Does Reinfection Exacerbate Cognitive Impairment? The Relationship between Covid-19 and Occasion Setting

Xinzhu Li

doi:10.62051/ijsspa.v8n2.08

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Xinzhu Li

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62051/ijsspa.v8n2.08

Keywords:

Covid-19, Reinfection, Cognitive Function, Associative Learning

Abstract

It has been shown that covid can negatively affect an individual's cognitive functioning. This study used the conditional discrimination paradigm, which aims to explore the relationships between the number of covid infections and aspects of an individual's cognitive functioning. Sixty-six participants completed an online survey of their covid history, as well as one biconditional discrimination task and a simple associative task. Compared to the simple associative task, the biconditional discrimination task requires participants to establish a stimulus-stimulus association through task-setting cues, which are regarded as the occasion setter. Importantly, it needs more complex process in the biconditional discrimination task, such as executive function, whereas simple associative task does not need this ability. ANOVA results showed that the number of infections did not influence task performance, but regression indicated a relationship between these two. In the biconditional discrimination task, the number of infections varies in relation to the performance of the task. However, in the simple associative task, there is no difference between the number of infections and the performance. The relationship between reinfection and cognitive impairment needs to be further explored in the future.

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