Creative cognition does not just involve cognitive processes in direct service of the main task
objective (eg, idea generation), but also metacognitive processes that monitor and regulate …

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 …

Decisions vary in difficulty. Humans know this and typically report more confidence in easy
than in difficult decisions. However, confidence reports do not perfectly track decision …

Blindsight is a neuropsychological condition defined by residual visual function following
destruction of primary visual cortex. This residual visual function is almost universally held to …

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

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 …

Research on metacognition—thinking about thinking—has grown rapidly and fostered our
understanding of human cognition in healthy individuals and clinical populations. Of central …

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 …

Metacognition is defined as the capacity to monitor and control one's own cognitive
processes. Recently, Carpenter and colleagues (2019) reported that metacognitive …

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 …