Confidence and overconfidence are distinct psychological constructs with different neural correlates
Neuroimaging studies confirm that subjective confidence and related metacognitive processes involve distinct neural architectures, such as frontostriatal and ventromedial prefrontal circuits.
The provided literature (specifically papers 0 and 4) investigates the neural correlates of subjective confidence and related metacognitive evaluations, supporting the claim that confidence constructs have distinct neurobiological underpinnings.
Pascal Molenberghs, Fynn-Mathis Trautwein, A. Böckler, T. Singer, Philipp Kanske. Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: a large-scale fMRI study.. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/SCAN/NSW093
Paper 0 demonstrates that feeling confident is associated with specific neural correlates such as the striatum and hippocampus, distinct from metacognitive accuracy.
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Ting CC, Salem-Garcia N, Palminteri S, Engelmann JB, Lebreton M. Neural and computational underpinnings of biased confidence in human reinforcement learning.. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42589-5
Paper 4 shows that task-wide confidence signals are encoded in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, whereas dorsal prefrontal networks correlate negatively with condition-specific confidence.
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