ReviewThe American psychologist2021
Visual metacognition: Measures, models, and neural correlates.
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- Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Filling-in of the foveal rod scotoma and confidence preference for central vision under mesopic viewing conditions.Vision research · 2026Article
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- Modeling metacognition and executive functions in the metacognitive wisconsin card sorting test using the neuropsychological digital-twin method.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Reappraising intuitions about consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Building worlds of your own: the functional role of metacognitive bias in metacognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Bits of confidence: Metacognition as uncertainty reduction.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?Developmental science · 2025Article
- Information-Theoretic Measures of Metacognitive Efficiency: Empirical Validation with the Face Matching Task.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Automatic multisensory integration follows subjective confidence rather than objective performance.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Perceptual and attentional uncertainty impact global performance monitoring.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Assessing executive functions and metacognition: translational potential of the Metacognitive Wisconsin Card Sorting Test for developmental neuropsychology.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- A tutorial on fitting joint models of M/EEG and behavior to understand cognition.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- The neural network RTNet exhibits the signatures of human perceptual decision-making.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Reliable, rapid, and remote measurement of metacognitive bias.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Effects of colour-coded compartmentalised syringe trays on anaesthetic drug error detection under cognitive load.British journal of anaesthesia · 2024Article
- Overlapping yet dissociable contributions of superiority illusion features to Ponzo illusion strength and metacognitive performance.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Task learning is subserved by a domain-general brain network.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
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Abstract
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 younger field of metacognition research. This article traces the historical roots of the field and reviews progress in the areas of (a) constructing appropriate measures of metacognitive ability, (b) developing computational models, and (c) revealing the neural correlates of visual metacognition. First, I review the most popular measures of metacognitive ability with an emphasis on their psychophysical properties. Second, I examine the empirical targets for modeling, the dominant modeling frameworks and the assumed computations underlying visual metacognition. Third, I explore the progress on understanding the neural correlates of visual metacognition by focusing on anatomical and functional studies, as well as causal manipulations. What emerges is a picture of substantial progress on constructing measures, developing models, and revealing the neural correlates of metacognition, but very little integration between these three areas of inquiry. I then explore the deep, intrinsic links between the three areas of research and argue that continued progress requires the recognition and exploitation of these links. Throughout, I discuss the implications of progress in visual metacognition for other areas of metacognition research, and pinpoint specific advancements that could be adopted by researchers working in other subfields of metacognition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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