Rebecca West is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Behavioral Research Methods at the TUM School of Management.
Rebecca’s research explores the cognitive processes underlying both decisions and the metacognitive evaluations that accompany them. She combines behavioural experiments with computational modelling to capture the dynamics of decision-making and metacognition, providing insights into how people monitor and adapt their decisions under varying levels of uncertainty.
Rebecca completed her PhD and Bachelor’s (Honours) at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia). She then completed a one-year research position at the Chair of Computational Modeling in Psychology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Selected Publications
West, R. K., Harrison, W. J., Matthews, N., Mattingley, J. B., & Sewell, D. K. (2023). Modality independent or modality specific? Common computations underlie confidence judgements in visual and auditory decisions. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011245
West, R. K., A-Izzeddin, E. J., Sewell, D. K., & Harrison, W. J. (2025). Priors for natural image statistics inform confidence in perceptual decisions. Consciousness and Cognition, 128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2025.103818
Rideaux, R.*, West, R. K.*, Wallis, T. S., Bex, P. J., Mattingley, J. B., & Harrison, W. J. (2022). Spatial structure, phase, and the contrast of natural images. Journal of Vision, 22(1), 4-4. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.1.4
Rideaux, R., West, R. K., Rangelov, D., & Mattingley, J. B. (2023). Distinct early and late neural mechanisms regulate feature-specific sensory adaptation in the human visual system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(6). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216192120
*shared first-authorship
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