Neurocomputational mechanisms underpinning aberrant social learning in young adults with low self-esteem.

ABSTRACT: Low self-esteem is a risk factor for a range of psychiatric disorders. From a cognitive perspective a negative self-image can be maintained through aberrant learning about self-worth derived from social feedback. We previously showed that neural teaching signals that represent the difference between expected and actual social feedback (i.e., social prediction errors) drive fluctuations in self-worth. Here, we used model-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to characterize learning from social prediction errors in 61 participants drawn from a population-based sample (n = 2402) who were recruited on the basis of being in the bottom or top 10% of self-esteem scores. Participants performed a social evaluation task during fMRI scanning, which entailed predicting whether other peop

SUBMITTER: Will GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7078312 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature