阐明人类背外侧前额叶皮层和下顶叶皮层中元认知系统偏差的潜在成分。
Elucidating the underlying components of metacognitive systematic bias in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and inferior parietal cortex.
机构信息
School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun, Jilin, 130024, China.
出版信息
Sci Rep. 2024 May 18;14(1):11380. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-62343-1.
Metacognitive systematic bias impairs human learning efficiency, which is characterized by the inconsistency between predicted and actual memory performance. However, the underlying mechanism of metacognitive systematic bias remains unclear in existing studies. In this study, we utilized judgments of learning task in human participants to compare the neural mechanism difference in metacognitive systematic bias. Participants encoded words in fMRI sessions that would be tested later. Immediately after encoding each item, participants predicted how likely they would remember it. Multivariate analyses on fMRI data demonstrated that working memory and uncertainty decisions are represented in patterns of neural activity in metacognitive systematic bias. The available information participants used led to overestimated bias and underestimated bias. Effective connectivity analyses further indicate that information about the metacognitive systematic bias is represented in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and inferior parietal cortex. Different neural patterns were found underlying overestimated bias and underestimated bias. Specifically, connectivity regions with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and supramarginal gyrus form overestimated bias, while less regional connectivity forms underestimated bias. These findings provide a mechanistic account for the construction of metacognitive systematic bias.
元认知系统偏差会损害人类的学习效率,其特征是预测记忆表现与实际记忆表现之间的不一致。然而,在现有研究中,元认知系统偏差的潜在机制仍不清楚。在这项研究中,我们利用人类参与者的学习判断任务来比较元认知系统偏差的神经机制差异。参与者在 fMRI 会话中对单词进行编码,这些单词将在以后进行测试。在对每个项目进行编码后,参与者预测他们记住它的可能性。对 fMRI 数据的多元分析表明,工作记忆和不确定性决策在元认知系统偏差的神经活动模式中得到体现。参与者可用的信息导致了过高和过低的偏差估计。有效连接性分析进一步表明,元认知系统偏差的信息在背外侧前额叶皮层和下顶叶皮层中得到了体现。在过高和过低的偏差估计下,我们发现了不同的神经模式。具体来说,与背外侧前额叶皮层、前扣带皮层和缘上回的连接区域形成过高的偏差,而较少的区域连接形成过低的偏差。这些发现为元认知系统偏差的构建提供了一种机制解释。