Aberrant sense of agency induced by delayed prediction signals in schizophrenia: a computational modeling study

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Aberrant sense of agency (SoA, a feeling of control over one’s own actions and their subsequent events) has been considered key to understanding the pathology of schizophrenia. Behavioral studies have demonstrated that a bidirectional (i.e., excessive and diminished) SoA is observed in schizophrenia. Several neurophysiological and theoretical studies have suggested that aberrancy may be due to temporal delays (TDs) in sensory-motor prediction signals. Here, we examined this hypothesis via computational modeling using a recurrent neural network (RNN) expressing the sensory-motor prediction process. The proposed model successfully reproduced the behavioral features of SoA in healthy controls. In addition, simulation of delayed prediction signals reproduced the bidirectional schizophrenia-pattern SoA, whereas three control experiments (random noise addition, TDs in outputs, and TDs in inputs) demonstrated no schizophrenia-pattern SoA. These results support the TD hypothesis and provide a mechanistic understanding of the pathology underlying aberrant SoA in schizophrenia.

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Okimura, T., Maeda, T., Mimura, M., & Yamashita, Y. (2023). Aberrant sense of agency induced by delayed prediction signals in schizophrenia: a computational modeling study. Schizophrenia, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-023-00403-7

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