Journal of Abnormal Psychology
© 2019 American Psychological Association
ISSN: 0021-843X
2019, Vol. 128, No. 7, 723–734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/abn0000461
From Neuroimaging to Daily Functioning: A Multimethod Analysis of
Reward Anticipation in People With Schizophrenia
Erin K. Moran, Adam J. Culbreth, Sridhar Kandala, and Deanna M. Barch
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Negative symptoms are a core clinical feature of schizophrenia that are only marginally responsive to
current treatments. Recent work suggests that deficits in reinforcement learning and anticipatory
responses to reward may be two mechanisms that help explain impairments in motivation in those with
schizophrenia. The present study utilized a reinforcement-learning paradigm, which allowed us to
examine both reward anticipation and reinforcement learning. Twenty-eight people with schizophrenia
and 30 healthy controls completed a reinforcement-learning task while undergoing functional MRI.
Participants with schizophrenia also completed a weeklong ecological momentary assessment protocol
reporting anticipated motivation and pleasure in their daily activities. Unexpectedly, we found no
significant group differences in performance or neural response in reinforcement learning. However, we
found that poorer reward learning was associated with greater clinician ratings of negative symptoms and
daily reports of anticipatory motivation and pleasure negative symptoms. In regards to anticipatory
responses, we found that people with schizophrenia showed blunted activation in the anterior cingulate,
insula, caudate, and putamen while anticipating reward. Further, blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD)
response in reward related regions during anticipation of reward was significantly related to both
clinician-rated motivation and pleasure deficits as well as daily reports of motivation and pleasure. Our
results provide further evidence of deficits during reward anticipation in individuals with schizophrenia,
particularly for those with severe negative symptoms, and some evidence for worse reward learning
among those with greater negative symptoms. Moreover, our findings suggest that these deficits show
important relationships with emotional and motivational functioning in everyday life.
General Scientific Summary
This study confirms previous research showing deficits in reward anticipation in schizophrenia across
both self-report and neural response in striatal regions and the insula. The study also demonstrates
an important link between deficits in laboratory measures of reward anticipation and anticipated
motivation and pleasure in daily life as measured via ecological momentary assessment.
Keywords: reward anticipation, ecological momentary assessment, reinforcement learning, schizophrenia
Supplemental materials: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/abn0000461.supp
Deficits in motivation and pleasure are two aspects of what are
commonly referred to as negative symptoms in schizophrenia.
These deficits are only marginally responsive to available treatments (Buchanan et al., 2007), thus delineating mechanisms that
may serve to maintain these symptoms is vital. Recent work has
highlighted different mechanisms that may underlie these deficits
(Barch & Dowd, 2010; Gold, Waltz, Prentice, Morris, & Heerey,
2008; Kring & Barch, 2014). For example, Gold and colleagues
(Gold et al., 2012) proposed a model of motivational deficits
driven by individuals with schizophrenia showing impairments in
the ability to represent positive expected values and use these
mental representations to guide behavior and learn from reward.
This article was published Online First August 29, 2019.
Erin K. Moran, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University
School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis; Adam J.
Culbreth, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis; Sridhar Kandala, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis; Deanna M. Barch, Department of Psychiatry,
Washington University School of Medicine and Department of
Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St.
Louis.
We thank the participants in this study who gave generously of their time.
We also thank those who helped with all aspects of data collection including
Julia M. Sheffeld, Maria Gehred, Lori Ingram, Anita Mahadevan, Lisa Gorham, and Callan Coghlan. Parts of this article have been reported in a
presentation at the Society for Research in Psychopathology conference.
Funding: NIMH R37-MH066031. All authors report no conflicts of interest.
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Erin K.
Moran, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Box 1125, One Brookings
Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130. Email: ekmoran@wustl.edu
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The current study sought to investigate two related mechanisms to
clarify motivational impairments in schizophrenia: reward anticipation and reinforcement learning (RL), both of which require the
ability to represent and use positive expected values. Both mechanisms are thought to be disrupted in schizophrenia and have
important links to negative symptoms; however, no studies have
examined both processes across patients utilizing multiple methods of measurement.
motor activity assessed via actigraphy, as a measure of apathy
(Kluge et al., 2018). They found that motor activity in daily life
was related to hypoactivation of the inferior frontal gyrus during
reward anticipation, but not in the ventral striatum. Thus, BOLD
response during reward anticipation appears to be linked specifically to experiential deficits assessed via clinician ratings and to
activity in daily life. However, more work is needed to connect
these responses to daily life measures of motivation and pleasure.
Anticipation in Schizophrenia
Reinforcement Learning in Schizophrenia
The anticipation of future rewards guides both behavior and
learning (Montague & Berns, 2002; O’Doherty, 2004; Schultz,
Dayan, & Montague, 1997). While the bulk of the literature
assessing consummatory response to pleasure in schizophrenia
suggests that responses are largely intact (Cohen & Minor, 2010;
Kring & Moran, 2008), self-reported anticipation of reward when
reward is not present has been shown to be reduced in those with
chronic schizophrenia (Gard, Gard, Kring, & John, 2006; Kring,
Siegel, & Barrett, 2014; Moran & Kring, 2018; Wynn, Horan,
Kring, Simons, & Green, 2010), first episode (Mote, Minzenberg,
Carter, & Kring, 2014), and those at high risk (Schlosser et al.,
2014) relative to healthy controls (but see Strauss, Wilbur, Warren,
August, & Gold, 2011). Neuroimaging studies have also highlighted reward anticipation impairments in schizophrenia. Studies
in patient groups have shown hypoactivation in response to cues
predicting reward in ventral and dorsal striatal regions in unmedicated schizophrenia patients (Esslinger et al., 2012; Juckel,
Schlagenhauf, Koslowski, Wüstenberg, et al., 2006; Nielsen, Rostrup, Wulff, Bak, Lublin, et al., 2012; Schlagenhauf et al., 2009),
first-episode schizophrenia patients (Hanssen et al., 2015), chronic
medicated schizophrenia patients taking typical and atypical antipsychotics (Arrondo et al., 2015; Kirsch, Ronshausen, Mier, &
Gallhofer, 2007; Li et al., 2018; Simon et al., 2010; Subramaniam
et al., 2015), and in unaffected first-degree relatives (de Leeuw,
Kahn, & Vink, 2015; Grimm et al., 2014; Li et al., 2018). However, others have found comparable levels of blood oxygen leveldependent (BOLD) response during anticipatory reward between
healthy controls and individuals with schizophrenia taking only atypical antipsychotics (Juckel, Schlagenhauf, Koslowski, Filonov, et al.,
2006; Nielsen, Rostrup, Wulff, Bak, Broberg, et al., 2012; Schlagenhauf et al., 2008).
There is also evidence that clinician ratings of amotivation and
anhedonia relate to BOLD response in the ventral and dorsal
striatal regions during reward anticipation (Kirschner et al., 2016;
Kluge et al., 2018; Radua et al., 2015; Stepien et al., 2018). This
relationship appears to be specific to the experiential deficits
(amotivation and anhedonia) of negative symptoms rather than
expressive deficits that were not associated with BOLD activity
during anticipation of reward (Kirschner et al., 2016; Kluge et al.,
2018; Stepien et al., 2018). In addition, we have previously seen
relationships between anhedonia and anticipatory responses in the
ventral striatum, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, VMPFC, and inferior frontal cortex (Dowd & Barch, 2012). However, others have
found no relationship between anticipatory responses and negative
symptoms (Esslinger et al., 2012; Grimm, Vollstädt-Klein, Krebs,
Zink, & Smolka, 2012; Li et al., 2018). Work connecting daily life
activity and BOLD response during anticipation is limited, however, Kluge and colleagues (2018) conducted a study examining
RL involves two components: 1) positive reinforcement to learn
associations that lead to reward and 2) punishment to learn to
avoid loss. In RL tasks, participants are typically presented with
pairs of stimuli and asked to select the stimulus that allows them
to win money or avoid losing money. Over time, participants learn
to associate stimuli with reward or loss avoidance. This ability to
learn from reinforcement is thought to be mediated by ventral and
dorsal regions of the striatum as well as cognitive control regions
such as the orbital frontal cortex and the dorsolateral prefrontal
cortex (Frank & Claus, 2006; Gold et al., 2012).
Studies assessing behavioral differences in RL between individuals with schizophrenia and controls suggest impairments in ability to learn from reward (Barch et al., 2017; Cicero, Martin,
Becker, & Kerns, 2014; Dowd, Frank, Collins, Gold, & Barch,
2016; Fervaha et al., 2013; Gold et al., 2012; Hartmann-Riemer et
al., 2017; Strauss, Frank, et al., 2011; Waltz, Frank, Robinson, &
Gold, 2007). While some find that learning to avoid punishment
may be intact in schizophrenia (Gold et al., 2012; HartmannRiemer et al., 2017; Reinen et al., 2016; Waltz et al., 2007), some
find impairments avoiding loss (Barch et al., 2017; Fervaha et al.,
2013; Moustafa et al., 2015). Imaging studies are mixed. Using an
RL task during fMRI, Dowd and colleagues (2016) found that
patients with schizophrenia showed hypoactivation compared to
controls during early learning in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
and anterior insula, but similar activation in dorsal and ventral
striatal regions. Similarly, Culbreth and colleagues (Culbreth,
Westbrook, Xu, Barch, & Waltz, 2016) showed intact prediction
error related ventral striatal activations in medicated patients.
However, other studies have shown hypoactivation of ventral and
dorsal striatal regions during positive prediction error (receiving an
unexpected reward) in individuals with schizophrenia relative to
controls (Murray et al., 2008; Schlagenhauf et al., 2014).
RL has been fairly reliably associated with motivation and
pleasure. For example, Kasanova and colleagues (2017) found
relationships between dopamine release in the caudate, putamen,
and ventral striatum during a reinforcement learning task and
measures of daily engagement and enjoyment in healthy controls.
In an EMA study in a community sample, reward prediction error
signals in the putamen and nucleus accumbens was related to a
greater discrepancy between anticipatory and consummatory pleasure during daily life (Bakker et al., 2018). Studies in individuals
with schizophrenia have also linked RL learning, particularly
reward learning, with negative symptoms (Barch et al., 2017;
Farkas et al., 2008; Gold et al., 2012; Kasanova et al., 2017;
Strauss, Frank, et al., 2011; Waltz et al., 2007; however, see Dowd
et al., 2016). Furthermore, we have shown (Moran, Culbreth, &
Barch, 2017) that better RL performance relates to greater motivation and pleasure in daily life in individuals with schizophrenia.
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However, more work is needed to determine whether RL performance and neural activation for either learning to achieve reward
or learning to avoid loss is related to motivation and pleasure in
daily life in schizophrenia.
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Our first goal was to examine group differences in anticipatory
responses to rewards in a behavioral task assessing self-reported
pleasure and in an fMRI task assessing neural response to potential
reward. We hypothesized that individuals with schizophrenia
would self-report reduced anticipatory pleasure relative to healthy
controls and show hypoactivation in regions such as the caudate,
putamen, anterior cingulate, and insula during reward anticipation.
Moreover, we hypothesized that anticipatory responses to reward
(both self-report and BOLD activation) in those with schizophrenia would relate to daily anticipatory motivation and pleasure
measured via EMA and clinician-rated negative symptoms. Our
second goal was to examine group differences in the behavioral
and neural response to reinforcement learning and relate responses
to individual differences in motivation and pleasure. We hypothesized that people with schizophrenia would show a deficit in their
ability to learn from reward, however their ability to learn to avoid
loss would be intact. Furthermore, we hypothesized that reward
learning in those with schizophrenia would be related to both
clinician-rated negative symptoms and daily reports of anticipatory
motivation and pleasure.
Method
Participants
Study participants included 31 stable outpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder (SZ) as defined by the DSM–IV
(American Psychiatric Association, 2000) and 32 healthy control
participants (CON). Exclusion criteria included (1) DSM–IV diagnosis of substance abuse or dependence in the past 6 months; (2)
IQ less than 70 as measured by the Wechsler Test of Adult
Reading (WTAR; Wechsler, 2001); (3) history of severe head
trauma and/or loss of consciousness; and (4) MRI contraindications. Participants completed and passed a urine drug screen before
each research session. Additional criteria for the patient group
included (1) no medication changes in the two weeks prior to
initial study participation or anticipated changes during study
completion and (2) stable outpatient or partial hospital status.
Additional criteria for controls included (1) no history of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder, (2) no current major depression, (3) no immediate relative with a history of
schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, and (4) no current psychotropic medication. Two individuals with SZ and one CON
participant were excluded from analyses for not participating in all
components of the study, and 1 SZ and 1 CON participant were
excluded for not completing the imaging task. The final sample
size included 28 SZ and 30 CON participants. All participants
provided written informed consent to the protocol approved by the
Washington University Institutional Review Board. Demographics
are presented in Table 1. There were no group differences in age,
gender, ethnicity, parental education, or WTAR scores (ps ⬎ .56).
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Diagnostic and Clinical Assessment
Diagnostic status was confirmed using the Structured Clinical
Interview for DSM–IV–TR conducted by masters-level or PhDlevel clinicians. Individuals with SZ were also assessed for general
psychiatric symptoms using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
(BPRS; Overall & Gorham, 1962), which includes a positive
symptom composite score. Negative symptoms were assessed using the Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms
(CAINS; Kring, Gur, Blanchard, Horan, & Reise, 2013), which
includes a Motivation and Pleasure (MAP) and Expression (EXP)
subscale, with higher scores indicating greater impairment.
Procedure
SZ participants completed two visits to the laboratory, seven
days of EMA assessment in between laboratory visits, and one
fMRI-scanning visit. On the first visit, participants with SZ completed a diagnostic interview and were trained on using the smartphone. Following one week of EMA, participants returned to the
laboratory and completed clinical symptom interviews to assess
symptoms over the prior week and completed computerized laboratory tasks. They returned for an fMRI scan following completion of their second laboratory visit. Control participants completed one visit to the laboratory completing a diagnostic interview
and computerized laboratory tests. They returned for an fMRI scan
following their first visit.
Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Protocol
and Questionnaire
Individuals with SZ were provided an Android-enabled smartphone to use during the EMA portion of the study. Participants
were prompted to complete the EMA questionnaire four times per
day for seven days between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
The questionnaires occurred pseudorandomly approximately every
3 hr. Participants were allotted 15 min to begin the survey, after
which their responses would not be counted. Participants were paid
$1.75 for each EMA questionnaire they completed within 15 min
of beep.
The EMA questionnaire included questions assessing anticipated motivation and pleasure as they went about their daily
activities. Participants were asked, “In the next few hours which of
the following activities do you think you will enjoy the most?”
Participants were asked to select from among a number of potential behaviors including the following: eating/drinking; tv/radio/
reading/computer; exercising; work/school; cleaning/cooking/
chores; socializing; nothing in particular. Next they were asked to
anticipate their pleasure: “How much do you think you will enjoy
this activity?” Finally, they were asked, “How motivated do you
think you will be in this activity?” Both pleasure and motivation
levels were rated on a 5-point scale from not at all to extremely.
Anticipated motivation (M ⫽ 3.61, SD ⫽ .61) and anticipated
pleasure (M ⫽ 3.57, SD ⫽ .61) were highly correlated, r ⫽ .74,
p ⬍ .001. Similar to composite motivation and pleasure ratings in
the CAINS, we created a composite anticipated motivation and
pleasure ratings (EMA-AMP) for each survey completed (mean
EMA-AMP ⫽ 3.59, SD ⫽ .60), with higher scores representing
greater anticipated motivation and pleasure. Consistent with pre-
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Table 1
Participant Demographic and Clinical Measures
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(n ⫽ 30)
SZ
(n ⫽ 28)
Characteristic
M
SD
M
SD
p-value
Age
Sex (% Female)
Ethnicity, (n)
African American
Asian
Caucasian
Education (years)
Parental education (years)
WTAR
Relationship status (%)
Married/partner
Divorced/separated
Never married
Housing status (%)
Alone
Parent/family
Spouse/partner
Friend/roommate
Board and care
Employment status
Employed
Temporarily unemployed
Disabled
Student
CAINS-MAP
CAINS-EXP
BPRS positive symptoms
Medications (n)
Unmedicated
Atypical antipsychotics
Typical antipsychotics
CPZ equivalent
35.48
27%
10.37
37.18
33%
12.25
.57
.97
.59
2.95
3.72
20.48
.001
.63
.64
.18
19
2
9
15.26
14.05
95.58
2.18
2.06
18.06
15
1
11
12.75
14.44
93.25
31%
0%
69%
18%
7%
78%
34%
16%
31%
19%
0%
21%
43%
14%
8%
14%
69%
22%
0%
9%
—
—
—
11%
14%
71%
4%
15.19
5.39
7.65
.03
⬍.001
4.14
4.04
4.14
—
—
—
4
18
5
311.81
151.45
—
Note. WTAR ⫽ Wecshler Test of Adult Reading; CAINS-MAP ⫽ CAINS Motivation and Pleasure subscale;
CAINS-EXP ⫽ CAINS Expression subscale; BPRS ⫽ Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Positive Symptom Scale;
CPZ ⫽ chlorpromazine equivalent; CON ⫽ control; SZ ⫽ schizophrenia.
vious EMA research (Myin-Germeys, van Os, Schwartz, Stone, &
Delespaul, 2001), all participants completed at least 33% of surveys and thus were included in the present analyses. Mean response rate was 81%, and a total of 710 responses were recorded
across all participants.
Tasks
Gambling Task. We adapted the Gambling Task (Delgado,
Nystrom, Fissell, Noll, & Fiez, 2000; Forbes et al., 2009), a
card-guessing paradigm, to assess self-reported anticipatory and
consummatory emotion in response to reward (high and low) and
loss (high and low) conditions. Participants completed this task
outside the scanner during their initial behavioral session study
visit. Ratings were completed on a 5-point scale going from 1
unhappy to 5 happy, thus higher scores reflect higher anticipatory
or consummatory pleasure. Each trial began with a guessing period
wherein participants were asked to make a guess as to whether a
card was higher or lower than 5. Following the guess, participants
were presented with the trial type. Four trial types were included
in the task: 1) low reward (50 cents) 2) high reward ($1) 3) low
loss (25 cents), and 4) high loss (50 cents). Next, participants
predicted how much pleasure they would feel upon the outcome of
the trial should they receive the outcome indicated by the cue.
Participants were then given feedback on the outcome of their
choice (i.e., win or not win on reward conditions; lose or not lose
on loss conditions) and the amount of money they won/loss.
Finally, participants rated how they felt upon receiving feedback
regarding gains and losses. Ratings were completed on a 5-point
scale going from 1 unhappy to 5 happy. Participants were unaware
that outcomes were fixed and predetermined such that each participant received $5.25 upon completion of the task.
Probabilistic Incentive Learning Task. We modified the
Probabilistic Incentive Learning Task (PILT; Gold et al., 2012),
which participants completed during imaging (see Figure 1). To
modify the task to examine anticipation and RL, we added an
anticipation phase to the beginning of each trial. Participants were
first presented with a cue indicating upcoming trial type for 1000
ms indicating whether the upcoming trial type was a potential
reward or loss condition. Next, there was an anticipation phase that
was between 2000 and 6000 ms. Next, stimuli were presented for
3000 ms. Stimuli consisted of four pairs of landscape pictures; 2
pairs associated with potential gain, and 2 pairs associated with
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cues (reward, loss), four choice outcomes (optimal choice during
reward/loss; incorrect choice during reward/loss), and the six rigid
body motion parameters with an assumed hemodynamic response
(GAM function). We created contrasts comparing anticipation of
reward–loss, and contrasts during choice comparing optimal
choice–incorrect choice in both the reward and loss conditions.
Given our a priori hypotheses, we conducted a Region of Interest
(ROI) analysis in AFNI on the bilateral insula, anterior cingulate,
caudate, and putamen. Regions of interest were defined using a
single mask in standard Montreal Neurological Institute space and
then applied to all individual EPI data. ROIs were defined using
the AFNI Desai Atlas (Destrieux, Fischl, Dale, & Halgren, 2010).
Mean percent signal change for each participant for each ROI and
condition were extracted using the AFNI 3dmaskave program.
Independent t tests were computed to examine group differences in
ROIs for each contrast of interest. Exploratory whole-brain analyses examining group differences in reward anticipation and relationships between whole-brain BOLD response and motivation
and pleasure are presented in the online supplemental materials.
Figure 1. Schematic of a trial on the Probabilistic Incentive Learning
Task completed during imaging. See the online article for the color version
of this figure.
potential loss. Participants were instructed to select the picture that
was most likely to either (1) earn money (Reward trials) or (2)
avoid losing money (Loss trials). Correct responses were reinforced on either 80% or 90% of trials. For the present study, we
have combined 80% and 90% trials reinforcement levels within
each condition (reward, loss), however, the pattern of findings
remain similar when examining reinforcement levels independently. The task consisted of a total of 4 runs of 20 trials each with
5 trials per condition in each run. Prior to the task, participants
completed a training session where participants completed at least
one run (20 trials) of the task outside the scanner to ensure they
were familiar with the task.
Image Acquisition and Analysis
Images were acquired on a 3T Siemens Skyra system with a
32-channel head coil, which was customized and used for the Human
Connectome Project (HCP). Participants completed structural scans
(0.8 mm isotropic) as well as 4 functional runs of 407 frames using a
multiband echo-planar sequence (TR ⫽ 720 ms, TE ⫽ 33.1 ms, flip
angle ⫽ 52°, 2.4 mm isotropic voxels, with a multiband acceleration
factor of 8). Each run was approximately 4 min and 30 s in length.
Imaging data were run through HCP minimal preprocessing
pipelines (Glasser et al., 2013). Subsequently, data were analyzed
using the Analysis of Functional NeuroImage software package
(AFNI; Cox, 1996). Binary masking was applied to each image to
remove voxels outside the brain. The echo planar imaging (EPI)
data sets for each participant were smoothed using a 6-mm FWHM
Gausian kernel to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. Six rigid body
motion parameters were used as regressors to correct for motion.
Movement estimates did not differ by group and were not associated with performance on RL task (rs ⬍ .13, ps ⬎ .15).
Each subject’s fMRI data were analyzed using a general linear
model (GLM) in AFNI. GLM models included two anticipatory
Behavioral and EMA Data Analysis
Behavioral Gambling task data were analyzed using a repeatedmeasures ANOVA with Group (CON, SZ) as a between-subject
factor and within subject factors for Phase (anticipatory, consummatory) and Reward Level (high, low). Separate models were
conducted for the reward and loss conditions. To analyze the
behavioral data from the PILT scanner task, we conducted a
repeated-measures ANOVA with Group as a between-subject factor (CON, SZ) and within-subject factors for Condition (reward,
loss) and Block (runs 1– 4).
We used hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) in HLM 7.0
(Raudenbush, Bryk, Cheong, & Congdon, 2004) to investigate
relationships of within-subject observations of EMA (Level 1) and
between-subjects observations (BOLD activity and task performance; Level 2). We conducted separate models for BOLD activity within selected ROIs, PILT performance, and Anticipatory
Pleasure Ratings (Level 2) to relate to daily anticipatory motivation and pleasure ratings as collected via EMA (Level 1). Finally,
we conducted Spearman rank correlations between BOLD activity
in selected ROIs and relationship to anticipatory ratings on the
Gambling Task and clinical symptom ratings. False discovery rate
corrections were used to correct for multiple comparisons (Benjamini & Hochberg, 1995).
Results
Gambling Task—Behavioral Testing Session
As shown in Figure 2, when examining self-reported pleasure
during reward trials, we observed significant main effects of Phase
(greater consummatory pleasure; F(1, 56) ⫽ 43.44, p ⬍ .001, p2 ⫽
.45), Reward Level (greater pleasure to high reward conditions;
F(1, 56) ⫽ 25.47, p ⬍ .001, p2 ⫽ .32) and Group (greater overall
pleasure by controls; F(1, 56) ⫽ 33.36, p ⬍ .001, p2 ⫽ .38). These
main effects were qualified by a Group ⫻ Phase interaction, F(1,
56) ⫽ 11.10, p ⬍ .01, p2 ⫽ .17. Follow-up t tests revealed
significant between-group differences in anticipated pleasure during reward such that SZ participants predicted less pleasure than
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Figure 2. Self-reported pleasure ratings during reward and loss conditions of the Behavioral Gambling Task.
CON ⫽ control; SZ ⫽ schizophrenia; Ant Low ⫽ anticipated pleasure ratings on low conditions; Ant High ⫽
anticipated pleasure on high conditions; Con Low ⫽ consummatory pleasure ratings on low conditions; Con
High ⫽ consummatory pleasure ratings on high conditions. See the online article for the color version of this
figure.
healthy controls in both the low and high reward conditions (ts ⬎
3.60, ps ⬍ .001). There were no group differences in consummatory pleasure (ps ⬎.11). When examining loss conditions, we
found a main effect of Phase (less consummatory pleasure to loss;
F(1, 56) ⫽ 18.39, p ⬍ .001, p2 ⫽ .24) and Reward Level (less
pleasure during high loss; F(1, 56) ⫽ 4.29, p ⬍ .05, p2 ⫽ .07).
There was no main effect of Group, F(1, 56) ⫽ .82, p ⫽ .67, or
interactions.
When examining the relationship between self-reported anticipated pleasure on the Gambling Task with CAINS ratings, we
found no significant relationship, suggesting that anticipated pleasure to either reward or loss was not related to clinician-rated
negative symptoms in SZ. However, as shown in Figure 3, we
found that greater anticipated pleasure on reward trials of the
Gambling task was related to greater daily anticipated motivation
and pleasure as measured by EMA (b ⫽ .45, SE ⫽ .07, t ⫽ 3.25,
p ⬍ .05).
Figure 3. Graph illustrating the relationship between anticipated pleasure
on reward trials of gambling task and mean daily anticipated motivation
and pleasure ratings (EMA-AMP) in individuals with schizophrenia.
Probabilistic Incentive Learning Task—Imaging
Session
Brain response to anticipation. Independent samples t tests
comparing CON and SZ revealed significantly greater BOLD
signal change for the anticipation of reward–punishment in CON
relative to SZ participants (see Figure 4). Consistent with our
hypotheses, we saw significant group differences in the anterior
cingulate, caudate, insula, and putamen such that CON participants
showed greater BOLD signal change during the anticipation of
reward relative to SZ participants.
Next, we examined the relationship between BOLD response
during reward anticipation and CAINS-MAP ratings in individuals
with schizophrenia. As shown in Figure 5, we found significant
relationships between BOLD signal change during reward anticipation in the anterior cingulate (rs ⫽ ⫺.43, p ⬍ .05) and insula
(rs ⫽ ⫺.46, p ⬍ .05) with CAINS-MAP ratings, suggesting that
greater BOLD response during anticipation of reward was related
to fewer clinician rated negative symptoms. We then examined the
relationship between BOLD response during reward anticipation
with daily ratings of anticipatory pleasure and motivation. BOLD
response in the insula related to EMA-AMP scores, such that in
individuals with SZ (b ⫽ .09, SE ⫽ .01, t ⫽ 3.16, p ⬍ .01), greater
signal change during reward anticipation related to greater anticipated motivation and pleasure in daily activities. Similarly, BOLD
signal change in the anterior cingulate (b ⫽ .07, SE ⫽ .02, t ⫽
3.07, p ⬍ .05) and caudate (b ⫽ .06, t ⫽ 2.93, p ⬍ .05) also related
to EMA-AMP scores. Finally, in exploratory analyses, we examined the relationship between predicted pleasure as assessed on the
Gambling task and BOLD response during reward anticipation on
the RL task in the anterior cingulate, insula and caudate. We found
that predicted pleasure on the gambling task was significantly
related to BOLD response during reward anticipation in the anterior cingulate (rs ⫽ .51, p ⬍ .005), caudate (rs ⫽ .46, p ⬍ .05), and
insula, r ⫽ .43, p ⬍ .05.
Learning. We observed significant main effects of Condition
(better performance on reward conditions; F(1, 56) ⫽ 9.09, p ⬍
.005, p2 ⫽ .14) and Block (better performance over time; F(3,
160) ⫽ 7.78, p ⬍ .001, p2 ⫽ .13), but no Condition ⫻ Block
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Figure 4. Percent signal change following cue predicting reward–loss during Probabilistic Incentive Learning
Task (PILT) task in healthy control (CON) and schizophrenia participants (SZ) in a priori regions of interest. See
the online article for the color version of this figure.
interaction, F(3, 54) ⫽ 1.17, p ⫽ .32. Inconsistent with our
hypothesis (see Figure 6), there was no main effect of Group, F(1,
54) ⫽ .03, p ⫽ .86, Group ⫻ Condition, or Group ⫻ Time
interaction (ps ⬎ .10).
However, as shown in Figure 7, we saw a significant correlation
between ability to learn from reward and CAINS-MAP scores
(rs ⫽ ⫺.42, p ⬍ .05), suggesting that ability to learn from reward
on the PILT was related to lower clinician-rated negative symptoms. Moreover, accuracy on the reward condition of the PILT
related to daily EMA-AMP ratings, suggesting that ability to learn
from reward related to greater anticipated motivation and pleasure
going about daily activities (b ⫽ .34, SE ⫽ .09, t ⫽ 3.19, p ⬍ .01).
As hypothesized, we saw no significant relationship between
learning to avoid loss and clinician-rated negative symptoms or
EMA-AMP ratings (ps ⬎ .15).
Choice-related brain activity. Independent samples t tests
comparing CON and SZ on optimal choice versus incorrect choice
revealed no group differences for either the reward (ts ⬍ 1.09,
Figure 5. Graph illustrating relationship between blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal during reward
anticipation with mean daily anticipated motivation and pleasure (EMA-AMP) and clinician rated negative
symptoms (CAINS-MAP) in individuals with schizophrenia.
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Figure 6. Performance on the reward learning (Gain) and loss avoidance (Avoid Loss) conditions across blocks
of the Probabilistic Incentive Learning Task (PILT) demonstrating learning in control (CON) and individuals
with schizophrenia (SZ). See the online article for the color version of this figure.
ps ⬎ .14) or loss (ts ⬍ 1.19, ps ⬎ .18) condition. There were no
significant relationships between BOLD signal change during
choice and clinician-rated negative symptoms. Moreover, we did
not find a relationship between neural response during choice on
the RL task and motivation and pleasure in daily life.
Relationship Between Anticipatory Responses and
Learning
We conducted correlations to examine whether there was a
relationship of either self-reported anticipation of reward or BOLD
response during anticipation with average accuracy across all
reward trials. There were no significant relationships (rs ⬍ .30,
ps ⬎ .23), suggesting that anticipation of future reward and ability
to learn from reward may be dissociable processes.
Relationship to Medication
Finally, we conducted correlations between chlorpromazine
equivalents (CPZ) and measures of interest in the current study.
First, we found no significant relationships between CPZ and
behavior on the RL or Gambling tasks (rs ⬍ .17). Next, we found
no relationship between BOLD signal change in ROIs and CPZ
(rs ⬍ .19). Finally, CPZ did not relate to daily ratings of motivation and pleasure (b ⫽ ⫺.08, SE ⫽ .05, t ⫽ ⫺.98, p ⬎ .39) or
clinician-rated negative symptoms (CAINS-MAP, r ⫽ ⫺.12, p ⫽
.64; CAINS-EXP, r ⫽ ⫺.30, p ⫽ .15).
Discussion
The goal of the current study was to examine two mechanisms
related to motivational and pleasure deficits in schizophrenia:
reward anticipation and reinforcement learning. Consistent with
our hypotheses, whether examining self-reported anticipatory response or BOLD response during reward anticipation, we found
that those with schizophrenia showed reduced response relative to
controls. Furthermore, specific deficits in anticipatory reward were
linked to daily reports of anticipated motivation and pleasure. In
regard to reinforcement learning, the present study confirms previous findings suggesting intact ability to learn to avoid loss in
those with schizophrenia. We did not replicate previous research
suggesting a deficit in either the behavior or neural response to
reward learning in schizophrenia patients, although we did see an
association between impaired reward learning and higher
clinician-related negative symptoms. The present findings suggest
that higher negative symptom patients may show impairments in
anticipating rewards and in reward learning relative to those with
lower negative symptoms. Each of these findings is discussed in
detail below.
Figure 7. Graph illustrates relationship between accuracy on reward learning of the Probabilistic Incentive
Learning Task (PILT) with mean daily anticipated motivation and pleasure (EMA-AMP) ratings, and clinician
rated negative symptoms (CAINS-MAP).
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Consistent with our hypotheses, we found evidence for impairments in reward anticipation in individuals with schizophrenia
across multiple methods of measurement. For example, selfreported anticipatory pleasure to rewards on a laboratory task was
reduced relative to controls. Furthermore, when examining BOLD
response, we found reduced activation in striatal regions and insula
during the anticipation of reward among individuals with schizophrenia relative to controls. Our findings extend this literature by
demonstrating this hypoactivation during reward anticipation in a
task other than the commonly used MID task. Furthermore, we
found this altered response to reward anticipation in chronic patients with schizophrenia taking a mixture of typical and atypical
antipsychotics, providing evidence consistent with a number of
other studies in the literature (Li et al., 2018; Mucci et al., 2015;
Simon et al., 2010), although not in others (Juckel, Schlagenhauf,
Koslowski, Filonov, et al., 2006; Nielsen, Rostrup, Wulff, Bak,
Lublin, et al., 2012). Taken together, these results add to the
evidence for deficits in both the experience of anticipatory pleasure and neural activation associated with reward anticipation in
schizophrenia.
We assessed motivation in schizophrenia via clinical interview
and via EMA assessments of motivation and pleasure in daily life.
We found that anticipatory responses (self-report and BOLD response in caudate, insula, and anterior cingulate) related to daily
anticipated motivation and pleasure in individuals with schizophrenia. These findings are consistent with prior work that has
linked anticipatory pleasure with clinician ratings of negative
symptoms and functioning (Juckel, Schlagenhauf, Koslowski,
Wüstenberg, et al., 2006; Li et al., 2018; Moran & Kring, 2018;
Mucci et al., 2015; Simon et al., 2010). However, some other
studies did not find this relationship (Esslinger et al., 2012;
Nielsen, Rostrup, Wulff, Bak, Lublin, et al., 2012). It may be that
mixed findings in the literature are due in part to the type of
assessment of negative symptoms. For example, some studies
relate anticipatory responses to dissociable measures of motivation
and anhedonia (Arrondo et al., 2015; Kirschner et al., 2016; Mucci
et al., 2015; Simon et al., 2010; Stepien et al., 2018; Subramaniam
et al., 2015), while others examine the relationship with total
negative symptoms (i.e., deficits in motivation, pleasure, and expression/alogia; Grimm et al., 2012; Juckel, Schlagenhauf, Koslowski, Filonov, et al., 2006; Juckel, Schlagenhauf, Koslowski,
Wüstenberg, et al., 2006; Nielsen, Rostrup, Wulff, Bak, Lublin, et
al., 2012; Schlagenhauf et al., 2008). Our findings suggest that
motivation and pleasure, and perhaps anticipatory motivation and
pleasure in particular, are distinctly related to reward anticipation
responses.
While the current findings point to deficits in anticipation of
future monetary reward and relate these deficits to daily life anticipation, we did not examine whether group differences in anticipatory pleasure extend to events in daily life. It may be that anticipation to other domains may be intact. In fact, EMA studies are
mixed as to whether these deficits are seen in daily activities. For
example, Gard and colleagues (Gard, Kring, Gard, Horan, &
Green, 2007) found reductions in anticipated pleasure relative to
controls (Gard et al., 2007). However, in a follow-up study, Gard
and colleagues (2014) showed that when asked to identify shortterm goals and predict how much pleasure they will experience,
people with schizophrenia showed elevated anticipatory pleasure
relative to healthy controls (Gard et al., 2014). It may be that the
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process of generating these self-relevant goals allows individuals
with schizophrenia to have a clear view of the goal in mind, which
in turn may help in anticipating their future pleasure. It will be
important for future research to examine group differences in
anticipatory responses to everyday life and to relate those back to
laboratory measures of anticipatory reward, including self-report
and neural responses, to get a clearer picture of how far these
anticipatory deficits may extend.
The second mechanism investigated in the current study was
reinforcement learning. The current findings support previous research suggesting that people with schizophrenia are able to learn
to avoid loss (Gold et al., 2012; Juckel, Schlagenhauf, Koslowski,
Filonov, et al., 2006; Strauss, Frank, et al., 2011; Waltz et al.,
2007), thus arguing against an overall learning deficit in schizophrenia. Instead, people with schizophrenia appear to be sensitive
to loss and have the ability to use this loss to guide their behavior
to avoid continued loss. Indeed, findings from the present study
suggest that both anticipatory responses to loss and ability to learn
from loss are intact in schizophrenia and unrelated to motivation
and pleasure deficits measured via clinician ratings or EMA ratings.
In contrast with our hypothesis, we did not see a deficit in the
ability to learn from reward in the schizophrenia group as a whole.
Instead, across both brain and behavior, we saw a similar pattern
of findings in patients and controls. These findings are inconsistent
with previous research, even research using a similar paradigm
(Barch et al., 2017; Gold et al., 2012; Hartmann-Riemer et al.,
2017). However, a number of prior studies analyzed data looking
independently at schizophrenia groups based on high and low
negative symptoms. Given the smaller sample size in the present
study, we were unable to examine whether those with negative
symptoms showed a deficit in learning from reward. However, we
found that individual differences in the ability to learn from reward
significantly related to both clinician-related motivation and pleasure symptoms and daily anticipatory motivation and pleasure
deficits as measured by EMA among patients. Thus, the current
findings, along with previous research, may suggest that reward
learning is not impaired across all individuals with schizophrenia;
rather, it is an impairment seen in those who report greater impairments in motivation and pleasure. It may also be the case that
the addition of anticipatory cues in the current study, alerting
individuals to potential reward or loss conditions, helped participants with schizophrenia to focus and learn the pictures more
rapidly than in previous studies, potentially more so for those
patients with fewer motivation and pleasure negative symptoms.
Thus, despite having deficits in their anticipatory responses, the
predictive cues may have given individuals with schizophrenia
contextual support that aided in learning. This hypothesis is consistent with the fact that we did not see associations between
behavioral or bold responses to anticipation and reward learning in
this sample.
The present study had several limitations. First, the majority of
our schizophrenia participants were taking antipsychotic (typical
and atypical) medications, which influence dopamine, known to be
important for both anticipatory responses and RL. While we did
not find relationships between CPZ equivalents and task, brain
response, or clinician symptom ratings, this does not rule out the
possible impact medications may have had on the current findings.
Second, while we had the power to detect significant relationships,
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our sample size was modest and would benefit from additional
participants. This is especially notable given that we saw a relationship between negative symptoms and learning performance,
but failed to find a group difference in learning. Indeed, in both the
current study and work by Gold et al. (2012), deficits in learning
may be closely linked with negative symptoms and require larger
samples to examine this. The current study had a reasonable range
of negative symptom severity similar to that found in many previous studies (Barch et al., 2017; Catalano, Heerey, & Gold, 2018;
Llerena, Wynn, Hajcak, Green, & Horan, 2016; McCarthy, Treadway, Bennett, & Blanchard, 2016; Moran et al., 2017; Moran &
Kring, 2018; Reddy et al., 2015). Nonetheless, targeted recruitment of high and low negative symptom groups would allow us to
better examine whether RL is a common deficit in schizophrenia
or if it is more tightly linked to those with significant motivational
and pleasure deficits. Third, we did not model the learning data
using reinforcement learning models, although the pattern of data
shown in Figure 7 does not suggest that such modeling would
reveal behavioral deficits, and our prior work in two large samples
did not find that using reinforcement learning models revealed
changes in brain activation that were not present in more standard
analyses (Culbreth et al., 2016). Finally, controls in the current
study did not complete EMA ratings; thus, we were unable to
examine whether relationships among neural response, behavioral
task data, and daily ratings are seen in controls. Moreover, we are
unable to examine potential group differences in anticipation during daily life.
Taken together, the current findings provide further evidence for
impairments in anticipatory response to reward in individuals with
schizophrenia across both self-report and neural response in striatal regions and the insula. Moreover, these anticipatory responses
were linked to the motivation and pleasure individuals with schizophrenia anticipate when going about their daily activities. While
we did not find group differences in the brain or behavior during
reward learning, we did see that motivation and pleasure in daily
life related to ability to learn from reward on our RL task, thus
suggesting that reward learning may be preserved in those patients
with low negative symptoms. These findings represent an important step toward identifying mechanisms related to motivational
and emotional functioning in the daily lives of individuals with
schizophrenia.
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