Metacognition and confidence: A review and synthesis

SM Fleming - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Determining the psychological, computational, and neural bases of confidence and
uncertainty holds promise for understanding foundational aspects of human metacognition …

[HTML][HTML] The future of metacognition research: Balancing construct breadth with measurement rigor

S Katyal, SM Fleming - Cortex, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Foundational work in the psychology of metacognition identified a distinction between
metacognitive knowledge (stable beliefs about one's capacities) and metacognitive …

Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate

ZM Boundy-Singer, CM Ziemba, RLT Goris - Nature Human Behaviour, 2023‏ - nature.com
Decisions vary in difficulty. Humans know this and typically report more confidence in easy
than in difficult decisions. However, confidence reports do not perfectly track decision …

Comparing theories of consciousness: why it matters and how to do it

SH Del Pin, Z Skóra, K Sandberg… - Neuroscience of …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
The theoretical landscape of scientific studies of consciousness has flourished. Today, even
multiple versions of the same theory are sometimes available. To advance the field, these …

Neural signatures of evidence accumulation encode subjective perceptual confidence independent of performance

W Dou, LJ Martinez Arango… - Psychological …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Confidence is an adaptive computation when environmental feedback is absent, yet there is
little consensus regarding how perceptual confidence is computed in the brain. Difficulty …

Metacognitive computations for information search: Confidence in control.

L Schulz, SM Fleming, P Dayan - Psychological Review, 2023‏ - psycnet.apa.org
The metacognitive sense of confidence can play a critical role in regulating decision making.
In particular, a lack of confidence can justify the explicit, potentially costly, instrumental …

Measures of metacognitive efficiency across cognitive models of decision confidence.

M Rausch, S Hellmann, M Zehetleitner - Psychological Methods, 2023‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Meta-d′/d′ has become the quasi-gold standard to quantify metacognitive
efficiency because meta-d′/d′ was developed to control for discrimination performance …

Confidence control for efficient behaviour in dynamic environments

T Balsdon, MG Philiastides - Nature communications, 2024‏ - nature.com
Signatures of confidence emerge during decision-making, implying confidence may be of
functional importance to decision processes themselves. We formulate an extension of …

Visual metacognition: Measures, models, and neural correlates.

D Rahnev - American psychologist, 2021‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Visual metacognition is the ability to evaluate one's performance on visual perceptual tasks.
The field of visual metacognition unites the long tradition of visual psychophysics with the …

Metacognitive improvement: Disentangling adaptive training from experimental confounds.

M Rouy, V de Gardelle, G Reyes, J Sackur… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Metacognition is defined as the capacity to monitor and control one's own cognitive
processes. Recently, Carpenter and colleagues (2019) reported that metacognitive …