Publications

For a general reader

• 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. Yon, D., & Heyes, C. (in press). Social learning in models and minds. Synthese. [link]
2. Thomas, E.R., Haarsma, J., Nicholson, J., Yon, D., Kok, P., & Press, C. (in press). Predictions and errors are distinctly represented across V1 layers. Current Biology. [link]
3. Edwards-Lowe, G., La Chiusa, E., Olawole-Scott, H., & Yon, D. (2024). Information seeking without metacognition. PsyArXiv. [link]
4. Blackburne, G., Frith, C.D., & Yon, D. (2023). Communicated priors tune the perception of control. PsyArXiv. [link]
5. 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]
6. Olawole-Scott, H., & Yon, D. (2023). Expectations about precision bias metacognition and awareness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General [journal][pdf]
7. Press, C., Thomas, E.R., & Yon, D. (2022). Cancelling cancellation? Sensorimotor control, agency and prediction. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews. [link]
8. Tsantani, M., Yon, D., & Cook, R. (2022). Neural representations of observed interpersonal synchrony in the social perception network. PsyArxiv. [link]
9. Press, C., Yon, D., & Heyes, C. (2022). Building better theories. Current Biology. [link]
10. Yon, D., & Corlett, P.R. (2022). Causal surgery under a Markov blanket. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [link]
11. Thomas, E.R., Yon, D., de Lange, F.P., & Press, C. (2022). Action enhances predicted touch. Psychological Science. [link]
12. Yon, D., & Frith, C.D. (2021). Precision and the Bayesian brain. Current Biology. [link]
13. Yon, D. (2021). Prediction and learning: understanding uncertainty. Current Biology. [link].
14. Yon, D. (2020). Enhanced metacognition for unexpected action outcomes. PsyArxiv. [link]
15. 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]
16. Yon, D., Bunce, C., & Press, C. (2020). Illusions of control without delusions of grandeur. Cognition. [link]
17. Yon, D., Heyes, C., & Press, C. (2020). Beliefs and desires in the predictive brain. Nature Communications. [link]
18. 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.
19. Press, C., Kok, P., & Yon, D. (2020). Learning to perceive and perceiving to learn. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [link]
20. Press, C., Kok, P., & Yon, D. (2020). The perceptual prediction paradox. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [link]
21. Press, C., & Yon, D. (2019). Perceptual prediction: Rapidly making sense of a noisy world. Current Biology. [link]
22. 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.
23. Yon, D., de Lange, F.P., & Press, C. (2019). The predictive brain as a stubborn scientist. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [link]
24. Yon, D., Gilbert, S.J., de Lange, F.P., & Press, C. (2018). Action sharpens sensory representations of expected outcomes. Nature Communications. [link]
25. Yon, D., & Press, C. (2018). Sensory predictions during action support perception of imitative reactions across suprasecond delays. Cognition. [link]
26. 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.
27. Yon, D., & Press, C. (2017). Predicted action consequences are perceptually facilitated before cancellation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [link]
28. 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]
29. Yon, D., & Press, C. (2014). Back to the future: Synaesthesia could be due to associative learning. Frontiers in Psychology. [link]