Zheng et al. show that confidence (Type-2) judgments feature the same magnitude of computational noise as perceptual (Type-1) judgments, with important implications for the debate on whether Type-1 an...

Nature Reviews Psychology - It is often asserted that human cognition is Bayesian, but that broad claim is difficult to test in a falsifiable way. We suggest that researchers specifically assess a...

The folded-X pattern has been identified as a critical signature of confidence: as conditions become easier, confidence increases for correct trials b…

Measuring metacognitive ability is one of the enduring challenges in cognitive science. The current paper develops formal tests of the quality of different measures and assesses how current metrics pe...

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