Quantitative Research Programs Relating Metacognition and Consciousness

Explore a comprehensive lecture on quantitative research programs relating metacognition and consciousness presented by Megan Peters from UC Irvine at the Simons Institute. Delve into the intriguing relationship between confidence and perception accuracy in everyday scenarios and laboratory settings. Examine the conditions that lead to misalignments between confidence levels and task performance. Investigate methods for quantifying these phenomena and their implications for understanding the construction of confidence judgments. Discover how theory-informed measures and paradigms can shed light on the connection between metacognitive dissociations and the neurocomputational architectures underlying both metacognition and perceptual awareness. Gain insights into recent findings that address these questions through experimental paradigm design, analysis approaches, and theoretical frameworks.