Frontal Pole, Cingulate Gyrus, and Precuneus Cortex Represent the Confidence Level in Prediction of Other's Risky Decision-Making.
Purpose: Reporting confidence after a decision-making task is widely used in the studies of metacognition, a cognitive factor usually defined as “thinking about thinking.” When people predict others’ behavior in risky situations, they consider various factors affecting others’ choices; at that poin...
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Purpose: Reporting confidence after a decision-making task is widely used in the studies of metacognition, a cognitive factor usually defined as “thinking about thinking.” When people predict others’ behavior in risky situations, they consider various factors affecting others’ choices; at that point, they can determine how confident they are about their predictions about the other’s decision.
Materials and Methods: This study investigates human neural activities in different confidence levels when participants predict others’ financial choices in a risky decision-making task. For this aim, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) combined with behavioral tasks is used to demonstrate the neural representation of human confidence level about others’ possible choices. We scanned 21 healthy and normal participants in two separate sessions each containing three runs.
Results: The results indicate that the frontal pole cortex (FPC), cingulate gyrus, and precuneus cortex activities are correlated with the confidence of people in their predictions (P<0.0005; cluster size, k>75). Using behavioral data, we found that When participants answer correctly, their confidence level as a metacognition factor increases simultaneously and vice versa.
Conclusion: These key findings suggest that the brain's activities can represent subjects’ confidence level in predicting risky behaviors and show how metacognition in the theory of mind for prediction of others’ choices is represented in the brain’s activity.
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| spelling | doaj-art-dd06abbc9d254249bec8bfda9f3dbd482025-02-09T08:56:02ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesFrontiers in Biomedical Technologies2345-58372025-01-0112110.18502/fbt.v12i1.17729Frontal Pole, Cingulate Gyrus, and Precuneus Cortex Represent the Confidence Level in Prediction of Other's Risky Decision-Making.Ahmad Shoaa Haghighi0Soroush Safari1Elahe Oloumi2Hadis Jameei3Gholam Ali Hossein Zadeh4Abdol-Hossein Vahabie5School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, IranDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, IranDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, IranControl and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence (CIPCE), Cognitive Systems Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, IranSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, IranControl and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence (CIPCE), Cognitive Systems Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Purpose: Reporting confidence after a decision-making task is widely used in the studies of metacognition, a cognitive factor usually defined as “thinking about thinking.” When people predict others’ behavior in risky situations, they consider various factors affecting others’ choices; at that point, they can determine how confident they are about their predictions about the other’s decision. Materials and Methods: This study investigates human neural activities in different confidence levels when participants predict others’ financial choices in a risky decision-making task. For this aim, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) combined with behavioral tasks is used to demonstrate the neural representation of human confidence level about others’ possible choices. We scanned 21 healthy and normal participants in two separate sessions each containing three runs. Results: The results indicate that the frontal pole cortex (FPC), cingulate gyrus, and precuneus cortex activities are correlated with the confidence of people in their predictions (P<0.0005; cluster size, k>75). Using behavioral data, we found that When participants answer correctly, their confidence level as a metacognition factor increases simultaneously and vice versa. Conclusion: These key findings suggest that the brain's activities can represent subjects’ confidence level in predicting risky behaviors and show how metacognition in the theory of mind for prediction of others’ choices is represented in the brain’s activity. https://fbt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fbt/article/view/632Confidence level; Prediction; Metacognition; Decision-making. |
| spellingShingle | Ahmad Shoaa Haghighi Soroush Safari Elahe Oloumi Hadis Jameei Gholam Ali Hossein Zadeh Abdol-Hossein Vahabie Frontal Pole, Cingulate Gyrus, and Precuneus Cortex Represent the Confidence Level in Prediction of Other's Risky Decision-Making. Frontiers in Biomedical Technologies Confidence level; Prediction; Metacognition; Decision-making. |
| title | Frontal Pole, Cingulate Gyrus, and Precuneus Cortex Represent the Confidence Level in Prediction of Other's Risky Decision-Making. |
| title_full | Frontal Pole, Cingulate Gyrus, and Precuneus Cortex Represent the Confidence Level in Prediction of Other's Risky Decision-Making. |
| title_fullStr | Frontal Pole, Cingulate Gyrus, and Precuneus Cortex Represent the Confidence Level in Prediction of Other's Risky Decision-Making. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Frontal Pole, Cingulate Gyrus, and Precuneus Cortex Represent the Confidence Level in Prediction of Other's Risky Decision-Making. |
| title_short | Frontal Pole, Cingulate Gyrus, and Precuneus Cortex Represent the Confidence Level in Prediction of Other's Risky Decision-Making. |
| title_sort | frontal pole cingulate gyrus and precuneus cortex represent the confidence level in prediction of other s risky decision making |
| topic | Confidence level; Prediction; Metacognition; Decision-making. |
| url | https://fbt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fbt/article/view/632 |
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