| Title: |
Metacognitive improvement: Disentangling adaptive training from experimental confounds. |
| Authors: |
Rouy, Martin; de Gardelle, Vincent; Reyes, Gabriel; Sackur, Jérôme; Vergnaud, Jean Christophe; Filevich, Elisa; Faivre, Nathan |
| Contributors: |
Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (LPNC); Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA); Paris School of Economics (PSE); Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE); Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne (CES); Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universidad del Desarrollo; Laboratoire de sciences cognitives et psycholinguistique (LSCP); Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS-PSL (DEC); École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin = Humboldt University of Berlin = Université Humboldt de Berlin (HU Berlin); ANR-16-ASTR-0014,MetaStress,Impact du stress sur la décision et la métacognition: applications en aéronautique(2016); ANR-17-EURE-0017,FrontCog,Frontières en cognition(2017) |
| Source: |
ISSN: 0096-3445 ; EISSN: 1939-2222. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; American Psychological Association |
| Publication Year: |
2022 |
| Collection: |
Université Savoie Mont Blanc: HAL |
| Subject Terms: |
cognitive training; confidence; introspection; metacognition; [SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology |
| Description: |
International audience ; Metacognition is defined as the capacity to monitor and control one's own cognitive processes. Recently, Carpenter and colleagues (2019) reported that metacognitive performance can be improved through adaptive training: healthy participants performed a perceptual discrimination task, and subsequently indicated confidence in their response. Metacognitive performance, defined as how much information these confidence judgments contain about the accuracy of perceptual decisions, was found to increase in a group of participants receiving monetary reward based on their confidence judgments over hundreds of trials and multiple sessions. By contrast, in a control group where only perceptual performance was incentivized, metacognitive performance remained constant across experimental sessions. We identified two possible confounds that may have led to an artificial increase in metacognitive performance, namely the absence of reward in the initial session and an inconsistency between the reward scheme and the instructions about the confidence scale. We thus conducted a preregistered conceptual replication where all sessions were rewarded and where instructions were consistent with the reward scheme. Critically, once these two confounds were corrected we found moderate evidence for an absence of metacognitive training. Our data thus suggest that previous claims about metacognitive training are premature, and calls for more research on how to train individuals to monitor their own performance. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1037/xge0001185 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-03581013; https://hal.science/hal-03581013v2/document; https://hal.science/hal-03581013v2/file/Rouy%20et%20al%202022%20J%20Exp%20Psychol%20Gen.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001185 |
| Rights: |
https://about.hal.science/hal-authorisation-v1/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.4EDA24DA |
| Database: |
BASE |