<p>This is a topic of research currently. The short answer is no (there's quite a clear distinction between e.g. visual and memory metacognition), the long answer is that in some cases, some metacognitive mechanisms might be shared. </p>

<p>Some examples for the short 'no' answer:</p>

<ul>
<li>Patients with frontal lesions have lower visual (but not memory) metacognition than healthy controls. (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25100039" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25100039</a>)</li>
<li>Different areas within prefrontal cortex seem to underly visual and memory metacognition see <a href="http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/42/16657.full.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/42/16657.full.pdf</a></li>
<li>There are also quite a few (older and more recent) papers within the metamemory literature, argueing that even within metamemory (i.e., in different subtypes of judgements or in semantic vs episodic memory) different mechanisms are recruited. One example here: <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393211000182" rel="nofollow">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393211000182</a>. </li>
</ul>

<p>Some examples showing that there actually is some degree of domain-generality:</p>

<ul>
<li>Participants in have similar metacognitive ability in two similar visual tasks, despite different first order performance. See <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3203218/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3203218/</a> and  <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/11/4506.full" rel="nofollow">http://www.pnas.org/content/108/11/4506.full</a></li>
<li>Memory (but not visual) metacognition improved after meditation training -also another form of metacognition, perhaps of the focus of attention. See <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24820248" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24820248</a></li>
</ul>

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<p>Here are some finding of neuroscience mechanisms of metacognition:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10924251" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10924251</a></p>

<p>They claim that several of them are included. They didn't mentioned nothing about cerebellum.</p>

<p>In research of creativity where pretty much of metacognition is needed cerebellum has significant role: </p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity#Neurobiology_of_creativity" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity#Neurobiology_of_creativity</a></p>

<p>According to this there could be several mechanisms. I also have this book in my hand several weeks ago and I think they wrote about several mechanisms: <a href="http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/2012/metacognition.xhtml" rel="nofollow">http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/2012/metacognition.xhtml</a></p>

<p>There is also article where we could argue on mechanism connected to cortex and another one which is not: <a href="http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/367/1599/2213" rel="nofollow">http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/367/1599/2213</a></p>

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<p>There are different meta-cognitive judgments: feeling of knowing, ratings of warmth, confidence, judgments of learning, tip-of-the-tongue or not, insight or not, etc. </p>

<p><strong>Are these judgments based on the same mechanism or there is a different mechanism in each case?</strong></p>

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Do different meta-cognitive measurements depend on the same mechanism?
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# Do different meta-cognitive measurements depend on the same mechanism?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-05-30)

There are different meta-cognitive judgments: feeling of knowing, ratings of warmth, confidence, judgments of learning, tip-of-the-tongue or not, insight or not, etc.

**Are these judgments based on the same mechanism or there is a different mechanism in each case?**

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-08-27. Score: 3

This is a topic of research currently. The short answer is no (there's quite a clear distinction between e.g. visual and memory metacognition), the long answer is that in some cases, some metacognitive mechanisms might be shared.

Some examples for the short 'no' answer:

* Patients with frontal lesions have lower visual (but not memory) metacognition than healthy controls. (<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25100039>)
* Different areas within prefrontal cortex seem to underly visual and memory metacognition see <http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/42/16657.full.pdf>
* There are also quite a few (older and more recent) papers within the metamemory literature, argueing that even within metamemory (i.e., in different subtypes of judgements or in semantic vs episodic memory) different mechanisms are recruited. One example here: <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393211000182>.

Some examples showing that there actually is some degree of domain-generality:

* Participants in have similar metacognitive ability in two similar visual tasks, despite different first order performance. See <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3203218/> and <http://www.pnas.org/content/108/11/4506.full>
* Memory (but not visual) metacognition improved after meditation training -also another form of metacognition, perhaps of the focus of attention. See <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24820248>


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### Answer by username_2 on 2013-06-10. Score: 2

Here are some finding of neuroscience mechanisms of metacognition:

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10924251>

They claim that several of them are included. They didn't mentioned nothing about cerebellum.

In research of creativity where pretty much of metacognition is needed cerebellum has significant role:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity#Neurobiology_of_creativity>

According to this there could be several mechanisms. I also have this book in my hand several weeks ago and I think they wrote about several mechanisms: <http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/2012/metacognition.xhtml>

There is also article where we could argue on mechanism connected to cortex and another one which is not: <http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/367/1599/2213>


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