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NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
Volume 55, Issue -, Pages 88-97Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.04.006
Keywords
Metacognition; Confidence; Consciousness; Awareness; Monitoring
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- Templeton Foundation [21569, 15462]
- NIH [R01 NS088628-01, EY13692]
- AirForce [FOS20140035H]
- NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE [R01EY013692, R56EY013692, R01EY019663] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R01NS088628] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Metacognition, the ability to think about our own thoughts, is a fundamental component of our mental life and is involved in memory, learning, planning and decision-making. Here we focus on one aspect of metacognition, namely confidence in perceptual decisions. We review the literature in psychophysics, neuropsychology and neuroscience. Although still a very new field, several recent studies suggest there are specific brain circuits devoted to monitoring and reporting confidence, whereas others suggest that confidence information is encoded within decision-making circuits. We provide suggestions, based on interdisciplinary research, to disentangle these disparate results. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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