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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Perception
  • Motor Control

Background:

  • Perceptual confidence traditionally relies on sensory information quality.
  • Emerging evidence implicates the motor system in confidence judgments.
  • Metacognition, or the awareness of one's own cognition, is crucial for accurate self-assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of motor system dynamics in forming perceptual confidence judgments.
  • To examine how manipulating movement speed affects the accuracy of confidence estimations.
  • To explore the contribution of motor feedback to metacognitive performance.

Main Methods:

  • A behavioral priming task was used to manipulate participants' movement speed.
  • Participants' confidence in their decisions was assessed after movement.
  • Movement speed was compared to participants' natural baseline measures.

Main Results:

  • Increasing movement speed above baseline disrupted accurate confidence judgments.
  • Participants primed to move faster reported higher confidence in incorrect decisions compared to natural pace.
  • This effect was termed the adamantly wrong effect.

Conclusions:

  • Motor system feedback, specifically from the effector used for decisions, plays a critical role in metacognitive accuracy.
  • Movement speed is a significant factor influencing the reliability of confidence judgments.
  • The findings support a model where motor efference contributes to self-monitoring and confidence estimation.