eprintid: 10188615
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creators_name: Sachdeva, Chhavi
creators_name: Gilbert, Sam J
title: Intention offloading: Domain-general versus task-specific confidence signals
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D05
divisions: F69
keywords: Metacognition; Cognitive offloading; Distributed cognition; Intention offloading
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abstract: Intention offloading refers to the use of external reminders to help remember delayed intentions (e.g., setting an alert to help you remember when you need to take your medication). Research has found that metacognitive processes influence offloading such that individual differences in confidence predict individual differences in offloading regardless of objective cognitive ability. The current study investigated the cross-domain organization of this relationship. Participants performed two perceptual discrimination tasks where objective accuracy was equalized using a staircase procedure. In a memory task, two measures of intention offloading were collected, (1) the overall likelihood of setting reminders, and (2) the bias in reminder-setting compared to the optimal strategy. It was found that perceptual confidence was associated with the first measure but not the second. It is shown that this is because individual differences in perceptual confidence capture meaningful differences in objective ability despite the staircase procedure. These findings indicate that intention offloading is influenced by both domain-general and task-specific metacognitive signals. They also show that even when task performance is equalized via staircasing, individual differences in confidence cannot be considered a pure measure of metacognitive bias.
date: 2024-02-21
date_type: published
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01529-4
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2254235
doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01529-4
medium: Print-Electronic
pii: 10.3758/s13421-024-01529-4
lyricists_name: Gilbert, Sam
lyricists_id: SJGIL27
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Memory & Cognition
event_location: United States
issn: 0090-502X
citation:        Sachdeva, Chhavi;    Gilbert, Sam J;      (2024)    Intention offloading: Domain-general versus task-specific confidence signals.                   Memory & Cognition        10.3758/s13421-024-01529-4 <https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01529-4>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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