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Intention offloading: Domain-general versus task-specific confidence signals

Sachdeva, Chhavi; Gilbert, Sam J; (2024) Intention offloading: Domain-general versus task-specific confidence signals. Memory & Cognition 10.3758/s13421-024-01529-4. (In press). Green open access

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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.

Type: Article
Title: Intention offloading: Domain-general versus task-specific confidence signals
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-024-01529-4
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01529-4
Language: English
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Keywords: Metacognition; Cognitive offloading; Distributed cognition; Intention offloading
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188615
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