Determining the psychological, computational, and neural bases of confidence and
uncertainty holds promise for understanding foundational aspects of human metacognition …

To study (un) conscious perception and test hypotheses about consciousness, researchers
need procedures for determining whether subjects consciously perceive stimuli or not. This …

More and more often, we hear that higher education should foment critical thinking. The new
skills focus for university teaching grants a central role to critical thinking in new study plans; …

Learners use certainty to guide learning. They maintain existing beliefs when certain, but
seek further information when they feel uninformed. Here, we review developmental …

Despite the tangible progress in psychological and cognitive sciences over the last several
years, these disciplines still trail other more mature sciences in identifying the most important …

Engaging in metacognition (evaluating, controlling, and representing cognitive states) is
paramount for efficient behaviour. In this Review, we examine different types of cognitive …

People segregate continuously unfolding experiences into discrete events in memory. This
process, known as event segmentation, results in better memory for the temporal order of …

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 …

Human behaviours are guided by how confident we feel in our abilities. When confidence
does not reflect objective performance, this can impact critical adaptive functions and impair …

Humans can successfully correct deviations of movements without conscious detection of
such deviations, suggesting limited awareness of movement details. We ask whether such …