The relationship between executive functions, episodic feeling-of-knowing and confidence judgements

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 333-345

  Boduroglu, Aysecan ^a   Tekcan, Ali I ^a   Kapucu, Aycan ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b YASAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Confidence (CONF); Executive functions; Feeling of knowing (FOK); Metamemory; Taskswitching

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEELING OF KNOWING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; WORKING MEMORY; ATTENTION; CONFIDENCE JUDGEMENT; EPISODIC FEELING OF KNOWING; MEMORY; PROSPECTIVE MEMORY; RETROSPECTIVE MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; FRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 84897570902     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2014.891596     Document Type: Article

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