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  • 2019 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Stephen M. Fleming is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with notable emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional interdisciplinary interests include Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Face Recognition and Perception, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Visual Perception and Processing Mechanisms, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

Frequent publication venues for Stephen M. Fleming include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 15 publications, Trends in Cognitive Sciences with 7, Neuroscience of Consciousness with 6, Cognition with 5, and Nature Communications with 4.

Recent papers authored by Fleming are:

  • "Metacognition and Confidence: A Review and Synthesis," 2023, Annual Review of Psychology
  • "Knowing Ourselves Together: The Cultural Origins of Metacognition," 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Confidence drives a neural confirmation bias," 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in Fleming's research include Matan Mazor, Nadine Dijkstra, Raymond J. Dolan, Dan Bang, and Marion Rouault. Collaboration with these individuals accounts for significant contributions to investigations on metacognition and neural mechanisms underlying cognitive processes.

Among recognized achievements, Stephen M. Fleming received the Spearman Medal from the British Psychological Society in 2019.

Best Publications

  • How to measure metacognition

    Stephen M. Fleming;Stephen M. Fleming;Hakwan C. Lau;Hakwan C. Lau

  • Relating Introspective Accuracy to Individual Differences in Brain Structure

    Stephen M. Fleming;Rimona S. Weil;Rimona S. Weil;Zoltan Nagy;Raymond J. Dolan

  • The Neural Basis of Metacognitive Ability

    Stephen M. Fleming;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Self-evaluation of decision-making: A general Bayesian framework for metacognitive computation.

    Stephen M. Fleming;Nathaniel D. Daw

  • Confidence in value-based choice

    Benedetto De Martino;Benedetto De Martino;Stephen M Fleming;Stephen M Fleming;Stephen M Fleming;Neil Garrett;Raymond J Dolan

  • The development of metacognitive ability in adolescence.

    Leonora G. Weil;Stephen M. Fleming;Stephen M. Fleming;Iroise Dumontheil;Emma J. Kilford

  • Allostatic Self-Efficacy: A Metacognitive Theory of Dyshomeostasis-Induced Fatigue and Depression

    Klaas Enno Stephan;Zina Mary Manjaly;Christoph Daniel Mathys;Lilian A.E. Weber

  • Prefrontal Contributions to Metacognition in Perceptual Decision Making

    Stephen M. Fleming;Josefien Huijgen;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Metacognition: computation, biology and function

    Stephen M. Fleming;Raymond J. Dolan;Christopher D. Frith;Christopher D. Frith;Christopher D. Frith

  • Domain-specific impairment in metacognitive accuracy following anterior prefrontal lesions

    Stephen M. Fleming;Stephen M. Fleming;Jihye Ryu;John G. Golfinos;Karen E. Blackmon

  • Psychiatric symptom dimensions are associated with dissociable shifts in metacognition but not task performance

    Marion Rouault;Tricia Seow;Claire M. Gillan;Stephen M. Fleming

  • HMeta-d: hierarchical Bayesian estimation of metacognitive efficiency from confidence ratings.

    Stephen M Fleming

  • Domain-General and Domain-Specific Patterns of Activity Supporting Metacognition in Human Prefrontal Cortex

    Jorge Morales;Hakwan Lau;Stephen M. Fleming

  • Subliminal priming of actions influences sense of control over effects of action

    Dorit Wenke;Stephen M. Fleming;Patrick Haggard

  • An Online Neural Substrate for Sense of Agency

    Valerian Chambon;Dorit Wenke;Stephen M. Fleming;Wolfgang Prinz

  • Overcoming status quo bias in the human brain.

    Stephen M. Fleming;Charlotte L. Thomas;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Metacognitive Failure as a Feature of Those Holding Radical Beliefs

    Max Rollwage;Raymond J. Dolan;Stephen M. Fleming

  • Action-Specific Disruption of Perceptual Confidence

    Stephen M. Fleming;Brian Maniscalco;Yoshiaki Ko;Namema Amendi

  • Distinct encoding of decision confidence in human medial prefrontal cortex

    Dan Bang;Stephen M. Fleming

  • Relating inter-individual differences in metacognitive performance on different perceptual tasks

    Chen Song;Ryota Kanai;Stephen M. Fleming;Rimona S. Weil

  • Knowing Ourselves Together: The Cultural Origins of Metacognition.

    Cecilia Heyes;Dan Bang;Dan Bang;Nicholas Shea;Christopher D. Frith

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Patrick Haggard
Patrick Haggard University College London
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London
Nathaniel D. Daw
Nathaniel D. Daw Princeton University
Hakwan Lau
Hakwan Lau Sungkyunkwan University
Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees University College London
Anthony S. David
Anthony S. David University College London
Anil K. Seth
Anil K. Seth University of Sussex
Klaas E. Stephan
Klaas E. Stephan University of Zurich

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