Figure 4.
TMS effect on metacognitive ability. TMS to aPFC increased metacognitive ability for the second half compared with the first half of test blocks. No such effect was observed for S1 TMS or DLPFC TMS. Metacognitive ability was operationalized as Mratio (Maniscalco and Lau, 2012). ΔMratio is the change in Mratio from the first half to the second half of a block. The left error bars represent the within-subject SEs for comparisons with S1 (the error bar for S1 is the same as the one for aPFC) and are indicative of statistical significance. The right error bars represent the within-subject SEs for comparisons between the first half and second half of blocks and are not indicative of the statistical significance for between-site comparisons. n.s., Not significant. *p < 0.05.