Saeedeh Sadeghi, Univ. of Tehran

Metacognition in addiction

We all make mistakes, from time to time. However, we are usually somewhat aware of the probability that our decisions might be inaccurate. The ability to monitor one's own performance is called metacognitive ability. Drug addiction has been associated with lack of insight into one’s own abilities. However, the scope of metacognition impairment among drug users is not fully understood. We compared metacognitive ability in methadone maintenance patients with a matched control group in the domains of memory and perception.

I will start the presentation by defining the concept of metacognition, and a popular task paradigm and computational measure for estimating metacognitive ability numerically. Then I’ll talk about our experiment on metacognition in methadone maintenance patients in a memory and a perceptual task, and discuss the results.

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Elisa Filevich / Robert Martin