Metacognition in human decision-making: confidence and error monitoring

N Yeung, C Summerfield - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
People are capable of robust evaluations of their decisions: they are often aware of their
mistakes even without explicit feedback, and report levels of confidence in their decisions …

Shared neural markers of decision confidence and error detection

A Boldt, N Yeung - Journal of Neuroscience, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Empirical evidence indicates that people can provide accurate evaluations of their own
thoughts and actions by means of both error detection and confidence judgments. This study …

The nature of metacognitive inefficiency in perceptual decision making.

M Shekhar, D Rahnev - Psychological review, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Humans have the metacognitive ability to judge the accuracy of their own decisions via
confidence ratings. A substantial body of research has demonstrated that human …

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] Neural evidence accumulation persists after choice to inform metacognitive judgments

PR Murphy, IH Robertson, S Harty, RG O'Connell - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
The ability to revise one's certainty or confidence in a preceding choice is a critical feature of
adaptive decision-making but the neural mechanisms underpinning this metacognitive …

Sources of metacognitive inefficiency

M Shekhar, D Rahnev - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Confidence judgments are typically less informative about one's accuracy than they could
be; a phenomenon we call metacognitive inefficiency. We review the existence of different …

There are things that we know that we know, and there are things that we do not know we do not know: Confidence in decision-making

P Grimaldi, H Lau, MA Basso - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Metacognition, the ability to think about our own thoughts, is a fundamental component of
our mental life and is involved in memory, learning, planning and decision-making. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Relation between belief and performance in perceptual decision making

J Drugowitsch, R Moreno-Bote, A Pouget - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
In an uncertain and ambiguous world, effective decision making requires that subjects form
and maintain a belief about the correctness of their choices, a process called meta …

Self-evaluation of decision-making: A general Bayesian framework for metacognitive computation.

SM Fleming, ND Daw - Psychological review, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
People are often aware of their mistakes, and report levels of confidence in their choices that
correlate with objective performance. These metacognitive assessments of decision quality …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic influences on static measures of metacognition

K Desender, L Vermeylen, T Verguts - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Humans differ in their capability to judge choice accuracy via confidence judgments. Popular
signal detection theoretic measures of metacognition, such as M-ratio, do not consider the …