Thinking about thinking: A coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of metacognitive judgements.

ABSTRACT: Metacognition supports reflection upon and control of other cognitive processes. Despite metacognition occupying a central role in human psychology, its neural substrates remain underdetermined, partly due to study-specific differences in task domain and type of metacognitive judgement under study. It is also unclear how metacognition relates to other apparently similar abilities that depend on recursive thought such as theory of mind or mentalising. Now that neuroimaging studies of metacognition are more prevalent, we have an opportunity to characterise consistencies in neural substrates identified across different analysis types and domains. Here we used quantitative activation likelihood estimation methods to synthesise findings from 47 neuroimaging studies on metacognition, divided int

SUBMITTER: Vaccaro AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6238228 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature