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The Effect of Confidence Rating on a Primary Visual Task.

Taly Bonder¹, Daniel Gopher¹

¹Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

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Adding confidence ratings to visual acuity tasks improves performance. Participants who rated their confidence showed better accuracy and faster learning, demonstrating enhanced processing and response strategies.

Keywords:

confidence rating executive control metacognition reactivity spatial attention task formation visual acuity

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Visual Perception

Background:

Visual acuity, a fundamental aspect of visual perception, is crucial for tasks requiring contrast detection.
Understanding factors that modulate visual performance, such as metacognitive judgments, is essential for cognitive science.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of incorporating confidence ratings into a visual acuity task on performance and learning.
To examine how metacognitive monitoring, through confidence ratings, influences visual processing and response strategies.

Main Methods:

Participants performed the Landolt gap discrimination task, a measure of visual acuity.
Three groups were compared: Confidence Rating (self-rated confidence), Time Delay (matched for rating time), and Standard Task (no rating).
Performance was assessed through accuracy, response time, and learning efficiency over practice and test trials.

Main Results:

The Confidence Rating group demonstrated improved accuracy and faster reaction times post-practice compared to controls.
A significant correlation between accuracy and confidence rating indicated effective monitoring in the Confidence Rating group.
The Confidence Rating group was notably slower when making errors, suggesting enhanced error detection or processing.

Conclusions:

Confidence rating during practice significantly enhances visual acuity performance and learning efficiency.
Metacognitive monitoring, facilitated by confidence ratings, shapes processing and response strategies, leading to performance benefits.
This study highlights the role of confidence judgments in optimizing visual perception and task performance.