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Human Metacognition Across Domains: Insights from Individual Differences and Neuroimaging

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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.

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Authors
Rouault, M., McWilliams, A., Allen, M. G., & Fleming, S. M.
Affiliations
  • Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
  • Max Planck Society (DE)
Corresponding author
Fleming, Stephen M.
Venue
Personality Neuroscience
Published
2018
Volume
1
Pages
e17
ISSN
2513-9886 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2899651677
Cited by
176
References
113
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 3
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7.59
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journal article
Language
en
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cc-by-nc-nd
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  • Personality Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (203147/Z/16/Z, 203147, 206648, 203147/Z/16/)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (ACF-2015-17-019)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
Keywords
metacognition, domain generality, individual differences, confidence, self-assessment, sensory modalities, metacognitive efficiency

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