Metacognition and confidence: A review and synthesis

SM Fleming - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Determining the psychological, computational, and neural bases of confidence and
uncertainty holds promise for understanding foundational aspects of human metacognition …

Neurophysiological mechanisms of error monitoring in human and non-human primates

Z Fu, A Sajad, SP Errington, JD Schall… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Performance monitoring is an important executive function that allows us to gain insight into
our own behaviour. This remarkable ability relies on the frontal cortex, and its impairment is …

A canonical trajectory of executive function maturation from adolescence to adulthood

B Tervo-Clemmens, FJ Calabro, AC Parr… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Theories of human neurobehavioral development suggest executive functions mature from
childhood through adolescence, underlying adolescent risk-taking and the emergence of …

[PDF][PDF] Geometric transformation of cognitive maps for generalization across hippocampal-prefrontal circuits

W Tang, JD Shin, SP Jadhav - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The ability to abstract information to guide decisions during navigation across changing
environments is essential for adaptation and requires the integrity of the hippocampal …

Functional architecture of executive control and associated event-related potentials in macaques

A Sajad, SP Errington, JD Schall - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The medial frontal cortex (MFC) enables executive control by monitoring relevant
information and using it to adapt behavior. In macaques performing a saccade …

Error-related cardiac deceleration: functional interplay between error-related brain activity and autonomic nervous system in performance monitoring

F Di Gregorio, M Steinhauser, ME Maier… - Neuroscience & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Coordinated interactions between the central and autonomic nervous systems are crucial for
survival due to the inherent propensity for human behavior to make errors. In our ever …

Encoding of predictive associations in human prefrontal and medial temporal neurons during Pavlovian appetitive conditioning

TG Aquino, H Courellis, AN Mamelak… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Pavlovian conditioning is thought to involve the formation of learned associations between
stimuli and values, and between stimuli and specific features of outcomes. Here, we …

Resolving the prefrontal mechanisms of adaptive cognitive behaviors: A cross-species perspective

IL Hanganu-Opatz, T Klausberger, T Sigurdsson… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) enables a staggering variety of complex behaviors, such as
planning actions, solving problems, and adapting to new situations according to external …

Orthogonal neural encoding of targets and distractors supports multivariate cognitive control

H Ritz, A Shenhav - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
The complex challenges of our mental life require us to coordinate multiple forms of neural
information processing. Recent behavioural studies have found that people can coordinate …

Mixed selectivity: Cellular computations for complexity

KM Tye, EK Miller, FH Taschbach, MK Benna, M Rigotti… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
The property of mixed selectivity has been discussed at a computational level and offers a
strategy to maximize computational power by adding versatility to the functional role of each …