Roles of Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Orbitofrontal Cortex in Self-evaluation

■ Empirical investigations of the relation of frontal lobe function evaluation have mostly examined the evaluation of abstract qualities in relation to self versus other people. The present research furthers our understanding of frontal lobe involvement in self-evaluation by examining two processes that have not been widely studied by neuroscientists: on-line self-evaluations and correction of systematic judgment errors that influence self-evaluation. Although people evaluate their abstract qualities, it is equally important that perform on-line evaluations to assess the success of their behavior in a particular situation. In addition, self-evaluations of task performance are sometimes overconfident because of systematic judgment errors. What role do the neural regions ed with abstract self-evaluations and decision bias play in on-line evaluation and self-evaluation bias? In this fMRI study, self-evaluation in two reasoning tasks was examined; one elicited overconfident self-evaluat...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: JOCN
• Authors: Jennifer S. Beer, Michael V. Lombardo, Jamil Palacios Bhanji
• Keywords: Abstract Qualities, Frontal Lobe, JOCN 2010, Systematic Judgment Errors