Publications related to Metacognition

Are engineering teachers ready to leverage the power of play to teach transversal skills?

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Yousef Jalali, Natascia Petringa

What conceptions do teachers hold about learning activities to develop students’ transversal skills? This qualitative exploration at a research-intensive engineering school draws on interviews and focus groups to explore teachers’ ideas about developing in ...

2023

Bodily self-consciousness as a framework to link sensory information and self-related components of episodic memory: behavioral, neuroimaging, and clinical evidence

Nathalie Heidi Meyer

The recollection of sensory information and subjective experience related to a personal past event depends on our episodic memory (EM). At the neural level, EM retrieval is linked with the reinstatement of hippocampal activity thought to recollect the sens ...

EPFL2023

Co-simulation of complex engineered systems enabled by a cognitive twin architecture

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Jinwei Chen

Since the complex engineered system involves multi-disciplinary, co-simulation is the key technique to the performance analysis. However, the co-simulation is hindered by heterogeneous sub-systems and ununified environments. In this paper, a Cognitive Twin ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

Brain connectivity and metacognition in persons with subjective cognitive decline (COSCODE): rationale and study design

Ileana Ozana Jelescu

Background Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is the subjective perception of a decline in memory and/or other cognitive functions in the absence of objective evidence. Some SCD individuals however may suffer from very early stages of neurodegenerative dis ...

2021

Sensorimotor conflicts alter metacognitive and action monitoring

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Roy Salomon, Laurène Véronique Vuillaume

While sensorimotor signals are known to modulate perception, little is known about their influence on higher-level cognitive processes. Here, we applied sensorimotor conflicts while participants performed a perceptual task followed by confidence judgments. ...

2020

Disentangling the origins of confidence in speeded perceptual judgments through multimodal imaging

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil, Michael Eric Anthony Pereira, Stéphanie Martin, Arnaud Marc Desvachez, Marco Wirthlin

The human capacity to compute the likelihood that a decision is correct—known as metacognition—has proven difficult to study in isolation as it usually cooccurs with decision making. Here, we isolated postdecisional from decisional contributions to metacog ...

2020

First-person body view modulates the neural substrates of episodic memory and autonoetic consciousness: A functional connectivity study

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Thomas William Arthur Bolton, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Baptiste Gauthier, Robin Mange, Florian Lance, Lucie Bréchet

Episodic memory (EM) is classically conceived as a memory for events, localized in space and time, and characterized by autonoetic consciousness (ANC) allowing to mentally travel back in time and subjectively relive an event. Building on recent evidence th ...

2020

Learning By Collaborative Teaching : An Engaging Multi-Party CoWriter Activity

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jauwairia Nasir

This paper presents the design of a novel and engaging collaborative learning activity for handwriting where a group of participants simultaneously tutor a Nao robot. This activity was intended to take advantage of both collaborative learning and the learn ...

2019

Underlying mechanisms of episodic autobiographical memory and self-consciousness

Lucie Bréchet

Cognitive neuroscience has been examining consciousness associated with the subject, that is the self of the conscious experience and its related multisensory processing of bodily signals, the so-called bodily self-consciousness. Different line of research ...

EPFL2019

Behavioural, modeling, and electrophysiological evidence for supramodality in human metacognition

Olaf Blanke, Nathan Quentin Faivre

Human metacognition, or the capacity to introspect on one's own mental states, has been mostly characterized through confidence reports in visual tasks. A pressing question is to what extent results from visual studies generalize to other domains. Answerin ...

2018

Consciousness is more than meets the eye: a call for a multisensory study of subjective experience

Roy Salomon, Nathan Quentin Faivre

Over the last 30 years, our understanding of the neurocognitive bases of consciousness has improved, mostly through studies employing vision. While studying consciousness in the visual modality presents clear advantages, we believe that a comprehensive sci ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2017

Towards building an attentive artificial listener: on the perception of attentiveness in audio-visual feedback tokens

Jean-Marc Odobez, Kenneth Alberto Funes Mora, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach, Yu Yu

Current dialogue systems typically lack a variation of audio-visual feedback tokens. Either they do not encompass feedback tokens at all, or only support a limited set of stereotypical functions. However, this does not mirror the subtleties of spontaneous ...

ACM2016

An invisible touch: Body-related multisensory conflicts modulate visual consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Javier Bello Ruiz, Marta Lukowska

The majority of scientific studies on consciousness have focused on vision, exploring the cognitive and neural mechanisms of conscious access to visual stimuli. In parallel, studies on bodily consciousness have revealed that bodily (i.e. tactile, proprioce ...

Elsevier2016

Increased activation in Broca's area after cognitive remediation in schizophrenia

Pierre Magistretti, Pierre Marquet

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure changes in cerebral activity in patients with schizophrenia after participation in the Cognitive Remediation Program for Schizophrenia and other related disorders (RECOS). As RECOS therapists ...

Elsevier2014

Recovery of the default mode network after demanding neurofeedback training occurs in spatio-temporally segregated subnetworks

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Rotem Roza Kopel

The default mode (DM) network is a major large-scale cerebral network that can be identified with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during resting state. Most studies consider functional connectivity networks as stationary phenomena. Consequentl ...

Elsevier2012

Trait anxiety and post-learning stress do not affect perceptual learning

Michael Herzog, Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Carl Kristoffer Aberg, Aaron Michael Clarke

While it is well established that stress can modulate declarative learning, very few studies have investigated the influence of stress on non-declarative learning. Here, we studied the influence of post-learning stress, which effectively modulates declarat ...

2012

Facilitating peer knowledge modeling: Effects of a knowledge awareness tool on collaborative learning outcomes and processes

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mirweis Sangin, Marc-Antoine Nüssli

We report an empirical study where we investigated the effects, on the collaborative outcomes and processes, of a cognition-related awareness tool providing learners with cues about their peer’s level of prior knowledge. Sixty-four university students part ...

Elsevier2011

The effects of practice schedule and critical thinking prompts on learning and transfer of a complex judgment task

Many instructional strategies that appear to improve learners' performance during training may not realize adequate posttest performance or transfer to a job. The converse has been found to be true as well: Instructional strategies that appear to slow the ...

2011

Analyzing Near-infrared Images for Utility Assessment

Sabine Süsstrunk, Zahra Sadeghipoor Kermani, Neda Salamati

Visual cognition is of significant importance in certain imaging applications, such as security and surveillance. In these applications, an important issue is to determine the cognition threshold, which is the maximum distortion level that can be applied t ...

SPIE-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2011

Essays on individual decision making under uncertainty

Elise Le Nestour

This research project is an experimental study of decision-making in very difficult contexts resembling those encountered in financial markets. The starting point was the empirical observation that financial assets are objects of a very complex kind. Speci ...

EPFL2009