Skilled sensorimotor interactions with the world result from a series of decision-making
processes that determine, on the basis of information extracted during the unfolding …

Research on confidence spreads across several sub-fields of psychology and neuroscience.
Here, we explore how a definition of confidence as Bayesian probability can unify these …

People are often aware of their mistakes, and report levels of confidence in their choices that
correlate with objective performance. These metacognitive assessments of decision quality …

Summary" Degree of certainty" refers to the subjective belief, prior to feedback, that a
decision is correct. A reliable estimate of certainty is essential for prediction, learning from …

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 …

Metacognition is the capacity to evaluate and control one's own cognitive processes.
Metacognition operates over a range of cognitive domains, such as perception and memory …

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 …

For nearly 50 years, the dominant account of decision-making holds that noisy information is
accumulated until a fixed threshold is crossed. This account has been tested extensively …

Decisions are accompanied by a degree of confidence that a selected option is correct. A
sequential sampling framework explains the speed and accuracy of decisions and extends …

Our perceptual experiences are accompanied by a subjective sense of certainty. These
confidence judgements typically correlate meaningfully with the probability that the relevant …