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Record W4412173294 · doi:10.1101/2025.07.08.25331088

Abnormal temporal prediction relates to psychomotor retardation in major depressive disorder

2025· preprint· en· W4412173294 on OpenAlexaff
Jianfeng Zhang, Yingying Wang, Jingyu Hua, Yuqi Zhang, Jing Yuan, Jinfang Han, Zhonglin Tan, Nai Ding, Georg Northoff

Bibliographic record

VenuemedRxiv · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNeuroscience and Music Perception
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
FundersShenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain ScienceShenzhen UniversityNatural Science Foundation of Guangdong ProvinceNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaEuropean Commission
KeywordsPsychomotor retardationPsychomotor learningPsychologyMedicineNeuroscienceCognitionPathology

Abstract

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Abstract Major depressive disorder (MDD) exhibits psychomotor retardation which concerns abnormal slowness of both thoughts and movements. In the current study, we investigated whether such psychomotor disturbance also disrupts the MDD subjects’ ability to synchronize their movements to a rhythmic tone sequence. We found that the timing between finger taps and tones is altered for MDD subjects (N=38), compared with healthy controls (N=65), mainly when tones are presented at a low frequency below 1 Hz. No differences, however, are observed in terms of the tapping speed, tapping stability, and tapping interval. Auditory-motor desynchronization in the low frequency range (< 1Hz) is associated with depression severity as well as with the degrees of both psychomotor anhedonia and vegetative symptoms (using the Beck Depression Inventory). In sum, our study demonstrates a frequency-specific auditory-motor synchronization deficit in MDD which also relates to psychomotor retardation. This suggests disruption of the cognitive capacity of temporal prediction for low-frequency auditory-motor synchronization in MDD. That supports a cognitive and therefore psychomotor over a motor view of psychomotor retardation in MDD.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.006

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.298
Teacher spread0.268 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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