How has the concept of metacognition been used within basic and applied psychological
research? We begin our answer by presenting a broad definition of metacognition, a …

Metacognition includes two key concepts: monitoring of internal states and adaptive use of
control strategies based on that monitoring. We review studies that indicate that aging does …

The ability to monitor understanding of texts, usually referred to as metacomprehension
accuracy, is typically quite poor in adult learners; however, recently interventions have been …

Two experiments examined the relations among adult aging, mind wandering, and
executive-task performance, following from surprising laboratory findings that older adults …

In this paper, we present Health Buddy, a voice agent integrated into commercially available
Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) to support informal self-regulated learning (SRL) of health …

Metacognition refers to a capacity to reflect on and control other cognitive processes,
commonly quantified as the extent to which confidence tracks objective performance. There …

In order to examine metacognitive accuracy (ie, the relationship between metacognitive
judgment and memory performance), researchers often rely on by-participant analysis …

The current study evaluated a metacognitive account of study time allocation, which argues
that metacognitive monitoring of recognition test accuracy and latency influences …

This passage by Walter Reitman (1971), published in the influential book Models of Human
Memory, reminds would-be explorers of human memory that individuals may behave …

Metacognition is thinking about thinking. There is considerable interest in developing animal
models of metacognition to provide insight about the evolution of mind and a basis for …