Daniel Yon

When Bayesian brain theories talk about 'precision', what precisely do they mean? In @CurrentBiology @cdfrith & I explain how precision has shaped thinking about perception, learning, metacognition & social interaction. But some key puzzles remain unsolved cell.com/current-biolog…

🧠 Is your brain tricking you? Birkbeck Science Week kicks off 9 June with @danieljamesyon on how your brain invents reality. 📅 9 June | 🕕 6–9PM | 📍Malet St 🎟️ Talks, lab tours, drinks One of several fascinating event coming up! Book now → bit.ly/3QbBLin

Check out Dr @danieljamesyon on @BBCRadio4 discussing the cognitive impact of covid on our brains & his new book 'A Trick of the Mind' bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… @BirkbeckScience

How do our brains deal with uncertain times? Listen to Birkbeck’s Dr Daniel Yon on @BBCRadio4’s Start the Week, talking about his new book ‘A Trick of the Mind’ and the imprint that the COVID-19 Pandemic has left on our minds and brains: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Congratulations to Dr Daniel Yon from @bbkpsychology, whose forthcoming book, 'A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality', has been highlighted by @penguinrandom as a highly anticipated title release in 2025 🥳 Read more: ow.ly/XiB450UQmNL

Excited to say that in 2026 I'll be a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. I'll be trying to combine psychology, neuroscience, economics and anthropology to understand the cultural evolution of confidence. asc.ox.ac.uk/news/visiting-…

Final call for this postdoc job in my lab @bbkpsychology! We’re looking for a cognitive neuroscientist to join a four-year project, investigating how we learn from other people about the uncertainty in our own minds 🧠 💭 Any Qs feel free to email 📧 Deadline 25th Nov

Great piece in The Guardian by @lyndseywinship on the neuroscience of dance - ft. the inimitable @guidorgs theguardian.com/stage/2024/nov…

Join us on 14 November for the first talk in the Critical AI 2024 Seminar Series: "Can ChatGPT Think?" with Dr. Alex Grzankowski 💻🧠 Dr. Grzankowski examines whether contemporary AI systems such as ChatGPT are thinking and reasoning or are mere mimics: ow.ly/XhEs50TTcOK

📣🧠📣 I’m hiring !! 📣🧠📣 We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab @bbkpsychology. You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project funded by @LeverhulmeTrust - studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds. cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/postdo…

The Uncertainty Lab is hiring! We're a friendly bunch, promise 😊 brimming with ideas and in need of a postdoc to help realise them 🧠❔🧠 Happy to chat if you're curious

Postdoc position at The Uncertainty Lab working w/ a wonderful team incl. @danieljamesyon @CeliaHeyes @PhilCorlett1 & Chris Frith. Appl. deadline 25th Nov. Read more here👇👇 @BirkbeckUoL @BirkbeckScience

Highly recommend working with Daniel, he's a fantastic scientist as well as a deeply supportive and lovely person! 👇👇

Really looking forward to seeing @mazormatan speak at this afternoon’s @bbkpsychology seminar. Details below 👇

At @bbkpsychology we’re recruiting a new permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor)! We’re particularly interested in researchers with an emerging record in cognitive neuroscience and/or computational approaches to cognition 🧠 💭 Deadline: 2nd Dec Link: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/internal/vacan…