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Reassessing VMPFC: full of confidence?

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The confidence that we place in our decisions can affect the judgments themselves. The BOLD signal in ventromedial prefrontal cortex automatically reflects the relationship between confidence and judgments on a range of tasks.

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Figure 1: Rating judgments show a quadratic relationship with confidence and VMPFC BOLD signal.

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    Helen C Barron, Mona M Garvert & Timothy E J Behrens

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Barron, H., Garvert, M. & Behrens, T. Reassessing VMPFC: full of confidence?. Nat Neurosci 18, 1064–1066 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4076

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