What failure in collective decision-making tells us about metacognition

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1594, 2012, Pages 1350-1365

  Bahrami, Bahador ^a,b   Olsen, Karsten ^b   Bang, Dan ^b,c   Roepstorff, Andreas ^b   Rees, Geraint ^a,d   Frith, Chris ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective decision making; Confidence; Cooperative behaviour; Feedback; Metacognition; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859541134     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0420     Document Type: Review

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