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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Decision-Making Science

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  • Metacognition, crucial for adaptive behavior, is not fully understood.
  • Current methods to improve metacognition are limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if reassessing confidence improves metacognitive performance.
  • To explore the impact of confidence reassessment on type 2 confidence choices.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a two-step confidence choice paradigm.
  • Conducted two online experiments with participants completing a type 1 task and two confidence choices.
  • Analyzed changes in metacognitive sensitivity after confidence reassessment.

Main Results:

  • Metacognitive sensitivity significantly improved after participants re-evaluated their initial confidence.
  • The improvement suggests an attenuation of metacognitive noise during confidence generation.

Conclusions:

  • Additional post-decisional processing can filter metacognitive noise, enhancing metacognitive sensitivity.
  • Findings have implications for metacognition models and training protocols.