The relationship between response dynamics and the formation of confidence varies across the lifespan

Overhoff, Helen and Ko, Yiu Hong and Fink, Gereon R. and Stahl, Jutta and Weiss, Peter H. and Bode, Stefan and Niessen, Eva (2022) The relationship between response dynamics and the formation of confidence varies across the lifespan. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14. ISSN 1663-4365

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Abstract

Accurate metacognitive judgments, such as forming a confidence judgment, are crucial for goal-directed behavior but decline with older age. Besides changes in the sensory processing of stimulus features, there might also be changes in the motoric aspects of giving responses that account for age-related changes in confidence. In order to assess the association between confidence and response parameters across the adult lifespan, we measured response times and peak forces in a four-choice flanker task with subsequent confidence judgments. In 65 healthy adults from 20 to 76 years of age, we showed divergent associations of each measure with confidence, depending on decision accuracy. Participants indicated higher confidence after faster responses in correct but not incorrect trials. They also indicated higher confidence after less forceful responses in errors but not in correct trials. Notably, these associations were age-dependent as the relationship between confidence and response time was more pronounced in older participants, while the relationship between confidence and response force decayed with age. Our results add to the notion that confidence is related to response parameters and demonstrate noteworthy changes in the observed associations across the adult lifespan. These changes potentially constitute an expression of general age-related deficits in performance monitoring or, alternatively, index a failing mechanism in the computation of confidence in older adults.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: West Bengal Archive > Medical Science
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Date Deposited: 15 Jul 2023 07:14
Last Modified: 26 Jun 2024 10:45
URI: http://article.stmacademicwriting.com/id/eprint/1325

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