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Tianqi ZHAN
@tianqizhan.bsky.social
PhD student in cognitive neuroscience @ UCL
BS @ NYU Shanghai
Interested in 🧠decision-making, metacognition, and 🎵🎤🎸🎨🎬🏸🩰🍳...
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Get to know our PhD students!👁️‍🗨️🎉 Tianqi Zhan, supervised by Steve Fleming, investigates the individual differences in metacognitive monitoring and control using behavioral experiments and computational approaches.
October 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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🚨The first paper of my postdoc is out now in @elife.bsky.social! 🚨 We explored the role of attention in planning. Thank you 🙏 to the reviewers for their helpful comments & suggestions. Keep your 👀 peeled for additional analyses and our response. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
How attention simplifies mental representations for planning
elifesciences.org
September 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢

🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.

Please RT

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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
August 7, 2025 at 2:25 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...
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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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The CODE Network Workshop on Computational Modelling in Leuven was a fantastic opportunity to explore up-to-date ideas on metacognition🤯. We had an excellent lineup of presenters and students enriched the event with their project presentations! #MSCA
March 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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“You can’t just be confident, you have to be confident about something.”

Research led by @jerlich.bsky.social and Xiaoyue Zhu set out to disentangle the different kinds of confidence by designing a perceptual gambling task for rodents.

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www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/dec...
February 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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📢The call is open!

Are you seeking a #PhDposition in Nanoscience/Neuroscience? Have a look to the NeuroNanotech Doctoral Network positions. A great funding scheme with career development support.

️🟪 🟦 neuronanotech.eu?utm_campaign... 🟦 🟪

#MSCA #EUfunded #HorizonEU #PhDjob
February 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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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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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
February 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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📃Interested in domain-general metacognition across the lifespan?
Check out our new article now published in Cognition:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Led by Lucile Meunier-Duperray with Céline Souchay, @smfleming.bsky.social , Christine Bastin, Chris Moulin, & Lucie Angel
Does age affect metacognition? A cross-domain investigation using a hierarchical Bayesian framework
According to previous research, the accuracy of metacognitive judgments in aging depends on the cognitive domain involved in the task, the experimenta…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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This is happening tomorrow! 😅😅😅
I'll be talking about all things metacognitive on 23rd Jan in a public lecture at the @royalsociety.org

It's free to attend and will also be broadcast live on the RS YouTube channel (no pressure then 😅)

royalsociety.org/science-even...
How the human brain thinks about itself | Royal Society
Royal Society Francis Crick Prize Lecture by Professor Stephen Fleming.
royalsociety.org
January 22, 2025 at 7:20 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....
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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
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My article "A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition" is finally out in Nature Communications 🎉 If you work on metacognition and think you know the psychometric properties of your favorite measure, you may be surprised.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition - Nature Communications
Measuring metacognitive ability is one of the enduring challenges in cognitive science. The current paper develops formal tests of the quality of different measures and assesses how current metrics pe...
www.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Feeling so lucky to be part of this incredible network! Everyone is so inspiring, and I can’t wait for our next gathering. Excited to collaborate and create amazing things together!
First Confident Decision Network Workshop at UCL! 😎 Huge thanks to our amazing lineup of speakers and everyone who joined us to make this event a success. @singmann.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social @jennirodd.bsky.social @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @amansaleem.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM