Rouault, M;
McWilliams, A;
Allen, MG;
Fleming, SM;
(2018)
Human metacognition across domains: insights from individual differences and neuroimaging.
Personality Neuroscience
, 1
, Article e17. 10.1017/pen.2018.16.
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Abstract
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, but the neurocognitive architecture supporting this ability remains controversial. Is metacognition enabled by a common, domain-general resource that is recruited to evaluate performance on a variety of tasks? Or is metacognition reliant on domain-specific modules? This article reviews recent literature on the domain-generality of human metacognition, drawing on evidence from individual differences and neuroimaging. A meta-analysis of behavioral studies found that perceptual metacognitive ability was correlated across different sensory modalities, but found no correlation between metacognition of perception and memory. However, evidence for domain-generality from behavioral data may suffer from a lack of power to identify correlations across model parameters indexing metacognitive efficiency. Neuroimaging data provide a complementary perspective on the domain-generality of metacognition, revealing co-existence of neural signatures that are common and distinct across tasks. We suggest that such an architecture may be appropriate for "tagging" generic feelings of confidence with domain-specific information, in turn forming the basis for priors about self-ability and modulation of higher-order behavioral control.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Human metacognition across domains: insights from individual differences and neuroimaging |
Location: | England |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1017/pen.2018.16 |
Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1017/pen.2018.16 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncnd/ 4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. |
Keywords: | systematic review; metacognition; judgment and decision-making; cognitive neuroscience; cognitive abilities |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062695 |
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