The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition (eBook)

Metacognitive neuroscience: an introduction.- Quantifying human metacognition for the neurosciences.- Signal detection theory analysis of type 1 and type 2 data: meta-d’, response-specific meta-d’ and the unequal variance SDT model.- The highs and lows of theoretical interpretation in animal-metacognition research.- A computational framework for the study of confidence across species.- Shared mechanisms for confidence judgments and error detection in human decision making.- Metacognition and confidence in value-based choice.- What failure in collective decision-making tells us about metacognition.- Studying metacognitive processes at the single-neuron level.- The neural basis of metacognitive accuracy.- The cognitive neuroscience of metamemory monitoring: understanding metamemory processes, subjective levels expressed and metacognitive accuracy.- Metacognitive facilitation of spontaneous thought processes: When metacognition helps the wandering mind find its way.- What is the human sense of agency and is it metacognitive? Failures of metacognition and lack of insight in neuropsychiatric disorders.- Judgments of agency in schizophrenia: An impairment in autonoetic metacognition.- Metacognition in Alzheimer’s disease.