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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Metacognition enables behavior adjustment and decision modification without external feedback.
  • The precise information used for metacognitive decisions remains incompletely understood.
  • Investigating the role of response-related information in metacognition is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if action information influences metacognitive decision-making.
  • To explore the neural mechanisms underlying this influence.
  • To understand how sensory evidence and action data are integrated for metacognition.

Main Methods:

  • Electroencephalography (EEG) was used during a perceptual color discrimination task.
  • Participants provided confidence judgments, with timing varied across conditions.
  • Behavioral data and EEG signals were analyzed to assess metacognitive performance and neural connectivity.

Main Results:

  • Metacognitive performance improved when action information was available during decision-making.
  • Enhanced functional connectivity (beta phase synchrony) was observed between motor and prefrontal regions.
  • This neural effect was specific to the metacognitive decision-making process.

Conclusions:

  • Action information significantly contributes to metacognitive decision-making.
  • Metacognition involves integrating perceptual evidence with information about our actions.
  • Findings provide a more comprehensive model of metacognition as a sensorimotor process.