Enhanced error-related brain activations for mistakes that harm others: ERP evidence from a novel social performance-monitoring paradigm

Bruijn, Ellen R.A. de; Jansen, Myrthe; Overgaauw, Sandy

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116238

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“…Importantly, with the integration of social context in performance monitoring research, a more disorder-or symptom-specific marker of OCD may be identified. For instance, the heightened feelings of responsibility for harm and interpersonal guilt that characterize patients suggests that patients with OCD might show specifically enhanced monitoring of their own performance in interactive social responsibility contexts, i.e., when their actions directly have consequences for someone else (166). Such enhancements might not be expected for other disorders with more self-focused symptoms such as health anxiety.…”

Section: Toward a Social Neurocognitive Interactive Account Of Ocdmentioning

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“…Such enhancements might not be expected for other disorders with more self-focused symptoms such as health anxiety. So-called social performance monitoring paradigms [see e.g., (166)(167)(168)] therefore represent a relevant example of an interactive and implicit measure of social cognition that may substantially inform us on possible alterations in social interactive behavior in patients with OCD.…”

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Social Cognition and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Review of Subdomains of Social Functioning

2020

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Disturbances in social cognitive processes such as the ability to infer others' mental states importantly contribute to social and functional impairments in psychiatric disorders. Yet, despite established social, emotional, and cognitive problems, the role of social cognition in obsessive-compulsive disorder is largely overlooked. The current review provides a first comprehensive overview of social (neuro)cognitive disturbances in adult patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Results of our review indicate various social cognitive alterations. Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder show deficits in the recognition of affective social cues, specifically facial expressions of disgust, and more general deficits in theory of mind/mentalizing. Additionally, patients show heightened affective reactions and altered neural responding to emotions of self and others, as well as poor emotion regulation skills, which may contribute to poor social functioning of patients. However, the discrepancies in findings and scarcity of studies make it difficult to draw firm conclusions with regard to the specificity of social cognitive disturbances. The review offers directions for future research and highlights the need to investigate obsessive-compulsive disorder from an interactive social neurocognitive perspective in addition to the prevalent passive spectator perspective to advance our understanding of this intricate and burdensome disorder.

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Social Cognition and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Review of Subdomains of Social Functioning

2020

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“…Although a constant cognitive load (2-back) was utilized in the present study, our results indicated that working memory capacity had improved following 8 h of RS, when compared with the capacity observed following 36 h of TSD without RS. However, emphasizing accuracy rates can also in uence response times [47]. Although no improvements in reaction time were observed following 8 h of RS, the number of correct responses per unit time signi cantly increased.…”

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Recovery Sleep Attenuates Impairments in Working Memory Following Total Sleep Deprivation

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Background: Considering the well-known detrimental effects of sleep deprivation (SD) on cognitive function and quality of life, sleep disturbances represent a major physical and mental health issue. Because working memory plays an important role in many complex cognitive processes, it is necessary to identify strategies that can effectively counteract the negative effects of SD on working memory. Methods: In the present study, we utilized event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the restorative effect of 8 h of recovery sleep (RS) on working memory impairments induced by 36 h of total sleep deprivation (TSD). We analyzed data from 16 healthy male participants. All participants completed a 2-back working memory task before and after 36 h of TSD and after 8 h of RS. Electroencephalography (EEG) data were recorded during the task. Results: N2 and P3 components related to working memory exhibited low-amplitude slow-wave characteristics following 36 h of TSD. Significant decreases in the latency of the N2 component were observed after 8 h of RS. RS also induced significant increases in the amplitude of the P3 component, along with significant decreases in P3 latency. Conclusions: Eight hours of RS also attenuated decreases in working memory performance caused by 36 h of TSD. However, the effects of RS appear to be limited.

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“…These ERPs were subsequently baseline corrected relative to a pre-response duration of 200 ms. The ERN was determined for correct and incorrect trials separately and quantified as peak-to-peak amplitude at electrode Fz, FCz, and Cz by subtracting the most positive peak in the −80 to 80 ms time window from the most negative peak in the 0 to 150 ms time window (de Bruijn et al, 2017(de Bruijn et al, , 2020. For the Pe, we focused on the "late" component, which was defined as the mean amplitude in the 300-500 ms after the response for electrodes Fz, FCz, Cz, and Pz in line with previous research (de Bruijn et al, 2017;de Bruijn et al, 2020).…”

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“…Oxytocin has been theorized to play an important role in social motivation and salience attribution to social cues (Ma, Shamay-Tsoory, Han & Zink, 2016 ), suggesting that this compound may have worked to enhance perceived responsibility in the social context. In addition, we recently demonstrated enhanced ERNs for mistakes that had harmful (hearing a loud aversive sound) versus nonharmful (hearing a soft nonaversive sound) consequences for a co-actor (De Bruijn, Jansen & Overgaauw, 2020 ). These studies suggest that heightened feelings of responsibility and affective distress associated with social mistakes may result in increased performance monitoring and may induce additional social cognitive processes.…”

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Mistakes that matter: An event-related potential study on obsessive-compulsive symptoms and social performance monitoring in different responsibility contexts

Jansen

Bruijn

2020

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Mistakes that affect others often are linked to increased feelings of responsibility and guilt. This especially holds for individuals high in obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS), who are characterized by inflated feelings of responsibility and a fear of causing harm to others. This event-related potential study investigated individual differences in OCS in social performance monitoring with a focus on the role of responsibility for other's harm and the error-related negativity (ERN). Healthy volunteers low (N = 27) or high (N = 24) in OCS performed a Flanker task in the presence of a gender-matched peer in three conditions. Mistakes could either have negative monetary consequences for 1) oneself, 2) the other, or 3) no one. Results showed enhanced ERNs for mistakes that harmed others instead of the self for individuals high in OCS, whereas individuals low in OCS showed decreased amplitudes specifically for mistakes affecting no one versus oneself. Amplitudes of the error positivity but not the ERN also were larger in the high OCS group. These findings indicate that high OCS are associated with enhanced performance monitoring in a social responsibility context, when mistakes harm others instead of the self, and demonstrate the importance of integrating the social context in performance monitoring research as a way to shed more light on obsessive-compulsive symptomatology.

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Enhanced error-related brain activations for mistakes that harm others: ERP evidence from a novel social performance-monitoring paradigm

Cited by 18 publications

References 70 publications

Social Cognition and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Review of Subdomains of Social Functioning

Social Cognition and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Review of Subdomains of Social Functioning

Recovery Sleep Attenuates Impairments in Working Memory Following Total Sleep Deprivation

Mistakes that matter: An event-related potential study on obsessive-compulsive symptoms and social performance monitoring in different responsibility contexts

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