Metacognition, agency and interoception tasks

The participant reports on their own cognition, action or body: confidence in future recall, the perceived time of an action, the sense that a limb or heartbeat is theirs; the correspondence between report and fact is the measure.

This family contains 5 tasks.

Task

Short definition

Processes

Body Ownership Illusion Task

Synchronous multisensory stimulation of a participant’s hidden body part and a visible fake or virtual counter…

3

Feeling-of-Knowing Task

After failing to recall a studied item, participants rate the likelihood they could recognize the answer; the…

4

Heartbeat Detection Task

Participants count or discriminate their own heartbeats without external feedback; the correspondence between…

3

Intentional Binding Task

Participants judge the perceived time of a voluntary action and/or its sensory effect using a Libet clock; the…

3

Judgment-of-Learning Task

After studying each item, participants predict the likelihood they will recall it on a later test; calibration…

4