Formation of global self-beliefs in the human brain.

ABSTRACT: Humans create metacognitive beliefs about their performance across many levels of abstraction-from local confidence in individual decisions to global estimates of our skills and abilities. Despite a rich literature on the neural basis of local confidence judgements, how global self-performance estimates (SPEs) are constructed remains unknown. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we scanned human subjects while they performed several short blocks of tasks and reported on which task they think they performed best, providing a behavioral proxy for global SPEs. In a frontoparietal network sensitive to fluctuations in local confidence, we found that activity within ventromedial prefrontal cortex and precuneus was additionally modulated by global SPEs. In contrast, activity in ventral st

SUBMITTER: Rouault M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7959580 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature