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  • Schizophrenia (SZ) is associated with significant deficits in goal-directed decision-making.
  • Existing theories debate whether SZ impacts cognitive control or motivation to exert control.
  • An alternative hypothesis suggests SZ impairs cognitive map formation, crucial for planning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the hypothesis that individuals with schizophrenia are impaired in constructing cognitive maps.
  • To investigate how task structure representations differ in SZ compared to healthy controls.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a sequential decision-making task combined with representational similarity analysis.
  • Examined changes in choice option relationships during cognitive map construction.

Main Results:

  • Individuals with SZ showed altered task structure representations, prioritizing visual features over abstract, planning-relevant ones.
  • Despite representational differences, SZ participants performed similarly to controls on the decision-making task.

Conclusions:

  • Schizophrenia affects cognitive map formation, leading to less abstract representations of task structure.
  • Cognitive map deficits in SZ may be distinct from impairments in goal-directed control or motivation.