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  • Computational Psychiatry

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  • Psychiatric disorders' computational mechanisms are debated.
  • The predictive coding framework suggests schizophrenia involves abnormal prior belief encoding and sensory inference.

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  • To test the predictive coding hypothesis in schizophrenia.
  • To identify neural signatures of predictive coding using oscillatory traveling waves.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) data from 146 schizophrenia patients and 96 controls.
  • Examination of neural activity during resting states and a visual backward masking task.

Main Results:

  • Schizophrenia patients showed stronger top-down alpha-band traveling waves during rest, indicating potentially overly precise priors.
  • Patients also exhibited stronger bottom-up alpha-band waves during a visual task, suggesting enhanced sensory precision error signaling.

Conclusions:

  • Findings provide a novel spatial characterization of brain rhythms in schizophrenia as traveling waves.
  • Results support the predictive coding framework and offer a new approach to understanding schizophrenia's pathophysiology.