The authors of this article point out that “the educational and neuroscience disciplines have largely developed separately with little exchange and communication.” Their article provides useful summaries of metacognition in cognitive neuroscience research and metacognition in educational sciences research. They conclude with several useful directions for future interdisciplinary research on metacognition and how it’s developed.

Fleur, D.S., Bredeweg, B. & van den Bos, W. (2021). Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro- and educational sciences. npj Sci. Learn. 6(13). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-021-00089-5