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Studying Metacognitive Processes at the Single Neuron Level

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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition

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Over the past few decades, strides have been made toward understanding how higher level cognitive processes are mediated by neuronal spiking activity. Neuronal correlates of functions such as attention, executive control, working memory, decision-making, and reward processing have all been elucidated, to an impressive level of detail, at the single cell and circuit levels.

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Acknowledgments

Supported by the NIH (NIMH Kirschstein NRSA F31 MH087094 to P.G.M. and NEI R01 EY017592 to M.A.S.) and the NSF (Graduate Research Fellowship to Z.M.A.).

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  1. Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 301 Wilson Hall, Nashville, TN, 37240, USA

    Paul G. Middlebrooks

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA

    Zachary M. Abzug & Marc A. Sommer

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Middlebrooks, P.G., Abzug, Z.M., Sommer, M.A. (2014). Studying Metacognitive Processes at the Single Neuron Level. In: Fleming, S., Frith, C. (eds) The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45190-4_10

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