Fernández Velasco, Pablo and Loev, Slawa (2024) Metacognitive Feelings:A Predictive-Processing Perspective. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 17456916231221976. ISSN 1745-6924
Abstract
Metacognitive feelings are affective experiences that concern the subject's mental processes and capacities. Paradigmatic examples include the feeling of familiarity, the feeling of confidence, or the tip-of-the-tongue experience. In this article, we advance an account of metacognitive feelings based on the predictive-processing framework. The core tenet of predictive processing is that the brain is a hierarchical hypothesis-testing mechanism, predicting sensory input on the basis of prior experience and updating predictions on the basis of the incoming prediction error. According to the proposed account, metacognitive feelings arise out of a process in which visceral changes serve as cues to predict the error dynamics relating to a particular mental process. The expected rate of prediction-error reduction corresponds to the valence at the core of the emerging metacognitive feeling. Metacognitive feelings use prediction dynamics to model the agent's situation in a way that is both descriptive and directive. Thus, metacognitive feelings are not only an appraisal of ongoing cognitive performance but also a set of action policies. These action policies span predictive trajectories across bodily action, mental action, and interoceptive changes, which together transform the epistemic landscape within which metacognitive feelings unfold.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024 |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Philosophy (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 05 Feb 2025 09:00 |
Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2025 00:09 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231221976 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/17456916231221976 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:222908 |
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