Prefrontal, parietal and basal activation associated with the reordering of a two-element list held in working memory.

abstract：:People with specific animal phobias react with increased autonomic activity when exposed to fear-relevant stimuli. The present study examined whether individuals having a less circumscribed fear (public speaking fear) also react with increased autonomic responses when exposed to fear-relevant i.e. social stimuli. A Hi...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Dimberg U,Fredrikson M,Lundquist O

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used a novel eye-gaze contingent attention training (ECAT) to test the prediction that attention regulation is involved in reappraisal and rumination. Sixty-six undergraduates were randomly assigned to either the control or the active training condition of the ECAT. Active ECAT comprised training in allocat...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Sanchez-Lopez A,Everaert J,Van Put J,De Raedt R,Koster EHW

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined lateralized event-related potentials (L-ERPs) associated with movement preparation and execution. In a response precuing task that involved hand and foot movements a precue conveyed either information about side and effector, side alone, or no information. Advance movement preparation was in...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Leuthold H,Jentzsch I

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article examines developmental differences across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood in the triphasic anticipatory heart rate response and the impact of age on the relationship between anticipatory deceleration (D2) and reaction time (RT). Heart rate and RT were recorded from participants ages 5-25 duri...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Byrd DL,Berg WK

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality assessment has been challenged by the fact that different assessment methods (implicit measures, behavioral measures and explicit rating scales) show little or no convergence in behavioral studies. In this neuroimaging study we address for the first time, whether different assessment methods rely on separa...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Pletzer B,M Ortner T

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of neuroaesthetics assume, that looking at traces of actions used in creating artwork (e.g. brush marks) is associated with a simulation of these actions in the observer's sensorimotor-cortex. The aim of the current study is to dissociate the activation of the sensorimotor-cortex by the observation of action ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Hoenen M,Lübke KT,Pause BM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study it was found that infrequent deviant visual stimuli, in a series of standards, elicited event-related potentials (ERPs) with enhanced P2-N2s and P3 amplitudes, suggesting that these parameters reflect processes related to the orienting reaction (OR). In the present study a similar oddball series wa...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Kenemans JL,Verbaten MN,Melis CJ,Slangen JL

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the personality trait of extraversion has been linked to enhanced reward sensitivity and its putative neural correlates, little is known about whether extraverts' neural circuits are particularly sensitive to social rewards, given their preference for social engagement and social interactions. Using event-relate...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Fishman I,Ng R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in the stress response and endogenous pain regulation mechanisms may contribute directly and indirectly to maintenance of nicotine dependence and relapse. We examined the extent to which nicotine dependence alters endogenous pain regulatory systems, including the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis,...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： al'Absi M,Nakajima M,Grabowski J

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Boxers' attention and orienting mechanisms were investigated using event-related brain potential recordings, before and after a fight. This study did not reveal any abnormalities of attention or detection processes. However, a slight deficit in the orienting reaction towards stimuli delivered in the right ear, related...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Breton F,Pincemaille Y,Tarriere C,Renault B

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons between expectations and outcomes are critical for learning. Termed prediction errors, the violations of expectancy that occur when outcomes differ from expectations are used to modify value and shape behaviour. In the present study, we examined how a wide range of expectancy violations impacted neural sig...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Williams CC,Hassall CD,Trska R,Holroyd CB,Krigolson OE

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we measured event-related potentials (ERPs) and evoked heart rate (EHR) to investigate performance monitoring in 10-12-year-old children. The children received feedback on their performance while conducting a probabilistic learning task. Error-related ERP components time-locked to the response increased ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Groen Y,Wijers AA,Mulder LJ,Minderaa RB,Althaus M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antisaccade experiment, using happy, sad, and neutral faces, was conducted to examine the effect of mood-congruent information on inhibitory control (antisaccade task) and attentional orienting (prosaccade task) during the different episodes of bipolar disorder (BD) - manic (n=22), depressive (n=25), and euthymic (...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： García-Blanco AC,Perea M,Salmerón L

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that individuals who are more obese may be more responsive to stress. Stress activates the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the adipose-tissue cytokine leptin stimulates SNS activity in animals. We examined the relationship between adiposity, leptin and physiological responses to acute laboratory...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Brydon L

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-seven female students were assigned to groups consisting of 55 infrequent and 42 frequent binge drinkers. The groups were compared on self-report measures of impulsivity, sensation seeking, and alexithymia, as well as several measures relevant to neural and genetic mechanisms, such as brain activation during a ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Bauer LO,Ceballos NA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of night-shift work and noise on arousal and stress reactions have, to date, been investigated separately. The aim of this study was to compare their psychophysiological effects in combination. Twenty-four male student subjects continuously performed ten hours of visual display tasks per 24 h under highl...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Boucsein W,Ottmann W

更新日期：1996-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Men outperform women in mental rotation by about one standard deviation. Prenatal exposure to testosterone has been suggested as one cause. In animals it has been shown that a female fetus located between two male ones is exposed to higher levels of testosterone. It is still unclear whether intra-uterine hormone trans...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Heil M,Kavšek M,Rolke B,Beste C,Jansen P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortisol has been found to increase in response to social evaluative threat. However, little is known about the cortisol response to induced anger. Thus, in the present study, we investigated the cortisol response to anger induction and its effects on performance and explicit memory. A variant of the Montreal Stress I...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Kazén M,Kuenne T,Frankenberg H,Quirin M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies testing the benefits of enriching smoking-cessation video ads with attention-grabbing sensory features have yielded variable results. Dopamine transporter gene (DAT1) has been implicated in attention deficits. We hypothesized that DAT1 polymorphism is partially responsible for this variability. Using functiona...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Shi Z,Wang AL,Aronowitz CA,Romer D,Langleben DD

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the links between physiological arousal and adults' memory for emotional information are well understood, little is known about these links across development or when memory is examined for the actual event that induced arousal. In the current study, we examined the associations between physiological arousal ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Quas JA,Yim IS,Rush E,Sumaroka M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pupillary size, pupillary light reflex and pupillary motility were measured every 15 min, for 10 continuous hours, in eight young adults. Time series constructed from the range of pupillary motility revealed 75 to 125 min rhythms; these were significantly out of phase with rhythms of similar periodicity in pupillary d...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Lavie P

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between individual differences in acute fatigue and endogenous cortisol changes elicited by the sustained performance of cognitively demanding tasks (fatigue condition). Healthy males provided salivary cortisol measurements and subjective fatigue ratings, and were scanned (functional m...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Klaassen EB,de Groot RH,Evers EA,Nicolson NA,Veltman DJ,Jolles J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two male subjects were divided into four groups based on their performance on the remote associates test and alternate uses test, two measures of creativity. Right EEG alpha presence was monitored under basal conditions, while subjects took tests of creativity and intelligence, and while they attempted to enhan...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Martindale C,Hines D

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual search paradigms have provided evidence for the enhanced capture of attention by threatening faces. Especially in social anxiety, hypervigilance for threatening faces has been found repeatedly across behavioral paradigms, whose reliability however have been questioned recently. In this EEG study, we sought to d...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Wieser MJ,Hambach A,Weymar M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional (i.e., kinematic) aspects of the blink reflex depend on the size of the integrated orbicularis oculi EMG response. Peak amplitude of smoothed rectified EMG is often used as an approximation of integrated EMG. A comparison was made between the outputs of 24 different smoothing filters, correlating peak a...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： van Boxtel A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure was devised to investigate discrimination and control of heart rate (HR) concurrently. Eighteen volunteers were divided into two equal groups instructed either to increase or to decrease HR during four experimental sessions. In addition, subjects were required to indicate whenever they thought they were su...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Ross A

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii, a parasitic protozoan, infects about 30-60% of people worldwide. The latent toxoplasmosis, i.e. life-long presence of cysts in the brain and muscular tissues, has no effect on human health. However, infected subjects score worse in psychomotor performance tests and have different personality profile...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Flegr J,Preiss M,Klose J,Havlícek J,Vitáková M,Kodym P

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the influence of trait anxiety on event-related potentials (ERPs) to fearful, happy, and neutral faces. Fearful faces, relative to neutral, elicited a range of effects in the low-trait anxiety (LTA) group: an enhanced visual P1 component, an early posterior negativity (EPN), and a sustained fro...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Holmes A,Nielsen MK,Green S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Working memory scanning and motor response speeds were assessed in chronically sleep restricted participants using the Sternberg item recognition paradigm (SIRP). Twenty-two healthy volunteers (ages 21-30) living in a controlled hospital environment were allowed either 4h of sleep opportunity (50% of habitual sleep) o...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Casement MD,Broussard JL,Mullington JM,Press DZ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated differences in ERP parameters related to intelligence. For that purpose 74 individuals (Intelligence: M=107; S.D.=12; range 73-135), of average creativity passively listened to two tones and performed two auditory, and two visual oddball tasks while their EEG was recorded. The approximat...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Jausovec N,Jausovec K

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00