Retention of Value Representations Across Time in People With Schizophrenia and Healthy Control Subjects

The current study aimed to further etiological understanding of the psychological mechanisms underlying negative symptoms in people with schizophrenia. Specifically, we tested whether negative symptom severity is associated with reduced retention of reward-related information over time and thus a degraded ability to utilize such information to guide future action selection.Forty-four patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective...