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Limited metacognitive access to one’s own facial expressions

Anthony B Ciston, View ORCID ProfileCarina Forster, Timothy R Brick, View ORCID ProfileSimone Kühn, Julius Verrel, View ORCID ProfileElisa Filevich
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.08.434069
Anthony B Ciston
aDepartment of Psychology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
bBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Philippstraße 13 Haus 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany
cBerlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Carina Forster
aDepartment of Psychology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
bBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Philippstraße 13 Haus 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany
cBerlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, 10115 Berlin, Germany
dDepartment of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Timothy R Brick
eDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 115 HHD Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
fInstitute for Computational and Data Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 224B Computer Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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Simone Kühn
gLise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
hUniversity Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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Julius Verrel
iCenter for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
jInstitute of Systems Motor Science, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562 Lübeck
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Elisa Filevich
aDepartment of Psychology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
bBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Philippstraße 13 Haus 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany
cBerlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, 10115 Berlin, Germany
iCenter for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Abstract

As humans we communicate important information through fine nuances in our facial expressions, but because conscious motor representations are noisy, we might not be able to report these fine but meaningful movements. Here we measured how much explicit metacognitive information young adults have about their own facial expressions. Participants imitated pictures of themselves making facial expressions and triggered a camera to take a picture of them while doing so. They then rated confidence (how well they thought they imitated each expression). We defined metacognitive access to facial expressions as the relationship between objective performance (how well the two pictures matched) and subjective confidence ratings. Metacognitive access to facial expressions was very poor when we considered all face features indiscriminately. Instead, machine learning analyses revealed that participants rated confidence based on idiosyncratic subsets of features. We conclude that metacognitive access to own facial expressions is partial, and surprisingly limited.

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The authors have declared no competing interest.

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  • https://gitlab.com/elisa.filevich/cistonetal_metacognitionoffacialexpressions/

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Limited metacognitive access to one’s own facial expressions
Anthony B Ciston, Carina Forster, Timothy R Brick, Simone Kühn, Julius Verrel, Elisa Filevich
bioRxiv 2021.03.08.434069; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.08.434069
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Limited metacognitive access to one’s own facial expressions
Anthony B Ciston, Carina Forster, Timothy R Brick, Simone Kühn, Julius Verrel, Elisa Filevich
bioRxiv 2021.03.08.434069; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.08.434069

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