Videos
Steve and Chris Frith define and discuss metacognition in a podcast for the Royal Society
Knowing our own minds: UCL's video on our work relating brain structure to introspective ability
Podcasts
BrainStories
BrainStories is a monthly podcast series from the UCL Neuroscience Domain presented by Caswell Barry (UCL Division of Biosciences), Steve Fleming (UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences) and Selina Wray (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology). UCL Brain Stories aims to showcase the best of UCL Neuroscience, highlighting the wide range of cutting-edge research going on within the Neuroscience Domain as well as bringing you the people behind the research to share their journey of how they ended up here. Find out more and listen here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Articles
What makes human brains special - Slate
Knowing what to believe - IAI News
A theory of my own mind - Aeon
What separates humans from AI? It’s doubt - Financial Times
How to boost self-awareness and make better decisions - New Scientist (cover story)
Extremists have trouble realizing they’re wrong - El Pais
Is “belief superiority” the common thread that links extreme liberals and conservatives? - Forbes
People with extreme political views have misplaced certainty when they’re wrong - Newsweek
People with extreme political views cannot tell when they are wrong - The Independent
People with extreme political views have trouble thinking about their own thinking - Popular Science
Final decision? Why the brain keeps changing its mind - Aeon
“Reasonable prospect” of lawyer being vague on a case’s chances - Financial Times
We can train ourselves to be better at knowing when we are wrong - New Scientist
Different psychiatric symptom dimensions have opposite associations with confidence and metacognition - BPS Digest
Hesitate! - Aeon
The Knicks won. Let’s gamble! - Pacific Standard
Fancy a flutter? Sunny weather and watching our sports team win makes us more likely to gamble on the lottery - Daily Mail
This map shows where New Yorkers buy the most lottery tickets - BuzzFeed News
Scientists identify brain region for introspection - The Independent
Do you know when you’re wrong? Gray matter shows introspective ability is not black or white - Scientific American
When your brain figures out what it doesn’t know - NPR
Decisiveness linked to activity in ventromedial prefrontal cortex - Huffington Post
It’s good to think - but not too much - BBC
Was it really me? - Aeon
Why habits are hard to change (and printers hard to buy) - Psychology Today
The biology of dithering - NPR
Two brain regions control decisions - Der Spiegel