Reduced benefit of novelty detection on subsequent memory judgments in paranoia.
William N. Koller, Tyrone D. Cannon · Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science · 2023
of this novelty-based enhancement-a novel finding. Those experiencing paranoia may thus less readily use novelty to adjudicate between the competing mnemonic processes of encoding and retrieval. We interpret this finding in light of the role of novelty detection in maintaining adaptive predictive models, suggesting that this deficit may reduce coherence between one's active predictive model and one's environment, thereby contributing to perceptions of the world as unduly uncertain and threatening. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).