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Metacognition and awareness.

R W Kentridge1, C A Heywood

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom. robert.kentridge@durham.ac.uk

Consciousness and Cognition
|August 5, 2000
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Metacognitive processes, like error correction, can occur without conscious awareness. A blindsight subject demonstrated this by changing cognitive schemas unconsciously during an attention task.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Metacognition is often assumed to require awareness, but research suggests cognitive schemas can develop implicitly.
  • This challenges the notion that metacognitive regulation is always tied to conscious experience.

Discussion:

  • While implicit schema learning may not involve metacognition, error correction and schema substitution do.
  • These processes are crucial for adapting automatic behaviors when circumstances change.

Key Insights:

  • A blindsight subject unconsciously altered their schema for processing spatial attention cues.
  • This occurred without any reported awareness of the cues, targets, or the schema change itself.

Outlook:

  • Further research is needed to understand the neural mechanisms underlying unconscious metacognitive control.

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  • Investigating blindsight offers a unique window into the dissociation between awareness and cognitive control.