Lingling Wang
Good day, everyone. I'm Lingling Wang, a post-doctor from shanghai normal university. I'm thrilled to be here at SIRS. MY work is mostly focused on the underlying mechanism of anhedonia symptoms. the topic that I’m most interested in is called adaptive coding, a phenomenon that I think everyone is experiencing everyday. For example, right after receiving the paycheck, let’s say it’s 10k,a 4k purchase would be a relatively affordable amount. However, as the various bills start to pile up, so the money available is only about 5k right now. the perception of the value of 4k changes. Suddenly, that 4k purchase seems like a luxury. This shift in behaviorr shows how our coding of the value adapts to the changing context. that is, adaptive coding, it show us how flexible our value coding system are by taking the surrounding context into consideration. Previous studies have found that aberrant adaptive coding pattern contributes to the anhedonia symptom across disease boundaries in both clinical participants with schizophrenia and depression. However, whether these atypical signs of adaptive coding already exist among the subclinical population remain unclear. individuals with schizotypal trait, subthreshold depression, and autistic trait all show signs of anhedonia symptoms. So, investigation of adaptive coding pattern in these early stages of disease would offer more insights regarding the role of adaptive coding play on anhedonia symptoms. So in this study, what we did is to compare the behavioural and neural responses of adaptive coding in people with schizotypal trait, subthreshold depression and autistic trait. For details regarding this study can be seen during the poster session. Thank you all for your attention, and I'm eager to have in-depth discussions with you all later.
