Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 18 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02473-w Miyamoto et al. show that human metacognition depends on multiple signals in the anterior lateral prefrontal cortex, whereas in macaques it relies on distributed processing in multiple prefrontal areas.
Brain activity, disruption and connectivity comparisons identify origins of human metacognition in other primates
Matthew FS Rushworth