Different learning aberrations relate to delusion-like beliefs with different contents.

ABSTRACT: The prediction error account of delusions has had success. However, its explanation of delusions with different contents has been lacking. Persecutory delusions and paranoia are the common unfounded beliefs that others have harmful intentions towards us. Other delusions include believing that one's thoughts or actions are under external control or that events in the world have specific personal meaning. We compare learning in two different cognitive tasks, probabilistic reversal learning and Kamin blocking, that have relationships to paranoid and non-paranoid delusion-like beliefs, respectively. We find that clinical high-risk status alone does not result in different behavioural results in the probabilistic reversal learning task but that an individual's level of paranoia is associated wi

SUBMITTER: Rossi-Goldthorpe R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11292907 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature