For fellow dev MC researchers: some helpful correlational data + modelling with adult confidence reports to justify using RT as an implicit conf measure.
But note that while this corr is generally true in kids too, it's not perfect (West et al 2025; Leckey et al 2025)
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
maybe there's a way to study metacognitive monitoring w/o collecting confidence? could be handy for studying animals and infants?
Carolyn Baer
Abstract. This study explores the use of response time (RT) data in type-2 receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, a method traditionally used to examine the relationship between confidence ...
