Dr Lucie Charles

Lucie Charles

Lecturer

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
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Centre for Brain and Behaviour
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Research

Cognitive Neuroscience, Metacognition, Decision-making, Consciousness, Introspection, Action Awareness

Interests

My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying humans’ ability to introspect and evaluate their own decisions and actions. I combine psychophysics, computational modelling and neuroimaging methods to understand the cognitive mechanisms underlying metacognition, introspection and action awareness.

I work in parallel on several lines of research. One concerns choice awareness and freedom of choice, studying the cognitive processes underlying human’s ability to know the reasons for their choices. I try to understand how people introspect their own decision process, how do they detect being influenced in their choices and how they represent the reasons for their own behaviour.

A second line of research focuses on confidence in choice and biases in evaluating the accuracy of one’s decisions. I try to understand what are the dynamics of decisions that lead people to be over- or under-confident in their choices. Part of this work is developing statistical models to estimate and measure biases in confidence judgements.

A third line of research studies how people perceive their own movements and what makes them confident in motor execution. This research focuses on understanding motor awareness and metacognition of motor abilities.