Professor Daniel Yon
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Overview
Overview
Web profiles
Professional memberships
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Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
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Consulting Editor, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition (NVP)
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Prediction
- Learning
- Perception
- Metacognition
- Agency
Research overview
For your brain, the world is an uncertain place. In my lab we study how our brains track and overcome uncertainty - forming internal models that guide perception, action and belief.
You can learn more about some of our past and ongoing projects here.
Lab information
You can learn more about The Uncertainty Lab and its members here.
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
If you’d like to discuss joining the lab for a research placement, PhD or postdoctoral fellowship in any of the areas we study please get in touch.
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Andreassen, E.R. and Frith, C.D. and Yon, Daniel (2026) Public communication alters private confidence. Current Biology 36 (5), pp. R187-R188. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Barnett, Benjy and Yon, Daniel (2026) Joint perception biases subjective awareness reports. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General ISSN 0096-3445.
- Blackburne, George and Frith, C. and Yon, Daniel (2025) Communicated priors tune the perception of control. Cognition 254 (105969), ISSN 0010-0277.
- Seghezzi, Silvia and Yon, Daniel and Haggard, P. (2025) Voluntary action as problem-solving: an functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Cerebral Cortex 35 (11), ISSN 1047-3211.
- Yon, Daniel (2025) Enhanced metacognition for unexpected action outcomes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ISSN 1747-0218. (In Press)
- Yon, Daniel and Heyes, C. (2024) Social learning in models and minds. Synthese ISSN 0039-7857.
- Thomas, Emily and Haarsma, J. and Nicholson, Jessica and Yon, Daniel and Kok, P. and Press, Clare (2024) Predictions and errors are distinctly represented across V1 layers. Current Biology 34, pp. 1-7. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Press, Clare and Thomas, Emily and Yon, Daniel (2023) Cancelling cancellation? Sensorimotor control, agency, and prediction. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 145 (105012), ISSN 0149‐7634.
- Olawole-Scott, Helen and Yon, Daniel (2023) Expectations about precision bias metacognition and awareness.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General ISSN 0096-3445.
- Yon, Daniel and Thomas, E. and Gilbert, S. and de Lange, F. and Kok, P. and Press, Clare (2023) Stubborn predictions in primary visual cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 35 (7), pp. 1133-1143. ISSN 0898-929X.
- Thomas, Emily and Yon, Daniel and de Lange, F.P. and Press, Clare (2022) Action enhances predicted touch. Psychological Science 33 (1), pp. 48-59. ISSN 0956-7976.
- Press, Clare and Yon, Daniel and Heyes, C. (2022) Building better theories. Current Biology 32 (1), pp. R13-R17. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Yon, Daniel and Zainzinger, Vanessa and de Lange, F. and Eimer, Martin and Press, Clare (2021) Action biases perceptual decisions towards expected outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 150 (6), pp. 1225-1236. ISSN 0096-3445.
- Yon, Daniel and Frith, C.D. (2021) Precision and the Bayesian brain. Current Biology 31 (17), pp. R1026-R1032. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Yon, Daniel (2021) Prediction and learning: understanding uncertainty. Current Biology 31 (1), pp. R23-R25. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Edey, Rosanna and Yon, Daniel and Dumontheil, Iroise and Press, Clare (2020) Association between action kinematics and emotion perception across adolescence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 46 (7), pp. 657-666. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Yon, Daniel and Bunce, Carl and Press, Clare (2020) Illusions of control without delusions of grandeur. Cognition 205 (104429), ISSN 0010-0277.
- Yon, Daniel and Heyes, C. and Press, Clare (2020) Beliefs and desires in the predictive brain. Nature Communications 11 (4404), ISSN 2041-1723.
- Chard, James and Edey, Rosanna and Yon, Daniel and Murphy, J. and Bird, G. and Press, Clare (2019) Atypical emotion recognition from bodies is associated with perceptual difficulties in healthy aging. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 45 (6), pp. 803-811. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Press, Clare and Yon, Daniel (2019) Perceptual prediction: rapidly making sense of a noisy world. Current Biology 29 (15), pp. R751-R753. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Press, Clare and Kok, P. and Yon, Daniel (2019) The perceptual prediction paradox. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24 (1), pp. 13-24. ISSN 1364-6613.
- Yon, Daniel and Press, Clare (2018) Sensory predictions during action support perception of imitative reactions across suprasecond delays. Cognition 173, pp. 21-27. ISSN 0010-0277.
- Yon, Daniel and Gilbert, S. and de Lange, F. and Press, Clare (2018) Action sharpens sensory representations of expected outcomes. Nature Communications 9, pp. 4288. ISSN 2041-1723.
- Yon, Daniel and de Lange, F. and Press, Clare (2018) The predictive brain as a stubborn scientist. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 23 (1), pp. 6-8. ISSN 1364-6613.
- Yon, Daniel and Edey, Rosanna and Ivry, R.B. and Press, Clare (2017) Time on your hands: perceived duration of sensory events is biased towards concurrent actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 146 (2), pp. 182-193. ISSN 0096-3445.
- Edey, Rosanna and Yon, Daniel and Cook, J. and Dumontheil, Iroise and Press, Clare (2017) Our own action kinematics predict the perceived affective states of others. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 43 (7), pp. 1263-1268. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Yon, Daniel and Press, Clare (2017) Predicted action consequences are perceptually facilitated before cancellation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 46 (3), pp. 1073-1083. ISSN 0096-1523.
Book
- Yon, Daniel (2025) A trick of the mind: how the brain invents your reality. Cornerstone Press, Penguin Random House. ISBN 9781529900064.
Letter
- Press, Clare and Kok, P. and Yon, Daniel (2020) Learning to perceive and perceiving to learn. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24 (4), pp. 260-261. Elsevier. ISSN 1364-6613.