Accumulation of evidence during decision making in OCD patients
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15528501 |
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| Authors | Yilin Chen (0000-0002-5668-7652, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology), Ying Liu (0000-0001-5584-7805, Shanghai Mental Health Center), Zhen Wang (0000-0001-6729-2640, Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Tianming Yang (0000-0001-6976-9246, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, corresponding author), Qing Fan (0000-0002-0384-2030, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Pages | 980905-980905 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1664-0640 • E-ISSN: 1664-0640 |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.980905 |
| PMID | 36213896 |
| OpenAlex | W4296827041 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Decision-making often entails the accumulation of evidence. Previous studies suggested that people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) process decision-making differently from healthy controls. Both their compulsive behavior and obsessive thoughts may influence the evidence accumulation process, yet the previous studies disagreed on the reason. To address this question, we employed a probabilistic reasoning task in which subjects made two alternative forced choices by viewing a series of visual stimuli. These stimuli carried probabilistic information toward the choices. While the OCD patients achieved similar accuracy to the control, they took longer time and accumulated more evidence, especially in difficult trials in which the evidence strength was low. We further modeled the subjects' decision making as a leaky drifting diffusion process toward two collapsing bounds. The control group showed a higher drifting rate than the OCD group, indicating that the OCD group was less sensitive to evidence. Together, these results demonstrated that the OCD patients were less efficient than the control at transforming sensory information into evidence. However, their evidence accumulation was comparable to the healthy control, and they compensated for their decision-making accuracy with longer reaction times
Cognitive psychology · Control (management · Obsessive compulsive · Probabilistic logic · Task (project management · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Clinical Psychology · Computer Science · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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