David Soto

Ikerbasque Research Professor, BCBL - Basque Center for Cognition Brain and Language

Group leader of the Consciousness Group at BCBL - Basque Center for Cognition Brain and Language.

Research line:

Cognitive neuroscience; psychophysics and brain mapping of conscious and non-conscious processes underlying cognition and behaviour in typical and atypical populations.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the British Academy for the Humanities, New Investigator Award from the Medical Research Council (UK).

Previous research experience as Research Fellow at the Behavioural Brain Sciences Center at the University of Birmingham, Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School and at the Neuroimaging Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at the Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London.

Doctor in Experimental Psychology (2004) from the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Publications
Congresses & Proceedings

2024

Article / Think twice: Re-assessing confidence improves visual metacognition

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Elosegi, P.; Rahnev, D.; Soto, D.

Article / Unconscious manipulation of conceptual representations with decoded neurofeedback impacts search behaviour

Journal of Neuroscience

Margolles, P.; Elosegi, P.; Mei, N.; Soto, D.

Article / A novel image database for social concepts reveals preference biases in autistic spectrum in adults and children

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Soto, D.; Salazar, A.; Elosegi, P.; Walter, A.; Mei, N.; Rodriguez, E.; Petrollini, V.; Vicente, A.

Article / Characterising the Role of Awareness in Ensemble Perception

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Elosegi, P.; Mei, N.; Soto, D.

Article / Enhanced generalization and specialization of brain representations of semantic knowledge in healthy aging

Neuropsychologia

Margolles, P.; Soto, D.

2023

Article / Metacognition in Second Language Speech Perception and Production

Language Learning

Kartushina, N.; Soto, D.; Martin, C.

Article / Heat exposure following encoding can interfere with subsequent recognition memory

Scientific Reports

Cudeiro, J.; Soto, D.; Gutiérrez, E.

Article / Using serial dependence to predict confidence across observers and cognitive domains

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Mei, N.; Rahnev, D.; Soto, D.

Article / The Scientific Study of Consciousness Cannot and Should Not Be Morally Neutral

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Mazor, M.; Brown, S.; Ciaunica, A.; Demertzi, A.; Fahrenfort, J.; Faivre, N.; Francken, J.C.; Lamy, D.; Lenggenhager, B.; Moutoussis, M.; Nizzi, M.C.; Salomon, R.; Soto, D.; Stein, T.; Lubianiker, N.

2022

Article / The role of metacognition in monitoring performance and regulating learning in early readers

Metacognition and Learning

Taouki, I.; Lallier, M.; Soto, D.

Article / Dissociable rhythmic mechanisms enhance memory for conscious and nonconscious perceptual contents

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Cheng, P.; Grover, S.; Wen, W.; Sankaranarayanan, S.; Davies, S.; Fragetta, J.; Soto, D.; Reinhart, R.M.G.

Article / Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Rahnev, D.; Balsdon, T.; Charles, L.; de Gardelle, V.; Denison, R.; Desender, K.; Faivre, N.; Filevich, E.; Fleming, S.M.; Jehee, J.; Lau, H.; Lee, A.L.F.; Locke, S.M.; Mamassian, P.; Odegaard, B.; Peters, M.; Reyes, G.; Rouault, M.; Sackur, J.; Samaha, J.; Sergent, C.; Sherman, M.T.; Siedlecka, M.; Soto, D.; Vlassova, A.; Zylberberg, A.

Article / Frontopolar activity carries feature information of novel stimuli during unconscious reweighting of selective attention

Cortex

Güldener, L.; Jüllig, A.; Soto, D.; Pollmann, S.

Article / Informative neural representations of unseen contents during higher-order processing in human brains and deep artificial networks

Nature Human Behaviour

Mei, N.; Santana, R.; Soto, D.

2021

Article / Neurocognitive mechanisms supporting the generalization of concepts across languages

Neuropsychologia

Sheikh, U.A.; Carreiras, M.; Soto, D.

Article / Feature-Based Attentional Weighting and Re-weighting in the Absence of Visual Awareness

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Güldener, L.; Jüllig, A.; Soto, D.; Pollmann, S.

2020

Article / Electrophysiology of statistical learning: Exploring the online learning process and offline learning product

European Journal of Neuroscience

Ordin, M.; Polyanskaya, L.; Soto, D.; Molinaro, N.

Article / Neural bases of learning and recognition of statistical regularities

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Ordin, M.; Polyanskaya, L.; Soto, D.

Article / Metacognitive processing in language learning tasks is affected by bilingualism

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Ordin, M.; Polyanskaya, L.; Soto, D.

Article / Similar history biases for distinct prospective decisions of self-performance

Scientific Reports

Mei, N.; Rankine, S.; Olafsson, E.; Soto, D.

Article / Decoding and encoding models reveal the role of mental simulation in the brain representation of meaning

Royal Society Open Science

Soto, D.; Sheikh, U.A.; Mei, N.; Santana, R.

Article / The Confidence Database

Nature Human Behaviour

Rahnev, D.; Desender, K.; Lee, A.L.F.; Adler, W.T.; Aguilar-Lleyda, D.; Akdoğan, B.; Arbuzova, P.; Atlas, L.Y.; Balcı, F.; Bang, J.W.; Bègue, I.; Birney, D.P.; Brady, T.F.; Calder-Travis, J.; Chetverikov, A.; Clark, T.K.; Davranche, K.; Denison, R.N.; Dildine, T.C.; Double, K.S.; Duyan, Y.A.; Faivre, N.; Fallow, K.; Filevich, E.; Gajdos, T.; Gallagher, R.M.; de Gardelle, V.; Gherman, S.; Haddara, N.; Hainguerlot, M.; Hsu, T.Y.; Hu, X.; Iturrate, I.; Jaquiery, M.; Kantner, J.; Koculak, M.; Konishi, M.; Koß, C.; Kvam, P.D.; Kwok, S.C.; Lebreton, M.; Lempert, K.M.; Ming Lo, C.; Luo, L.; Maniscalco, B.; Martin, A.; Massoni, S.; Matthews, J.; Mazancieux, A.; Merfeld, D.M.; O’Hora, D.; Palser, E.R.; Paulewicz, B.; Pereira, M.; Peters, C.; Philiastides, M.G.; Pfuhl, G.; Prieto, F.; Rausch, M.; Recht, S.; Reyes, G.; Rouault, M.; Sackur, J.; Sadeghi, S.; Samaha, J.; Seow, T.X.F.; Shekhar, M.; Sherman, M.T.; Siedlecka, M.; Skóra, Z.; Song, C.; Soto, D.; Sun, S.; van Boxtel, J.J.A.; Wang, S.; Weidemann, C.T.; Weindel, G.; Wierzchoń, M.; Xu, X.; Ye, Q.; Yeon, J.; Zou, F.; Zylberberg, A.

Article / Reward sensitivity predicts dopaminergic response in spatial neglect

Cortex

Li, K.; Bentley, P.; Nair, A.; Halse, O.; Barker, G.; Russell, C.; Soto, D.; Malhotra, P.A.

2019

Article / Decoding the meaning of unconsciously processed words using fMRI-based MVPA

NeuroImage

Sheikh, U.A.; Carreiras, M.; Soto, D.

Article / Assessing the Role of the Left Dorsal Frontal Cortex in Working Memory Guidance: Attentional or Mnemonic? A Neurostimulation Study

Neuroscience

Bourbon-Teles, J.; Soto, D.

Short Survey / A Novel Framework for Unconscious Processing

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Soto, D.; Sheikh, U.A.; Rosenthal, C.R.

2018

Article / Learning of goal-relevant and -irrelevant complex visual sequences in human V1

NeuroImage

Rosenthal, C.R.; Mallik, I.; Caballero-Gaudes, C.; Sereno, M.I.; Soto, D.

Article / How the human brain introspects about one's own episodes of cognitive control

Cortex

Soto, D.; Theodoraki, M.; Paz-Alonso, P.M.

Article / Motor dexterity and strength depend upon integrity of the attention-control system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Rinne, P.; Hassan, M.; Fernandes, C.; Han, E.; Hennessy, E.; Waldman, A.; Sharma, P.; Soto, D.; Leech, R.; Malhotra, P.A.; Bentley, P.

2017

Article / How ageing changes the mnemonic bias of visual behaviour

Visual Cognition

Wedmore, F.; Musil, S.; Soto, D.

Short Survey / How Do We Keep Information ‘Online’?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Soto, D.

2016

Article / The Anatomy of Non-conscious Recognition Memory

Trends in Neurosciences

Rosenthal, C.R.; Soto, D.

Article / The effects of motivational reward on the pathological attentional blink following right hemisphere stroke

Neuropsychologia

Li, K.; Russell, C.; Balaji, N.; Saleh, Y.; Soto, D.; Malhotra, P.A.

Article / Learning and recognition of a non-conscious sequence of events in human primary visual cortex

Current Biology

Rosenthal, C.R.; Andrews, S.K.; Antoniades, C.A.; Kennard, C.; Soto, D.

2022

Oral presentation | Informative neural representations of unseen objects during higher-order processing in human brains and deep artificial networks

Neuromatch Conference - Oral presentation

Mei, N., Santana, R., Soto, D.

Oral presentation | Margollés, P., Soto., D.

Neuromatch Conference - Oral presentation

Neural dedifferentiation of semantic representations in healthy ageing

Poster presentation | Semantic evidence accumulation without metacognition and awareness: evidence from psychophysical and fMRI decoding studies

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Amsterdam - Poster presentation

Patxi Elosegi and David Soto

2021

Oral presentation | Self-confidence in perception and production on non-native sound

4th Phonetics and Phonology Conference in Europe (virtual Conference) - Oral presentation

Kartushina, N., Soto, D., & Martin, C.

2020

Poster presentation | Metacognitive processing in early childhood

Cognitive Neuroscience Society - Poster presentation

Taouki, T., Lallier, M., Soto, D.

Poster presentation | Decoding social knowledge in the human brain

Cognitive Neuroscience Society - Poster presentation

Alcalá-López, D., Soto., D.

2019

Poster presentation | Brain representations of social knowledge during mental simulation

Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) - Poster presentation

Alcalá-López, D., & Soto, D.

Poster presentation | Brain Mechanisms Underlying Generalization of Concepts Across Languages

Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) - Poster presentation

Sheikh, U. A., Carreiras, M., & Soto, D.

Poster presentation | Metacognitive processing in statistical learning is modulated by bilingualism

Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning - Poster presentation

Ordin,M., Polyanskaya, L., Soto, D.

Poster presentation | How the brain encodes meaning: Comparing word embedding and computer vision models to predict fMRI data during visual word recognition.

Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience - Poster presentation

Mei, N., Sheikh, U., Santana, R., & Soto,D.

Poster presentation | Predicting human prospective beliefs and decisions to engage using multivariate classification analyses of behavioural data.

Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. - Poster presentation

Mei, N., & Soto,D

2018

Oral presentation | Explicit and implicit learning of multiple concurrent higher-order sequences in human V1

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness - Oral presentation

Soto, D.

Poster presentation | Decoding the Meaning of Non-conscious Words with fMRI-based MVPA

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness - Poster presentation

Ayub Sheikh, U., Carreiras, M., Soto, D.

2017

Invited talk | Higher-order memory processes for non-conscious items

Munich Symposium on Visual Working Memory - Invited talk

Soto., D.

Poster presentation | How the Human Brain Introspects about One's Own Cognition and Behavior

Cognitive, Computational Neuroscience Conference - Poster presentation

Soto, D., Theodoraki, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M.

2016

Poster presentation | Dissecting the mechanisms underlying reward effects in visual neglect

International Neuropsychological Society - Poster presentation

Olgiati, E., Soto, D., Malhotra, P.

Poster presentation | Discrete networks underlie learning to recognise conscious and non-conscious sequences of events,

International Conference on Memory, July 2016 - Poster presentation

Rosenthal, C.R. , Andrews, S.R., Kennard, C., Soto, D.