Neuronal Correlates of Metacognition in Primate Frontal Cortex

Neuronal Correlates of Metacognition in Primate Frontal Cortex

Humans are metacognitive: they monitor and control their cognition. Our hypothesis was that neuronal correlates of metacognition reside in the same brain areas responsible for cognition, including frontal cortex. Recent work demonstrated that nonhuman primates are capable of metacognition, so we recorded from single neurons in the frontal eye field, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and supplemen...

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Conserved Sequence Processing in Primate Frontal Cortex

An important aspect of animal perception and cognition is learning to recognize relationships between environmental events that predict others in time, a form of relational knowledge that can be assessed using sequence-learning paradigms. Humans are exquisitely sensitive to sequencing relationships, and their combinatorial capacities, most saliently in the domain of language, are unparalleled. ...

The primate frontal cortex: progress report 1975.

Studies of the functions of the cortex anterior to the motor regions of the brain have a venerable history. In non-human primates resections of this frontal eugranular cortex have been known for almost half a century to produce a very specific deficit in tasks characterized by the interposition of a delay between the occasion when a behavioral response is cued and when that response can be carr...

Neuronal activity related to reward value and motivation in primate frontal cortex.

In several areas of the macaque brain, neurons fire during delayed-response tasks at a rate determined by the value of the reward expected at the end of the trial. The activity of these neurons might be related to the value of the expected reward or to the degree of motivation induced by expectation of the reward. We describe results indicating that the nature of reward-dependent activity varie...