Inderpreet K. Gill’s research while affiliated with University of British Columbia and other places

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A Domain-General Sense of Confidence in Children
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September 2018

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Inderpreet K. Gill

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Darko Odic

Our minds constantly evaluate the confidence in what we see, think, and remember. Previous work suggests that confidence is a domain-general currency in adulthood, unifying otherwise independent sensory and perceptual representations. Here, we test whether children also possess a domain-general sense of confidence over otherwise independent perceptual dimensions. Six- to nine-year-olds completed either three simple perceptual discrimination tasks: a number task (“Which group has more dots?”), an area task (“Which blob is bigger?”), and an emotions task (“Which face is happier?”), or three relative confidence tasks, selecting which of two trials they are more confident on. We find that while children’s discrimination performance across the three tasks was independent and constituted three separate factors, children’s confidence in each of three dimensions was strongly correlated and constituted only a single factor. Our results suggest that confidence is a domain-general currency even in childhood, providing a mechanism by which disparate perceptual representations could be integrated.

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... For instance, 6-year-olds, but not 4-5-yearolds, will, similarly to the Risko et al. study (2014) with adults, physically rotate a paper map as opposed to engaging in mental rotation (Armitage & Redshaw, 2022). In addition, this is the age range where children are gaining metacognitive access to their subjective uncertainty (Baer et al., 2018;Vo et al., 2014) and where the child's developing working memory abilities begin to be guided explicitly (Ahmed et al., 2022;Forsberg et al., 2021;Spanoudis et al., 2015). We will return to the role of metacognition in the sampling-remembering trade-off later on. ...

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How attention and working memory work together in the pursuit of goals: The development of the sampling-remembering trade-off
A Domain-General Sense of Confidence in Children

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