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Although schizophrenia is characterized by significant cognitive and social difficulties, to date, the neurocognitive mechanisms driving these impairments remain poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that individuals with schizophrenia show reduced trust in others driven by lower sensitivity to partner reciprocity and greater behavioral variability, and that despite learning their partner's behavior as well as healthy controls, they had a reduced willingness to act on those beliefs. Neuroimaging revealed that this impairment correlates with reduced functional connectivity between the putamen and precuneus during social encoding, linking disrupted neural circuitry to poor trust outcomes.
Gabriele is Director of the Centre for Decision Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London. After training in philosophy and cognitive neuroscience, Gabriele worked on computational modeling of social behaviors and its neural underpinning. He investigates varying aspects of social cognition like learning and belief formation.