Confidence Predictions Affect Performance Confidence and Neural Preparation in Perceptual Decision Making.

ABSTRACT: Decisions are usually accompanied by a feeling of being wrong or right - a subjective confidence estimate. But what information is this confidence estimate based on, and what is confidence used for? To answer these questions, research has largely focused on confidence regarding current or past decisions, for example identifying how characteristics of the stimulus affect confidence, how confidence can be used as an internally generated feedback signal, and how communicating confidence can affect group decisions. Here, we report two studies which implemented a novel metacognitive measure: predictions of confidence for future perceptual decisions. Using computational modeling of behaviour and EEG, we established that experience-based confidence predictions are one source of information that a

SUBMITTER: Boldt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6411854 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature