Metacognition and confidence: A review and synthesis

SM Fleming - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Determining the psychological, computational, and neural bases of confidence and
uncertainty holds promise for understanding foundational aspects of human metacognition …

Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species

AD Redish, A Kepecs, LM Anderson… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We propose a new conceptual framework (computational validity) for translation across
species and populations based on the computational similarity between the information …

Striatal dopamine mediates hallucination-like perception in mice

K Schmack, M Bosc, T Ott, JF Sturgill, A Kepecs - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia impose enormous human,
social, and economic burdens. The prognosis of psychotic disorders has not substantially …

Attractor dynamics reflect decision confidence in macaque prefrontal cortex

S Wang, R Falcone, B Richmond, BB Averbeck - Nature Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Decisions are made with different degrees of consistency, and this consistency can be
linked to the confidence that the best choice has been made. Theoretical work suggests that …

Subjective confidence reflects representation of Bayesian probability in cortex

LS Geurts, JRH Cooke, RS van Bergen… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
What gives rise to the human sense of confidence? Here we tested the Bayesian hypothesis
that confidence is based on a probability distribution represented in neural population …

Functional alterations of the prefrontal circuit underlying cognitive aging in mice

HR Chong, Y Ranjbar-Slamloo, MZH Ho… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Executive function is susceptible to aging. How aging impacts the circuit-level computations
underlying executive function remains unclear. Using calcium imaging and optogenetic …

Consensus goals in the field of visual metacognition

D Rahnev, T Balsdon, L Charles… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the tangible progress in psychological and cognitive sciences over the last several
years, these disciplines still trail other more mature sciences in identifying the most important …

Studying the neural representations of uncertainty

EY Walker, S Pohl, RN Denison, DL Barack, J Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The study of the brain's representations of uncertainty is a central topic in neuroscience.
Unlike most quantities of which the neural representation is studied, uncertainty is a property …

[HTML][HTML] Bio-inspired approaches for explosives detection

T Wasilewski, J Gębicki, W Kamysz - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to unique abilities of the animals regarding analysis of complex gas substances, they
still remain a gold standard in analysis of explosives. Unusual capabilities of biological …

Metacognition as a consequence of competing evolutionary time scales

F Kuchling, C Fields, M Levin - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Evolution is full of coevolving systems characterized by complex spatio-temporal interactions
that lead to intertwined processes of adaptation. Yet, how adaptation across multiple levels …