Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: a large-scale fMRI study.

ABSTRACT: One important aspect of metacognition is the ability to accurately evaluate one's performance. People vary widely in their metacognitive ability and in general are too confident when evaluating their performance. This often leads to poor decision making with potentially disastrous consequences. To further our understanding of the neural underpinnings of these processes, this fMRI study investigated inter-individual differences in metacognitive ability and effects of trial-by-trial variation in subjective feelings of confidence when making metacognitive assessments. Participants (N = 308) evaluated their performance in a high-level social and cognitive reasoning task. The results showed that higher metacognitive accuracy was associated with a decrease in activation in the anterior medial pr

SUBMITTER: Molenberghs P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5141950 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature