Trial reportScientific reports2019
Reduced model-based decision-making in gambling disorder.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.
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37 citing papers in PubMed.
- The catecholamine precursor Tyrosine reduces autonomic arousal and decreases decision thresholds in reinforcement learning and temporal discounting.PLoS computational biology · 2022Trial
- Does the Habit Theory of Addictions Extend to Disordered Gambling?Current addiction reports · 2026Review
- Mapping affective pathways to compulsion: Insights from an aversive devaluation approach.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Higher motivation and pleasure scores predict more reliance on model-free decision making.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Risky online buying-shopping behavior: The role of stress responsivity on the transfer from goal-directed behavior to stimulus-response habits.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Imbalanced goal-directed and habitual control in individuals with internet gaming disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Behavioral and computational signatures of reinforcement learning and confidence biases in gambling disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Cognitive computational model reveals repetition bias in a sequential decision-making task.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Intact habit learning in work addiction: Evidence from a probabilistic sequence learning task.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- Negative affect-driven impulsivity as hierarchical model-based overgeneralization.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2025Review
- Verbal memory dysfunction in substance use and gambling addictive disorders: a comparative analysis of performance accuracy and error typologies.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Recent advances in understanding how compulsivity is related to behavioural addictions over their timecourse.Current addiction reports · 2025Review
- Signatures of Perseveration and Heuristic-Based Directed Exploration in Two-Step Sequential Decision Task Behaviour.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Impact of provoked stress on model-free and model-based reinforcement learning in individuals with alcohol use disorder.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- Getting even: chasing behavior, decision-making, and craving in habitual gamblers.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Confidence biases in problem gambling.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Article
- Compulsivity-related behavioral features of problematic usage of the internet: A scoping review of paradigms, progress, and perspectives.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Article
- Lasting dynamic effects of the psychedelic 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine ((±)-DOI) on cognitive flexibility.Molecular psychiatry · 2024Article
- Learning and metacognition under volatility in GD: Lower learning rates and distorted coupling between action and confidence.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Article
- Neural correlates of model-based behavior in internet gaming disorder and alcohol use disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Article
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Abstract
Compulsive behaviors (e.g., addiction) can be viewed as an aberrant decision process where inflexible reactions automatically evoked by stimuli (habit) take control over decision making to the detriment of a more flexible (goal-oriented) behavioral learning system. These behaviors are thought to arise from learning algorithms known as "model-based" and "model-free" reinforcement learning. Gambling disorder, a form of addiction without the confound of neurotoxic effects of drugs, showed impaired goal-directed control but the way in which problem gamblers (PG) orchestrate model-based and model-free strategies has not been evaluated. Forty-nine PG and 33 healthy participants (CP) completed a two-step sequential choice task for which model-based and model-free learning have distinct and identifiable trial-by-trial learning signatures. The influence of common psychopathological comorbidities on those two forms of learning were investigated. PG showed impaired model-based learning, particularly after unrewarded outcomes. In addition, PG exhibited faster reaction times than CP following unrewarded decisions. Troubled mood, higher impulsivity (i.e., positive and negative urgency) and current and chronic stress reported via questionnaires did not account for those results. These findings demonstrate specific reinforcement learning and decision-making deficits in behavioral addiction that advances our understanding and may be important dimensions for designing effective interventions.
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