Metacognition and mentalizing are associated with distinct neural representations of decision uncertainty.

ABSTRACT: Metacognition and mentalizing are both associated with meta-level mental state representations. Conventionally, metacognition refers to monitoring one's own cognitive processes, while mentalizing refers to monitoring others' cognitive processes. However, this self-other dichotomy is insufficient to delineate the 2 high-level mental processes. We here used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to systematically investigate the neural representations of different levels of decision uncertainty in monitoring different targets (the current self, the past self [PS], and others) performing a perceptual decision-making task. Our results reveal diverse formats of internal mental state representations of decision uncertainty in mentalizing, separate from the associations with external cue in

SUBMITTER: Jiang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9132335 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature