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  • Metacognition Research

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  • The extent of conscious awareness and control over decision-making processes is a long-standing debate in psychology and neuroscience.
  • While prospective access to the *intention* to act is supported, access to the *content* of impending decisions remains less clear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neural correlates of early deliberation in free-choice decisions.
  • To determine if the content of an impending free choice is consciously accessible before execution.
  • To explore the relationship between confidence in decision awareness and neural markers of self-initiated action.

Main Methods:

  • Real-time tracking of neural signals during participants' free choice tasks between two options.
  • Incorporation of decision-rejection trials just before execution to probe awareness.
  • Analysis of neural predictors of choice and subjective confidence ratings.

Main Results:

  • The neural signal of the initially preferred option predicted the final choice but was largely outside conscious awareness.
  • Participants frequently overestimated their conscious access to the decision content.
  • Confidence in decision access was linked to neural markers of self-initiated decisions, not awareness of the choice itself.

Conclusions:

  • Conscious awareness of the specific content of impending free choices may be limited, challenging notions of full agency.
  • Overconfidence in decision awareness might arise from misinterpreting neural signals of self-initiated action.
  • Findings offer insights into metacognitive processes and the subjective experience of control in decision-making.