Moul, C;
Robinson, OJ;
Livesey, EJ;
(2021)
Antisocial Learning: Using Learning Window Width to Model Callous-Unemotional Traits?
Computational Psychiatry
, 5
(1)
pp. 54-59.
10.5334/cpsy.68.
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Abstract
Psychopathic traits and the childhood analogue, callous-unemotional traits, have been severely neglected by the research field in terms of mechanistic, falsifiable accounts. This is surprising given that some of the core symptoms of the disorder point towards problems with basic components of associative learning. In this manuscript we describe a new mechanistic account that is concordant with current cognitive theories of psychopathic traits and is also able to replicate previous empirical data. The mechanism we describe is one of individual differences in an index we have called, “learning window width”. Here we show how variation in this index would result in different outcome expectations which, in turn, would lead to differences in behaviour. The proposed mechanism is intuitive and simple with easily calculated behavioural implications. Our hope is that this model will stimulate discussion and the use of mechanistic and computational accounts to improve our understanding in this area of research.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Antisocial Learning: Using Learning Window Width to Model Callous-Unemotional Traits? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5334/cpsy.68 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5334/cpsy.68 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | psychopathy, callousunemotional, outcome expectancies, associative learning, learning window width |
| 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 |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10129597 |
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