| Literature DB >> 28765624 |
Saeedeh Sadeghi1, Hamed Ekhtiari2, Bahador Bahrami3, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi4,5.
Abstract
Drug addiction has been associated with lack of insight into one's own abilities. However, the scope of metacognition impairment among drug users in general and opiate dependent individuals in particular is not fully understood. Investigating the impairments of metacognitive ability in Substance Dependent Individuals (SDIs) in different cognitive tasks could contribute to the ongoing debate over whether metacognition has domain-general or domain-specific neural substrates. We compared metacognitive self-monitoring ability of a group of SDIs during methadone maintenance treatment (n = 23) with a control group (n = 24) in a memory and a visual perceptual task. Post decision self judgements of probability of correct choice were obtained through trial by trial confidence ratings and were used to compute metacognitive ability. Results showed that despite comparable first order performance in the perceptual task, SDIs had lower perceptual metacognition than the control group. However, although SDIs had poorer memory performance, their metacognitive judgements in the memory task were as accurate as the control group. While it is commonly believed that addiction causes pervasive impairment in cognitive functions, including metacognitive ability, we observed that the impairment was only significant in one specific task, the perceptual task, but not in the memory task.Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28765624 PMCID: PMC5539220 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06707-w
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Sci Rep ISSN: 2045-2322 Impact factor: 4.379
Figure 1Metacognition (m-ratio) and type 1 performance (d′) in memory (left) and perceptual (right) tasks. The 47 participants (24 Control + 23 SDI) are sorted by their m-ratio in task.
Behavioral measures for the SDI and Control participants. Mean scores and Standard Deviation (SD) are presented.
| Task | Mean (SD) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| SDI | Control | ||
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| Contrast Threshold | 0.19 (0.09) | 0.16 (0.05) |
| Accuracy | 0.71 (0.01) | 0.71 (0.01) | |
| d′ | 1.15 (0.13) | 1.17 (0.12) | |
| Mean Confidence | 4.68 (0.95) | 4.74 (0.86) | |
| M-ratio | 0.67 (0.38) | 1.01 (0.44) | |
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| d′ | 0.92 (0.44) | 1.19 (0.40) |
| Mean Confidence | 4.63 (0.72) | 4.94 (0.71) | |
| Unequal Variance M-ratio | 0.82 (0.61) | 0.93 (0.30) | |
| Equal Variance M-ratio | 0.85 (0.66) | 0.85 (0.39) | |
Figure 2d′ (top) and m-ratio (bottom) in perceptual (left) and memory (right) tasks. SDIs are significantly weaker in memory task type 1 sensitivity and perceptual task metacognitive sensitivity. Perceptual task type 1 sensitivity and memory task metacognition do not significantly differ between the two groups. *Means p < 0.05.
Mean Response Time (RT) and mean Confidence Time (CT) for SDI and Control groups.
| Task | SDI | Control | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Mean RT | 1358 (573) | 1099 (283) |
| Mean CT | 831 (613) | 510 (143) | |
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| Mean RT | 2146 (518) | 1964(425) |
| Mean CT | 683 (226) | 577 (262) |
Demographics (mean age and years of education) for participants in the SDI and control group.
| Mean (SD) | ||
|---|---|---|
| SDI (N = 23) | Control (N = 24) | |
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| 37.52 (6.31) | 34.09 (6.85) |
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| 12.96 (1.72) | 12.91 (1.66) |
Self-reported drug use history of SDIs.
| Lifetime abuse/dependence | Main drug of abuse when treatment started | |
|---|---|---|
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| 87% | 48% |
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| 52% | 43% |
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| 43% | 9% |
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| 35% | — |
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| 39% | — |
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| 17% | — |
Figure 3Outline of the perceptual (A) and memory (B) tasks. 2-AFC responses in both tasks are followed by rating confidence in a 1–6 scale. (A) One trial in the perceptual task (N = 180) consisted of two displays of 6 Gabor gratings each presented for 85 msec and separated by a 1000 msec ISI. Participant should indicate whether he observed the odd Gabor in the 1st or the 2nd interval. (B) The memory task included a learning and a recognition phase. During the learning phase (N = 100) each word is displayed for 1500 msec with 1000 msec interval between subsequent words. In the recognition phase (N = 200) a word was presented asking whether it was already seen or not.