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Error-related cardiac response as information for visibility judgements

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Łukowska, Marta, Sznajder, Michał, Wierzchoń, Michał·2018·Scientific Reports

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Interoception provides information about the saliency of external or internal sensory events and thus may inform perceptual decision-making. Error in performance is an example of a motivationally significant internal event that evokes autonomic nervous system response resembling the orienting response: heart rate deceleration, increased skin conductance response, and pupil dilation. Here, we investigate whether error-related cardiac activity may serve as a source of information when making metacognitive judgments in an orientation discrimination backward masking task. In the first experiment, we found that the heart accelerates less after an incorrect stimuli discrimination than after a correct one. Moreover, this difference becomes more pronounced with increasing subjective visibility of the stimuli. In the second experiment, this accuracy-dependent pattern of cardiac activity was found only when participants listened to their own heartbeats, but not someone else's. We propose that decision accuracy coded in cardiac activity may be fed as a cue to subjective visibility judgments.

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  • Internal signal changes such as cardiac deceleration, increased pupil dilation and skin conductance tend to follow errors.

    “Internal signal changes such as cardiac deceleration, and increased pupil dilation and skin conductance, also tend to follow (e.g. Bastin et al., 2017; Hajcak et al., 2003; Łukowska et al., 2018) and even precede (Bury et al., 2019) errors”

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Authors
Łukowska, M., Sznajder, M., & Wierzchoń, M.
Affiliations
Jagiellonian University (PL)
Corresponding author
Łukowska, Marta
Venue
Scientific Reports
Published
2018-01-18
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
1131-1131
ISSN
2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2784079652
Cited by
26
References
85
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 6
FWCI
2.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Keywords
interoception, metacognition, subjective visibility, orienting response, heart rate, backward masking, orientation discrimination, autonomic nervous system, self-monitoring, pupil dilation, skin conductance
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Decision Making, Electrocardiography, Female, Heart, Heart Function Tests, Humans, Judgment, Male, Photic Stimulation, Visual Perception, Recognition, Psychology, Young Adult

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