Offloading is decodable from metacognitive monitoring and control brain processes¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2026: tool and model accuracy changes quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Pattern classifiers could decode metacognitive monitoring and control separately, and cross-classify between them, though cross-classification was less reliable. → Gilbert 2023

Evidence¶

Gilbert 2023¶

Gilbert, S. J., Boldt, A., Sachdeva, C., Scarampi, C., & Tsai, P.-C. (2023). Outsourcing Memory to External Tools: A Review of 'Intention Offloading'. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02139-4

q2 · i? · review · r2

The review reports Boldt and Gilbert (2022), an fMRI study using multivariate pattern analysis to decode metacognitive monitoring and control during an intention offloading paradigm. No effect size is printed.

"a pattern classifier that had only ever been trained to classify high versus low desire for a reminder also accurately clas- sified the difference between a brain with high versus low confidence, even though it was presented with novel data and had never been trained on this distinction"

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