Öztel Tutku, Balci Fuat
Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Psychol Rep. 2025 Aug;128(4):2802-2821. doi: 10.1177/00332941231187121. Epub 2023 Jul 13.
Working memory (WM) and metacognition has been documented to be in a reciprocal relationship. This study aims to address if temporal error monitoring performance can be diminished with increased working memory load. We hypothesized that if temporal error monitoring has commonalities with perceptual error monitoring, temporal error monitoring performance should be diminished by increased working memory load. Participants completed a temporal error monitoring task in a dual task design in which the secondary task was a letter alphabetization task. Results revealed no disrupting effect of WM load on either confidence or short-long judgments as being different metrics of temporal error monitoring ability. These results demonstrate that unlike perceptual error monitoring, WM and temporal error monitoring have distinct processing mechanisms. With this result, the current study suggests that temporal and perceptual error monitoring may partially rely on different mechanisms. Results are discussed within A Theory of Magnitude (ATOM), pacemaker-accumulator model and temporal error monitoring frameworks.
工作记忆（WM）和元认知之间已被证明存在相互关系。本研究旨在探讨随着工作记忆负荷增加，时间误差监测表现是否会降低。我们假设，如果时间误差监测与感知误差监测有共同之处，那么增加工作记忆负荷应会降低时间误差监测表现。参与者在一项双重任务设计中完成了一项时间误差监测任务，其中次要任务是字母排序任务。结果显示，工作记忆负荷对作为时间误差监测能力不同指标的信心或长短判断均无干扰作用。这些结果表明，与感知误差监测不同，工作记忆和时间误差监测具有不同的加工机制。基于这一结果，本研究表明时间误差监测和感知误差监测可能部分依赖于不同的机制。我们将在量级理论（ATOM）、起搏器-累加器模型和时间误差监测框架内对结果进行讨论。
