Evidence for shallow cognitive maps in schizophrenia.
| Autor: | Karagoz AB; Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis., Moran EK; Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis., Barch DM; Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis.; Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine., Kool W; Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis., Reagh ZM; Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | BioRxiv : the preprint server for biology [bioRxiv] 2024 Feb 28. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 28. |
| DOI: | 10.1101/2024.02.26.582214 |
| Abstrakt: | Individuals with schizophrenia can have marked deficits in goal-directed decision making. Prominent theories differ in whether schizophrenia (SZ) affects the ability to exert cognitive control, or the motivation to exert control. An alternative explanation is that schizophrenia negatively impacts the formation of cognitive maps, the internal representations of the way the world is structured, necessary for the formation of effective action plans. That is, deficits in decision-making could also arise when goal-directed control and motivation are intact, but used to plan over ill-formed maps. Here, we test the hypothesis that individuals with SZ are impaired in the construction of cognitive maps. We combine a behavioral representational similarity analysis technique with a sequential decision-making task. This enables us to examine how relationships between choice options change when individuals with SZ and healthy age-matched controls build a cognitive map of the task structure. Our results indicate that SZ affects how people represent the structure of the task, focusing more on simpler visual features and less on abstract, higher-order, planning-relevant features. At the same time, we find that SZ were able to display similar performance on this task compared to controls, emphasizing the need for a distinction between cognitive map formation and changes in goal-directed control in understanding cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Competing Interests: Conflicts of interest: The authors declare they have no conflicting or competing interests. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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