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The second Metacognition Satellite was held in 2023 in New York City on June 21.

Agenda:

• 10:15am arrivals (bring coffee!)

• 10:30-11:30am Opening keynote - Michael Landy: Metacognition of visually guided action

  • Michael Landy studies human perception and action using behavioral measurements, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and computational models. Specific areas include sensory decision-making, sensory cue integration, spatial vision and texture perception, and visually guided action.

• 11:30-12:30pm Short talks session 1 - Visual Metacognition

  • Nadine Dijkstra: Metacognitive awareness of mistaking imagination for reality

  • James Stazicker: Metacognition is a confound for consciousness—and what to do about that

  • Caroline Myers: “Would I have noticed that?” Guesses as an assay of metacognition

• 12:30-2pm LUNCH BREAK

• 2-3pm Short talks session 2 - Individual Differences

  • Yunxuan Zheng: Common computational principles for confidence, expectation, and reward

  • Kelly Hoogervorst: Gender differences in metacognition: Insights from local and global metacognitive measures across multiple domains

  • Robin Ince: Test-retest reliability and domain-generality of metacognition metrics

• 3-3:30pm BREAK

• 3:30-4:30pm Short talks session 3 - New Directions in Metacognition

  • Joaquim Streicher: Metacognitive skills are resistant to falling asleep

  • Clara Colombatto: Illusions of confidence in the advice of artificial systems

  • Samuel Recht: Trading off exploration throughout the cognitive hierarchy

• 4:30-5:30pm Closing keynote - Jacqueline Gottlieb: Value and control in information gathering

  • Jacqueline Gottlieb studies the mechanisms that underlie the brain's higher cognitive functions, including decision making, memory, and attention. Her interest is in how the brain gathers the evidence it needs — and ignores what it doesn’t — during everyday tasks and during special states such as curiosity.

• 5:30pm LET'S GO TO DRINKS

The inaugural Metacognition Satellite was held in 2022 in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Saturday 16th July.

Agenda

Location: Room C0.01, Building C of the Roeterseiland complex (Nieuwe achtergracht 166)

• 1030-1050am COFFEE

• 1050-11am Opening remarks

• 11-1145am Opening keynote - Pascal Mamassian

  • Re-evaluating our perceptual decisions for their accuracy, self-consistency, and aesthetic value

• 1145-1245pm Computational models of perceptual metacognition (short talks and discussion)

  • 1) Medha Shekhar How do humans give confidence? A comprehensive comparison of process models of metacognition

  • 2) Robbe Goris Quantifying perceptual introspection

  • 3) Tarryn Balsdon The limits of human nested cognition

• 1245-2pm LUNCH

• 2-3pm Functional basis of perceptual metacognition (short talks and discussion)

  • 1) Ruben van Bergen Decoding uncertainty from cortical activity

  • 2) Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida Reproduction, but not confidence, can dissociate conscious perception from non-perceptual bias

  • 3) Ruth van Holst Motivational signals disrupt metacognitive signals in the human ventromedial prefrontal cortex

• 3-330pm COFFEE

• 330-430pm Biases in confidence (short talks and discussion)

  • 1) Shannon Locke Confidence leak and its affect on appearance

  • 2) Annika Boldt Suboptimal reliance on incongruent evidence for the computation of confidence

  • 3) Pradyumna Sepulveda Goal-dependent evidence bias in human confidence

• 430-515pm Closing keynote - Janneke Jehee

  • Computational and neural mechanisms of perceptual metacognition

• 515pm DRINKS