Changes in the EEG as the subject learns to recall.

abstract：:In this study, we examined whether the Met allele of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is associated with selective disruptions to task-relevant information processing. In 475 non-clinical participants for whom BDNF genotype status was determined we used the 'IntegNeuro' computerized battery of neuropsychological tests t...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Schofield PR,Williams LM,Paul RH,Gatt JM,Brown K,Luty A,Cooper N,Grieve S,Dobson-Stone C,Morris C,Kuan SA,Gordon E

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedural learning facilitates the efficient processing of complex environmental stimuli and contributes to the acquisition of automatic behaviors. Although earlier findings suggest different temporal trajectories of the multiple learning processes within procedural learning, this has not been clarified at the level ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Kóbor A,Takács Á,Kardos Z,Janacsek K,Horváth K,Csépe V,Nemeth D

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:Between-person variability in pain sensitivity remains poorly understood. Given a conceptualization of pain as a homeostatic emotion, we hypothesized inverse associations between measures of resting heart rate variability (HRV), an index of autonomic regulation of heart rate that has been linked to emotionality, and s...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Appelhans BM,Luecken LJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, sleep and hibernation were not usually considered to be closely related states (e.g. Dement, 1967). However, two current lines of research point toward a system of relations between caloric intake, thermogenesis, metabolic rate and adiposity in the regulation of the energy balance of warm-blooded anima...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Berger RJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies on depression have found that childhood abuse (CA) is associated with a persistent sensitization of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis to stress in adulthood. So far, it is unknown whether this HPA-axis sensitization is specific to depression, or whether this is a more general outcome asso...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Elzinga BM,Spinhoven P,Berretty E,de Jong P,Roelofs K

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：:We review the evidence for a genetic basis of the cardiovascular and renal stress response. A bio-behavioral model of stress-induced hypertension is presented that explains how repeated exposure to stress in combination with genetic susceptibility might lead to the development of hypertension. In this model, we focus ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Snieder H,Harshfield GA,Barbeau P,Pollock DM,Pollock JS,Treiber FA

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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：: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 salivary cortisol profiles in the first hour after awakening in morning versus evening chronotypes. Chronotypes were defined by Horne and Ostberg's Owl-and-Lark-Questionnaire. In a sample of 112 healthy, day-active young men, we identified 9 morning and 29 evening chronotypes. Saliva samples were colle...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Kudielka BM,Federenko IS,Hellhammer DH,Wüst S

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:We examined whether social drinkers whose drinking behavior poses a risk for harmful consequences exhibit altered psychobiological responses to stress following moderate alcohol intake. At risk (n=17) and low risk drinkers (n=27), as identified by the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, completed two laboratory...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Nakajima M,Kumar S,Wittmers L,Scott MS,al'Absi M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional brain imaging has identified specialized neural systems supporting human body perception. Responses to nude vs. clothed bodies within this system are amplified. However, it remains unresolved whether nude and clothed bodies are processed by same cerebral networks or whether processing of nude bodies recruit...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Alho J,Salminen N,Sams M,Hietanen JK,Nummenmaa L

更新日期：2015-07-01 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

abstract：:It has long been known that the diameter of human pupil enlarges with increasing effort during the execution of a task. This has been observed not only for purely mechanical effort but also for mental effort, as for example the computation of arithmetic problems with different levels of difficulty. Here we show that p...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Lisi M,Bonato M,Zorzi M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal breathing is usually not sensed by the individual. Individuals become aware of their breathing at the cognitive level when breathing pattern is manipulated. Airway obstruction activates lung and muscle mechanoreceptors that project to the somatosensory cortex. Cortical neuronal activation in the somatosensory c...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Chan PY,Davenport PW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial attractiveness plays a key role in human social and affective behavior. To study the time course of the neural processing of attractiveness and its influence on recognition memory we investigated the event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited in an old/new recognition task in response to faces with a neutral expr...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Marzi T,Viggiano MP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence suggests that alterations in autonomic function contribute to the pathophysiology of panic disorder (PD). This retrospective study employed 24-h heart rate variability (HRV) analysis of Holter records to compare autonomic function in PD patients (n = 38) with healthy, age- and gender-matched controls....

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： McCraty R,Atkinson M,Tomasino D,Stuppy WP

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:The Laceys' account of the significance of heart rate changes for behaviour is critically evaluated. Two interwoven propositions are discerned in their account: first, the cardiac variations regulate central attentional activities via an afferent feedback mechanism; second, that environmental intake-rejection comprise...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Carroll D,Anastasiades P

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purposes of this exploratory study were: (1) to describe a 2-h segment of the early-morning salivary cortisol levels of morning (M) and evening (E) types of healthy, day-active adults on one morning; and (2) to compare selected demographic and sleep characteristics. The sample consisted of 20 subjects, aged 23-39 ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Bailey SL,Heitkemper MM

更新日期：1991-10-01 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：:Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 25 adolescents in a modification of the odd-ball paradigm. On alternate blocks subjects were required to detect either a missing stimulus or a change in pitch, each of which occurred 17% of the time and was embedded in a series of background tone pips (66% occurrence)...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Friedman D

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different emotion regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, are strongly associated with increased neural activity in the prefrontal cognitive control network. In this event-related fMRI study, we investigated whether individual differences in habitual reappraisal and suppression ten...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Vanderhasselt MA,Baeken C,Van Schuerbeek P,Luypaert R,De Raedt R

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：: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：:Little is known about the effects of the commonly-used oral contraceptive pill (OC) on cognition. This study compared matched healthy women across the menstrual cycle (early-follicular 'Low E/P', mid-luteal 'High E/P'), women using the combined OC, and men. The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychologic...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Gogos A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00