Retrospective confidence judgments: Meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies

Autor: Beatriz Martín-Luengo, Aleksandra Dolgoarshinnaia, Alina Leminen, Oksana Zinchenko
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
retrospective confidence
medicine.medical_specialty
Low Confidence
metamemory
Prefrontal Cortex
Audiology
Brain mapping
050105 experimental psychology
activation likelihood estimate
03 medical and health sciences
Judgment
0302 clinical medicine
Metamemory
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Radiology
Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Research Articles
Neural correlates of consciousness
Brain Mapping
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
medicine.diagnostic_test
05 social sciences
Subtraction
Amygdala
functional magnetic resonance imaging
medicine.anatomical_structure
Neurology
Meta-analysis
Mental Recall
Parahippocampal Gyrus
Neurology (clinical)
Anatomy
Psychology
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Metacognition
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Parahippocampal gyrus
Research Article
Zdroj: Human Brain Mapping
ISSN: 1097-0193
Popis: Confidence in our retrieved memories, that is, retrospective confidence, is a metamemory process we perform daily. There is an abundance of applied research focusing on the metamemory judgments and very diverse studies including a wide range of clinical populations. However, the neural correlates that support its functioning are not well defined impeding the implementation of noninvasive neuromodulatory clinical interventions. To address the neural basis of metamemory judgments, we ran a meta‐analysis, where we used the activation likelihood estimation method on the 19 eligible functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. The main analysis of retrospective confidence revealed concordant bilateral activation in the parahippocampal gyrus, left middle frontal gyrus, and right amygdala. We also run an analysis between the two extreme levels of confidence, namely, high and low. This additional analysis was exploratory, since the minimum amount of articles reporting these two levels was not reached. Activations for the exploratory high > low confidence subtraction analysis were the same as observed in the main analysis on retrospective confidence, whereas the exploratory low > high subtraction showed distinctive activations of the right precuneus. The involvement of the right precuneus emphasizes its role in the evaluation of low confidence memories, as suggested by previous studies. Overall, our study contributes to a better understanding of the specific brain structures involved in confidence evaluations. Better understanding of the neural basis of metamemory might eventually lead to designing more precise neuromodulatory interventions, significantly improving treatment of patients suffering from metamemory problems.
Metamemory and more specifically retrospective confidence judgments are crucial in many aspects of our daily life and also in clinical populations. Previous meta‐analyses combined different measures of metamemory, which may have distorted their results. Retrospective confidence evaluations involve a concordant bilateral activation of the parahippocampal gyrus, left middle frontal gyrus, and right amygdala. Future studies should focus on other particular metamemory measures to solve the domain‐generality or domain‐specificity of the brain basis of metamemory.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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