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Corrigendum to “Concurrent and prospective associations between infant frontoparietal and default mode network connectivity and negative affectivity” [Biological Psychology, volume 184 (2023), 108717] Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sanjana Ravi, M. Catalina Camacho, Brooke Fleming, Michael R. Scudder, Kathryn L. Humphreys
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Behavioural and ERP evidence of a contrary effect between active and passive suppression of facial expressions Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Caifeng Wang, Wenjing Li, Dong Li, Yangtao Liu, Xiangbo Yan, Qian Cui, Zhongqing Jiang
There has been disagreement regarding the relationship among the three components (subjective experience, external performance, and physiological response) of emotional responses. To investigate this issue further, this study compared the effects of active and passive suppression of facial expressions on subjective experiences and event-related potentials (ERPs) through two experiments. The two methods
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Arousal, Gray’s Theory of Anxiety, and the Etiology of Psychopathy Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Don C. Fowles
This paper focuses on Jeffrey Gray’s theory of anxiety from the perspective of Fowles’ (1980) application of his work to theories of arousal, psychophysiology, and the etiology of psychopathy. Although highly influential, the concept of general arousal failed to find support in terms of between-individuals assessment with multiple physiological measures. Gray’s constructs of a behavioral inhibition
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Metabolic state modulates neural processing of odors in the human olfactory bulb Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Behzad Iravani, Johannes Frasnelli, Artin Arshamian, Johan N. Lundström
The olfactory and endocrine systems have recently been shown to reciprocally shape the homeostatic processes of energy intake. As demonstrated in animal models, the individual’s metabolic state dynamically modulates how the olfactory bulb process odor stimuli using a range of endocrine signals. Here we aimed to determine whether the neural processing of odors in human olfactory bulb is modulated by
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In the anticipation of threat: Neural regulatory activity indicated by delta-beta correlation and its relation to anxiety Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Zhiling Qiao, Eefje S. Poppelaars, Xuebing Li
The anticipation of oncoming threats is emotionally challenging and related to anxiety. The current study aimed to investigate the neural regulatory processes during the anticipatory preparations in stressful situations in relation to trait anxiety, especially in an uncertainty-related stressful situation. To this end, we measured within-subjects delta-beta amplitude-amplitude correlation (AAC) and
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Neural substrates of marriage on self-parents processing and the association with a parents-oriented perspective shift in a collectivistic culture Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Hesun Erin Kim, Hyojung Eom, Hye-Jeong Jo, Min-Kyeong Kim, Junhyung Kim, Jae-Jin Kim
Relationship with parents is a special bond that shapes self-other representations and have an impact on adult-child’s marriage, especially in the early stages of marriage. This study sought to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying self-parents processing as well as their relationship with marriage. Seventy-eight premarital Korean participants were scanned in functional MRI while evaluating
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Cortisol’s diurnal rhythm indexes the neurobiological impact of child adversity in adolescence Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Jamie L. Hanson, Paula L. Ruttle, Brandon Smith, Seth D. Pollak
Adverse early life experiences, such as child maltreatment, shapes hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity. The impact of social context is often probed through laboratory stress reactivity, yet child maltreatment is a severe form of chronic stress that recalibrates even stable or relatively inflexible stress systems such as cortisol’s diurnal rhythm. This study was designed to determine how
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The impact of culture on emotion suppression: Insights from an electrophysiological study of emotion regulation in Japan Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Brian Kraus, Kongmeng Liew, Shinobu Kitayama, Yukiko Uchida
Prior theory and evidence suggest that native East Asians tend to down-regulate their emotional arousal to negatively valenced experiences through expressive suppression, an emotion regulation technique focused on suppressing one’s emotional experience. One proposed explanation for this choice of regulation strategy and its efficacy is rooted in their commitment to the cultural value of interdependence
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Exploring the role of working memory gate opening process in creativity: An ERP study using the reference-back paradigm Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Petra Csizmadia, Boglárka Nagy, Lili Kővári, Zsófia Anna Gaál
We investigated the relationship between the gate opening process of working memory and an individual's proficiency in divergent (DT) and convergent thinking (CT) using the reference-back paradigm. Event-related potentials and reaction times were measured across groups with varying DT (N = 40, 27.35 ± 5.05 years) and CT levels (N = 40, 27.88 ± 4.95 years). Based on the role of striatal dopamine in
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Commentary to: Standardization of facial electromyographic responses by van Boxtel and van der Graaff Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Ursula Hess, Ottmar V. Lipp
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Meanness and Affective Processing: A Meta-Analysis of EEG Findings on Emotional Face Processing in Individuals with Psychopathic Traits Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Rebekah Brown Spivey, Laura E. Drislane
The triarchic model (Patrick, Fowles, & Krueger, 2009) conceptualizes psychopathy as a multidimensional construct encompassing three biobehavioral dimensions: meanness, boldness, and disinhibition. Meanness entails low empathy, shallow affect, and lack of remorse, and is associated with poor facial emotion recognition; however, the mechanistic processes contributing to these deficits are unclear. Emotional
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Acute fasting modulates autonomic nervous system function and ambulatory cardiac interoception Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Andreas R. Schwerdtfeger, Christian Rominger
Intermittent fasting has been associated with diverse physical and psychological health benefits. According to previous research, fasting-induced alterations in psychophysiological functioning should facilitate the accurate detection of an internal bodily signal (like the heart), which is referred to as interoceptive accuracy. In two within-subjects studies we aimed to examine whether an intermittent
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P300 in schizophrenia: Then and now Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Holly K. Hamilton, Daniel H. Mathalon, Judith M. Ford
The 1965 discovery of the P300 component of the electroencephalography (EEG)-based event-related potential (ERP), along with the subsequent identification of its alteration in people with schizophrenia, initiated over 50 years of P300 research in schizophrenia. Here, we review what we now know about P300 in schizophrenia after nearly six decades of research. We describe recent efforts to expand our
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Comparison of the Perceived Stress Reactivity Scale with physiological and self-reported stress responses during ecological momentary assessment and during participation in a virtual reality version of the Trier Social Stress Test Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Jeannette Weber, Meike Heming, Jennifer Apolinário-Hagen, Stefan Liszio, Peter Angerer
Valid approaches to conveniently measure stress reactivity are needed due to the growing evidence of its health-impairing effects. This study examined whether the Perceived Stress Reactivity Scale (PSRS) predicts cardiovascular and psychological responses to psychosocial stressors during daily life and during a virtual reality (VR) Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). Medical students answered a standardized
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Heightened interoception in adults with fibromyalgia Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Jennifer Todd, David Plans, Michael C. Lee, Jonathan M. Bird, Davide Morelli, Adam Cunningham, Sonia Ponzo, Jennifer Murphy, Geoffrey Bird, Jane E. Aspell
Previous research suggests that the processing of internal body sensations (interoception) affects how we experience pain. Some evidence suggests that people with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) – a condition characterised by chronic pain and fatigue – may have altered interoceptive processing. However, extant findings are inconclusive, and some tasks previously used to measure interoception are of questionable
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Autistic traits and event-related potentials in the general population: A scoping review and meta-analysis Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Prune Mazer, Helena Garcez, Inês Macedo, Rita Pasion, Celeste Silveira, Frederieke Sempf, Fernando Ferreira-Santos
Differences in short and long-latency Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) can help us infer abnormalities in brain processing, considering early and later stages of stimuli processing across tasks and conditions. In autism research, the adult population remains largely understudied compared to samples at early stages of development. In this context, this scoping review briefly summarises what has been
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With hand on heart: A cardiac Rubber Hand Illusion Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jamie Moffatt, Gianluca Finotti, Manos Tsakiris
Body illusions such as the Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) have highlighted how multisensory integration underpins the sense of one’s own body. Much of this research has focused on senses arising from outside the body (e.g. vision and touch), but sensations from within the body may also play a role. In a pre-registered study, participants completed a cardiac variation of the RHI, where taps to the finger
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The influence of sentence focus on motor system activity in language comprehension and its temporal dynamics: Preliminary evidence from sEMG Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Guangfang Zhou, Xuying Wang, Zhenzhen Xu, Hua Jin
Previous research has shown that individual experiences and experimental tasks can influence the occurrence of mental simulation during sentence comprehension. However, little research has focused on the effect of sentence focus on mental simulation and its temporal dynamics. Sentence focus refers to the hierarchical structure of information within a sentence, where focused information represents the
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Context matters: Neural processing of food-flavored e-cigarettes and the influence of smoking Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Ina M. Hellmich, Erna J.Z. Krüsemann, Joris R.H. van der Hart, Paul A.M. Smeets, Reinskje Talhout, Sanne Boesveldt
E-cigarettes are harmful, addictive, and popular. In e-cigarettes, nicotine is often paired with food-flavors. How this pairing of nicotine and food cues influences neural processing warrants investigation, as in smokers, both types of cues activate similar brain regions. Additionally, while most e-cigarettes are sweet, savory e-cigarettes are seemingly absent, although savory flavors are commonly
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The impact of attention bias modification training on behavioral and physiological responses Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Stéphane Ranfaing, Lucas De Zorzi, Rémi Ruyffelaere, Jacques Honoré, Hugo Critchley, Henrique Sequeira
Attention bias modification training aims to alter attentional deployment to symptom-relevant emotionally salient stimuli. Such training has therapeutic applications in the management of disorders including anxiety, depression, addiction and chronic pain. In emotional reactions, attentional biases interact with autonomically-mediated changes in bodily arousal putatively underpinning affective feeling
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Active inference as a theory of sentient behavior Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Giovanni Pezzulo, Thomas Parr, Karl Friston
This review paper offers an overview of the history and future of active inference—a unifying perspective on action and perception. Active inference is based upon the idea that sentient behavior depends upon our brains’ implicit use of internal models to predict, infer, and direct action. Our focus is upon the conceptual roots and development of this theory of (basic) sentience and does not follow
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Inhibition of the dorsolateral cortex reveals specific mechanisms behind emotional control Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Miroslaw Wyczesany, Agnieszka K. Adamczyk, Anna Leśniewska, Justyna Hobot, Giansalvo Barbalinardo, Tomasz Górski, Przemysław Adamczyk, Tomasz S. Ligeza
Reappraisal is a complex emotional control strategy based on cognitive change. To complete the reappraisal task, one is required to deeply elaborate on the affective stimulus to create its new interpretation. The involvement of the prefrontal cortex in this process was examined in the study, where inhibition of the left or right dorsolateral area was carried out using transcranial magnetic stimulation
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Subsyndromal depression leads to early under-activation and late over-activation during inhibitory control: an ERP study Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Weiyi Zhou, Fangfang Long, Fang Wang, Renlai Zhou
Individuals with depressive disorders have deficits in inhibitory control and exhibit symptoms of impaired cognitive and emotional functioning. Individuals with subsyndromal depression are intermediate between the healthy group and clinically diagnosed patients with depressive disorders, and studying the characteristics of their inhibitory control functioning can help to investigate the mechanisms
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Psychophysiology and affective processing across the lifespan: Pathways to psychopathology Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Aislinn Sandre, Anna Weinberg, Juhyun Park
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Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), vagal tone and biobehavioral integration: Beyond parasympathetic function Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Paul Grossman
Linchpin to the entire area of psychophysiological research and discussion of the vagus is the respiratory and cardiovascular phenomenon known as respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA; often synonymous with high-frequency heart-rate variability when it is specifically linked to respiratory frequency), i.e. rhythmic fluctuations in heart rate synchronized to inspiration and expiration. This article aims
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Socioeconomic status moderates neural markers of cognitive reappraisal across preschool Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Jennifer L. Kling, Rebecca J. Brooker
Emotion regulation (ER) is critical for children’s healthy socio-emotional development, in part through its modulation of negative emotions that might otherwise place children at risk for psychopathology. The cognitive ER strategy of reappraisal appears to be particularly protective against the development of symptoms of anxiety and depression during childhood. Despite widespread acceptance of the
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Standardization of facial electromyographic responses Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Anton van Boxtel, Jolien van der Graaff
In behavioral studies, facial electromyographic (EMG) responses to external stimuli or internal events are usually quantified relative to the resting state, presumed to represent a neutral baseline condition. In the large majority of recent studies, EMG responses were expressed as a difference score in terms of microvolts with the resting state. We argue that since EMG activity is measured on a ratio
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The temporal effect of uncertain context on the perceptual processing of painful and non-painful stimulation Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Yun Zhuang, Ke Zhao, Xiaolan Fu
Uncertainty has been demonstrated to influence the perception of noxious stimuli, but little is known about the effects of prolonged uncertain contexts on the perception of painful and non-painful stimuli. To address this knowledge gap, the present study utilized a cue-based NPU-threat task, where uncertain and certain trials were separated into distinct blocks. The objective was to investigate the
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Putting back respiration into respiratory sinus arrhythmia or high-frequency heart rate variability: Implications for interpretation, respiratory rhythmicity, and health Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Thomas Ritz
Research on respiratory sinus arrhythmia, or high-frequency heart rate variability (its frequency-domain equivalent), has been popular in psychology and the behavioral sciences for some time. It is typically interpreted as an indicator of cardiac vagal activity. However, as research has shown for decades, the respiratory pattern can influence the amplitude of these noninvasive measures substantially
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Change in heart rate variability with increasing time-on-task as a marker for mental fatigue: A systematic review Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Árpád Csathó, Dimitri Van der Linden, András Matuz
Fatigue-specific changes in the autonomic nervous system are often assumed to underlie the development of mental fatigue caused by prolonged cognitive tasks (i.e. Time-on-Task). Therefore, several previous studies have chosen to investigate the Time-on-Task related changes in heart rate variability (HRV). However, previous studies have used many different HRV indices, and their results often show inconsistencies
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Left superior parietal lobe mediates the link between spontaneous mind-wandering tendency and task-switching performance Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Yi-Sheng Wong, Junhong Yu
While increasing studies have documented the link between mind wandering and task switching, less is known about which brain regions mediate this relationship. Using the MPI-Leipzig Mind-Brain-Body dataset (N = 173), we investigated the association between trait-level tendencies of mind wandering, task-switching performance, structural connectivity, and resting-state functional connectivity. At the
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Patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms in early adolescence Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Ashley M. Battaglini, Bronwen Grocott, Ellen Jopling, Katerina Rnic, Alison Tracy, Joelle LeMoult
In children and adults, individual differences in patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA; i.e., interactions between resting RSA and RSA reactivity to stress) have emerged as a central predictor of internalizing symptoms. However, it is unclear whether individual differences in patterns of RSA also contribute to internalizing symptoms during the key developmental period of early adolescence
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Electrophysiological effects of smartphone notifications on cognitive control following a brief mindfulness induction Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Joshua D. Upshaw, Grant S. Shields, Matt R. Judah, Darya L. Zabelina
Smartphone use is nearly ubiquitous, with 93% of adults among economically developed countries, including the United States, Canada, Israel, and South Korea owning a smartphone (Taylor & Silver, 2019). Multiple studies have demonstrated the distracting effects of smartphone notifications on behavioral measures of cognition. Fewer studies have examined the effects of notifications on neural activity
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Neural activation and connectivity in offspring of depressed mothers during monetary and social reward tasks Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Thomas M. Olino, Matthew Mattoni
Multiple previous studies show associations between history of and familial risk for depression and reward function. These previous studies have predominantly focused on neural activation during monetary tasks. Fewer studies of have examined functional connectivity and social reward tasks, particularly in offspring of mothers with depression. This study examined brain function in older children (aged
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Corrigendum to “Sympathetic nervous system responses to acute psychosocial stress in male physicians with clinical burnout” [Biological Psychology 183 (2023) 108687] Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Roland von Känel, Mary Princip, Sarah A. Holzgang, Sinthujan Sivakumar, Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Diego Gomez Vieito, Claudia Zuccarella-Hackl
Abstract not available
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Mood congruency affects physiological synchrony but not empathic accuracy in a naturalistic empathy task Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Hanxi Pan, Zhiyun Chen, Karine Jospe, Qi Gao, Jinyou Sheng, Zaifeng Gao, Anat Perry
Empathy is a crucial aspect of our daily lives, as it enhances our wellbeing and is a proxy for prosocial behavior. It encompasses two related but partially distinct components: cognitive and affective empathy. Both are susceptible to context, biases and an individual’s physiological state. Few studies have explored the effects of a person’s mood on these empathy components, and results are mixed.
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Social concerns about anxious arousal explain the association between neural responses to anxious arousal pictures and social anxiety Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Hannah C. Hamrick, Nathan M. Hager, Morgan S. Middlebrooks, Russell J. Mach, Arooj Abid, Nicholas P. Allan, Matt R. Judah
Cognitive theories propose that social anxiety disorder involves heightened attention to anxious arousal symptoms due to worries that they may evoke rejection from others. Supporting this, studies have shown that social anxiety is related to greater attention to representations of anxious arousal and to anxiety sensitivity social concerns, which refers to sensitivity to feelings of anxious arousal
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Effect of homeostatic pressure and circadian arousal on the storage and executive components of working memory: Evidence from EEG power spectrum Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Simei Ou, Yixuan Cao, Tian Xie, Tianxiang Jiang, Jiahui Li, Wei Luo, Ning Ma
Diurnal fluctuations in working memory (WM) performance, characterized by task-specific peaks and troughs, are likely attributed to the differential regulation of WM subcomponents by interactions between circadian and homeostatic processes. The current study aimed to investigate the independent effects of circadian and homeostatic processes on the storage and executive subcomponents of WM. We assessed
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Two’s company: Biobehavioral research with dyads Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Robert W. Levenson
The development of paradigms for studying dyadic interaction in the laboratory and methods and analytics for dealing with dyadic data is described. These are illustrated with research findings from the author and others with particular focus on dyadic measures of linkage or synchrony in physiology, expressive behavior, and subjective affective experience.
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Concurrent and Prospective Associations Between Infant Frontoparietal and Default Mode Network Connectivity and Negative Affectivity Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Sanjana Ravi, M. Catalina Camacho, Brooke Fleming, Michael R. Scudder, Kathryn L. Humphreys
Emotion dysregulation is linked to differences in frontoparietal (FPN) and default mode (DMN) brain network functioning. These differences may be identifiable early in development. Temperamental negative affectivity has been identified as a precursor to later emotion dysregulation, though the underlying neurodevelopmental mechanism is unknown. The present study explores concurrent and prospective associations
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Cognitive reappraisal and corresponding neural basis mediate the association between childhood maltreatment and depression Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Yu Mao, Ling Li, Yuan Li, Xin Hou, Shukai Duan
Background Childhood maltreatment is considered as a robust predictor of depression. However, the underlying psychological and neurological mechanisms linking childhood maltreatment and depression remain poorly understood. Sufficient evidence demonstrates emotion dysregulation in individuals who have experienced childhood maltreatment, but it is unknown whether these changes represent vulnerability
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Working memory training for reward processing in university students with subsyndromal depression: The influence of baseline severity of depression Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Lulu Hou, Fangfang Long, Weiyi Zhou, Renlai Zhou
Previous studies have tentatively suggested that working memory training (WMT) has the potential to improve reward processing, but it is not known how long this improvement lasts, whether there is a lag effect, or whether it is reflected in neurophysiological indicators. In this study, 40 university students with subsyndromal depression were randomly assigned to a training group or a control group
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The next frontier: Moving human fear conditioning research online Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Luke J. Ney, Matthew O’Donohue, Yi Wang, Mikaela Richardson, Adam Vasarhelyi, Ottmar V. Lipp
Fear conditioning is a significant area of research that has featured prominently among the topics published in Biological Psychology over the last 50 years. This work has greatly contributed to our understanding of human anxiety and stressor-related disorders. While mainly conducted in the laboratory, recently, there have been initial attempts to conduct fear conditioning experiments online, with
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N1-P2 event-related potentials and perceived intensity are associated: The effects of a weak pre-stimulus and attentional load on processing of a subsequent intense stimulus Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Jaspa D. Favero, Camilla Luck, Ottmar V. Lipp, An T. Nguyen, Welber Marinovic
A weak stimulus presented immediately before a more intense one reduces both the N1-P2 cortical response and the perceived intensity of the intense stimulus. The former effect is referred to as cortical prepulse inhibition (PPI), the latter as prepulse inhibition of perceived stimulus intensity (PPIPSI). Both phenomena are used to study sensory gating in clinical and non-clinical populations, however
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Total cortisol output during an acute stressor predicts youths’ internalizing symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Andrew R. Daoust, Haley Green, Matthew R.J. Vandermeer, Pan Liu, Kasey Stanton, Kate L. Harkness, Elizabeth P. Hayden
Individual differences in cortisol output may influence adolescents’ adjustment to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, boys and girls may differ in terms of associations between cortisol output and internalizing symptoms in the context of COVID-19-related stress. We examined whether pre-pandemic cortisol output during an acute stressor, assessed approximately three years prior to the pandemic, predicted
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Blame and Praise cross-culturally: An fMRI investigation into causal attribution and moral judgment Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 BoKyung Park, Valerie Rae Smith
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Fundamental behavioral and neurophysiologic relationships between sensory processing, intolerance of uncertainty, and autistic traits in children: A hybrid approach Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Garrett Cardon, Maggie Buckhannon, Don Rojas
Sensory differences are common and often challenging for autistic children. Furthermore, atypical sensory processing is associated with autistic traits and other autism-related behaviors, such as intolerance of uncertainty (IU). Such traits and their relatedness vary continuously across autistic and non-autistic children alike. However, the underlying neural correlates of these continuous variables
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The Validity Issues of the Heartbeat Counting Task Are Not Ruled Out by Schultz et al. (2021): A Commentary Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Olivier Desmedt, Olivier Luminet, Pierre Maurage, Olivier Corneille
Abstract not available
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Do Schulz et al.’s (2021) Findings Support the Validity of the Heartbeat Counting Task? Joint Conclusion to Commentaries Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Olivier Desmedt, Olivier Corneille, Olivier Luminet, Pierre Maurage, Claus Vögele, André Schulz
Abstract not available
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Genetic and neural bases of the neuroticism general factor Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Yuri Kim, Gretchen R.B. Saunders, Alexandros Giannelis, Emily A. Willoughby, Colin G. DeYoung, James J. Lee
We applied structural equation modeling to conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of the general factor measured by a neuroticism questionnaire administered to ∼380,000 participants in the UK Biobank. We categorized significant genetic variants as acting either through the neuroticism general factor, through other factors measured by the questionnaire, or through paths independent of any factor
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Elevated EEG heartbeat-evoked potentials in adolescents with more ADHD symptoms Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Lorenz Rapp, Sandra A. Mai-Lippold, Eleana Georgiou, Olga Pollatos
Introduction Symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are associated with a variety of mental abnormalities, but little is known about the perception and processing of internal signals, i.e., interoception, in individuals with ADHD symptoms. This study aimed to investigate the association between ADHD symptoms and the heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP), known as a neural correlate
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The detection of self–group conflicts in exercise behaviors differs with social network centrality: ERP evidence Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Mengfei Han, Feifei Chen, Mengjuan Shang, Liu Yang, Yongcong Shao
Background The influence of social norms on exercise behaviors has been explored in studies over the years. However, little is known about whether an individual’s role (central or peripheral) in his or her social network, which is associated with social skills, could shift his or her susceptibility to normative effects on exercise behaviors. To that end, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded
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Distinct physiological responses to social-evaluative stress in patients with major depressive disorder reporting a history of peer victimization Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Benjamin Iffland, Hanna Kley, Frank Neuner
Peer victimization is a risk factor for the development of major depressive disorders, but little is known about the mechanisms. This study examined whether peer victimization alters physiological and affective responses to potentially threatening social stimuli. For this purpose, reactions to socially evaluative stimuli of depressive patients and healthy controls with varying histories of peer victimization
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The relationship between self-reported chronic stress, physiological stress axis dysregulation and medically-unexplained symptoms Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 André Schulz, Mauro F. Larra y Ramirez, Claus Vögele, Monika Kölsch, Hartmut Schächinger
The positive feedback model of medically-unexplained symptoms posits that chronic stress affects the activity of the physiological stress axes, which in turn generates medically-unexplained symptoms. As a first step to empirically test its model assumptions, we investigated potential associations between chronic stress, physiological stress axis activity and medically-unexplained in a cross-sectional
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Why Desmedt et al.’s commentary does not apply to the findings of Schulz et al. (2021) concerning the validity of the heartbeat counting task Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 André Schulz, Claus Vögele
Abstract not available
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Face Motion Form at Learning Influences the Time Course of Face Spatial Frequency Processing during Test Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Hailing Wang, Yujing Lian, Anqing Wang, Enguang Chen, Chengdong Liu
Studies that use static faces suggest that facial processing follows a coarse-to-fine sequence; i.e., holistic precedes featural processing, due to low and high spatial frequencies (LSF, HSF) transmitting holistic/global and featural/local information respectively. Although recent studies have focused on the role of facial movement in holistic facial processing, it is unclear whether moving faces have
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The photic blink reflex as an index of photophobia Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Steven A. Hackley, Lenworth N. Johnson
Two recent studies of eye closure triggered by intense luminance increase suggest that this behavior reflects the melanopsin-based retinal activity known to underlie photophobia, the pathological aversion to light (Kardon, 2012; Kaiser et al., 2021). Early studies of the photic blink reflex (PBR) are reviewed to help guide future research on this possible objective index of photophobia. Electromyographic
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Neural mechanisms of priming effects of spicy food pictures induced analgesia Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Di Yang, Jin Jiang, Wanchen Li, Runjie Zhang, Luzhuang Sun, Jing Meng
In this study, the effects of the priming of spicy food pictures on pain perception were evaluated in female participants using standardized methods of pain. Results from behavior tests revealed that the priming of spicy food pictures significantly reduced pain perception, particularly at high-pain intensities. Electrophysiological analysis showed that the analgesic effects of spicy food pictures were
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Associations between maternal stress and infant resting brain activity among families residing in poverty in the U.S. Biol. Psychol. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Sonya V. Troller-Renfree, Jessica F. Sperber, Emma R. Hart, Molly A. Costanzo, Lisa A. Gennetian, Jerrold S. Meyer, Nathan A. Fox, Kimberly G. Noble
Growing evidence suggests that maternal experiences of stress shape children’s functional brain activity in the first years of life. Individuals living in poverty are more likely to experience stress from a variety of sources. However, it is unclear how stress is related to resting brain activity among children born into poverty. The present study examines whether infants born into households experiencing