ReviewCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2024
The future of metacognition research: Balancing construct breadth with measurement rigor.
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- Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Explaining Individual Differences in Metacognitive Monitoring: A Multilevel Analysis of Person-Level Predictors Across Academic Assessments.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- Prior Expectations Bias Confidence Judgments Through Parietal Alpha-Band Modulation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Predictive metacognition: a neuro-computational framework for self-monitoring in large language models.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Metacognitive ability is associated with reduced emotion suppression.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Gender and anxiety reveal distinct computational sources of underconfidence.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Measuring human metacognition in GPT-assisted cognition: development and psychometric validation of a novel scale.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Building worlds of your own: the functional role of metacognitive bias in metacognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Metacognitive monitoring and calibration in the vocal emotion recognition task.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Measurement of metacognition of emotional dimensions: a ROC based measurement method for metacognition of valence and arousal.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The temporal dynamics of metacognitive experiences track rational adaptations in task performance.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Product, not process: Metacognitive monitoring of visual performance during sustained attention.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Computational characterization of metacognitive ability in subjective decision-making.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Distorted learning from local metacognition supports transdiagnostic underconfidence.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Survey measures of metacognitive monitoring are often false.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Food addiction and associated factors in newly diagnosed patients with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional comparison with siblings and healthy controls.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Going 'meta': a systematic review of metacognition and functional neurological disorder.Brain communications · 2025Review
- Perceptual and attentional uncertainty impact global performance monitoring.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
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- Information-Theoretic Measures of Metacognition: Bounds and Relation to Group Performance.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
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Abstract
Foundational work in the psychology of metacognition identified a distinction between metacognitive knowledge (stable beliefs about one's capacities) and metacognitive experiences (local evaluations of performance). More recently, the field has focused on developing tasks and metrics that seek to identify metacognitive capacities from momentary estimates of confidence in performance, and providing precise computational accounts of metacognitive failure. However, this notable progress in formalising models of metacognitive judgments may come at a cost of ignoring broader elements of the psychology of metacognition - such as how stable meta-knowledge is formed, how social cognition and metacognition interact, and how we evaluate affective states that do not have an obvious ground truth. We propose that construct breadth in metacognition research can be restored while maintaining rigour in measurement, and highlight promising avenues for expanding the scope of metacognition research. Such a research programme is well placed to recapture qualitative features of metacognitive knowledge and experience while maintaining the psychophysical rigor that characterises modern research on confidence and performance monitoring.
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