Mood and implicit confidence independently fluctuate at different time scales.
Mood is an important ingredient of decision-making. Human beings are immersed into a sea of emotions where episodes of high mood alternate with episodes of low mood. While changes in mood are well characterized, little is known about how these fluctuations interact with metacognition, and in parti...
| Published in: | Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 142 - 162 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2023
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