Stanislas Dehaene

Experimental Cognitive Psychology

Academic year 2010-2011

 
 

Lectures

Introspection and metacognition: the mechanisms of self-knowledge

Metacognition is defined as our knowledge and beliefs on our own cognitive processes. What mental operations and brain mechanisms do we apply to introspection and which allow us to describe and even control our own mental processes?
Is our introspective capacity merely an illusion?
 
 
 
 

January 4
Definitions and First Paradoxes

January 11
Is our introspective capacity merely an illusion?

January 18
The Relationship between Awareness and Metacognition

January 25
The Relationship between Metacognition and the Theory of the Mind

February 1
Experimental Models of Introspection in the Animal

February 8
Brain Mechanisms

 
 
 
 

Seminars

Psychology and Neuropsychology of Mental Fictions

January 4
Lionel Naccache, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière (Salpêtrière Hospital), Paris
Neuropsychology of Interpretations and Beliefs

January 11
Olaf Blanke, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
How the brain computes the self's point of view

January 18
Paul Fletcher, University of Cambridge, UK
Misperceiving and misbelieving: towards an understanding of psychosis

January 25
Gilles Fénelon, Hôpital Henri Mondor (Henri Mondor Hospital), Créteil
Hallucinations, illusions and sense of presence during Parkinson's disease

February 1
Henrik Ehrsson, Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm, Sweden
The construction of an experience of our body

February 8
Predrag Petrovic, Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm, Sweden
Expectations, beliefs, and the origins of the placebo effect