Confidence and overconfidence are distinct psychological constructs with different neural correlates
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SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
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Neuroimaging studies confirm that subjective confidence and related metacognitive processes involve distinct neural architectures, such as frontostriatal and ventromedial prefrontal circuits.
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Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: a large-scale fMRI study.
2016 · cited by 99
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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Neural and computational underpinnings of biased confidence in human reinforcement learning.
2023 · cited by 14
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.