The correction of errors committed with high confidence

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-84

  Butterfield, Brady ^a   Metcalfe, Janet ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Confidence judgments; Error correction; Feedback; Hyper correction; Metacognition; Metamemory; Tone detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746461849     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-006-6894-z     Document Type: Article

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