Consciousness and Metacognition
Metarepresentations August 31, 2000 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195141146.003.0010 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review Peer reviewed |
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| Key findings | Argues that metacognition, including the sense of information availability and confidence judgments, is a significant area of study, and that deficits in conditions like blindsight and amnesia can be viewed as disruptions of metacognition. |
Abstract
Abstract Metacognition has attracted considerable attention in recent psychological research. There has been extensive investigation, for example, of our metacognitive sense that information is present in memory even when that information is not consciously available, as well as investigation of the degrees of confidence people have about recall responses and about how well something has been learned. Moreover, the deficits that occur in such conditions as blindsight and visual agnosia and in certain forms of amnesia can usefully be seen as”[d]isruptions of metacognition” (Shi mamura, 1994, p. 255). These and other investigations have highlighted the importance of studying the grasp we have of our own cognitive abilities and performance.
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