Metacognitive Information Theory

• Published in: Open mind (Cambridge, Mass.) Vol. 7; pp. 392 - 411
• Main Author: Dayan, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Broadway, 12th Floor, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA MIT Press 21.07.2023; MIT Press Journals, The; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Efficiency; information theory; m-ratio; Metacognition; scoring rules; signal detection theory

The capacity that subjects have to rate confidence in their choices is a form of metacognition, and can be assessed according to bias, sensitivity and efficiency. Rich networks of domain-specific and domain-general regions of the brain are involved in the rating, and are associated with its quality...