A core component of psychological therapy causes adaptive changes in computational learning mechanisms.
A core component of psychological therapy causes adaptive changes in computational learning mechanisms.
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心理治疗的核心组成部分会引起计算学习机制的适应性变化。
DOI:
10.1017/s0033291723001587
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
6.9
通讯作者:
Dercon Q
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作者:
Dercon Q
BackgroundCognitive distancing is an emotion regulation strategy commonly used in psychological treatment of various mental health disorders, but its therapeutic mechanisms are unknown.Methods935 participants completed an online reinforcement learning task involving choices between pairs of symbols with differing reward contingencies. Half (49.1%) of the sample was randomised to a cognitive self-distancing intervention and were trained to regulate or ‘take a step back’ from their emotional response to feedback throughout. Established computational (Q-learning) models were then fit to individuals' choices to derive reinforcement learning parameters capturing clarity of choice values (inverse temperature) and their sensitivity to positive and negative feedback (learning rates).ResultsCognitive distancing improved task performance, including when participants were later tested on novel combinations of symbols without feedback. Group differences in computational model-derived parameters revealed that cognitive distancing resulted in clearer representations of option values (estimated 0.17 higher inverse temperatures). Simultaneously, distancing caused increased sensitivity to negative feedback (estimated 19% higher loss learning rates). Exploratory analyses suggested this resulted from an evolving shift in strategy by distanced participants: initially, choices were more determined by expected value differences between symbols, but as the task progressed, they became more sensitive to negative feedback, with evidence for a difference strongest by the end of training.ConclusionsAdaptive effects on the computations that underlie learning from reward and loss may explain the therapeutic benefits of cognitive distancing. Over time and with practice, cognitive distancing may improve symptoms of mental health disorders by promoting more effective engagement with negative information.
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4.1
作者:
Neacsiu, Andrada D.;Eberle, Jeremy W.;Linehan, Marsha M.
通讯作者:
Linehan, Marsha M.
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10.1162/cpsy_a_00002
发表时间:
2017-10
期刊:
Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.)
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作者:
Ahn WY;Haines N;Zhang L
通讯作者:
Zhang L
DOI:
10.31234/osf.io/rynhk
发表时间:
2021-04
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作者:
S. Zorowitz;Y. Niv;Daniel Bennett
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S. Zorowitz;Y. Niv;Daniel Bennett