Metacognition is the ability to reflect on our own cognition and mental states. It is a critical
aspect of human subjective experience and operates across many hierarchical levels of …

In our tendency to discuss the objective properties of the external world, we may fail to notice
that our subjective perceptions of those properties differ between individuals. Variability at …

This paper outlines a hierarchical Bayesian framework for interoception,
homeostatic/allostatic control, and meta-cognition that connects fatigue and depression to …

Background Distortions in metacognition—the ability to reflect on and control other cognitive
processes—are thought to be characteristic of poor mental health. However, it remains …

Metacognition, the ability to internally evaluate our own cognitive performance, is particularly
useful since many real-life decisions lack immediate feedback. While most previous studies …

Humans create metacognitive beliefs about their performance across many levels of
abstraction—from local confidence in individual decisions to global estimates of our skills …

Metacognitive judgments of performance can be retrospective (such as confidence in past
choices) or prospective (such as a prediction of success). Several lines of evidence indicate …

Unlock the secrets to understanding yourself and others with the surprising science of the
human mind's greatest power: introspection.“Are you sure?” Whether in a court room, a …

Humans and other animals constantly evaluate their decisions in order to learn and behave
adaptively. Experimentally, such evaluation processes are accessed using metacognitive …

Definitions of meta-cognition typically have two components:(1) knowledge about one's own
cognitive functioning; and,(2) control over one's own cognitive activities. Since Flavell and …