[HTML][HTML] Metacognition and mentalizing are associated with distinct neural representations of decision uncertainty

S Jiang, S Wang, X Wan - PLoS biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Metacognition and mentalizing are both associated with meta-level mental state
representations. Conventionally, metacognition refers to monitoring one's own cognitive …

Prefrontal contributions to metacognition in perceptual decision making

SM Fleming, J Huijgen, RJ Dolan - Journal of Neuroscience, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Neuroscience has made considerable progress in understanding the neural substrates
supporting cognitive performance in a number of domains, including memory, perception …

[HTML][HTML] The neural system of metacognition accompanying decision-making in the prefrontal cortex

L Qiu, J Su, Y Ni, Y Bai, X Zhang, X Li, X Wan - PLoS biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Decision-making is usually accompanied by metacognition, through which a decision maker
monitors uncertainty regarding a decision and may then consequently revise the decision …

Domain-general and domain-specific patterns of activity supporting metacognition in human prefrontal cortex

J Morales, H Lau, SM Fleming - Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Metacognition is the capacity to evaluate the success of one's own cognitive processes in
various domains; for example, memory and perception. It remains controversial whether …

Task-specific neural representations of generalizable metacognitive control signals in the human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex

J Su, W Jia, X Wan - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) plays a critical role in cognitive control over
different domains of tasks. The dACC activities uniformly represent task-generic intensities of …

Neural networks underlying the metacognitive uncertainty response

EJ Paul, JD Smith, VV Valentin, BO Turner, AK Barbey… - Cortex, 2015 - Elsevier
Humans monitor states of uncertainty that can guide decision-making. These uncertain
states are evident behaviorally when humans decline to make a categorization response …

[HTML][HTML] Explaining distortions in metacognition with an attractor network model of decision uncertainty

NAA Atiya, QJM Huys, RJ Dolan… - PLoS Computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Metacognition is the ability to reflect on, and evaluate, our cognition and behaviour.
Distortions in metacognition are common in mental health disorders, though the neural …

[HTML][HTML] Time-sensitive prefrontal involvement in associating confidence with task performance illustrates metacognitive introspection in monkeys

Y Cai, Z Jin, C Zhai, H Wang, J Wang, Y Tang… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Metacognition refers to the ability to be aware of one's own cognition. Ample evidence
indicates that metacognition in the human primate is highly dissociable from cognition …

Inter-individual variability in metacognitive ability for visuomotor performance and underlying brain structures

I Sinanaj, Y Cojan, P Vuilleumier - Consciousness and Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
Metacognition refers to the ability to discriminate between one's own correct and incorrect
decisions. The neurobiological underpinnings of metacognition have mainly been studied in …

Mentalizing under uncertainty: dissociated neural responses to ambiguous and unambiguous mental state inferences

AC Jenkins, JP Mitchell - Cerebral Cortex, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The ability to read the minds of others (ie, to mentalize) requires that perceivers understand
a wide range of different kinds of mental states, including not only others' beliefs and …