Distinct patterns of functional brain connectivity correlate with objective performance and subjective beliefs
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The degree of correspondence between objective performance and subjective beliefs varies widely across individuals. Here we demonstrate that functional brain network connectivity measured before exposure to a perceptual decision task covaries with individual objective (type-I performance) and subjective (type-II performance) accuracy. Increases in connectivity with type-II performance were observed in networks measured while participants directed attention inward (focus on respiration), but not in networks measured during states of neutral (resting state) or exogenous attention. Measures of type-I performance were less sensitive to the subjects' specific attentional states from which the networks were derived. These results suggest the existence of functional brain networks indexing objective performance and accuracy of subjective beliefs distinctively expressed in a set of stable mental states.
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- Authors
- Barttfeld, P., Wicker, B., McAleer, P., Belin, P., Cojan, Y., Graziano, M., Leiguarda, R., & Sigman, M.
- Affiliations
- Inserm (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR)
- Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina;
- Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (AR)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2013-06-25
- Volume
- 110
- Issue
- 28
- Pages
- 11577-11582
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC3710822
- OpenAlex
- W2143584007
- Cited by
- 41
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 3.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Conicet (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Funders
- James S. McDonnell Foundation
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-IDEX-0001)
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Universidad de Buenos Aires (CONICET)
- Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica, Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- brain functional connectivity, subjective beliefs, objective performance, attentional state, resting state, bottom-up attention, individual differences, metacognition, self-monitoring
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Task Performance and Analysis
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