News Finding: The former suggests that subjects recognized that others had different beliefs than them, wh ereas the latter hints they may have been suppressing their wrong answers after learning they were incorrect, Metcalfe says.
Paper Finding: The heightened attention because of the metacognitive mismatch results in hyperencoding of the correction and enhanced memory for it.
News Context: In addition, after people were told that an answer in which they were very confident was wrong, the fMRI showed activation in the right temporoparietal junction, an area linked with thinking about what others might know, and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region linked with the avoidance of thinking about something. The former suggests that subjects recognized that others had different beliefs than them, wh ereas the latter hints they may have been suppressing their wrong answers after learning they were incorrect, Metcalfe says. The findings have implications for educational techniques and theory.
Paper Context: When people experience the contrast of their beliefs in their answers with the knowledge that that answer is incorrect, the dissonance results in heightened attention being paid to the corrective feedback. The heightened attention because of the metacognitive mismatch results in hyperencoding of the correction and enhanced memory for it. Note that, in the error correction paradigm, there are two conditions that exhibit metacognitive mismatch.