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SUMMARY:Metacognition of internally-generated processes - Dr Elisa Filevic
 h\, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience\, Humboldt-Universitae
 t zu Berlin\, Berlin\, Germany
DTSTART:20180525T153000Z
DTEND:20180525T163000Z
UID:TALK104158@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION: Metacognition (typically defined as "cognition about cognitio
 n") allows us to monitor our own thoughts and feelings. So broadly underst
 ood\, metacognition can be applied to a wide range of mental domains. For 
 example\, we use metacognition to monitor our perception of events generat
 ed in the external world and to seek further evidence if we are unsure of 
 what we have perceived. We can also accurately report mental states genera
 ted internally\, like the contents of our thoughts\, the focus of our atte
 ntion or our intentions to move.\n\nDespite the wide and disparate range o
 f domains on which metacognition operates\, most experiments have focussed
  on perception\, perhaps because this is the most straightforward approach
 . It is relatively easy to present to participants visual\, auditory or ta
 ctile stimuli that can be carefully controlled\, in order to measure metac
 ognitive ability independently from the associated perceptual ability. On 
 the other hand\, studying metacognition of internally-generated processes 
 is much harder. But it is unknown whether the same metacognitive mechanism
 s operate across different domains (domain-generality)\, or whether each d
 omain relies on independent mechanisms (domain-specificity). Hence\, it is
  critical to explicitly study metacognitive monitoring in different domain
 s and the relationships between them. \n\nIn this talk\, I will present so
 me experiments showing how metacognition of internal processes can be meas
 ured\, and show that it does not always correlate with perceptual metacogn
 ition. I will discuss what we can learn from these experiments about about
  metacognition in general.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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