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Anxiety symptoms without depression are associated with cognitive control network (CNN) dysfunction: An fNIRS study Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Qinqin Zhao, Zheng Wang, Caihong Yang, Han Chen, Yan Zhang, Irum Zeb, Pu Wang, Huifen Wu, Qiang Xiao, Fang Xu, Yueran Bian, Nian Xiang, Min Qiu
Anxiety is a common psychological disorder associated with other mental disorders, with depression being the most common comorbidity. Few studies have examined the neural mechanisms underlying anxiety after controlling for depression. This study aimed to explore whether there are differences in cortical activation in anxiety patients with different severities whose depression are normal. In the current
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When “more for others, less for self” leads to co‐benefits: A tri‐MRI dyad‐hyperscanning study Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Le‐Si Wang, Yi‐Cing Chang, Shyhnan Liou, Ming‐Hung Weng, Der‐Yow Chen, Chun‐Chia Kung
Unselfishness is admired, especially when collaborations between groups of various scales are urgently needed. However, its neural mechanisms remain elusive. In a tri‐MRI dyad‐hyperscanning experiment involving 26 groups, each containing 4 participants as two rotating pairs in a coordination game, we sought to achieve reciprocity, or “winning in turn by the two interacting players,” as the precursor
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Can I see it in the eyes? An investigation of freezing‐like motion patterns in response to avoidable threat Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Alma‐Sophia Merscher, Matthias Gamer
Freezing is one of the most extensively studied defensive behaviors in rodents. Both reduced body and gaze movements during anticipation of threat also occur in humans and have been discussed as translational indicators of freezing but their relationship remains unclear. We thus set out to elucidate body and eye movements and concomitant autonomic dynamics in anticipation of avoidable threat. Specifically
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Are the P600 and P3 ERP components linked to the task‐evoked pupillary response as a correlate of norepinephrine activity? Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Friederike Contier, Isabell Wartenburger, Mathias Weymar, Milena Rabovsky
During language comprehension, anomalies and ambiguities in the input typically elicit the P600 event‐related potential component. Although traditionally interpreted as a specific signal of combinatorial operations in sentence processing, the component has alternatively been proposed to be a variant of the oddball‐sensitive, domain‐general P3 component. In particular, both components might reflect
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Unpredictable threat increases early event‐related potential amplitudes and cardiac acceleration: A brain–heart coupling study Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Kathrin Gerpheide, Sarah‐Louise Unterschemmann, Christian Panitz, Philipp Bierwirth, James J. Gross, Erik M. Mueller
In the face of unpredictable threat, rapid processing of external events and behavioral mobilization through early psychophysiological responses are crucial for survival. While unpredictable threat generally enhances early processing, it would seem adaptive to particularly increase sensitivity for unexpected events as they may signal danger. To examine this possibility, n = 77 participants performed
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Gender effect in affective processing: Alpha EEG source analysis on emotional slides and film‐clips Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Zaira Romeo, Alessandro Angrilli, Chiara Spironelli
Past research on gender‐related brain asymmetries in emotions was limited and not univocal. The present study analyzed EEG alpha activity (indexing cortical de‐activation) from 64 scalp sites in 20 women and 20 men during a counterbalanced block presentation of emotional slides and short video‐clips. Stimuli consisted of 45 brief clips of 13 s, divided into 15 erotic (pleasant), 15 neutral and 15 fear
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Correction to “Periodic and aperiodic contributions to theta‐beta ratios across adulthood” Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11
Finley, A. J., Angus, D. J., van Reekum, C. M., Davidson, R. J., & Schaefer, S. M. Periodic and aperiodic contributions to theta-beta ratios across adulthood. Psychophysiology. 2022;59:11:e14113 Data processing steps described in section 2.5.2 and 2.5.4 with both 2 second epochs overlapped by 50% plus 2 second Hamming windows overlapped by 50% and padded by a factor of 2 resulted in an artifact superimposed
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Reduced reactivity to fear conditioning and pain tests in persons involved in violent video gaming is influenced by adverse childhood experiences Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Maximilian Penzkofer, Julia Daub, Susanne Becker, Herta Flor
Video gaming, including violent video gaming, has become very common and lockdown measures of the COVID‐19 pandemic even increased the prevalence rates. In this study, we examined if violent video gaming is associated with more adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and if it impairs pain processing and fear conditioning. We tested three groups of participants (violent video gamers, nonviolent video gamers
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Transdiagnostic psychopathology in the light of robust single‐trial event‐related potentials Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Martin Randau, Bo Bach, Nina Reinholt, Cyril Pernet, Bob Oranje, Belinda S. Rasmussen, Sidse Arnfred
Recent evidence indicates that event‐related potentials (ERPs) as measured on the electroencephalogram (EEG) are more closely related to transdiagnostic, dimensional measures of psychopathology (TDP) than to diagnostic categories. A comprehensive examination of correlations between well‐studied ERPs and measures of TDP is called for. In this study, we recruited 50 patients with emotional disorders
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ERPs and alpha oscillations track the encoding and maintenance of object‐based representations in visual working memory Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Siyi Chen, Thomas Töllner, Hermann J. Müller, Markus Conci
When memorizing an integrated object such as a Kanizsa figure, the completion of parts into a coherent whole is attained by grouping processes which render a whole‐object representation in visual working memory (VWM). The present study measured event‐related potentials (ERPs) and oscillatory amplitudes to track these processes of encoding and representing multiple features of an object in VWM. To this
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Willingness valued more than ability in partner choice: Insights into behavioral and ERP data Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Qiang Xu, Jing Wang, Peng Li
In human cooperation, people prefer to choose partners with high willingness and ability—while both are valued by partners, individuals often prioritize willingness. Two event‐related potential (ERP) experiments were conducted to discern the neural processes underpinning this preference. In the first experiment, participants made a choice between two potential partners and received feedback on the
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The truth is in there: Belief processes in the human brain Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Martin Fungisai Gerchen, Carina Glock, Franziska Weiss, Peter Kirsch
Belief, defined by William James as the mental state or function of cognizing reality, is a core psychological function with strong influence on emotion and behavior. Furthermore, strong and aberrant beliefs about the world and oneself play important roles in mental disorders. The underlying processes of belief have been the matter of a long debate in philosophy and psychology, and modern neuroimaging
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Dose‐dependent response of prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation on the heart rate variability: An electric field modeling study Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Laís B. Razza, Stefanie De Smet, Xander Cornelis, Stevan Nikolin, Matias M. Pulopulos, Rudi De Raedt, Andre R. Brunoni, Marie‐Anne Vanderhasselt
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) modulates the autonomic nervous system by activating deeper brain areas via top‐down pathway. However, effects on the nervous system are heterogeneous and may depend on the amount of current that penetrates. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the variable effects of tDCS on heart rate variability (HRV), a measure of the functional
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The interactive roles of narrative processing and emotion negativity/lability in relation to autonomic coordination Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Qingfang Song, Deborah Z. Kamliot, Emily Slonecker, Erica D. Musser, J. Zoe Klemfuss
Emotion regulation (ER) is a multifaceted construct, involving behavioral, cognitive, and physiological processes. Although autonomic coordination is theorized to play a crucial role in adaptive functioning, few studies have examined how different individual and contextual factors together may contribute to such coordination. This study examined the joint influences of narrative processing and emotional
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Real‐time heart rate variability biofeedback amplitude during a large‐scale digital mental health intervention differed by age, gender, and mental and physical health Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Kirstin Aschbacher, Mara Mather, Paul Lehrer, Richard Gevirtz, Elissa Epel, Nicholas C. Peiper
Heart rate variability biofeedback (HRVB) is an efficacious treatment for depression and anxiety. However, translation to digital mental health interventions (DMHI) requires computing and providing real‐time HRVB metrics in a personalized and user‐friendly fashion. To address these gaps, this study validates a real‐time HRVB feedback algorithm and characterizes the association of the main algorithmic
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Correlated P300b and phasic pupil‐dilation responses to motivationally significant stimuli Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Danilo Menicucci, Silvia Animali, Eleonora Malloggi, Angelo Gemignani, Enrica Bonanni, Francesco Fornai, Filippo Giorgi, Paola Binda
Motivationally significant events like oddball stimuli elicit both a characteristic event‐related potential (ERPs) known as P300 and a set of autonomic responses including a phasic pupil dilation. Although co‐occurring, P300 and pupil‐dilation responses to oddball events have been repeatedly found to be uncorrelated, suggesting separate origins. We re‐examined their relationship in the context of a
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Beyond peaks and troughs: Multiplexed performance monitoring signals in the EEG Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Markus Ullsperger
With the discovery of event‐related potentials elicited by errors more than 30 years ago, a new avenue of research on performance monitoring, cognitive control, and decision making emerged. Since then, the field has developed and expanded fulminantly. After a brief overview on the EEG correlates of performance monitoring, this article reviews recent advancements based on single‐trial analyses using
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Associations between the resting EEG aperiodic slope and broad domains of cognitive ability Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Matthew J. Euler, Julia V. Vehar, Jasmin E. Guevara, Allie R. Geiger, Pascal R. Deboeck, Keith R. Lohse
Recent studies suggest that the EEG aperiodic exponent (often represented as a slope in log–log space) is sensitive to individual differences in momentary cognitive skills such as selective attention and information processing speed. However, findings are mixed, and most of the studies have focused on just a narrow range of cognitive domains. This study used an archival dataset to help clarify associations
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Temporal dynamics of autonomic nervous system responses under cognitive‐emotional workload in obsessive‐compulsive disorder Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Galina Portnova, Guzal Khayrullina, Olga Martynova
Dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) is commonly observed in various mental disorders, particularly when individuals engage in prolonged cognitive‐emotional tasks that require ANS adjustment to workload. Although the understanding of the temporal dynamics of sympathetic and parasympathetic tones in obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) is limited, analyzing ANS reactions to cognitive‐emotional
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Expectancy and attention bias to spiders: Dissecting anticipation and allocation processes using ERPs Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Elinor Abado, Tatjana Aue, Gilles Pourtois, Hadas Okon‐Singer
The current registered report focused on the temporal dynamics of the relationship between expectancy and attention toward threat, to better understand the mechanisms underlying the prioritization of threat detection over expectancy. In the current event‐related potentials experiment, a‐priori expectancy was manipulated, and attention bias was measured, using a well‐validated paradigm. A visual search
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How effort‐based self‐interest motivation shapes altruistic donation behavior and brain responses Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Wenhao Mao, Qin Xiao, Xuejie Shen, Xinyi Zhou, Ailian Wang, Jia Jin
Prosocial behaviors are central to individual and societal well‐being. Although the relationship between effort and prosocial behavior is increasingly studied, the impact of effort‐based self‐interested motivation on prosocial behavior has received less attention. In the current study, we carried out two experiments to examine the effect of motivation to obtain a reward for oneself on donation behavior
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A longitudinal study on the impact of high‐altitude hypoxia on perceptual processes Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Fumei Guo, Changming Wang, Getong Tao, Hailin Ma, Jiaxing Zhang, Yan Wang
This study aimed to explore the neural mechanisms underlying high‐altitude (HA) adaptation and deadaptation in perceptual processes in lowlanders. Eighteen healthy lowlanders were administered a facial S1‐S2 matching task that included incomplete face (S1) and complete face (S2) photographs combined with ERP technology. Participants were tested at four time points: shortly before they departed the
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Losses disguised as wins evoke the reward positivity event‐related potential in a simulated machine gambling task Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Dan Myles, Adrian Carter, Murat Yücel, Stefan Bode
Electronic gambling machines include a suite of design characteristics that may contribute to gambling‐related harms and require more careful attention of regulators and policymakers. One strategy that has contributed to these concerns is the presentation of “losses disguised as wins” (LDWs), a type of salient losing outcome in which a gambling payout is less than the amount wagered (i.e., a net loss)
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Conditional deviant repetition in the oddball paradigm modulates processing at the level of P3a but not MMN Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Nina Coy, Alexandra Bendixen, Sabine Grimm, Urte Roeber, Erich Schröger
The auditory system has an amazing ability to rapidly encode auditory regularities. Evidence comes from the popular oddball paradigm, in which frequent (standard) sounds are occasionally exchanged for rare deviant sounds, which then elicit signs of prediction error based on their unexpectedness (e.g., MMN and P3a). Here, we examine the widely neglected characteristics of deviants being bearers of predictive
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Pupil dilation reveals the intensity of touch Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Antonia F. Ten Brink, Iris Heiner, H. Chris Dijkerman, Christoph Strauch
Touch is important for many aspects of our daily activities. One of the most important tactile characteristics is its perceived intensity. However, quantifying the intensity of perceived tactile stimulation is not always possible using overt responses. Here, we show that pupil responses can objectively index the intensity of tactile stimulation in the absence of overt participant responses. In Experiment
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Cardiovascular reactivity to acute psychological stress is associated with generalized self-efficacy and self-efficacy outcomes during adventure challenges Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 William P. Tyne, David Fletcher, Clare Stevinson, Nicola J. Paine
Outdoor adventure challenges are commonly used to enhance self-efficacy, but the physiological mechanisms involved remain unexplored. Additionally, while studies have documented the influence of self-efficacy on stress management, general self-efficacy has yet to be fully understood in the context of cardiovascular stress reactivity (CVR). This study investigated the influence of self-efficacy beliefs
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Topographic mapping of the sensorimotor qualities of empathic reactivity: A psychophysiological study in people with spinal cord injuries Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Michele Scandola, Maddalena Beccherle, Rossella Togni, Giulia Caffini, Federico Ferrari, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Valentina Moro
The experience of empathy for pain is underpinned by sensorimotor and affective dimensions which, although interconnected, are at least in part behaviorally and neurally distinct. Spinal cord injuries (SCI) induce a massive, below‐lesion level, sensorimotor body–brain disconnection. This condition may make it possible to test whether sensorimotor deprivation alters specific dimensions of empathic reactivity
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Systemic neurophysiological signals of auditory predictive coding Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Manuel Muñoz-Caracuel, Vanesa Muñoz, Francisco J. Ruiz-Martínez, Antonio J. Vázquez Morejón, Carlos M. Gómez
Predictive coding framework posits that our brain continuously monitors changes in the environment and updates its predictive models, minimizing prediction errors to efficiently adapt to environmental demands. However, the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms of these predictive phenomena remain unclear. The present study aimed to explore the systemic neurophysiological correlates of predictive
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ERP correlates of self-referential processing moderate the association between pubertal status and disordered eating in preadolescence Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Pan Liu, Jaron X. Y. Tan
Preadolescence is a critical period for the onset of puberty and eating-related psychopathology. More advanced pubertal status is associated with elevated eating pathology. However, it was unclear whether this association was moderated by self-referential processing, an important, modifiable cognitive risk for various forms of psychopathology, including eating problems. Further, no study has examined
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fMRI BOLD responses to film stimuli and their association with exhaled nitric oxide in asthma and health Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Thomas Ritz, Juliet L. Kroll, David A. Khan, Uma S. Yezhuvath, Sina Aslan, Amy Pinkham, David Rosenfield, E. Sherwood Brown
Little is known about central nervous system (CNS) responses to emotional stimuli in asthma. Nitric oxide in exhaled breath (FENO) is elevated in asthma due to allergic immune processes, but endogenous nitric oxide is also known to modulate CNS activity. We measured fMRI blood oxygen-dependent (BOLD) brain activation to negative (blood–injection–injury themes) and neutral films in 31 participants (15
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Generalization of savoring to novel positive stimuli Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Kayla A. Wilson, Annmarie MacNamara
Savoring is a positive emotion up-regulation technique that can increase electrocortical and self-reported valence and arousal to positive and neutral pictures, with effects persisting to increase response to the same stimuli when encountered later. Outside of the lab, emotion regulation techniques that persist to affect not just encounters with the same stimuli but also encounters with similar, but
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Disentangling associations between impulsivity, compulsivity, and performance monitoring Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rebecca Overmeyer, Tanja Endrass
Disorders marked by high levels of impulsivity and compulsivity have been linked to changes in performance monitoring, specifically the error-related negativity (ERN). We investigated the relationship between performance monitoring and individual differences in impulsivity and compulsivity. A total of 142 participants were recruited into four groups, each with different combinations of impulsivity
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Does effort increase or decrease reward valuation? Considerations from cognitive dissonance theory Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Eddie Harmon-Jones, Sophie Matis, Douglas J. Angus, Cindy Harmon-Jones
The present research tested the effect of manipulated perceived control (over obtaining the outcomes) and effort on reward valuation using the event-related potential known as the Reward Positivity (RewP). This test was conducted in an attempt to integrate two research literatures with opposite findings: Effort justification occurs when high effort leads to high reward valuation, whereas effort discounting
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Interoception as a function of hypnotizability during rest and a heartbeat counting task Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Gioia Giusti, Žan Zelič, Alejandro Luis Callara, Laura Sebastiani, Enrica L. Santarcangelo
The hypnotizability-related differences in morpho-functional characteristics of the insula could at least partially account for the differences in interoceptive accuracy (IA) observed between high and low hypnotizable individuals (highs, lows). Our aim was to investigate interoceptive processing in highs, lows, and medium hypnotizable individuals (mediums), who represent most of the population, during
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Parafoveal and foveal N400 effects in natural reading: A timeline of semantic processing from fixation-related potentials Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Nan Li, Suiping Wang, Florian Kornrumpf, Werner Sommer, Olaf Dimigen
The depth at which parafoveal words are processed during reading is an ongoing topic of debate. Recent studies using RSVP-with-flanker paradigms have shown that implausible words within sentences elicit an N400 component while they are still in parafoveal vision, suggesting that the semantics of parafoveal words can be accessed to rapidly update the sentence representation. To study this effect in
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Optimal filters for ERP research I: A general approach for selecting filter settings Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Guanghui Zhang, David R. Garrett, Steven J. Luck
Filtering plays an essential role in event-related potential (ERP) research, but filter settings are usually chosen on the basis of historical precedent, lab lore, or informal analyses. This reflects, in part, the lack of a well-reasoned, easily implemented method for identifying the optimal filter settings for a given type of ERP data. To fill this gap, we developed an approach that involves finding
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Teleological reasoning bias is predicted by pupil dynamics: Evidence for the extensive integration account of bias in reasoning Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Martin Jensen Mækelæ, Isabel V. Kreis, Gerit Pfuhl
Teleological reasoning is the tendency for humans to see purpose and intentionality in natural phenomena when there is none. In this study, we assess three competing theories on how bias in reasoning arises by examining performance on a teleological reasoning task while measuring pupil size and response times. We replicate that humans (N = 45) are prone to accept false teleological explanations. Further
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Optimal filters for ERP research II: Recommended settings for seven common ERP components Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Guanghui Zhang, David R. Garrett, Steven J. Luck
In research with event-related potentials (ERPs), aggressive filters can substantially improve the signal-to-noise ratio and maximize statistical power, but they can also produce significant waveform distortion. Although this tradeoff has been well documented, the field lacks recommendations for filter cutoffs that quantitatively address both of these competing considerations. To fill this gap, we
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Mapping the routes of perception: Hemispheric asymmetries in signal propagation dynamics Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Davide Bonfanti, Chiara Mazzi, Silvia Savazzi
The visual system has long been considered equivalent across hemispheres. However, an increasing amount of data shows that functional differences may exist in this regard. We therefore tried to characterize the emergence of visual perception and the spatiotemporal dynamics resulting from the stimulation of visual cortices in order to detect possible interhemispheric asymmetries. Eighteen participants
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Moving toward reality: Electrocortical reactivity to naturalistic multimodal emotional videos Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Dean Sabatinelli, Andrew H. Farkas, Matthew C. Gehr
While previous research has investigated the effects of emotional videos on peripheral physiological measures and conscious experience, this study extends the research to include electrocortical measures, specifically the steady-state visual-evoked potential (ssVEP). A carefully curated set of 45 videos, designed to represent a wide range of emotional and neutral content, were presented with a flickering
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Reduced reward responsiveness and depression vulnerability: Consideration of social contexts and implications for intervention Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Autumn Kujawa
Depression is a prevalent, heterogeneous, and debilitating disorder that often emerges in adolescence, and there is a need to better understand vulnerability processes to inform more targeted intervention efforts. Psychophysiological methods, like event-related potentials (ERPs), can offer unique insights into the cognitive and emotional processes underlying depression vulnerability. I review my and
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A meta-analysis of electrophysiological biomarkers of reward and error monitoring in substance misuse Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Heather E. Webber, Constanza de Dios, Danielle A. Kessler, Joy M. Schmitz, Scott D. Lane, Robert Suchting
Substance use disorders are characterized by marked changes in reward and error processing. The primary objective of this meta-analysis was to estimate effect sizes for the reward positivity (RewP) and error-related negativity (ERN), two event-related potential indicators of outcome monitoring, in substance users compared to controls. The secondary objective was to test for moderation by demographic
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Awareness of errors is reduced by sleep loss Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Johanna M. Boardman, Zachariah R. Cross, Michelle M. Bravo, Thomas Andrillon, Eugene Aidman, Clare Anderson, Sean P. A. Drummond
The ability to detect and subsequently correct errors is important in preventing the detrimental consequences of sleep loss. The Error Related Negativity (ERN), and the error positivity (Pe) are established neural correlates of error processing. Previous work has shown sleep loss reduces ERN and Pe, indicating sleep loss impairs error-monitoring processes. However, no previous work has examined behavioral
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Perception of near-threshold visual stimuli is influenced by prestimulus alpha-band amplitude but not by alpha phase Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 María Melcón, Enrique Stern, Dominique Kessel, Lydia Arana, Claudia Poch, Pablo Campo, Almudena Capilla
Ongoing brain activity preceding visual stimulation has been suggested to shape conscious perception. According to the pulsed inhibition framework, bouts of functional inhibition arise in each alpha cycle (every ~100 ms), allowing information to be processed in a pulsatile manner. Consequently, it has been hypothesized that perceptual outcome can be influenced by the specific phase of alpha oscillations
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The stimulus-driven and representation-driven cross-modal attentional spreading are both modulated by audiovisual temporal synchrony Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Song Zhao, Fangfang Ma, Jimei Xie, Yuxin Zhou, Chengzhi Feng, Wenfeng Feng
Multisensory integration and attention can interact in a way that attention to the visual constituent of a multisensory object results in an attentional spreading to its ignored auditory constituent, which can be either stimulus-driven or representation-driven depending on whether the object's visual constituent receives extra representation-based selective attention. Previous research using simple
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How to make calibration less painful—A proposition for an automatic, reliable and time-efficient procedure Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Karolina Świder, Stephan Moratti, Ricardo Bruña
In behavioral and neurophysiological pain studies, multiple types of calibration methods are used to quantify the individual pain sensation stimuli. Often, studies lack a detailed calibration procedure description, data linearity, and quality quantification and omit required control for sex pain differences. This hampers study repetition and interexperimental comparisons. Moreover, typical calibration
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Electrophysiological correlates of face and object perception: A comparative analysis of 2D laboratory and virtual reality conditions Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Merle Sagehorn, Marike Johnsdorf, Joanna Kisker, Thomas Gruber, Benjamin Schöne
Human face perception is a specialized visual process with inherent social significance. The neural mechanisms reflecting this intricate cognitive process have evolved in spatially complex and emotionally rich environments. Previous research using VR to transfer an established face perception paradigm to realistic conditions has shown that the functional properties of face-sensitive neural correlates
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The psychometric upgrade psychophysiology needs Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Peter E. Clayson
Although biological measurements are constrained by the same fundamental psychometric principles as self-report measurements, these essential principles are often neglected in most fields of neuroscience, including psychophysiology. Potential reasons for this neglect could include a lack of understanding of appropriate measurement theory or a lack of accessible software for psychometric analysis. Generalizability
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Sleep quality impacts the link between reactivity to uncertain threat and anxiety and alcohol use in youth Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Kathryn C. Jenkins, Jordan Difatta, Emily E. Jones, Kayla A. Kreutzer, Baldwin M. Way, K. Luan Phan, Stephanie M. Gorka
Individual differences in reactivity to unpredictable threat (U-threat) have repeatedly been linked to symptoms of anxiety and drinking behavior. An emerging theory is that individuals who are hyper-reactive to U-threat experience chronic anticipatory anxiety, hyperarousal, and are vulnerable to excessive alcohol use via negative reinforcement processes. Notably, anxiety and alcohol use commonly relate
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Effects of congruent emotional contexts during encoding on recognition: An ERPs study Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Miaomiao Xie, Meng Han, Zejun Liu, Xian Li, Chunyan Guo
Past research showed that emotional contexts can impair recognition memory for the target item. Given that item-context congruity may enhance recognition memory, the present study aims to examine the effect of the congruent emotional encoding contexts on recognition memory. Participants studied congruent word-picture pairs (e.g., the word “cow” – a picture describing a cow) and incongruent word-picture
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The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on rating of perceived exertion: A systematic review of the literature Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Hamzeh Baharlouei, Meysam Goosheh, Maha Moore, Amir Hossein Ramezani Ahmadi, Marzieh Yassin, Shapour Jaberzadeh
The rating of perceived exertion (RPE) is a widely used method for monitoring the load during training, as it provides insight into the subjective intensity of effort experienced during exercises. Considering the role of brain in monitoring and perception of the effort, several studies explored the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on RPE in different populations. The aim of
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The influence of pitcher handedness on pitch-calling behavior: Insights from fMRI study on baseball umpires Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Yin-Hua Chen, Shih-Kuei Huang
This functional magnetic resonance imaging study delves into the impact of experience and pitcher handedness on the pitch-calling behavior of baseball umpires. Expert and intermediate umpires were asked to make ball/strike calls on videotaped pitches of left- and right-handed pitchers and rate their certainty for the call while undergoing scanning. Behavioral results replicated previous findings that
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What is in a smile: The role of evaluation goal and response labels in facial muscle responses to prejudiced groups Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Roland Neumann, Lisa J. Schneider
Based on the assumption that valence is permanently linked to facial responses, we expected that the corrugator muscle is contracted faster in response to overweight persons than to slim persons, whereas we expected faster contractions of the zygomaticus muscle in response to slim persons rather than to overweight persons. To detect such differences, we conducted experiments with different versions
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Transcranial pulsed current stimulation: A scoping review of the current literature on scope, nature, underlying mechanisms, and gaps Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Mona Malekahmad, Ashlyn Frazer, Maryam Zoghi, Shapour Jaberzadeh
Transcranial pulsed current stimulation (tPCS) is a noninvasive brain stimulation technique that has aroused considerable attention in recent years. This review aims to provide an overview of the existing literature on tPCS, examine the scope and nature of previous research, investigate its underlying mechanisms, and identify gaps in the literature. Searching online databases resulted in 36 published
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The enhanced emotional negativity bias in parents of atypically developing children: Evidence from an event-related potentials study Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Jun Huang, Haidong Wu, Jun Jiang, Linhui Yang, Kuiliang Li, Tao Wang
Parents of atypically developing children such as parents of children with ASD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and intellectual disability experience higher levels of parenting stress than parents of typically developing children. However, whether they possess enhanced emotional negativity bias was unclear. In the present study, 28 parents of typically developing children and 29 parents
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Multiple mechanisms of visual prediction as revealed by the timecourse of scene–object facilitation Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Cybelle M. Smith, Kara D. Federmeier
Not only semantic, but also recently learned arbitrary associations have the potential to facilitate visual processing in everyday life—for example, knowledge of a (moveable) object's location at a specific time may facilitate visual processing of that object. In our prior work, we showed that previewing a scene can facilitate processing of recently associated objects at the level of visual analysis
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The Reactivation of working memory representations affects attentional guidance Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Xiaowei Che, Haomin Lian, Feiyan Zhang, Shouxin Li, Yuanjie Zheng
Recent studies have suggested that the neural activity that supported working memory (WM) storage is dynamic over time and this dynamic storage decides memory performance. Does the temporal dynamic of the WM representation also affect visual search, and how does it interact with distractor suppression over time? To address these issues, we tracked the time course of the reactivation of WM representations
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Amygdala and cortical gamma-band responses to emotional faces are modulated by attention to valence Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Enya M. Weidner, Stephan Moratti, Sebastian Schindler, Philip Grewe, Christian G. Bien, Johanna Kissler
The amygdala might support an attentional bias for emotional faces. However, whether and how selective attention toward a specific valence modulates this bias is not fully understood. Likewise, it is unclear whether amygdala and cortical signals respond to emotion and attention in a similar way. We recorded gamma-band activity (GBA, > 30 Hz) intracranially in the amygdalae of 11 patients with epilepsy
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Evaluating the effectiveness of artifact correction and rejection in event-related potential research Psychophysiology (IF 3.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Guanghui Zhang, David R. Garrett, Aaron M. Simmons, John E. Kiat, Steven J. Luck
Eyeblinks and other large artifacts can create two major problems in event-related potential (ERP) research, namely confounds and increased noise. Here, we developed a method for assessing the effectiveness of artifact correction and rejection methods in minimizing these two problems. We then used this method to assess a common artifact minimization approach, in which independent component analysis