Neural correlates of confidence during decision formation in a perceptual judgment task

YH Ko; A Zhou; E Niessen; J Stahl; PH Weiss; R Hester; S Bode; D Feuerriegel

Journal article

Neural correlates of confidence during decision formation in a perceptual judgment task

YH Ko, A Zhou, E Niessen, J Stahl, PH Weiss, R Hester, S Bode, D Feuerriegel

Cortex | Published : 2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.01.006

Abstract

When we make a decision, we also estimate the probability that our choice is correct or accurate. This probability estimate is termed our degree of decision confidence. Recent work has reported event-related potential (ERP) correlates of confidence both during decision formation (the centro-parietal positivity component; CPP) and after a decision has been made (the error positivity component; Pe). However, there are several measurement confounds that complicate the interpretation of these findings. More recent studies that overcome these issues have so far produced conflicting results. To better characterise the ERP correlates of confidence we presented participants with a comparative bright..

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Daniel Feuerriegel Author

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Awarded by Australian Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

This project was supported by an Australian Research Council Grant (ARC DP160103353) to S.B. and R.H. and an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award to D.F. (ARC DE220101508) . Y.H.K. was supported by a Julich-University of Melbourne Postgraduate Academy (JUMPA) scholarship. Funding sources had no role in study design, data collection, analysis or interpretation of results. The authors thank William Turner and Maja Brydevall for their support with study preparation.