PMID- 20851194 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110405 LR - 20220309 IS - 1095-9572 (Electronic) IS - 1053-8119 (Print) IS - 1053-8119 (Linking) VI - 54 IP - 2 DP - 2011 Jan 15 TI - Impaired error-likelihood prediction in medial prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. PG - 1506-17 LID - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.027 [doi] AB - The cognitive impairment in individuals with schizophrenia includes deficits of working memory in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and deficits of performance monitoring in medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). Recent work suggests a more general role for MPFC in predicting the outcome of actions and then evaluating those predictions. Here we investigate, in individuals with schizophrenia, two specific effects associated with this role: the error likelihood effect (occurring on trials with correct performance, but features that predict a high probability of errors), and the error unexpectedness effect (occurring on trials with an error, but features that predict errors are of low probability). In a rapid event-related fMRI design with a modified version of the change-signal task, a cue incidentally predicting error likelihood was encoded into working memory by participants in order to perform a secondary delayed match-to-sample task. There were four key findings: (1) individuals with schizophrenia exhibited poorer working memory performance and reduced error signals in MPFC; (2) even in control and schizophrenia subgroups matched on working memory performance, the schizophrenia subgroup showed a deficit in error-likelihood prediction in MPFC at the time of the predictive cue; (3) the schizophrenia subgroup also showed a deficit in evaluative error-unexpectedness activity when errors were committed; and (4) a mediation analysis indicated that error-likelihood predictions successfully explained error-unexpectedness evaluations in both controls and patients. Collectively, these findings suggest that individuals with schizophrenia have a disturbance in the evaluation of outcomes that is the result of a primary deficit in the prediction of error likelihood in MPFC. CI - Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Krawitz, Adam AU - Krawitz A AD - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. akrawitz@indiana.edu FAU - Braver, Todd S AU - Braver TS FAU - Barch, Deanna M AU - Barch DM FAU - Brown, Joshua W AU - Brown JW LA - eng GR - R03 DA023462/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - R03 DA023462-01/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 MH019879/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 MH019879-15/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. DEP - 20100917 PL - United States TA - Neuroimage JT - NeuroImage JID - 9215515 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - *Brain Mapping MH - Cognition/*physiology MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging MH - Male MH - Prefrontal Cortex/*physiopathology MH - Schizophrenia/*physiopathology PMC - PMC2997134 MID - NIHMS238503 EDAT- 2010/09/21 06:00 MHDA- 2011/04/06 06:00 PMCR- 2012/01/15 CRDT- 2010/09/21 06:00 PHST- 2010/07/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2010/09/07 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2010/09/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2010/09/21 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/09/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/04/06 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2012/01/15 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S1053-8119(10)01208-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.027 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neuroimage. 2011 Jan 15;54(2):1506-17. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.027. Epub 2010 Sep 17.