ArticleNature neuroscience2026
Neural basis of concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence judgment.
Article in Nature neuroscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Stimulus reliability but not boundary distance manipulations violate the folded-X pattern of confidence.Cognition · 2026Article
- A shared multi-feature population code for sensory reliability across mouse visual cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Macaque Area LIP Reflects Confidence-Dependent Changes in Decision Policy.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 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
- Computational characterization of metacognitive ability in subjective decision-making.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Decision confidence plays a key role in flexible behavior and (meta)cognition, but its underlying neural mechanisms remain elusive. To uncover the latent dynamics of confidence formation at the level of single neurons and population activity, we trained nonhuman primates to report a perceptual choice and the associated level of confidence with a single eye movement on every trial. Monkey behavior was well fit by a bounded accumulator model, where choice and confidence are processed concurrently, but not by a serial model, where choice is resolved first, followed by postdecision accumulation for confidence. Neurons in the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) reflected concurrent accumulation, showing covariation of choice and confidence signals across the population, and within-trial dynamics consistent with parallel updating at near-zero time lag. The results demonstrate that the primate brain can process a single stream of evidence in service of two computational goals simultaneously and suggest area LIP as a candidate neural substrate for this ability.
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