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SUBMITTER: Hauser TU
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5529539 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hauser Tobias U TU Allen Micah M Rees Geraint G Dolan Raymond J RJ
Scientific reports 20170726 1
Awareness of one's own abilities is of paramount importance in adaptive decision making. Psychotherapeutic theories assume such metacognitive insight is impaired in compulsivity, though this is supported by scant empirical evidence. In this study, we investigate metacognitive abilities in compulsive participants using computational models, where these enable a segregation between metacognitive and perceptual decision making impairments. We examined twenty low-compulsive and twenty high-compulsiv ...[more]