Individual differences in autism-like traits are associated with reduced goal emulation in a computational model of observational learning
Nature Mental Health,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
2(9), P. 1032 - 1044
Published: July 10, 2024
Language: Английский
Dissociating social reward learning and behavior in alcohol use disorder
Translational Psychiatry,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: Jan. 25, 2025
Language: Английский
Reduction of rejection‐related emotions by transcranial direct current stimulation over right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in borderline personality disorder: A double‐blind randomized pilot study
Alessandro Lisco,
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Alessia Gallucci,
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Chiara Fabietti
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et al.
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 8, 2025
Borderline
personality
disorder
(BPD)
patients
show
negative
emotional
reactions
to
both
excluding
and
including
social
scenarios,
with
levels
normalizing
only
during
extreme
inclusion.
Prior
research
among
healthy
individuals
highlights
the
right
ventrolateral
prefrontal
cortex
(rVLPFC)
role
in
regulating
responses
exclusion,
since
transcranial
direct
current
stimulation
(tDCS)
of
rVLPFC
decreases
rejection-related
emotions
following
exclusion.
This
pilot
study
investigated
whether,
BPD
patients,
tDCS
over
reduces
not
after
exclusion
but
also
fair
Forty
randomly
received
either
real
or
sham
on
before
participating
Cyberball
paradigm,
which
involved
phases
inclusion,
over-inclusion.
Participants
self-reported
their
level
each
phase.
Transcranial
reduced
Specifically,
those
Real
group
exhibited
comparable
over-including
unlike
Sham
who
experienced
heightened
inclusion
compared
patients'
tendency
feel
rejected
fairly
scenarios.
These
findings
confirm
involvement
regulation
highlight
a
therapeutic
potential
for
moderating
BPD's
typical
supports
application
treatment,
providing
new
insights
into
neuromodulatory
interventions
that
can
aid
better
regulate
varying
Language: Английский
Feature identification learning both shapes and is shaped by spatial object-similarity representations
Communications Psychology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
3(1)
Published: May 13, 2025
Object
knowledge
is
bound
together
in
semantic
networks
that
can
be
spatially
represented.
How
these
representations
shape
and
are
turn
shaped
by
learning
remains
unclear.
Here,
we
directly
examined
how
object
similarity
impact
implicit
of
feature
dimensions
learning,
turn,
influences
representations.
In
a
pre-experiment,
237
adult
participants
arranged
object-pictures
spatial
arena,
revealing
relatedness
everyday
objects
across
categories:
activity,
fashion,
foods.
The
subsequent
experiment
assessed
whether
relationships
played
role
implicitly
specific
features
separate
participant
group
(N
=
82).
Participants
inferred
the
meanings
two
pseudo-words
through
feedback.
Using
computational
modeling,
tested
various
strategies
established
was
guided
quantified
pre-experiment.
Post-learning
arrangements
reflected
as
well
learned
feature.
We
show
guide
reshapes
existing
Language: Английский
Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it?
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
152, P. 105170 - 105170
Published: April 17, 2023
Language: Английский
Individual differences in autism-like traits are associated with reduced goal emulation in a computational model of observational learning
Published: Oct. 23, 2023
One's
ability
to
infer
the
goals
and
intentions
of
others
is
crucial
for
social
interactions,
such
capabilities
are
broadly
distributed
across
individuals.
Autism-like
traits
(i.e.,
associated
with
autism
spectrum
disorder
(ASD))
have
been
reduced
inference,
yet
underlying
computational
principles
cognitive
processes
not
well
characterized.
Here
we
tackle
this
problem
by
investigating
inference
during
learning
through
modeling
in
two
large
cross-sectional
samples
adult
participants
from
general
population
(N1=943,
N2=352).
were
extracted
isolated
other
symptom
dimensions
a
factor
analysis
Social
Responsiveness
Scale.
Participants
completed
an
observational
task
that
allowed
quantifying
tradeoff
between
strategies:
imitation
(repeat
observed
partner’s
most
recent
action)
emulation
(infer
goal).
specifically
(but
imitation),
revealing
difficulties
goal
inference.
This
association
held
even
when
controlling
model
parameters
(e.g.,
decision
noise,
heuristics),
was
related
but
anxiety.
The
findings,
replicated
additional
sample,
provide
powerfully
specific
mechanistic
hypothesis
challenges
ASD,
employing
psychiatry
approach
could
be
applied
disorders.
Language: Английский
Commentary: Special Issue on Interpersonal Trust
Journal of Personality Disorders,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
38(1), P. 1 - 9
Published: Feb. 1, 2024
This
commentary
reviews
the
Journal
of
Personality
Disorders
special
issue
“Interpersonal
Trust
and
Borderline
Disorder:
Insights
From
Clinical
Practice
Research,”
published
in
Volume
37,
Number
5,
October
2023.
Language: Английский
Feeling close to others? Social cognitive mechanisms of intimacy in personality disorders
Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
11(1)
Published: Oct. 31, 2024
Language: Английский
Feature learning both shapes and is shaped by spatial object-similarity representations
Published: July 20, 2023
Our
knowledge
of
objects
is
bound
together
in
semantic
networks
that
can
be
spatially
represented
and
reduced
to
simple
binary
category
memberships
or
expanded
multi-dimensional
feature
maps.
How
these
representations
shape
are
turn
shaped
by
learning
remains
unclear.
Here,
we
examined
how
object
similarity
influence
implicit
a
dimension
alters
this
representation.
In
Experiment
1,
establish
the
spatial
representation
everyday
belonging
three
discrete
categories:
activity,
fashion,
foods
with
various
subcategories.
Participants
(N=287)
arranged
subsets
120
object-pictures
using
multi
arrangement
task
(MAT).
Their
revealed
configuration
broadly
reflected
predefined
(sub)categories.
2,
investigated
whether
from
1
were
applied
when
implicitly
about
specific
features
altered
representations.
A
separate
group
participants
(N=87)
asked
rate
much
two
pseudo-words
(‘ation’
‘soaf’)
subset
1.
Unbeknown
participants,
meant
either
colorful
large.
Despite
items
not
being
repeated,
inferred
meaning
through
trial-by-trial
feedback
as
evidenced
significant
reductions
prediction
errors
over
time
both
large
conditions.
relied
on
reinforcement
model
scaled
fine
granularity
item-level
relationships
established
MAT
deduce
nonwords
question.
Finally,
question
participants’
configurations
post-learning
2.Overall,
our
results
point
organization
item
similarity,
its
employment
during
reorganization
result
learning.
This
carryover
longer-term
elucidates
mechanism
integrate
new
concepts
into
existing
Language: Английский