Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: A large-scale fMRI study

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1942-1951

  Molenberghs, Pascal ^a   Trautwein, Fynn Mathis ^b   Böckler, Anne ^b   Singer, Tania ^b   Kanske, Philipp ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confidence; Decision making; FMRI; Metacognition; Social neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY; METACOGNITION; NEUROSCIENCE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; REASONING; REWARD; UNCERTAINTY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; METACOGNITION; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 85013114858     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsw093     Document Type: Article

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