Confidence tracks sensory- and decision-related ERP dynamics during auditory detection

Zakrzewski, Alexandria C.; Wisniewski, Matthew G.; Iyer, Nandini; Simpson, Brian D.

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2018.10.007

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“…Confidence should increase with increasing evidence for the perceptual decision. It is therefore unsurprising that the neural correlates of confidence magnitude have found similar EEG markers as those related to the accumulation of the underlying perceptual decision evidence: the P300 ( Gherman and Philiastides, 2015 ; Desender et al, 2016 ; Desender et al, 2019 ; Zakrzewski et al, 2019 ; Rausch et al, 2020 ) and Central Parietal Positivity (CPP; Boldt et al, 2019 ; Herding et al, 2019 , indeed we show a similar effect in Appendix 4). The analysis presented in this manuscript targeted confidence precision rather than confidence magnitude, by assessing confidence relative to an optimal observer who gives high confidence ratings on trials where the evidence in favour of the perceptual choice is greater than the median across trials.…”

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confidence: 65%

Separable neural signatures of confidence during perceptual decisions

Balsdon

Mamassian

Wyart

2021

eLife

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Perceptual confidence is an evaluation of the validity of perceptual decisions. While there is behavioural evidence that confidence evaluation differs from perceptual decision-making, disentangling these two processes remains a challenge at the neural level. Here, we examined the electrical brain activity of human participants in a protracted perceptual decision-making task where observers tend to commit to perceptual decisions early whilst continuing to monitor sensory evidence for evaluating confidence. Premature decision commitments were revealed by patterns of spectral power overlying motor cortex, followed by an attenuation of the neural representation of perceptual decision evidence. A distinct neural representation was associated with the computation of confidence, with sources localised in the superior parietal and orbitofrontal cortices. In agreement with a dissociation between perception and confidence, these neural resources were recruited even after observers committed to their perceptual decisions, and thus delineate an integral neural circuit for evaluating perceptual decision confidence.

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confidence: 65%

Separable neural signatures of confidence during perceptual decisions

Balsdon

Mamassian

Wyart

2021

eLife

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“…Confidence should increase with increasing evidence for the perceptual decision. It is therefore unsurprising that the neural correlates of confidence magnitude have found similar EEG markers as those related to the accumulation of the underlying perceptual decision evidence: the P300 (Gherman and Philiastides, 2015;Desender et al, 2016;Desender et al, 2019;Zakrzewski et al, 2019;Rausch et al, 2020); and Central Parietal Positivity (CPP; Boldt et al, 2019;Herding et al, 2019, indeed we show a similar effect in Supplementary Note 4). The analysis presented in this manuscript targeted confidence precision rather than confidence magnitude, by assessing confidence relative to an optimal observer who gives high confidence ratings on trials where the evidence in favour of the perceptual choice is greater than the median across trials.…”

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confidence: 68%

Separable neural signatures of confidence during perceptual decisions

Balsdon

Mamassian

Wyart

2021

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Perceptual confidence is an evaluation of the validity of perceptual decisions. While there is behavioural evidence that confidence evaluation differs from perceptual decision-making, disentangling these two processes remains a challenge at the neural level. Here we examined the electrical brain activity of human participants in a protracted perceptual decision-making task where observers tend to commit to perceptual decisions early whilst continuing to monitor sensory evidence for evaluating confidence. Premature decision commitments were revealed by patterns of spectral power overlying motor cortex, followed by an attenuation of the neural representation of perceptual decision evidence. A distinct neural representation was associated with suboptimalities affecting confidence reports, with sources localised in the superior parietal and orbitofrontal cortices. In agreement with a dissociation between perception and confidence, these neural resources were recruited even after observers committed to their perceptual decisions, and thus delineate an integral neural circuit for the computation of confidence.

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“…Confidence in perceptual judgements (Fleming and Lau 2014), positively correlates with decision accuracy (Morgan, Mason, and Solomon 1997;Kunimoto, Miller, and Pashler 2001;Gherman and Philiastides 2018), and reliably tracks ERP dynamics related to error (Boldt and Yeung 2015) and sensory processing (e.g. Zakrzewski et al 2019). Confidence in mind wandering reports has to date been neglected but preliminary work has shown that it varies greatly within and between individuals and moderates the relationship between response time variability and self-reports of mind wandering (Seli et al 2015) (but see Meier 2018).…”

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confidence: 98%

Introspection confidence predicts EEG decoding of self-generated thoughts and meta-awareness

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Ruiz

Terhune

2021

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The neurophysiological bases of mind wandering (MW) - an experiential state wherein attention is disengaged from the external environment in favour of internal thoughts, and state meta-awareness are poorly understood. In parallel, the relationship between introspection confidence in experiential state judgements and neural representations remains unclear. Here, we recorded EEG whilst participants completed a listening task within which they made experiential state judgments and rated their confidence. Alpha power was reliably greater during MW episodes, with unaware MW further associated with greater delta and theta power. Multivariate pattern classification analysis revealed that MW, and meta-awareness can be decoded from the distribution of power in these three frequency bands. Critically, we show that individual decoding accuracies positively correlate with introspection confidence. Our results reaffirm the role of alpha oscillations in MW, implicate lower frequencies in meta-awareness, and are consistent with the proposal that introspection confidence indexes neurophysiological discriminability of representational states.

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Confidence tracks sensory- and decision-related ERP dynamics during auditory detection

Cited by 21 publications

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Separable neural signatures of confidence during perceptual decisions

Separable neural signatures of confidence during perceptual decisions

Separable neural signatures of confidence during perceptual decisions

Introspection confidence predicts EEG decoding of self-generated thoughts and meta-awareness

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