesender.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, comparing post-decision confidence models against behaviour and neural decision signals...
Neurally-informed modelling unravels a single evidence accumulation process for choices and subsequent confidence reports
Subjective confidence in perceptual choices depends on computations occurring prior to and after choice commitment. However, the nature of these computations remains unclear. Current models disagree o...
doi.org
June 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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 :)
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!!
Ever wondered if you were aware of your own biases? Us too! If you're attending #RLDM2025, stop by poster #92 on Friday to learn how we tested insight into perceptual decision biases using (hierarchical) drift diffusion modelling. Work with @kobedesender.bsky.social, Peter Murphy & Hanne Daenen.
June 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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!!
Reposted by Kobe Desender
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!
More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025
Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!
Computation and Cognition @ HMU Potsdam
Computation and Cognition @ HMU Potsdam
coconeuro.github.io
June 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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!
More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025
Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!
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
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
May 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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
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
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 ↓↓↓
@felixhermans.bsky.social Simon Gaia @majafr.bsky.social
and me! Paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40262423/ Details ↓↓↓
April 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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 ↓↓↓
@felixhermans.bsky.social Simon Gaia @majafr.bsky.social
and me! Paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40262423/ Details ↓↓↓