The comparison between conscious and unconscious perception is a cornerstone of
consciousness science. However, most studies reporting above-chance discrimination of …

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

Humans are not passive recipients of information from the external world. They are
“metacognitive” agents, actively engaged in self-referential monitoring of internally …

Human decision behavior entails a graded awareness of its certainty, known as a feeling of
confidence. Until now, considerable interest has been paid to behavioral and computational …

Perceptual experience supports the assignment of confidences in belief–doxastic
confidences. To explain this fact, many philosophers appeal to Perceptual Indeterminacy …

Signal detection theory (SDT) has long provided the field of psychology with a simple but
powerful model of how observers make decisions under uncertainty. SDT can distinguish …

The Bayesian confidence hypothesis, which postulates that confidence reflects the posterior
probability that a decision is correct, is currently the most prominent theory of confidence …

Introspective agents can recognize the extent to which their internal perceptual experiences
deviate from the actual states of the external world. This ability, also known as insight, is …

We present the statConfR package for R, which allows researchers to conveniently fit and
compare nine different static models of decision confidence applicable to binary …

Metacognitive accuracy describes the degree of overlap between the subjective perception
of one's decision accuracy (ie confidence) and objectively observed performance. With older …