Confidence judgments and internal uncertainty monitoring

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Table of contents

Foreword
Chapter One: What is metacognition
Part I – Definition
Part II – Validity of Introspective reports
Part III – Implicit and explicit aspects of metacognition
Part IV – Metacognition versus mindreading
Chapter Two: Empirical studies and computational accounts
Part I – Human adults
1 – Metamemory
2 – Error detection and correction
3 – Decision confidence
Part II – Animals
1 – Behavioural experiments
2 – Neurophysiological data
Chapter Three: The development of Metacognition
Part I – Slow and effortful development of explicit metacognition
1 – Introspective reports, metacognitive knowledge and theory of mind
2 – Metamemory
3 – Confidence judgments
Part II – Non-verbal studies in young children
1 – Studies inspired by the animal literature
2 – Error monitoring
Part III – A dual account of the development of metacognition
1 – Suggestive arguments
2 – Testing preverbal infants metacognitive abilities
3 – Brief summary of the two experimental studies
Chapter Four: Empirical contributions
Summary of the first study
Paper: Behavioural and neural indices of metacognition in infants
Summary of the second study
Paper: Infants ask for help when they know that they don’t know
Chapter Five: General discussion
Part I – Two developmental trajectories
1 – Build in implicit redescriptions
2 – Consciously accessing and sharing metacognitive representations
3 – Learning explicit metacognitive knowledge
Part II – Perspectives for future research
1 – Inter-individual variability and clinical populations
2 – Infants as active rather than passive learners
3 – Metacognition and Consciousness
Conclusion
References