Stephen M. Fleming Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-11-05
Stephen M. Fleming studies metacognition, including computational accounts of how people evaluate decisions. With Nathaniel D. Daw, he formulated self-evaluation as an inference about a decision system that is related to, but distinguishable from, the system generating the choice. This framework can represent differences between task performance and subjective confidence, turning a verbal claim about self-awareness into predictions about observable choices and confidence reports. [ref]
Self-Evaluation of Decision-Making: A General Bayesian Framework for Metacognitive Computation by Stephen M. Fleming and Nathaniel D. Daw. 2017, second-order Bayesian framework and modeled dissociations