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�…

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�…

Metacognition supports reflection upon and control of other cognitive processes. Despite
metacognition occupying a central role in human psychology, its neural substrates remain�…

Is metacognition a general resource shared across domains? Previous research has
documented consistent biases in judgments across tasks. In contrast, there is debate�…

Metacognition is the capacity to introspectively monitor and control one's own cognitive
processes. Previous anatomical and functional neuroimaging findings implicated the�…

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

Awareness of one's own abilities is of paramount importance in adaptive decision making.
Psychotherapeutic theories assume such metacognitive insight is impaired in compulsivity�…

Despite many research efforts dedicated toward deciphering the functional architecture
underlying metacognition, it is still unclear if there is a common metacognitive resource for�…

Mind wandering, also known as task-unrelated thought, refers to the drift of attention from a
focal task or train of thought. Because self-caught measures of mind wandering require�…

An important yet unresolved question is whether or not metacognition consists of domain-
general or domain-specific mechanisms. While most studies on this topic suggest a�…