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Compulsivity Reveals a Novel Dissociation between Action and Confidence

Vaghi, MM; Luyckx, F; Sule, A; Fineberg, NA; Robbins, TW; De Martino, B; (2017) Compulsivity Reveals a Novel Dissociation between Action and Confidence. Neuron , 96 (2) 348-354.e4. 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.006. Green open access

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Abstract

Confidence and actions are normally tightly interwoven—if I am sure that it is going to rain, I will take an umbrella—therefore, it is difficult to understand their interplay. Stimulated by the ego-dystonic nature of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), where compulsive actions are recognized as disproportionate, we hypothesized that action and confidence might be independently updated during learning. Participants completed a predictive-inference task designed to identify how action and confidence evolve in response to surprising changes in the environment. While OCD patients (like controls) correctly updated their confidence according to changes in the environment, their actions (unlike those of controls) mostly disregarded this knowledge. Therefore, OCD patients develop an accurate, internal model of the environment but fail to use it to guide behavior. Results demonstrated a novel dissociation between confidence and action, suggesting a cognitive architecture whereby confidence estimates can accurately track the statistic of the environment independently from performance.

Type: Article
Title: Compulsivity Reveals a Novel Dissociation between Action and Confidence
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.006
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.006
Language: English
Additional information: © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Beliefs, action, confidence, metacognition, compulsivity, learning, uncertainty, computational psychiatry, obsessive-compulsive disorder
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10033932
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