Effects of age on metacognitive efficiency

Highlights • Metacognitive ability refers to the mapping between one’s beliefs and behaviours.• We separately quantified task performance and metacognition for perception and memory.• We identify a decline in metacognition with age across the adult lifespan.• Changes of metacognition with age were not explained by executive function.• Combined with adolescent data the lifespan profile of metacognition is an inverted-U.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Consciousness and Cognition

• Publication date

  2014-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.concog.2014.06.007PMID 25064692PMCID 4154452
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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