ArticleCommunications psychology2023
Using smartphones to optimise and scale-up the assessment of model-based planning.
Article in Communications psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Cognitive arbitration between candidate dimensions of psychopathology.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Social disadvantage outweighs knowledge in dementia risk.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Reducing the burden of psychological questionnaire measures through selective item re-weighting.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Modifiable dementia risk factors associated with objective and subjective cognition.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Reliable, rapid, and remote measurement of metacognitive bias.Scientific reports · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Model-based planning is thought to protect against over-reliance on habits. It is reduced in individuals high in compulsivity, but effect sizes are small and may depend on subtle features of the tasks used to assess it. We developed a diamond-shooting smartphone game that measures model-based planning in an at-home setting, and varied the game's structure within and across participants to assess how it affects measurement reliability and validity with respect to previously established correlates of model-based planning, with a focus on compulsivity. Increasing the number of trials used to estimate model-based planning did remarkably little to affect the association with compulsivity, because the greatest signal was in earlier trials. Associations with compulsivity were higher when transition ratios were less deterministic and depending on the reward drift utilised. These findings suggest that model-based planning can be measured at home via an app, can be estimated in relatively few trials using certain design features, and can be optimised for sensitivity to compulsive symptoms in the general population.
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