Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Frontopolar theta oscillations link metacognition with prospective decision making

  • Alexander Soutschek,
  • Marius Moisa,
  • Christian C. Ruff,
  • Philippe N. Tobler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24197-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Metacognitive insight into economic preferences has been suggested to enable the consideration of long-term action-consequences. Here, the authors provide a neural link between these phenomena by showing that enhancing frontopolar theta oscillations affects both metacognition and prospective decision making.