Marion Rouault

Main positions

• Chargée de recherche (CRCN) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France

• PI at the Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Team Motivation Brain and Behaviour, Paris, France

Research program

Marion is interested in the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying metacognition, learning and decision-making in humans, which she investigates using carefully controlled behavioural experiments in tandem with computational modelling and neuroimaging, in healthy and patient populations.

Her research relates to human meta-cognition--  the ability we have to monitor and evaluate our own cognitive capacities.

Specifically she examines how a sense of confidence changes in the presence and absence of feedback, and its relationship with meta-cognition, at the behavioral, computational and neural levels. She investigates how confidence is built and maintained, and the functional role of confidence signals in guiding learning and decision-making.

In addition, she aims at understanding how a global sense of confidence such as individual self-esteem is built from local, task-dependent confidence. Extensions of this work include the study of metacognitive impairments in psychiatric disorders characterized by changes in self-evaluation.

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