3-228 - In search for behavioural and neuro-cognitive underpinnings of children`s emerging metacognitive skills

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Metacognitive skills are important in many everyday life situations and are nowadays recognized as important constitutes for self-regulated learning and academic outcomes in general. Although research in the last two decades has documented continuous development in a variety of aspects of metacognitive skills during the primary school years, little is known about sources of individual differences in these skills as well as about the behavioural and neuro-cognitive underpinnings. In the planned symposium, the focus will be laid on metacognitive monitoring (uncertainty monitoring with judgments of learning or confidence judgments), as monitoring is both theoretically and empirically found to be the basis of decision making, control processes, the selection of strategies and other important aspects of self-regulated information processing. Thereby, two presentations will use a behavioural approach to the study of predictors of monitoring skills, and two presentations will use neuro-cognitive measures (EEG, fMRI) in search for specific patterns of neural activation during monitoring. Moreover, within these two blocks of presentations, one will include young elementary school children (5-7 years) and more strongly focus on early monitoring skills, while the other one will include 8-12 year old children and address consequences of their more sophisticated monitoring. This will allow elucidating and integrating the different factors influencing metacognitive monitoring judgments at different ages, at different levels of monitoring accuracy, and from different methodological point of views.

Sub Unit

• Cognitive Processes

Chair

• Claudia M. Roebers, Univ of Berne

Discussant

• Philip David Zelazo, University of Minnesota

Individual Presentations

• Individual Differences Metacognitive Monitoring in Young Children: Common Grounds with Early Executive Functions? - Presenting Author: Claudia M. Roebers, Univ of Berne; Raluca Sassu, University of Sibiu; Emanuel Feurer, University of Berne

• Neural correlates of metacognitive monitoring in children and adults – an EEG study - Presenting Author: Barbara Müller, Radboud University Nijmegen; Nike Tsalas, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München; Hein van Schie, Radboud University Nijmegen; Jorg Meinhardt, Ludwig-Maximilians University; Beate Sodian, Universtat Muenchen; Markus Paulus, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München

• Age, prior knowledge, and reading comprehension ability underlie monitoring accuracy when learning difficult concepts - Presenting Author: Mariëtte H. van Loon, University of Berne; Anique B. H. de Bruin, Maastricht University

• Knowing that you don’t know: Individual differences in behavioral and neural indices of uncertainty monitoring - Presenting Author: Yana Fandakova, University of California, Davis; John Wendelken; Joshua K Lee, University of California, Davis; Silvia Bunge, University of California, Berkeley; Simona Ghetti, Univ of California Davis