Twin studies have proven invaluable for teasing out the effects of both genetics and the environment on human biology. In a study published April 2 in Cell Reports, researchers studied pairs of twins to look at how the interplay ...
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Monitoring and controlling one's own learning process objectively is essential for improving one's learning abilities. This ability, often referred to as "learning to learn" or "metacognition," has been studied in educational ...
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Three RIKEN neuroscientists have found a region of the brain in macaques that is responsible for integrating information from different sources during decision making. This finding, published in Cell Reports, will help inform ...
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Once you have depressive symptoms, it's easy to fall into a pattern where you aggravate the disorder by ruminative thinking.
May 17, 2022
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In 1884, while attempting to define the limits of human perception, Charles Pierce and Joseph Jastrow discovered something else: the limits of our insight into ourselves.
Oct 4, 2021
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How neat is your handwriting? The accuracy of the answer to this question relies on metacognition, the introspective evaluation of the success of cognitive processing. Despite extensive investigation of the brain architectures ...
Jul 27, 2021
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Schools are often where children's and adolescents' mental health problems are identified. While there is ever growing demand for mental health support for pupils, such as in-school counselling and mentoring, the focus now ...
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Metacognitive judgments of non-experienced events are processed in the frontopolar cortex of the brain, whereas metacognition of experienced events is associated with the dorsal prefrontal cortex, as reported in a study on ...
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A series of experiments at EPFL provide conclusive evidence that the brain uses a single mechanism (supramodality) to estimate confidence in different senses such as audition, touch, or vision. The study is published in the ...
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People can gauge the accuracy of their decisions, even if their decision making performance itself is no better than chance, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...
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