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The Separation between Easy of Learning and Judgment of Learning in Metacognitive Monitoring: Evidence from Behavioral Performance and Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy

CONG Peiyao, JIA Ning   

  1. College of Education, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024
  • Published:2023-07-19

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Abstract: Easy of learning and judgment of learning are typical prospective metacognitive monitoring types. Easy of learning is made before formal learning, which is the evaluation of learning materials. Judgment of learning is a prediction of the likelihood for the individual's remembering previously learned materials on a future test, occurring between encoding and retrieval test. In this study, behavioral experiments and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) were used to investigate the separation between easy of learning and judgement of learning, compared and analyzed the behavioral performance and the activation of brain regions. The results are as follows: Firstly, our findings showed that both easy of learning and judgment of learning were underestimated in the behavior performance, and the underestimate in easy of learning is even more serious; Secondly, easy of learning and judgment of learning tasks shared similar activated brain regions, including the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). But compared to easy of learning judgment, the judgment of learning had specific brain regions, such as the fusiform gyrus and the temporoparietal junction. Consequently, this study confirmed the separation between easy of learning and judgment of learning from behavioral and brain activation aspects.

Key words: easy of learning, judgement of learning, functional near-infrared spectroscopy

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  • G442

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