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Information about the state of the world reaches the brain through the senses. In contrast to the traditional view postulating that sensory information propagates through the brain in a feed;forward manner, it has recently been suggested that perception is as an active process with the brain constantly generating hypotheses about the causes of its sensory inputs in order to anticipate future events. [more]

Understanding how social influence shapes biological processes is a central challenge in contemporary science, essential for achieving progress in a variety of fields ranging from the organization and evolution of coordinated collective action among cells, or animals, to the dynamics of information exchange in human societies. [more]

Metacognition can be defined as the monitoring and control of lower-level cognitive processes. There are at least two levels of metacognition. Implicit metacognition, an automatic, sub-personal process, can often display optimal levels of control. This is not the case for conscious, explicit metacognition. Many features of schizophrenia, such as thought insertion and lack of insight, reflect disorders of metacognition. However, experimental studies suggest that these disorders only emerge at the explicit level of metacognition. [more]