Neural activity tracking identity and confidence in social information.

ABSTRACT: Humans learn about the environment either directly by interacting with it or indirectly by seeking information about it from social sources such as conspecifics. The degree of confidence in the information obtained through either route should determine the impact that it has on adapting and changing behaviour. We examined whether and how behavioural and neural computations differ during non-social learning as opposed to learning from social sources. Trial-wise confidence judgements about non-social and social information sources offered a window into this learning process. Despite matching exactly the statistical features of social and non-social conditions, confidence judgements were more accurate and less changeable when they were made about social as opposed to non-social information so

SUBMITTER: Trudel N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9917428 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature