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What do we know about the factors that influence our decisions? Are we aware of the true reasons of our choices? The question of what influences decisions and whether people can detect that they are being influenced emerged as a topical issue in the recent years, following scandals of manipulations in political campaigns and global increase in mistrust of the medias.
In extreme cases, feeling that we are manipulated or believing in conspiracy theories may be distressful and can constitute a symptom of mental illness. For instance, patients with schizophrenia experience delusions of control in which their actions seem to be driven by an external force, leading to persecution ideas. Such symptoms are also observed in patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), who report imposed thoughts that they try to ward off with repeated behaviours.
Recent progress in neuroscience has started to reveal the cognitive and cerebral mechanisms involved in introspection of decision-making, opening perspectives on understanding the subjective feeling of freedom over one’s choice.
The aim of the present workshop is to bring together neuroscientists and psychiatrists to discuss recent research on these topics, exploring preliminary behavioural and neuroimaging research on metacognition and freedom of choice in patients with mental illness.
Program:
09:30 - 10:00 Arrival coffee
10:00 - 12:00 Session 1: Altered decision making and metacognition in psychosis, Chair: Rick Adams (Department of Computer Science, University College of London, England)
10:00 - 10:30 Alexandre Salvador, Service Hospitalo-Universitaire (SHU), Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Paris, France
Overconfidence or underconfidence in schizophrenia ? Insights from a probabilistic inference task under ketamine.
10:30 - 11:00 Lucie Berkovitch, Service Hospitalo-Universitaire (SHU), Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Paris, France
Can disruption of conscious access in schizophrenia affect freedom of choice?
11:00 - 11:30 Tore Erdmann, Cognitive neuroscience sector International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
Information sampling, metacognition and delusional ideation
11:30 - 12:00 Panel Discussion
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Time
13:00 - 13:30 Coffee Break
13:30 - 15:30 Session 2: Metacognitive Bias in OCD and Anxiety disorders, Chair: Luc Mallet (Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle, Paris, France)
13:30 - 14:00 Marion Rouault, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles (LNC2), Institut Jean Nicod — EHESS — Département d’Etudes Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Global self-beliefs and mental health symptom dimensions
14:00 - 14:30 Oliver Robinson, Neuroscience and Mental Health Group, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College of London (UCL), England
Measuring individual differences in negative cognitive bias in mood and anxiety disorders
14:30 - 15:00 Karim N’Diaye, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle (ICM), Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
"Should I check or should I go? Compulsive checking and metacognition"
15:00 - 15:30 Panel Discussion
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00 Session 3: Cognitive studies of metacognition and freedom of choice, Chair: Valérian Chambon (Departement d’Etudes Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
16:00 - 16:30 Lucie Charles, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College of London (UCL), England
Metacognition and Freedom of Choice: Instrospection the cause of our actions
16:30 - 17:00 Nura Sidarus, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, England
How learning is influenced by freedom of choice and metacognition
17:00 - 17:30 Patrick Haggard, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College of London (UCL), England
Choice paralysis and choice blindness, or choice fluency and choice insight
17:30 - 18:00 Panel Discussion
