Error and feedback processing for own and observed actions in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Final Report Abstract
The research project systematically and comprehensively investigated alterations in performance monitoring associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Several studies examined error and feedback processing, learning from external feedback, and the coupling of outcome and action valence during feedback learning, considering their behavioral and, where applicable, neural correlates. A particular focus was to determine the effect of the contextual factor agency, operationalized by examining performance monitoring processes in the context of both self-performed and observed actions in OCD. Additionally, the study aimed to assess the specificity of the assumed hyperactivity in performance monitoring for OCD by comparing patients with OCD to both a clinical control group (patients with social anxiety disorder, SAD) and healthy participants. Results provide evidence for altered performance monitoring in OCD, for both self-performed and observed actions and action outcomes. However, these alterations appear to be at least partially contextdependent, with distinct processes—such as error processing in stimulus-response conflicts and reward processing in probabilistic feedback learning—being altered in OCD. In contrast, Pavlovian-instrumental regulation does not appear to be affected in OCD. Furthermore, overall comparable results in OCD and SAD suggest that the observed effects may be based on shared, i.e., transdiagnostic mechanisms.
Link to the final report
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20250819-164552-4
Publications
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Learning biases to emotional faces in feedback-based go and nogo learning. Symposium am Institute for Systems Medicine (ISM) der MSH Medical School Hamburg.
Vahedi, J.
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Monitoring of self-committed versus observed errors in obsessive-compulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder: an ERP study. Poster, Jahrestagung der Society for Psychophysiological Research, New Orleans, USA.
Vahedi, J., Bahic, A., Chaliani, I., Schilbach, L., Ciupka-Schön, B., Bellebaum, C., Pietrowsky, R. & Peterburs. J.
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Monitoring of self-committed versus observed errors in obsessivecompulsive disorder: An event-related potential (ERP) study. Forschungskolloquium am Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Vahedi, J.
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Monitoring of self-generated and observed errors in obsessivecompulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder. Symposium am Institute for Systems Medicine (ISM) der MSH Medical School Hamburg.
Vahedi, J.
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Reward and punishment sensitivity and Pavlovian bias in feedback-based learning. Symposium of Learning and Socio-emotional neural functions. University of Jyväskylä, Finnland
Peterburs, J.
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Emotional cues reduce Pavlovian interference in feedback-based go and nogo learning. Psychological Research, 88(4), 1212-1230.
Vahedi, Julian; Mundorf, Annakarina; Bellebaum, Christian & Peterburs, Jutta
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Emotional cues reduce Pavlovian interference in feedbackbased go and nogo learning. Forschungskolloquium am Institute for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ICAN) der MSH Medical School Hamburg.
Peterburs, J.
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Feedback Monitoring during Active and Observational Learning in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: an ERP Study. Poster, Jahrestagung „Psychologie und Gehirn“, Hamburg, Deutschland
Vahedi, J., Bahic, A., Chaliani, I., Schilbach, L., Ciupka-Schön, B., Bellebaum, C., Pietrowsky, R. & Peterburs. J.
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Neural processing of performance feedback during active and observational learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder: an ERP study. Poster, Jahrestagung der Society for Psychophysiological Research, Prag, Tschechien
Vahedi, J., Bahic, A., Chaliani, I., Schilbach, L., Ciupka-Schön, B., Bellebaum, C., Pietrowsky, R. & Peterburs. J.
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Reward prediction error coding in the feedback-related negativity is modulated by motivational biases when learning from immediate and delayed feedback. Poster, Jahrestagung der Society for Psychophysiological Research, Prag, Tschechien
Peterburs, J., Vahedi, J., Schneider, S., Swiatek, L. & Bellebaum, C.
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Altered Reward Processing in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Insights From Active and Observational Learning. Psychophysiology, 62(9).
Vahedi, Julian; Bahic, Armin; Chaliani, Irini; Schilbach, Leonhard; Ciupka‐Schön, Burkhard; Bellebaum, Christian; Pietrowsky, Reinhard & Peterburs, Jutta
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Midfrontal theta oscillations and the Pavlovian Bias in the orthogonalized go/nogo task with emotional cues. Jahrestagung der International Society for Behavioral Neuroscience (ISBN), Canmore, Alberta, Kanada
Peterburs, J., Vahedi, J. & Bellebaum, C.
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Motivational biases in feedback-based learning are unaltered in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Poster, Jahrestagung der Society for Psychophysiological Research, Montréal, Kanada.
Vahedi, J., Bahic, A., Chaliani, I., Schilbach, L., Ciupka-Schön, B., Bellebaum, C., Pietrowsky, R. & Peterburs, J.
