# brain: self-evaluation of one's own ignorance

<< Self-evaluation of one's own ignorance requires us to peer into our own mind retrospectively. [AA] found that only the bilateral frontopolar cortices (area 10) are recruited for metacognitive evaluation of non-experienced events in macaque monkeys performing metacognitive confidence judgment on memory >>

Kentaro Miyamoto, Rieko Setsuie, et al. Reversible Silencing of the Frontopolar Cortex Selectively Impairs Metacognitive Judgment on Non-experience in Primates.
Neuron. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron. 2017.12.040. Jan 25, 2018.

http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(17)31208-4

Cognitive Neuroscience and the Awareness of Ignorance. Jan 27, 2018.

https://neurosciencenews.com/ignorance-awareness-8383