The Uncertainty of it All: Exploring the Cognitive Mechanisms of Repeated Checking

Omer Linkovski, Tal Yatziv, Avishai Henik, Renana Eitan, Gideon Anholt

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Abstract

Uncertainty is a driving force in multiple brain disorders, leading to repetitive thoughts and actions. Checking is a prominent behavioral response to uncertainty and is the most common compulsion in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Deficits in working memory may drive checking. While several studies attempted at examining factors that might affect checking, no study to-date has attempted to investigate whether individual differences in working memory capacity might underlie checking or uncertainty. The current study tested whether checking is associated with uncertainty and∖or working memory capacity. [FROM THE ARTICLE]
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S454-S454
Number of pages1
JournalBiological Psychiatry
Volume87
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2020

Keywords

  • Compulsivity
  • Executive Control
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Working Memory
  • Working Memory Capacity

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