Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Multivoxel neurofeedback selectively modulates confidence without changing perceptual performance

  • Aurelio Cortese,
  • Kaoru Amano,
  • Ai Koizumi,
  • Mitsuo Kawato,
  • Hakwan Lau

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13669
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Confidence associated with perceptual judgements is generally seen as directly reflecting the reliability of perceptual processes. Here the authors use fMRI-based decoded neurofeedback to manipulate confidence and show that it does not affect perceptual performance.