ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition2017
Looking inward and back: Real-time monitoring of visual working memories.
Article in Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Neural mechanisms of resource allocation in working memory.Science advances · 2025Article
- I remember it now, so I'll remember it later: Working memory strength guides predictions for long-term memory performance.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
- A lifespan study of the confidence-accuracy relation in working memory and episodic long-term memory.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2024Article
- Probabilistic and rich individual working memories revealed by a betting game.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Awareness of the relative quality of spatial working memory representations.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Uncertainty is maintained and used in working memory.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- The development of metacognitive accuracy in working memory across childhood.Developmental psychology · 2021Article
- Humans incorporate trial-to-trial working memory uncertainty into rewarded decisions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- A Metacognitive Perspective of Visual Working Memory With Rich Complex Objects.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Estimation in self-initiated working memory for spatial locations.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2019Article
- Strategic allocation of working memory resource.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Visual short-term memory through the lifespan: Preserved benefits of context and metacognition.Psychology and aging · 2018Article
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Abstract
Confidence in our memories is influenced by many factors, including beliefs about the perceptibility or memorability of certain kinds of objects and events, as well as knowledge about our skill sets, habits, and experiences. Notoriously, our knowledge and beliefs about memory can lead us astray, causing us to be overly confident in eyewitness testimony or to overestimate the frequency of recent experiences. Here, using visual working memory as a case study, we stripped away all these potentially misleading cues, requiring observers to make confidence judgments by directly assessing the quality of their memory representations. We show that individuals can monitor the status of information in working memory as it degrades over time. Our findings suggest that people have access to information reflecting the existence and quality of their working memories, and furthermore, that they can use this information to guide their behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record
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