Cognitive Offloading | Sam Gilbert

In this episode, I speak with a professor at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dr Sam Gilbert. His research is directed at cognitive offloading, prospective memory, metacognition and decision-making. We talk about how and why people choose to offload cognitive tasks, and whether doing so could impair our cognitive abilities. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:29 What is cognitive offloading? 05:03 What forms of cognition do we offload? 07:32 What predicts cognitive offloading? 15:34 Metacognitive sensitivity and bias 20:59 Meta-metacognition as an intervention 26:14 Collecting real-world data is difficult 27:55 Does age affect cognitive offloading? 39:18 Why the elderly are overconfident 42:28 Does cognitive offloading impair cognition? 51:40 What does the prefrontal cortex do? 52:52 Why is it so hard to study the PFC? 57:57 What to look forward to from Sam