ArticleTranslational psychiatry2017
Increased decision thresholds trigger extended information gathering across the compulsivity spectrum.
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- Information search under uncertainty across transdiagnostic psychopathology and healthy ageing.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Compulsive avoidance in youths and adults with OCD: an aversive pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer study.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Boosting Serotonin Increases Information Gathering by Reducing Subjective Cognitive Costs.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Eating disorder symptoms and control-seeking behavior.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- The promise of a model-based psychiatry: building computational models of mental ill health.The Lancet. Digital health · 2022Review
- The effect of apathy and compulsivity on planning and stopping in sequential decision-making.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Dynamic Representation of the Subjective Value of Information.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- The computational cost of active information sampling before decision-making under uncertainty.Nature human behaviour · 2021Article
- Explaining distortions in metacognition with an attractor network model of decision uncertainty.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Selective effects of serotonin on choices to gather more information.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
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- Autistic traits influence the strategic diversity of information sampling: Insights from two-stage decision models.PLoS computational biology · 2019Article
- Using Polygenic Profiles to Predict Variation in Language and Psychosocial Outcomes in Early and Middle Childhood.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2019Article
- Looking for Mr(s) Right: Decision bias can prevent us from finding the most attractive face.Cognitive psychology · 2019Article
- Computational psychiatry of impulsivity and risk: how risk and time preferences interact in health and disease.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
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Abstract
Indecisiveness and doubt are cognitive phenotypes of compulsive disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. Little is known regarding the cognitive mechanisms that drive these behaviours across a compulsivity spectrum. Here, we used a sequential information gathering task to study indecisiveness in subjects with high and low obsessive-compulsive scores. These subjects were selected from a large population-representative database, and matched for intellectual and psychiatric factors. We show that high compulsive subjects sampled more information and performed better when sampling was cost-free. When sampling was costly, both groups adapted flexibly to reduce their information gathering. Computational modelling revealed that increased information gathering behaviour could be explained by higher decision thresholds that, in turn, were driven by a delayed emergence of impatience or urgency. Our findings show that indecisiveness generalises to a compulsivity spectrum beyond frank clinical disorder, and this behaviour can be explained within a decision-theoretic framework as arising from an augmented decision threshold associated with an attenuated urgency signal.
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