Facilitated early cortical processing of nude human bodies.

abstract：:Twenty-four undergraduate male volunteers participated in an experimental designed to assess the effect of voluntary control of heart rate deceleration on skin conductance level. One group of subjects received heart rate feedback training and a second group performed a tracking task. Because heart-rate feedback was pr...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Gatchel RJ

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma levels of catecholamines and pituitary adrenal hormones were measured in 20 min samples from eight subjects, in one control session and two experimental sessions, while they performed a short-term memory task under quiet of noise conditions. Performing the task led to significant increase in the plasma levels o...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Brandenberger G,Follenius M,Wittersheim G,Salame P

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the startle eye blink paradigm to investigate the processes underlying physiological responding to concealed information. Autonomic responding was measured together with eye blink responses to startle probes presented during mock crime and control pictures. Based upon 'orienting theory', greater startle modula...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Verschuere B,Crombez G,Koster EH,Van Bockstaele B,De Clercq A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often show executive function (EF) problems and neurophysiological hypoarousal. Baroreceptor activation, as part of the baroreflex short-term blood pressure regulatory mechanism, has been linked to cortical inhibition and attenuated cognitive-attentional fu...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Dietrich A,Althaus M,Hartman CA,Buitelaar JK,Mindera RB,van den Hoofdakker BJ,Hoekstra PJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect that motivationally relevant stimuli have on processes of attentional engagement and disengagement was investigated during two modified peripheral cueing paradigms. Sexual, mutilation, threatening, and neutral stimuli served as peripheral cues in both experiments. Responses were made to target location in E...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Briggs KE,Martin FH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Elevated cortisol is recognized as a transient response to stress, and is also found among patients with major depressive disorder. Abnormally high levels of thyroxin are associated with nervousness and irritability, while very low levels are associated with lethargy. Therefore it is reasonable to ask if variations in...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Mazur A

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:The effects of psychological stress and the Valsalva maneuver on short-term variations of intraocular pressure (IOP) were studied in 49 healthy adults. Psychological stress consisted of mental arithmetic tasks presented in counterbalanced order by computer and by the experimenter. Additionally, a standardized Valsalva...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Brody S,Erb C,Veit R,Rau H

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of developmental changes in attentional selection in the growing child has been advanced substantially by the results of (a relatively small number of) studies undertaken from a psychophysiological perspective. The basic outcome of these studies is that, in attentional filtering as well as selective ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Ridderinkhof KR,van der Stelt O

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by avoidance, emotional numbing, increased arousal and hypervigilance for threat following a trauma. Thirty-three veterans (19 with PTSD, 14 without PTSD) who had experienced combat trauma while on deployment in Iraq and/or Afghanistan completed an emotional faces...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： MacNamara A,Post D,Kennedy AE,Rabinak CA,Phan KL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionarily old threat stimuli are likely to require less conscious information processing than threat stimuli of a more recent date. To test this proposal two differential conditioning experiments, with biological threat stimuli (e.g. snakes) in half the groups and cultural threat stimuli (e.g. guns) in the other ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Flykt A,Esteves F,Ohman A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various ventilatory and metabolic parameters were monitored in 12 subjects while they performed each of three tasks: Voluntary cardiac acceleration with the aid of continuous heart rate feedback; a static hand-grip exercise at 1/3 maximum voluntary contraction; and a combined task involving both voluntary acceleration...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Carroll D,McGovern M

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mother's cortisol secretion is importantly associated with her own mental health and her infant's cortisol secretion. This study investigated the influences of maternal history of care and maternal DRD2, SLC6A3, and OXTR genotypes on maternal cortisol in the context of infant stress. A community sample of 296 mother...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Ludmer JA,Jamieson B,Gonzalez A,Levitan R,Kennedy J,Villani V,Masellis M,Basile VS,Atkinson L

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mismatch negativity (MMN) is conceptualized as a confidence-weighted error signal elicited when a deviation violates the predicted next-state based on regularity. The mechanisms underpinning its generation remain contentious. Smaller MMN response is a robust finding in schizophrenia and reduced amplitude may impli...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Frost JD,Winkler I,Provost A,Todd J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affective states might influence inhibitory control, a cognitive process fundamental for goal adaptive behavior. Here, we recorded high-density EEG while participants performed an antisaccade task, after the induction of a happy (n=20) or neutral (n=20) mood, to compare the same inhibition-related processes across the...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Vanlessen N,De Raedt R,Mueller SC,Rossi V,Pourtois G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the influence of trait anxiety on the early stages of emotional face processing. In order to test if such early effect of anxiety could appear in response to positive as well as to negative stimuli, we recorded event-related potentials in response to both happy and fearful faces - contrasted...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Morel S,George N,Foucher A,Chammat M,Dubal S

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：: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：:Trait extraversion has been theorized to emerge from functioning of the dopaminergic reward system. Recent evidence for this view shows that extraversion modulates the scalp-recorded Reward Positivity, a putative marker of dopaminergic signaling of reward-prediction-error. We attempt to replicate this association amid...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Smillie LD,Jach HK,Hughes DM,Wacker J,Cooper AJ,Pickering AD

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:Several ERP studies have shown an orienting complex, the N2/P3a, associated to the detection of stimulus novelty. Its role consists in preparing the organism to process and react to biologically prepotent stimuli. Whether this N2/P3a: (1) could be obtained with complex visual stimuli, such as with emotional facial exp...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Campanella S,Gaspard C,Debatisse D,Bruyer R,Crommelinck M,Guerit JM

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether chronic job stress, i.e., effort-reward imbalance (ERI) and overcommitment is associated with cellular immunity among 190 male and 157 female white-collar daytime employees (mean age 38; range 22-69 years). Participants provided a blood sample for the measurement of circulating immune (natural ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Nakata A,Takahashi M,Irie M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are documented physiological differences between single and coupled individuals during the "honeymoon period" of nascent romantic relationships. One such difference is in autonomic reactivity, specifically heart rate variability (HRV) reactivity. This finding had previously been interpreted as evidence of a stre...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Bailey LK,Davis R

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human behavior is influenced by three core personality systems: approach, avoidance, and supervisory control. The supervisory control system is inversely related to impulsivity. Although past research has related some aspects of impulsivity to frontal hemispheric asymmetry, impulsivity as a multi-faceted construct has...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Neal LB,Gable PA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although first-impressions are known to impact decision-making and to have prolonged effects on reasoning, it is less well known that the same type of rapidly formed assumptions can explain biases in automatic relevance filtering outside of deliberate behavior. This paper features two studies in which participants hav...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Mullens D,Winkler I,Damaso K,Heathcote A,Whitson L,Provost A,Todd J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral processing of emotion has been the subject of a number of recent studies, but results relating to hemispheric asymmetry have been quite mixed. The present study attempted to clarify and extend findings in this area by examining the differential effects of cognitive and affective sets on hemisphere asymmet...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Meyers MB,Smith BD

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the locus of the effect of alerting on response conflict, and examined whether this effect may be interpreted as an alerting-triggered imbalance of speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT). Participants performed the flanker task with an alerting tone in half of the trials and SAT manipulation. Beh...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Asanowicz D,Wołoszyn K,Panek B,Wronka E

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motivational states may be induced by affective foreground stimulation or via proprioceptive feedback by certain postures or body movements. In the present study, we addressed the question of an interaction between basic motor actions and the valence of visual stimuli in an affective modulation of startle paradigm: is...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Deuter CE,Best D,Kuehl LK,Neumann R,Schächinger H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00