ePoster · Cognition
Self-reported cognitive confidence and negative beliefs about thinking predict metacognitive sensitivity in a pilot transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) experiment
Daniele Saccenti, Andrea Stefano Moro, Sandra Sassaroli, Mattia Ferro, Jacopo Lamanna · FENS Forum 2024
Metacognition encompasses the capability to monitor and control one’s cognitive processes. According to brain imaging, prospective and retrospective second-order judgments recruit widespread portions of prefrontal cortex (PFC), thus leaving the neuronal architecture underlying metacognitive knowledge poorly understood. This pilot experiment makes use of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) targeting the ventromedial PFC (vmPFC) to understand whether this brain region occupies a crucial role in sustaining metacognition. A randomized, double-blind, within-subjects research design was u