tDCS对速度准确性权衡和元认知决策的影响
Joshua Sabio1, Timothy Ballard1, Hannah L Filmer1
1School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
Neuropsychologia
|March 20, 2025
概括
超直流刺激 (tDCS) 通过改变反应谨慎性和选择可区分性来影响决策的速度-准确性权衡,这取决于受刺激的大脑区域. 然而,tDCS对元认知没有显著影响,这表明不同认知过程具有不同的神经回路.
科学领域:
- 认知神经科学 认知神经科学
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 决策科学 决策科学 决策科学
背景情况:
- 在决策中存在一个基本的速度精度权衡 (SAT).
- 超认知,即监测和评估自己的认知能力,对于行为表现至关重要.
- 对于SAT和元认知的精确神经支仍然不完全理解.
研究的目的:
- 调查前额叶皮层 (PFC),上部中部前额叶皮层 (SMFC) 和后壁皮层 (PPC) 在SAT和元认知中的因果作用.
- 检查跨直流刺激 (tDCS) 如何影响这些认知功能.
主要方法:
- 受试者接受了针对PFC,SMFC或PPC的活跃或虚假tDCS.
- 参与者用SAT线索完成了一项感知任务,并报告了决策信心.
- 使用线性弹道积累器模型分析行为数据;通过meta-d'和m-ratio评估元认知.
主要成果:
- tDCS调节了对感知任务的性能,影响了响应谨慎性和选择可区分性.
- PFC刺激降低了响应的谨慎性,特别是当强调准确性时.
- SMFC刺激降低了反应谨慎性和增加了歧视性;PPC刺激增加了两者.
- 没有观察到tDCS对元认知指数 (meta-d,m-ratio) 的显著影响.
结论:
- tDCS对SAT的影响在前端对象网络中取决于区域.
- 研究结果表明,对象级处理与元级监控之间存在不同的神经电路.
- tDCS可以因果改变决策和战略流程,但在这个范式中不能改变元认知.
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