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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Adaptive coding occurs in object categorization and may not be associated with schizotypal personality traits
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Anna Giarratana
  • Mariia Kaliuzhna
  • Stefan Kaiser
  • Philippe Tobler
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Scientific Reports
Publisher Nature Publishing Group
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 2045-2322
Volume 12
Number 1
Page Range 19385
Date 2022
Abstract Text Processing more likely inputs with higher sensitivity (adaptive coding) enables the brain to represent the large range of inputs coming in from the world. Healthy individuals high in schizotypy show reduced adaptive coding in the reward domain but it is an open question whether these deficits extend to non-motivational domains, such as object categorization. Here, we develop a novel variant of a classic task to test range adaptation for face/house categorization in healthy participants on the psychosis spectrum. In each trial of this task, participants decide whether a presented image is a face or a house. Images vary on a face-house continuum and appear in both wide and narrow range blocks. The wide range block includes most of the face-house continuum (2.50–97.5% face), while the narrow range blocks limit inputs to a smaller section of the continuum (27.5–72.5% face). Adaptive coding corresponds to better performance for the overlapping smaller section of the continuum in the narrow range than in the wide range block. We find that participants show efficient use of the range in this task, with more accurate responses in the overlapping section for the narrow range blocks relative to the wide range blocks. However, we find little evidence that range adaptation in our object categorization task is reduced in healthy individuals scoring high on schizotypy. Thus, reduced range adaptation may not be a domain-general feature of schizotypy.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1038/s41598-022-24127-3
Other Identification Number merlin-id:23057
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Keywords Multidisciplinary