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Disentangling the origins of confidence in speeded perceptual judgments through multimodal imaging

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Pereira, Michael, Faivre, Nathan, Iturrate, Iñaki, Wirthlin, Marco, Serafini, Luana, Martin, Stéphanie, Desvachez, Arnaud, Blanke, Olaf +2 more·2020·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1918335117

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The human capacity to compute the likelihood that a decision is correct-known as metacognition-has proven difficult to study in isolation as it usually cooccurs with decision making. Here, we isolated postdecisional from decisional contributions to metacognition by analyzing neural correlates of confidence with multimodal imaging. Healthy volunteers reported their confidence in the accuracy of decisions they made or decisions they observed. We found better metacognitive performance for committed vs. observed decisions, indicating that committing to a decision may improve confidence. Relying on concurrent electroencephalography and hemodynamic recordings, we found a common correlate of confidence following committed and observed decisions in the inferior frontal gyrus and a dissociation in the anterior prefrontal cortex and anterior insula. We discuss these results in light of decisional and postdecisional accounts of confidence and propose a computational model of confidence in which metacognitive performance naturally improves when evidence accumulation is constrained upon committing a decision.

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  • Metacognitive sensitivity is often better when confidence judgments are provided after, compared to before, an explicit decision has been made.

    “Telltale signs of this effect have been confirmed empirically: Metacognitive sensitivity is often better when confidence judgments are provided after, compared to before, an explicit decision has been made (Pereira et al. 2020, Siedlecka et al. 2016, Wokke et al. 2020)”

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Pereira, M., Faivre, N., Iturrate, I., Wirthlin, M., Serafini, L., Martin, S., Desvachez, A., Blanke, O., Van De Ville, D., & Millán, J. D. R.
Affiliations
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
  • University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (IT)
  • Center for Neuroprosthetics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland;
  • University Hospital of Geneva (CH)
Corresponding author
Pereira, Michael
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Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Published
2020-04
Volume
117
Issue
15
Pages
8382-8390
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
DOI
10.1073/pnas.1918335117
OpenAlex
W3014479265
Cited by
72
References
20
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 7 · 2018: 1
FWCI
5.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Oskar-Bordeaux (Universite de Bordeaux) (submittedVersion)
  • Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Keywords
metacognition, speeded decision making, inferior frontal gyrus, anterior prefrontal cortex, anterior insula, evidence accumulation
MeSH terms
Metacognition, Adult, Decision Making, Electroencephalography, Female, Humans, Judgment, Male, Prefrontal Cortex, Young Adult, Multimodal Imaging

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