Stephen M. Fleming
Cognitive neuroscience professor
Stephen M. Fleming is a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London who studies metacognition and consciousness. He wrote Know Thyself, a book on the science of self-awareness.
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About Stephen M. Fleming
Stephen M. Fleming holds a professorship in cognitive neuroscience at University College London. He leads research groups at the university's Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience and at the Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research. His work on metacognition, which is thinking about one's own thinking, has won him several honors. These include the British Academy's Wiley Prize in Psychology (2016), the British Psychological Society's Spearman Medal (2019) and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in psychology. The Royal Society has also named him recipient of its Francis Crick Medal and Lecture for his research on consciousness and metacognition. Know Thyself was his first book. It has been translated into seven languages.