Transfer of information across repeated decisions in general and in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
; 118(1)2021 01 05.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33443150
ABSTRACT
Real-life decisions are often repeated. Whether considering taking a job in a new city, or doing something mundane like checking if the stove is off, decisions are frequently revisited even if no new information is available. This mode of behavior takes a particularly pathological form in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which is marked by individuals' redeliberating previously resolved decisions. Surprisingly, little is known about how information is transferred across decision episodes in such circumstances, and whether and how such transfer varies in OCD. In two experiments, data from a repeated decision-making task and computational modeling revealed that both implicit and explicit memories of previous decisions affected subsequent decisions by biasing the rate of evidence integration. Further, we replicated previous work demonstrating impairments in baseline decision-making as a function of self-reported OCD symptoms, and found that information transfer effects specifically due to implicit memory were reduced, offering computational insight into checking behavior.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Decision Making
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Memory
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article