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SUBMITTER: Cortese A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5171844 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cortese Aurelio A Amano Kaoru K Koizumi Ai A Kawato Mitsuo M Lau Hakwan H
Nature communications 20161215
A central controversy in metacognition studies concerns whether subjective confidence directly reflects the reliability of perceptual or cognitive processes, as suggested by normative models based on the assumption that neural computations are generally optimal. This view enjoys popularity in the computational and animal literatures, but it has also been suggested that confidence may depend on a late-stage estimation dissociable from perceptual processes. Yet, at least in humans, experimental to ...[more]