Metacognitive Domains Are Not Aligned along a Dimension of Internal-External Information Source.

ABSTRACT: It is still debated whether metacognition, or the ability to monitor our own mental states, relies on processes that are "domain-general" (a single set of processes can account for the monitoring of any mental process) or "domain-specific" (metacognition is accomplished by a collection of multiple monitoring modules, one for each cognitive domain). It has been speculated that two broad categories of metacognitive processes may exist: those that monitor primarily externally generated versus those that monitor primarily internally generated information. To test this proposed division, we measured metacognitive performance (using m-ratio, a signal detection theoretical measure) in four tasks that could be ranked along an internal-external axis of the source of information, namely memory, moto

SUBMITTER: Arbuzova P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10264495 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature