Neural contrasts: confident trials recruit widespread fronto-parietal activation; confident-error trials recruit medial frontal and bilateral inferior prefrontal/insular regions; overconfidence differences are confined to the lingual gyrus¶
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q2 i? During Confident > Not confident trials, activation occurred across occipital regions, parietal cortex, and lateral and medial PFC. → Mei Grace Behrendt 2024
q2 i? For confident trials only, Error > No error models yielded increased activity in a medial frontal cluster, bilateral inferior prefrontal/insular regions, and the lingual gyrus. → Mei Grace Behrendt 2024 (2)
q2 i? Confident-accurate vs confident-inaccurate responses differed only in a left lingual gyrus cluster, with no prefrontal differences for overconfidence. → Mei Grace Behrendt 2024 (3)
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Mei Grace Behrendt 2024¶
Mei Grace Behrendt, Carrie Clark, McKenna Elliott & Joseph Dauer. (2024). Relation of life sciences students' metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00231-z
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Whole-brain fMRI contrasts (Z > 3.1, p < 0.001, cluster-corrected p < 0.05) in 50 undergraduates; Table 2 reports the largest cluster in left inferior parietal lobule (22,248 voxels, max Z 5.7).
"during trials where students indicated they were Con fident > Not con fident, widespread neural activation occurred across occipita l regions, and in the parietal cortex and lateral and medial PFC"
Mei Grace Behrendt 2024 (2)¶
Mei Grace Behrendt, Carrie Clark, McKenna Elliott & Joseph Dauer. (2024). Relation of life sciences students' metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00231-z
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Group fMRI contrast restricted to confident trials; Table 2 lists left anterior cingulate (BA 32), left and right inferior frontal gyrus (BA 47), and left lingual gyrus clusters.
"We per-formed a further contrast of Error > No error models only for trials where students were con fident, which indicated that students showed increased activity in a medial frontal cluster, in bilateral inferior prefrontal/insular regions, an d in the lingual gyrus"
Mei Grace Behrendt 2024 (3)¶
Mei Grace Behrendt, Carrie Clark, McKenna Elliott & Joseph Dauer. (2024). Relation of life sciences students' metacognitive monitoring to neural activity during biology error detection. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00231-z
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Confident-accurate > confident-inaccurate contrast yielded one left lingual gyrus (BA 17) cluster (333 voxels, max Z 3.93). The authors note PFC activity did not diverge for overconfident vs calibrated trials.
"This analysis revealed that students exhibited more activity in a single cluster in the left lingual g y r u sw h e nt h e yw e r ec o nfident and accurate relative to con fident and inaccurate"
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Related Claims¶
- Students' confidence distinguishes accurate from inaccurate model-evaluation trials, with a large printed effect size (d = 1.09), though students remain often confident on inaccurate trials — related
- A meta-analysis of 47 neuroimaging studies identified a domain-general network for confidence ratings, with domain-specific regions for decision-making and memory tasks — related
- Undergraduate life sciences students with higher metacognitive calibration show greater right dorsolateral prefrontal activity when evaluating error-containing biology models, controlling for accuracy — related
- During the overt spelling phase, all three assessment methods activated a common brain pattern — related
- Interpersonal feedback induced higher interpersonal neural synchronization in superior frontal gyrus and inferior parietal cortex channels than control conditions — related
- Low-fidelity models are non-inferior to high-fidelity ones, which may induce overconfidence, per literature cited in the review — related
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