理化学研究所 脳神経科学研究センター 思考・実行機能研究チームの宮本健太郎チームディレクターに、Nature Communicationsオンライン版（1月20日）に掲載された以下リンクの研究を中心に、メタ認知やヒト研究など基本的なことからも解説していただく予定です。
https://brainminds.jp/news/3847

Presentator: Kentaro Miyamoto (RIKEN CBS)

Date: 2025/10/7 Tue 13:00-14:30 (JST)

Place: Zoom

Title: Behavioural and neural mechanism of social metacognition in predicting others’ performance

Abstract: When we collaborate with others to tackle new challenges, we anticipate the roles that each team member will play, consider our own role based on these predictions, and adjust our behaviour accordingly. Because each member differs in experience and skills, it is necessary to flexibly adapt the strategy used for prediction. For example, when interacting with beginners who have less career experience, we can make reasonable predictions about their performance by projecting adjusting introspection (‘social metacognition’). In contrast, the same strategy cannot be applied to experts with more extensive experience. In this talk, I will introduce our latest research addressing this issue. Specifically, we found that the anterior lateral prefrontal cortex (area 47) is engaged when predicting the thoughts of beginners through social metacognition, whereas the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) is recruited when predicting the thoughts of experts based on heuristics. The lecture will begin with an overview of the foundations of metacognition and then present the studies that led to these findings.