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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychiatry

Background:

  • Overactive error monitoring, indicated by enhanced error-related negativity (ERN), is a potential biomarker for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
  • The precise mechanisms driving variations in ERN amplitude within OCD remain unclear, particularly concerning error evaluation processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if enhanced ERN in OCD stems from altered error evaluation.
  • To examine the relationship between trial-wise valence evaluation of errors and ERN amplitudes in individuals with and without OCD.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized electroencephalogram (EEG) during an affective priming paradigm.
  • Participants (28 OCD patients, 28 healthy controls) performed a go/no-go task followed by word categorization to assess error valence evaluation.
  • Analyzed the association between error valence evaluation and ERN amplitudes.

Main Results:

  • Errors were consistently followed by faster categorization of negative words, confirming negative valence assignment to errors.
  • This affective priming effect was significantly reduced in OCD patients compared to controls.
  • The reduction in affective error evaluation correlated with OCD symptom severity, and ERN amplitude did not correlate with valence evaluation on a trial level.

Conclusions:

  • OCD is characterized by attenuated affective error evaluation, potentially influenced by anxiety.
  • The findings suggest that altered error monitoring in OCD involves distinct processes, with diminished negative valence assignment to errors being one component.
  • ERN amplitude may not directly reflect the valence assignment to errors in OCD.