Psychologist and neuroscientist. Studying how we perceive, act and decide | Reader (Associate Professor) @bbkpsychology
Joined January 2009
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13 Sep 2021
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-biology/ful…
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16 May 2025
🧠 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
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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/m00291z… @BirkbeckScience
18 Mar 2025
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/m00291z…
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18 Mar 2025
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/m00291z…
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17 Mar 2025
Up bright & early at the BBC this morning to record Radio 4´s Start the Week!
You can hear me talking about my new book ‘A Trick Of The Mind’, and discussing the imprint that uncertain times can leave on our minds and brains 🧠
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17 Mar 2025
Broadcast live at 9pm, or on catch up thereafter! Tune in!
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00291z…
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Daniel Yon retweeted
6 Feb 2025
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
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6 Dec 2024
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-f…
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Daniel Yon retweeted
21 Nov 2024
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
21 Oct 2024
📣🧠📣 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/postd…
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2 Nov 2024
Great piece in The Guardian by @lyndseywinship on the neuroscience of dance - ft. the inimitable @guidorgs theguardian.com/stage/2024/n…
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Daniel Yon retweeted
30 Oct 2024
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
ALT Can ChatGPT Think? Partn1 of the Critical AI 2024 Seminar Series. 14 November 2024, 18:00-19:30, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Sq, Book your free ticket online
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Daniel Yon retweeted
21 Oct 2024
📣🧠📣 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/postd…
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Daniel Yon retweeted
22 Oct 2024
This sounds like a great opportunity on the important topic of discovering a genuinely social self.
21 Oct 2024
📣🧠📣 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.
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Daniel Yon retweeted
22 Oct 2024
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
21 Oct 2024
📣🧠📣 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/postd…
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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
21 Oct 2024
📣🧠📣 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.
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Daniel Yon retweeted
21 Oct 2024
Highly recommend working with Daniel, he's a fantastic scientist as well as a deeply supportive and lovely person! 👇👇
21 Oct 2024
📣🧠📣 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.
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21 Oct 2024
📣🧠📣 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.
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21 Oct 2024
You’ll join the lab at Birkbeck and a collaborative project team - incl. @CeliaHeyes, @PhilCorlett1 and Chris Frith.
The post is for two years in the first instance, with the possibility of extension.
Any Qs please get in touch! (via email 📧)
Deadline: 25th Nov
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16 Oct 2024
Really looking forward to seeing @mazormatan speak at this afternoon’s @bbkpsychology seminar. Details below 👇
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Daniel Yon retweeted
4 Oct 2024
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/vaca…
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