Publications

For a general reader

• Yon, D. (2025). A TRICK OF THE MIND: How The Brain Invents Your Reality. Penguin Random House (UK), Hachette (USA).
• Yon, D. (2020). It’s not necessarily deluded to feel in control when you are not. Psyche.
• Yon, D. (2019). How our brain sculpts experience in line with our expectations. Aeon.

Scientific papers

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1. Jedlovszky, K., Castiello de Obeso, S., Suthaharan, P., Yon, D., & Corlett, P. R. (in press). Exaggerated volatility beliefs drive social hallucinations in paranoia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. [link]
2. Andreassen, E.R., Frith, C.D., & Yon, D. (2026). Public communication alters private confidence. Current Biology. [link][preprint]
3. Armstrong, M.J., Yon, D., & Seghezzi, S. (2026). Planning paths not taken: False memories for unexecuted actions. PsyArXiv. [link]
4. Clarke, J., Rittershofer, K., Ward, E.K., Yon, D., & Press, C. (2026). Perceptual predictions track subjective over objective statistical structure. eLife. [link][preprint]
5. Jedlovszky, K., & Yon, D. (2026). Predictions and outcomes independently shape the subjective experience of regret. PsyArXiv. [link]
6. Rittershofer, K., Wang, Y., Eimer, M., Kok, P., Yon, D., & Press, C. (2026). Paradoxical influences of prediction are resolved across time. bioRxiv. [link]
7. Yon, D. (2026). Enhanced metacognition for unexpected action outcomes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. [link][preprint]
8. Barnett, B., & Yon, D. (2026). Joint perception biases subjective awareness reports. PsyArXiv. [link]
9. Olawole-Scott, H., Happel, N., & Yon, D. (2025). Expectations about precision alter speech perception. PsyArXiv. [link]
10. Seghezzi, S., Yon, D., Haggard, P. (2025). Voluntary action as problem-solving: an fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex. [link]
11. Blackburne, G., Frith, C.D., & Yon, D. (2025). Communicated priors tune the perception of control. Cognition. [journal][pdf]
12. Jedlovszky, K., Corlett, P.R., & Yon, D. (2024). Subjective volatility, learning and paranoia. PsyArXiv. [link]
13. Yon, D., & Heyes, C. (2024). Social learning in models and minds. Synthese. [journal] [pdf]
14. Thomas, E.R., Haarsma, J., Nicholson, J., Yon, D., Kok, P., & Press, C. (2024). Predictions and errors are distinctly represented across V1 layers. Current Biology. [journal][pdf]
15. Tsantani, M., Yon, D., & Cook, R. (2024). Neural representations of observed interpersonal synchrony/asynchrony in the social perception network. Journal of Neuroscience. [journal][pdf]
16. Edwards-Lowe, G., La Chiusa, E., Olawole-Scott, H., & Yon, D. (2024). Information seeking without metacognition. PsyArXiv. [link]
17. Yon, D., Thomas, E.R., Gilbert, S.J., de Lange, F.P., Kok, P., & Press, C. (2023). Stubborn predictions in primary visual cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [journal] [pdf]
18. Olawole-Scott, H., & Yon, D. (2023). Expectations about precision bias metacognition and awareness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General [journal][pdf]
19. Press, C., Thomas, E.R., & Yon, D. (2022). Cancelling cancellation? Sensorimotor control, agency and prediction. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews. [link]
20. Press, C., Yon, D., & Heyes, C. (2022). Building better theories. Current Biology. [link]
21. Yon, D., & Corlett, P.R. (2022). Causal surgery under a Markov blanket. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [link]
22. Thomas, E.R., Yon, D., de Lange, F.P., & Press, C. (2022). Action enhances predicted touch. Psychological Science. [link]
23. Yon, D., & Frith, C.D. (2021). Precision and the Bayesian brain. Current Biology. [link]
24. Yon, D. (2021). Prediction and learning: understanding uncertainty. Current Biology. [link].
25. Yon, D., Zainzinger, V., de Lange, F.P., Eimer, M., & Press, C. (2020). Action biases perceptual decisions toward expected outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [link]
26. Yon, D., Bunce, C., & Press, C. (2020). Illusions of control without delusions of grandeur. Cognition. [link]
27. Yon, D., Heyes, C., & Press, C. (2020). Beliefs and desires in the predictive brain. Nature Communications. [link]
28. Edey, R., Yon, D., Dumontheil, I., Press, C. (2020). Association between action kinematics and emotion perception across adolescence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
29. Press, C., Kok, P., & Yon, D. (2020). Learning to perceive and perceiving to learn. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [link]
30. Press, C., Kok, P., & Yon, D. (2020). The perceptual prediction paradox. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [link]
31. Press, C., & Yon, D. (2019). Perceptual prediction: Rapidly making sense of a noisy world. Current Biology. [link]
32. Chard, J., Edey, R., Yon, D., Murphy, J., Bird, G., & Press, C. (2019). Atypical emotion recognition from bodies is associated with perceptual difficulties in healthy aging. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
33. Yon, D., de Lange, F.P., & Press, C. (2019). The predictive brain as a stubborn scientist. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [link]
34. Yon, D., Gilbert, S.J., de Lange, F.P., & Press, C. (2018). Action sharpens sensory representations of expected outcomes. Nature Communications. [link]
35. Yon, D., & Press, C. (2018). Sensory predictions during action support perception of imitative reactions across suprasecond delays. Cognition. [link]
36. Edey, R., Yon, D., Cook, J., Dumontheil, I., & Press, C. (2017). Our own action kinematics predict the perceived affective states of others. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
37. Yon, D., & Press, C. (2017). Predicted action consequences are perceptually facilitated before cancellation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [link]
38. Yon, D., Edey, R., Ivry, R.B., & Press, C. (2017). Time on your hands: Perceived duration of sensory events is biased toward concurrent actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [link]
39. Yon, D., & Press, C. (2014). Back to the future: Synaesthesia could be due to associative learning. Frontiers in Psychology. [link]