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Bayesian reasoning with emotional material in patients with schizophrenia
Delusions are one of the most classical symptoms described in schizophrenia. However, despite delusions are often emotionally charged, they have been investigated using tasks involving non-affective material, such as the Beads task. In this study we compared 30 patients with schizophrenia experienci...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9670539/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405220 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.827037 |
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author | Romero-Ferreiro, Verónica Susi, Rosario Sánchez-Morla, Eva M. Marí-Beffa, Paloma Rodríguez-Gómez, Pablo Amador, Julia Moreno, Eva M. Romero, Carmen Martínez-García, Natalia Rodriguez-Jimenez, Roberto |
author_facet | Romero-Ferreiro, Verónica Susi, Rosario Sánchez-Morla, Eva M. Marí-Beffa, Paloma Rodríguez-Gómez, Pablo Amador, Julia Moreno, Eva M. Romero, Carmen Martínez-García, Natalia Rodriguez-Jimenez, Roberto |
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description | Delusions are one of the most classical symptoms described in schizophrenia. However, despite delusions are often emotionally charged, they have been investigated using tasks involving non-affective material, such as the Beads task. In this study we compared 30 patients with schizophrenia experiencing delusions with 32 matched controls in their pattern of responses to two versions of the Beads task within a Bayesian framework. The two versions of the Beads task consisted of one emotional and one neutral, both with ratios of beads of 60:40 and 80:20, considered, respectively, as the “difficult” and “easy” variants of the task. Results indicate that patients showed a greater deviation from the normative model, especially in the 60:40 ratio, suggesting that more inaccurate probability estimations are more likely to occur under uncertainty conditions. Additionally, both patients and controls showed a greater deviation in the emotional version of the task, providing evidence of a reasoning bias modulated by the content of the stimuli. Finally, a positive correlation between patients’ deviation and delusional symptomatology was found. Impairments in the 60:40 ratio with emotional content was related to the amount of disruption in life caused by delusions. These results contribute to the understanding of how cognitive mechanisms interact with characteristics of the task (i.e., ambiguity and content) in the context of delusional thinking. These findings might be used to inform improved intervention programs in the domain of inferential reasoning. |
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spelling | pubmed-96705392022-11-18 Bayesian reasoning with emotional material in patients with schizophrenia Romero-Ferreiro, Verónica Susi, Rosario Sánchez-Morla, Eva M. Marí-Beffa, Paloma Rodríguez-Gómez, Pablo Amador, Julia Moreno, Eva M. Romero, Carmen Martínez-García, Natalia Rodriguez-Jimenez, Roberto Front Psychol Psychology Delusions are one of the most classical symptoms described in schizophrenia. However, despite delusions are often emotionally charged, they have been investigated using tasks involving non-affective material, such as the Beads task. In this study we compared 30 patients with schizophrenia experiencing delusions with 32 matched controls in their pattern of responses to two versions of the Beads task within a Bayesian framework. The two versions of the Beads task consisted of one emotional and one neutral, both with ratios of beads of 60:40 and 80:20, considered, respectively, as the “difficult” and “easy” variants of the task. Results indicate that patients showed a greater deviation from the normative model, especially in the 60:40 ratio, suggesting that more inaccurate probability estimations are more likely to occur under uncertainty conditions. Additionally, both patients and controls showed a greater deviation in the emotional version of the task, providing evidence of a reasoning bias modulated by the content of the stimuli. Finally, a positive correlation between patients’ deviation and delusional symptomatology was found. Impairments in the 60:40 ratio with emotional content was related to the amount of disruption in life caused by delusions. These results contribute to the understanding of how cognitive mechanisms interact with characteristics of the task (i.e., ambiguity and content) in the context of delusional thinking. These findings might be used to inform improved intervention programs in the domain of inferential reasoning. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9670539/ /pubmed/36405220 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.827037 Text en Copyright © 2022 Romero-Ferreiro, Susi, Sánchez-Morla, Marí-Beffa, Rodríguez-Gómez, Amador, Moreno, Romero, Martínez-García and Rodriguez-Jimenez. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Romero-Ferreiro, Verónica Susi, Rosario Sánchez-Morla, Eva M. Marí-Beffa, Paloma Rodríguez-Gómez, Pablo Amador, Julia Moreno, Eva M. Romero, Carmen Martínez-García, Natalia Rodriguez-Jimenez, Roberto Bayesian reasoning with emotional material in patients with schizophrenia |
title | Bayesian reasoning with emotional material in patients with schizophrenia |
title_full | Bayesian reasoning with emotional material in patients with schizophrenia |
title_fullStr | Bayesian reasoning with emotional material in patients with schizophrenia |
title_full_unstemmed | Bayesian reasoning with emotional material in patients with schizophrenia |
title_short | Bayesian reasoning with emotional material in patients with schizophrenia |
title_sort | bayesian reasoning with emotional material in patients with schizophrenia |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9670539/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405220 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.827037 |
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