ArticleeLife2021
Separable neural signatures of confidence during perceptual decisions.
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- Neural basis of concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence judgment.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- No Central Executive? Decision Formation Through Multi-Area Population Dynamics.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Computational and Neuronal Basis of Visual Confidence.Annual review of vision science · 2025Review
- Evidence accumulation in the pre-supplementary motor area and insula drives confidence and changes of mind.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Dissociable encoding of evolving beliefs and momentary belief updates in distinct neural decision signals.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Motor Preparation Tracks Decision Boundary Crossing Rather Than Accumulated Evidence in Temporal Decision-Making.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neural basis of concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence judgment.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Perceptual and attentional uncertainty impact global performance monitoring.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Confidence control for efficient behaviour in dynamic environments.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Metacognitive evaluation of postdecisional perceptual representations.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- The online metacognitive control of decisions.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Behavioral and neural measures of confidence using a novel auditory pitch identification task.PloS one · 2024Article
- Prior information differentially affects discrimination decisions and subjective confidence reports.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Illusory object recognition is either perceptual or cognitive in origin depending on decision confidence.PLoS biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Perceptual confidence is an evaluation of the validity of perceptual decisions. While there is behavioural evidence that confidence evaluation differs from perceptual decision-making, disentangling these two processes remains a challenge at the neural level. Here, we examined the electrical brain activity of human participants in a protracted perceptual decision-making task where observers tend to commit to perceptual decisions early whilst continuing to monitor sensory evidence for evaluating confidence. Premature decision commitments were revealed by patterns of spectral power overlying motor cortex, followed by an attenuation of the neural representation of perceptual decision evidence. A distinct neural representation was associated with the computation of confidence, with sources localised in the superior parietal and orbitofrontal cortices. In agreement with a dissociation between perception and confidence, these neural resources were recruited even after observers committed to their perceptual decisions, and thus delineate an integral neural circuit for evaluating perceptual decision confidence.
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