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INVITED SYMPOSIUM 7
HOW UNCERTAINTY IN VARIANT DESIGNS CAN INFORM NEURO-COGNITIVE FUNCTION
Chairs - Athena Demertzi (ULiège) & Axel Cleeremans (ULB)
Presenters - Christel Devue (ULiège), Arnaud D’Argembeau (ULiège), Medha Shekhar (ULB), Athena Demertzi (ULiège)
In experimental designs, we typically wish to acquire data that reflect participants’ confidence to the best of our possibility. However, uncertainty surrounding perceptive inputs, mental experiences or behaviors can also be a valuable source of insight into cognitive and neural function. Here, we bring together experimenters from different psychological fields of research working on uncertainty, in order to delineate how this seemingly source of noise can help us better understand human behavior. Specifically, we will address how uncertainty might shape cost-efficient facial representations (Christel Devue, ULiège), future thinking (Arnaud D’Argembeau, ULiège), perceptual decision-making (Medha Shekhar, ULB), and the experience of our thoughts (Athena Demertzi, ULiège). We will discuss whether and how placing uncertainty at the center stage can provide new knowledge into how the brain and the mind operate to retain our behavior within optimal bounds.
