France, March 5 -- Project Id: 125668
Description: Project description
Supporting "thinking about thinking" in a vulnerable context
Metacognition is a "cognition about cognition," an "awareness of one's awareness," a crucial mechanism of humans related to monitoring their own mental lives and building representations about themselves. In the case of neurological and psychiatric diseases, metacognitive failures have a significant impact on quality of life. The EU-funded MetAction project will shed new light on the cognitive process of metacognition, aiming to establish a new remediation method. By exploring the determining factors of metacognitive failures, namely the motor signals involved in action execution, MetAction will contribute t...