eprintid: 10152655 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/15/26/55 datestamp: 2022-07-27 11:32:12 lastmod: 2022-07-27 11:32:12 status_changed: 2022-07-27 11:32:12 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Bang, Dan creators_name: Moran, Rani creators_name: Daw, Nathaniel D creators_name: Fleming, Stephen M title: Neurocomputational mechanisms of confidence in self and others ispublished: pub divisions: C07 divisions: F83 divisions: B02 divisions: UCL divisions: D07 divisions: F67 divisions: D05 note: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. abstract: Computing confidence in one’s own and others’ decisions is critical for social success. While there has been substantial progress in our understanding of confidence estimates about oneself, little is known about how people form confidence estimates about others. Here, we address this question by asking participants undergoing fMRI to place bets on perceptual decisions made by themselves or one of three other players of varying ability. We show that participants compute confidence in another player’s decisions by combining distinct estimates of player ability and decision difficulty – allowing them to predict that a good player may get a difficult decision wrong and that a bad player may get an easy decision right. We find that this computation is associated with an interaction between brain systems implicated in decision-making (LIP) and theory of mind (TPJ and dmPFC). These results reveal an interplay between self- and other-related processes during a social confidence computation. date: 2022-07-22 date_type: published publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC official_url: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31674-w oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1966919 doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31674-w lyricists_name: Moran, Rani lyricists_name: Fleming, Stephen lyricists_name: Bang, Dan lyricists_id: RMORA40 lyricists_id: SMFLE69 lyricists_id: DBANG36 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Nature Communications volume: 13 article_number: 4238 issn: 2041-1723 citation: Bang, Dan; Moran, Rani; Daw, Nathaniel D; Fleming, Stephen M; (2022) Neurocomputational mechanisms of confidence in self and others. Nature Communications , 13 , Article 4238. 10.1038/s41467-022-31674-w <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31674-w>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152655/1/s41467-022-31674-w.pdf