Hugo Fleming

New preprint out, with @olijrobinson and @jonroiser! 📢 ‘Measuring cognitive effort without difficulty’ doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…. We highlight a major confound in previous cog effort tasks and present a new task that solves this.🧵 #cognitiveeffort #effort #cogneuro @ucl_icn

Shaping up to be a cracking discussion this - looking forwards to it!

We're very excited to announce the launch of 'Turning Points', a new podcast presented by @HugoFleming_ and @_cmhood, and produced by @lukasgunschera. In each episode we interview a senior scientist about the pivotal moments in their career... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tur…

I made my BBC documentary Better Off Dead? to explain why me & many other disabled people oppose legalising assisted suicide. Some of us have very real fears based on our lived experience & based on what has happened in other countries where it's legal. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

"Are we looking in the wrong place for answers to Britain's mental health crisis?" - me, for @spectator spectator.co.uk/article/are-we…

'What if...?': Creativity in science hugofleming.com/post/what-if

In the past couple years my lab has gone down a rather wild new road of metabolic computational psychiatry... We wondered: what if one of the reasons metabolic and mental health disorders go hand-in-hand is because they share common neurocognitive signatures?

What’s your preference when it comes to risk? Are you a risk-seeker, or are you risk-averse? Have you always been? Risk preferences are often described as like personality traits… …idiosyncratically different between people, but largely stable over time. Thread, 1/21

Reading old papers, you sometimes see them refer to 'depressions' rather than just 'depression'. A slight change of language perhaps, but with significant difference in implication. Should we be returning to this plural form?