Dr Daniel Yon (Head)
I am a Reader (Associate Professor) in Cognitive Neuroscience and Head of the Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London.
I studied Psychology at Oxford before moving to Birkbeck for doctoral training in 2014. I received my PhD in 2018, and took up my first permanent position in 2019 before joining the faculty at Birkbeck in 2019. For 2023-34, I was also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Paris.
Research in my lab combines tools from experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study how the mind and brain forms perceptions, actions and beliefs.
If you’re interested in joining the group or working with us, please feel free to get in touch.
Helen Olawole-Scott (PhD student)
I am a PhD student in the Uncertainty Lab supervised by Daniel (Birkbeck) and Rebecca Chamberlain (Goldsmiths). My PhD is funded by the ESRC.
I completed my MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam , where I worked on two main research projects: one focused on detecting local sleep patterns using EEG and another which attempted to bias spatial attention using tDCS. I then went on to work as a research assistant at the University of Cambridge on the BabyRhythm project which studies neural and motor entrainment to auditory stimuli in infants and how this could be related to their later language development. In my PhD, I am using a multi-method approach to characterise the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underpin meta-level beliefs about the reliability of our senses (e.g.,).
Georgie Edwards-Lowe (PhD student)
I am a PhD student in the Uncertainty Lab, supervised by Daniel and Ori Ossmy. My PhD is funded by the ESRC.
Currently, I am leading on a project that combines ideas from metacognition and reinforcement learning to investigate how we form and update models about our own abilities – using a combination of behavioural experiments, neuroimaging (fMRI) and computational models.
Before that, I was an MSc student and research assistant in the lab, where I led work looking at how different kinds of uncertainty affect metacognition and information seeking (e.g.,)
I am a research assistant working in the Uncertainty Lab, supervised by Daniel.
Krisztina Jedlovszky (PhD Student)
I am a PhD student on UCL-Birkbeck MRC training programme, jointly supervised by Daniel and Jeremy Skipper (UCL). My PhD is focusing on using behavioural experiments, computational modelling, neuroimaging and psychedelics to understand the cognitive basis of mental health symptoms – with a particular interest in rumination.
Previously in the lab, I worked on a rotation project am working using behavioural experiments and reinforcement learning models to investigate expectations about volatility and their connection to unusual states like paranoia (e.g.,)
Einar Andreassen (Research Assistant)
I worked with The Uncertainty Lab during my MSc in Psychology at Birkbeck. Right now, I am leading on a project that explores how interacting with other people might change our beliefs about our own minds.
Lab alumni
George Blackburne (2022-23)
George worked was Research Assistant in the Uncertainty Lab on a project funded by the Wellcome Trust, investigating the sense of control (e.g.,) and its disruption across the psychiatric spectrum. After working in the Lab, George moved on to a PhD at UCL’s Department of Experimental Psychology.
