Mental rotation in female fraternal twins: Evidence for intra-uterine hormone transfer?

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：:Event-related potential (ERP) correlates of distraction are usually investigated in the oddball paradigm following a discrete, trial-by-trial stimulation protocol. In this design, participants perform a discrimination task while oddball stimuli deviate in a task-irrelevant stimulus feature. In our experiment, particip...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Horváth J,Winkler I

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural processing of emotional pictures is often indexed by two electrocortical responses: the early posterior negativity (EPN) and the late positive potential (LPP). Because emotional pictures vary in nonemotional features (e.g., composition, human content, and spatial frequency), researchers often match pictures on ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Wiens S,Sand A,Olofsson JK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies that have attempted to determine the effects of aging on the brain neural sources of memory retrieval have reported two contrasting age effects: under-recruitment and over-recruitment of several prefrontal areas. However, the causes for these effects are still a matter of debate. In order to study the underlyi...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Galdo-Alvarez S,Lindín M,Díaz F

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofeedback training of the sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) was carried out in three male and three female adolescent epileptics and in two normal controls. The patients represented a cross-section of epilepsies including grand mal, myoclonic, afocal and psychomotor types. Three of the cases were mentally retarded. 12-14 Hz...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Seifert AR,Lubar JF

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Neurotic' and 'stable' groups (n = 8) were formed by means of the Finnish version of the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Subjects were exposed individually to 80-100 dBA broadband noise. No overt response was made. The dependent variable was the pupil dilation. The louder the noise, the larger the pupil was. At each l...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Antikainen J,Niemi P

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to long-term stress has a variety of consequences on the brain and cognition. Few studies have examined the influence of long-term stress on event related potential (ERP) indices of error processing. The current study investigated how long-term academic stress modulates the error related negativity (Ne or ERN...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Wu J,Yuan Y,Duan H,Qin S,Buchanan TW,Zhang K,Zhang L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotion and attention are key players in the modulation of pain perception. However, much less is known about the reverse influence of pain on attentional and especially emotional processes. To this end, we employed painful vs. non-painful pressure stimulation to examine effects on the processing of simultaneously pre...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Wieser MJ,Gerdes AB,Greiner R,Reicherts P,Pauli P

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"What is an emotion?" William James's seminal paper in Mind (1884) proposed the idea that physiological and behavioral responses precede subjective experience in emotions that are marked by "distinct bodily expression." This notion has broadly inspired the investigation of emotion-specific autonomic nervous system act...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Friedman BH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has found that high approach-motivated positive affect narrows cognitive scope. Additionally, this narrowing of cognitive scope in high approach-motivated states is related to neural correlates of motor-action preparation, including beta suppression over the motor cortex. However, past studies have o...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Threadgill AH,Gable PA

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parsing strategies in temporarily ambiguous sentences were investigated in readers with different sentence memory capacities using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Readers with a high memory span as well as readers with a low memory span were required to read subject and object relative sentences which were eith...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Friederici AD,Steinhauer K,Mecklinger A,Meyer M

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evoked cortical potentials were recorded from rats reared in either a complex sensory environment or in isolation. Potentials from enriched animals showed a decrease in amplitude with repeated somatic stimuli, whereas those from isolated animals did not. One hour after this experiment both groups showed similar decrea...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Leah J,Allardyce H,Cummins R

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by information processing biases, however, their underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. The goal of this review was to give a comprehensive overview of the most frequently studied EEG spectral and event-related potential (ERP) measures in social anxiety du...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Harrewijn A,Schmidt LA,Westenberg PM,Tang A,van der Molen MJW

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated differences in nervous system activity and in psychological and behavioural variables between the "baseline" follicular and the premenstrual phases. Twenty women with severe premenstrual syndrome were compared with 20 non-sufferers (10 from each group in each cycle phase). The Patient groups ha...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Asso D,Magos A

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes of EEG alpha asymmetry in terms of increased right versus left sided activity in prefrontal cortex are considered to index activation of the withdrawal/avoidance motivational system. The present study aimed to add evidence of the validity of individual differences in the EEG alpha asymmetry response and their ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Papousek I,Weiss EM,Schulter G,Fink A,Reiser EM,Lackner HK

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the auditory system, cortical event-related potential amplitudes are enhanced during selective attention within the auditory channel. In the case of brainstem responses, however, the results are less clear since only a few studies have reported attention effects. Nearly all of these studies have used click stimuli ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Galbraith GC,Arroyo C

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects were tested in a cued reaction-time task wherein warning stimuli (S1) of 5-letter words or dot patterns inter-mixed across trials were briefly presented. After 2 sec a second stimulus (S2) of th same category as the S1 appeared and the subject pressed a key with the left or right hand. The right key was press...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Rebert CS,Lowe RC

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical framework has been put forward to understand attention deficits in schizophrenia (Luck SJ & Gold JM. Biological Psychiatry. 2008; 64:34-39). We adopted this framework to evaluate any deficits in attentional processes in schizotypy. Sixteen low schizotypal (LoS) and 16 high schizotypal (HiS) individuals p...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Fuggetta G,Bennett MA,Duke PA

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cool vehicle cabin temperatures can induce short-term non-hypothermic cold stress. The current study created a cold condition to examine the impact of cold stress on driving behavior. Forty-four participants drove a high-fidelity driving simulator during a thermal neutral or local torso cooled condition. Participants ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Morris DM,Pilcher JJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contingent Negative Variation (CNV) was compared in four paradigms inducing distinct processes. All paradigms comprised empty intervals of 4 sec bounded by two 100 msec stimuli (S1 and S2) or by S1 and the response (a button press). In paradigm ID (Intensity Discrimination), the S1-S2 interval was followed, after ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Macar F,Besson M

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of salient foreground stimuli in evoked potentials to weak background probe stimuli were examined in situations requiring passive observation or discriminative judgments of foreground tone stimuli. The background probe stimuli consisted of a continual train of weak acoustic stimuli presented at a rate of a...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Rohrbaugh JW,Varner JL,Paige SR,Eckardt MJ,Ellingson RJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ERPs to visual language stimuli were recorded in normal children (7-18 years) and adults from Fpz, Fz, Cz, Pz, Oz, F3, F4, C3, C4, P3, P4, T3, T4, T5 and T6. An oddball paradigm was employed with letter discrimination and lexical decision tasks. N2 and P3 latencies decreased significantly with age, N2 until adolescenc...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Taylor MJ

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen subjects learned to adjust their breath pattern to two target breaths displayed on a video screen, by using visual feedback, during two sessions 24 h apart. These two targets were respectively the smallest and the largest breaths of a ten-breath sample previously recorded from each subject's resting spontaneo...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Blanc-Gras N,Estève F,Benchetrit G,Gallego J

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is still unclear why some individuals completely recover after an acute trauma and others develop a long-lasting post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study investigates whether the contingent negative variation (CNV) - a slow negative event-related potential - may be associated with the occurrence of PTSD af...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Kowalski JT,Falkenhagen F,Radtke Y,Niederberger U,Petermann F,Darabaneanu S,Steinmann E,Gerber WD,Siniatchkin M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The somatic marker hypothesis (Damasio, Tranel, & Damasio, 1991) is a controversial theory asserting that somatic activities implicitly bias human behavior. In this study, we examined the relationship between choice behaviors in the Iowa Gambling Task and patterns of skin conductance responses (SCRs) within a healthy ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Suzuki A,Hirota A,Takasawa N,Shigemasu K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined age-related alterations in electrocortical indices of performance monitoring in a probabilistic learning situation. The results showed differences between younger and older adults in the modulation of response- and feedback-related negativities by feedback validity. In younger adults, the error-rel...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Pietschmann M,Endrass T,Czerwon B,Kathmann N

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type of threat shown in an image influences the emotional salience of unpleasant images. Seventy-four participants (21 male) rated high threat, moderate threat, and neutral images featuring reptiles, firearms, or humans as electroencephalographic activity was recorded. The magnitude of P3b amplitudes coincided wit...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Miller RK,Martin FH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate variability (HRV) associated with parasympathetic activity (i.e., cardiac vagal tone) is reduced in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but possible confounding effects of respiration have not been studied sufficiently. Further, reduced parasympathetic inhibition might contribute to elevated heart rate (H...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Smith TW,Deits-Lebehn C,Caska-Wallace CM,Renshaw KD,Uchino BN

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two ERP experiments were designed to explore the effect of predictability (Exp1) and probability (Exp2) on the perception of others' pain, respectively. In Exp1, we compared the ERP responses to painful and non-painful pictures when they were fully predictable and fully unpredictable. Results revealed that when the va...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Liao C,Wu H,Guan Q,Luo Y,Cui F

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High cardiac vagal control (as measured by respiratory sinus arrhythmia; RSA) is associated with lower depression. Recent theories argue that people's responsiveness to social resources is a key mechanism in this association. This argument implies two hypotheses: first, high RSA should be related to decreased depressi...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Hopp H,Shallcross AJ,Ford BQ,Troy AS,Wilhelm FH,Mauss IB

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00