Neuronal correlates of metacognition in primate frontal cortex.

dc.contributor.author

Middlebrooks, Paul G

dc.contributor.author

Sommer, Marc A

dc.coverage.spatial

United States

dc.date.accessioned

2015-07-15T02:42:19Z

dc.date.issued

2012-08-09

dc.description.abstract

Humans are metacognitive: they monitor and control their cognition. Our hypothesis was that neuronal correlates of metacognition reside in the same brain areas responsible for cognition, including frontal cortex. Recent work demonstrated that nonhuman primates are capable of metacognition, so we recorded from single neurons in the frontal eye field, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and supplementary eye field of monkeys (Macaca mulatta) that performed a metacognitive visual-oculomotor task. The animals made a decision and reported it with a saccade, but received no immediate reward or feedback. Instead, they had to monitor their decision and bet whether it was correct. Activity was correlated with decisions and bets in all three brain areas, but putative metacognitive activity that linked decisions to appropriate bets occurred exclusively in the SEF. Our results offer a survey of neuronal correlates of metacognition and implicate the SEF in linking cognitive functions over short periods of time.

dc.identifier

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22884334

dc.identifier

S0896-6273(12)00524-7

dc.identifier.eissn

1097-4199

dc.identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10300

dc.language

eng

dc.publisher

Elsevier BV

dc.relation.ispartof

Neuron

dc.relation.isversionof

10.1016/j.neuron.2012.05.028

dc.subject

Animals

dc.subject

Cognition

dc.subject

Electrophysiology

dc.subject

Frontal Lobe

dc.subject

Macaca mulatta

dc.subject

Male

dc.subject

Neurons

dc.subject

Psychomotor Performance

dc.title

Neuronal correlates of metacognition in primate frontal cortex.

dc.type

Journal article

duke.contributor.orcid

Sommer, Marc A|0000-0001-5061-763X

pubs.author-url

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22884334

pubs.begin-page

517

pubs.end-page

530

pubs.issue

3

pubs.organisational-group

Basic Science Departments

pubs.organisational-group

Biomedical Engineering

pubs.organisational-group

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

pubs.organisational-group

Duke

pubs.organisational-group

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

pubs.organisational-group

Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

pubs.organisational-group

Neurobiology

pubs.organisational-group

Pratt School of Engineering

pubs.organisational-group

School of Medicine

pubs.organisational-group

University Institutes and Centers

pubs.publication-status

Published

pubs.volume

75

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
MiddlebrooksSommer2012-MetacogNeurons-TextSupplPreview.pdf
Size:
2.79 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Published version