Lucie Charles

Dr. Lucie Charles is a Lecturer in Psychology at Queen Mary University of London, affiliated with the Centre for Brain and Behaviour within the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences. She focuses on cognitive processes related to metacognition, introspection of decisions, and action awareness. Her work integrates psychophysics, computational modelling, and neuroimaging to study how humans evaluate their decisions and actions.

Dr. Charles completed her PhD at Neurospin, France, under Stanislas Dehaene, investigating metacognition and consciousness. She held roles at UCL (Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer) and Oxford University (British Academy Fellow), collaborating with Patrick Haggard and Nick Yeung on topics like volition and error detection. She currently leads the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness as Executive Director since 2019.

Her research explores three core areas: 1) choice awareness and freedom of choice, 2) confidence biases in decisions, and 3) motor awareness. She examines how people introspect decision processes, detect external influences, and perceive motor execution accuracy. Her grants include an ESRC-funded project on freedom of choice and introspection (2019).

Key contributions include studies on paradoxical evidence weighting in confidence judgments, Bayesian models of metacognition, and neural correlates of action awareness. She supervises postdoctoral researchers like Keiji Ota and offers PhD opportunities in her research areas. Her work is disseminated through Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and @LucieCharlesCog on Twitter.