Distinct patterns of functional brain connectivity correlate with objective performance and subjective beliefs
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: The degree of correspondence between objective performance and subjective beliefs varies widely across individuals. Here we demonstrate that functional brain network connectivity measured before exposure to a perceptual decision task covaries with individual objective (type-I performance) and subjective (type-II performance) accuracy. Increases in connectivity with type-II performance were observed in networks measured while participants directed attention inward (focus on respiration), but not in networks measured during states of neutral (resting state) or exogenous attention. Measures of type-I performance were less sensitive to the subjects' specific attentional states from which the networks were derived. These results suggest the existence of functional brain networks indexing objective performance and accuracy of subjective beliefs distinctively expressed in a set of stable mental states.
Institutions: Inserm, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, University of Glasgow, Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2143584007