Sucharit Katyal
@sucharit.bsky.social
Interested in Knowing and Self-knowing
My research spans Metacognition | Computational Psychiatry | Meditation | Consciousness
Currently @University of Copenhagen
Previously @University College London
My research spans Metacognition | Computational Psychiatry | Meditation | Consciousness
Currently @University of Copenhagen
Previously @University College London
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Sucharit Katyal
@sucharit.bsky.social
· Feb 23
Excited to see this now out in the world!
We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Distorted learning from local metacognition supports transdiagnostic underconfidence - Nature Communications
Individuals with symptoms of anxiety and depression exhibit persistent underconfidence. Here, the authors show that distortions in learning from local metacognition can explain how underconfidence is ...
www.nature.com
Our paper where we use computational modelling to study how some people continue to be underconfident in their abilities despite having intact performance out in Nature Communications
@naturecomms.bsky.social
with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan
@naturecomms.bsky.social
with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan
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1/4 I’m super excited to share our latest PNAS paper: a 7T-fMRI study shows that functional connectivity between habenula and VTA in humans is associated with individual differences in negative learning bias, which further associates with higher anxiety and depression scores. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
1/4 I’m super excited to share our latest PNAS paper: a 7T-fMRI study shows that functional connectivity between habenula and VTA in humans is associated with individual differences in negative learning bias, which further associates with higher anxiety and depression scores. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!
The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making
Author summary Breathing is more than just a vital process for survival — it influences how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Recent research suggests that the rhythm of breathing, fr...
doi.org
August 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!
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Very pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3)
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives on metacognitive mechanisms in psychopathology - Nature Reviews Psychology
Cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology have made substantial advances in knowledge about metacognitive processes, but these fields have progressed in parallel. In this Review, Seow et al. inte...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Very pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3)
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
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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 ↓↓↓
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.
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u.... Thread ↓↓↓
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I’m excited to share our latest article “The Multifaceted Ganzfeld at the Crossroad Between Visual Perception and Consciousness: Behavioral, Neural and Qualitative Aspects”, published in Open Mind!
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’m excited to share our latest article “The Multifaceted Ganzfeld at the Crossroad Between Visual Perception and Consciousness: Behavioral, Neural and Qualitative Aspects”, published in Open Mind!
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What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...
Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...
We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...
Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...
We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
July 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...
Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...
We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...
Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...
We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Claire and team did a remarkable job here, and you should read their reply. An updated preprint from us will be out shortly, reflecting our revised understanding of these issues.
We @smfleming.bsky.social, Marion Rouault and @seowxft.bsky.social and I) have posted a reply osf.io/preprints/ps... to a preprint that recently raised concerns about the validity of associations between mental health and metacognition from online studies. I hope you can take the time to read it.
OSF
osf.io
July 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Claire and team did a remarkable job here, and you should read their reply. An updated preprint from us will be out shortly, reflecting our revised understanding of these issues.
Reposted by Sucharit Katyal
We @smfleming.bsky.social, Marion Rouault and @seowxft.bsky.social and I) have posted a reply osf.io/preprints/ps... to a preprint that recently raised concerns about the validity of associations between mental health and metacognition from online studies. I hope you can take the time to read it.
OSF
osf.io
July 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We @smfleming.bsky.social, Marion Rouault and @seowxft.bsky.social and I) have posted a reply osf.io/preprints/ps... to a preprint that recently raised concerns about the validity of associations between mental health and metacognition from online studies. I hope you can take the time to read it.
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I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
June 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Some coverage in Danish newspapers (with a very broad interpretation) of our recent study ☺️
uniavisen.dk/en/you-did-w...
uniavisen.dk/en/you-did-w...
You did well — so why do you feel like a fraud? The psychology of impostor syndrome
Academics can feel like they’ve tricked their colleagues into overestimating them. This researcher knows how to fight it.
uniavisen.dk
June 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Some coverage in Danish newspapers (with a very broad interpretation) of our recent study ☺️
uniavisen.dk/en/you-did-w...
uniavisen.dk/en/you-did-w...
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"In most scientific fields, AI is unlikely to be the solution to concerns about slowing progress." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science
Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.
www.nature.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:31 AM
"In most scientific fields, AI is unlikely to be the solution to concerns about slowing progress." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Do you have #ADHD or #autism? We're running a short, anonymous survey on interoception. It takes just 15–20 minutes, and your input would mean a lot.
👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Aarhus University Student Survey
This questionnaire will take approximately 15- 25 minutes to complete. Please answer in a safe environment and as truthfully as possible. As a neurodiverse research team, we prioritize the comfort an...
docs.google.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Do you have #ADHD or #autism? We're running a short, anonymous survey on interoception. It takes just 15–20 minutes, and your input would mean a lot.
👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Our recent paper in Nat Comms on how people form global underconfidence despite good performance is being covered in popsci press as providing insight into the Imposter Syndrome
phys.org/news/2025-04...
@sciencex.bsky.social
phys.org/news/2025-04...
@sciencex.bsky.social
Persistent underconfidence: Why we doubt our own abilities even when we're good at something
A new study from the University of Copenhagen and University College London has unraveled why some people feel insecure in their abilities—even when they are actually good at what they do.
phys.org
April 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Our recent paper in Nat Comms on how people form global underconfidence despite good performance is being covered in popsci press as providing insight into the Imposter Syndrome
phys.org/news/2025-04...
@sciencex.bsky.social
phys.org/news/2025-04...
@sciencex.bsky.social
Lovely spin on our recent study on underconfidence in the Danish weekly Weekendavisen
www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-13/idee...
Link to original study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@weekendavisen.dk
@smfleming.bsky.social
www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-13/idee...
Link to original study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@weekendavisen.dk
@smfleming.bsky.social
En kur mod tvivl
Bedragersyndrom. Mange veluddannede undervurderer kronisk egne evner. Nyt studie viser, at den rette feedback kan give dem et mere retvisende syn på sig selv.
www.weekendavisen.dk
March 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Lovely spin on our recent study on underconfidence in the Danish weekly Weekendavisen
www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-13/idee...
Link to original study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@weekendavisen.dk
@smfleming.bsky.social
www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-13/idee...
Link to original study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@weekendavisen.dk
@smfleming.bsky.social
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Paper out in PLOS Mental Health 2 weeks ago 🙈 but better late than never! Collab with @smfleming.bsky.social and @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social. We investigated how confidence is altered in transdiagnostic compulsivity across memory and perception, as memory confidence is typically lowered in OCD. (1/4)
New research from @uclqsion.bsky.social reveals that underconfidence is linked to anxiety and depression, while overconfidence is linked to compulsivity. Understanding these connections can help improve mental health treatments.
Underconfidence linked to anxiety-depression and overconfidence linked to compulsivity in new study
A new study from UCL researchers has found that metacognitive biases in anxiety-depression and compulsivity extend across perception and memory.
buff.ly
March 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Paper out in PLOS Mental Health 2 weeks ago 🙈 but better late than never! Collab with @smfleming.bsky.social and @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social. We investigated how confidence is altered in transdiagnostic compulsivity across memory and perception, as memory confidence is typically lowered in OCD. (1/4)
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We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang @shiyiliang.bsky.social:
'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)
@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)
@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
OSF
osf.io
March 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang @shiyiliang.bsky.social:
'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)
@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)
@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
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Great work by @sucharit.bsky.social suggesting that one failure mode in maintaining low self-esteem is the failure to integrate experiences of high confidence into self-esteem. Would be great to develop the intervention/therapeutic potential further.
Our paper where we use computational modelling to study how some people continue to be underconfident in their abilities despite having intact performance out in Nature Communications
@naturecomms.bsky.social
with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan
@naturecomms.bsky.social
with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan
Excited to see this now out in the world!
We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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February 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Great work by @sucharit.bsky.social suggesting that one failure mode in maintaining low self-esteem is the failure to integrate experiences of high confidence into self-esteem. Would be great to develop the intervention/therapeutic potential further.
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This is a great study, if I may say. We have had a lot of data showing correlations between subjective assessments and behaviour between individuals. With this study, we are starting to see how they interact over days within individuals. Congratulations @samuelhewitt.bsky.social!
A little bby from my PhD is published!
we did a complex study to answer a simple Q:
do day-to-day feelings impact choices?
A: Yes. When feeling motivated (independent of other stable or unstable feelings) choices changed because rewards seemed greater.
open access link:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
we did a complex study to answer a simple Q:
do day-to-day feelings impact choices?
A: Yes. When feeling motivated (independent of other stable or unstable feelings) choices changed because rewards seemed greater.
open access link:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Day-to-day fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based decision-making | PNAS
Internal states like motivation fluctuate substantially over time. However, studies
of the neurocomputational mechanims of motivated behavior have ...
doi.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is a great study, if I may say. We have had a lot of data showing correlations between subjective assessments and behaviour between individuals. With this study, we are starting to see how they interact over days within individuals. Congratulations @samuelhewitt.bsky.social!
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Pleased to share our latest collaborative publication, "Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain", out now in Science Advances! The first major output of our Visceral Mind Project, lead by the amazing @francescafardo.bsky.social! www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain
Computational modeling reveals how uncertainty transforms harmless stimuli into perceptions of pain.
www.science.org
March 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Pleased to share our latest collaborative publication, "Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain", out now in Science Advances! The first major output of our Visceral Mind Project, lead by the amazing @francescafardo.bsky.social! www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Very excited to organise the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting in Amsterdam just before the @cogcompneuro.bsky.social conference, on Monday 11th Aug 2025. More information to come soon but please save the date!
We 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...
For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
Home
This 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 ...
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March 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Very excited to organise the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting in Amsterdam just before the @cogcompneuro.bsky.social conference, on Monday 11th Aug 2025. More information to come soon but please save the date!
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Love this (below); Here's a short piece to a similar tune from me, @alvanoe.bsky.social, & @evanthompson.bsky.social
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...
March 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Love this (below); Here's a short piece to a similar tune from me, @alvanoe.bsky.social, & @evanthompson.bsky.social
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...
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Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇
March 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇
Many congratulations on this excellent work @mkwittmann.bsky.social @yongling.bsky.social @cormacd.bsky.social
New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature
A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...
www.nature.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Many congratulations on this excellent work @mkwittmann.bsky.social @yongling.bsky.social @cormacd.bsky.social
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We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
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New study finds that pain and itch are processed by specific neurons in the cingulate cortex. I wonder what that means for theories that say that anything in these areas should be considered interoception? 🤔 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Processing of pain and itch information by modality-specific neurons within the anterior cingulate cortex in mice - Nature Communications
How itch and pain, which are similar but distinct, are processed in the brain remains unclear. Here, the authors show modality-specific neural circuits between the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and ...
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New study finds that pain and itch are processed by specific neurons in the cingulate cortex. I wonder what that means for theories that say that anything in these areas should be considered interoception? 🤔 www.nature.com/articles/s41...