Task difficulty effects on cardiac activity.

abstract：:Using unfamiliar and meaningless pictographs that varied in their degree of similarity to Chinese characters, the current study tested whether the early electrophysiological response was modulated by character likeness. We measured P100 and N170 while 20 native Chinese speakers were viewing Chinese characters, drawing...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Zhang M,Jiang T,Mei L,Yang H,Chen C,Xue G,Dong Q

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal expectations aid performance by allowing the optimization of attentional readiness at moment of highest target probability. Reward enhances cognitive performance through its action on preparatory and reactive attentional processes. To elucidate how motivation interacts with mechanisms of implicit temporal att...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Massar SAA,Sasmita K,Lim J,Chee MWL

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficits on saccade tasks, particularly antisaccade performance, have been reliably reported in schizophrenia. However, less evidence is available on saccade performance in relation to schizotypy, a personality constellation harboring risk for schizophrenia. Here, we report a large empirical study of the associations ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Thomas EHX,Steffens M,Harms C,Rossell SL,Gurvich C,Ettinger U

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief 10-min time delay between an initial and subsequent exposure to extinction trials has been found to impair memory reconsolidation in fear-conditioned rodents and humans, providing a potential means to reduce fearfulness in anxiety disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The present study used video...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Fricchione J,Greenberg MS,Spring J,Wood N,Mueller-Pfeiffer C,Milad MR,Pitman RK,Orr SP

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the goals of neuroscience research on the reward system is to fractionate its functions into meaningful subcomponents. To this end, the present study examined emotional modulation of the eyeblink and postauricular components of startle in 60 young adults during anticipation and viewing of food images. Appetitiv...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Hebert KR,Valle-Inclán F,Hackley SA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines whether orthographic information is used during prelexical processes in spoken word recognition by investigating ERPs during spoken word processing for Korean words. Differential effects due to orthographic syllable neighborhood size and sound-to-spelling consistency on P200 and N320 were evaluated...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Kwon Y,Choi S,Lee Y

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor electrodermal response modulation is associated with substance use disorders, but the specificity of the relationship has not been tested. To test this, 112 college students were assessed for psychiatric symptoms using structured interviews and for ability to modulate skin conductance responses to 2-s 92- or 110-...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Taylor J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Al Ax's contributions to psychology and psychophysiology span almost 40 years. He had many colleagues with whom he communicated openly and generously about his early psychophysiological research. One of these, John Stern, comments below. Joanne Fetzner, a close associate of Al's during his years as director of the Psy...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Stern J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory selective attention makes it possible to pick out one speech stream that is embedded in a multispeaker environment. We adapted a cued dichotic listening task to examine suppression of a speech stream lateralized to the nonattended ear, and to evaluate the effects of attention on the right ear's well-known adv...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Payne L,Rogers CS,Wingfield A,Sekuler R

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The postauricular reflex is a relatively new psychophysiological measure of appetitive emotional processing during picture viewing. However, the degree to which other auricular (i.e., superior and anterior auricular) muscles might exhibit reflexive activity congruent with that found in the postauricular muscle has not...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Benning SD

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research found that memory is not only better for emotional information but also for neutral information that has been encoded in the context of an emotional event. In the present ERP study, we investigated two factors that may influence memory for neutral and emotional items: temporal proximity between emoti...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Wirkner J,Ventura-Bort C,Schulz P,Hamm AO,Weymar M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present ERP study investigated individual differences in the integration of verbal descriptions and visual object representations. Participants saw pictures of objects (e.g., a swimming duck) after listening to noun phrases describing the same object in the identical state, a shape-mismatching state ("flying duck"...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Hirschfeld G,Feldker K,Zwitserlood P

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing scientific interest in the psychophysiological functioning of children living in low-socioeconomic status (SES) contexts, though this research is complicated by knowledge that physiology-behavior relations often operate differently in these environments among adults. Importantly, such research is ma...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Conradt E,Beauchaine T,Abar B,Lagasse L,Shankaran S,Bada H,Bauer C,Whitaker T,Hammond J,Lester B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term exposure to noise impairs human health, causing pathological changes in the inner ear as well as other anatomical and physiological deficits. Numerous individuals are daily exposed to excessive noise. However, there is a lack of systematic research on the effects of noise on cortical function. Here we report...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Kujala T,Shtyrov Y,Winkler I,Saher M,Tervaniemi M,Sallinen M,Teder-Sälejärvi W,Alho K,Reinikainen K,Näätänen R

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arterial baroreflex system (BRS) consists of at least three closed-loop control systems: the heart rate (HR), vascular tone (VT), and stroke volume (SV) BRSs. Whereas HR-BRS gain is well studied, VT-BRS and SV-BRS gain are not. This study aimed to develop a method for quantifying VT-BRS and SV-BRS gain using an es...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Vaschillo EG,Vaschillo B,Buckman JF,Pandina RJ,Bates ME

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work suggests that dissociable activity in theta and delta frequency bands underlies several common ERP components, including the no-go N2/P3 complex, which can better index separable functional processes than traditional time-domain measures. Reports have also demonstrated that neural activity can be affected ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Harper J,Malone SM,Bachman MD,Bernat EM

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates cognitive resource allocation dependent on fluid and numerical intelligence in arithmetic/algebraic tasks varying in difficulty. Sixty-six 11th grade students participated in a mathematical verification paradigm, while pupil dilation as a measure of resource allocation was collected. Students w...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Dix A,van der Meer E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during a visual two-choice reaction time (RT) task in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and control boys selected using strict inclusion and exclusion criteria. No group differences were found in mean RT and correct responses. Although early occipital ERPs we...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Karayanidis F,Robaey P,Bourassa M,De Koning D,Geoffroy G,Pelletier G

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low spatial frequency (LSF) image content has been proposed to play a superior functional role in emotional content extraction via the magnocellular pathway biasing attentional resources toward emotional content in visual cortex. We investigated whether emotionally unpleasant complex images that were presented either ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Müller MM,Gundlach C

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we compared the performance of normal subjects in three age groups and of medicated Parkinson's disease patients on auditory selective attention processes. Two tone sequences were dichotically presented. Subjects responded to deviant tones in the attended location. Event-related potentials (ERPs)...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Karayanidis F,Andrews S,Ward PB,Michie PT

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In ERP and other large multidimensional neuroscience data sets, researchers often select regions of interest (ROIs) for analysis. The method of ROI selection can critically affect the conclusions of a study by causing the researcher to miss effects in the data or to detect spurious effects. In practice, to avoid infla...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Brooks JL,Zoumpoulaki A,Bowman H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the feasibility of saliva collection from highly anxious dental patients and to evaluate whether salivary cortisol concentrations could discriminate between 13 highly anxious dental patients and 13 non-anxious subjects. Whole mixed saliva was sampled by suction after sti...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Benjamins C,Asscheman H,Schuurs AH

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lateralized event-related potential (ERP) component elicited by attention-directing cues (ADAN) has been linked to frontal-lobe control but is often absent when spatial attention is deployed in the auditory modality. Here, we tested the hypothesis that ERP activity associated with frontal-lobe control of auditory sp...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Störmer VS,Green JJ,McDonald JJ

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychophysiological "preparatory" responses may or may not depend on a focused expectation of when a stimulus will occur. Changes in heart rate, pupillary diameter, and brain potentials were examined during trials in which foreperiod of a simple reaction time (RT) task was fixed or unpredictable. Trials were also incl...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Jennings JR,van der Molen MW,Steinhauer SR

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the effects of visual-spatial orienting on selective neural processing in boys with learning disabilities. Twenty-seven 8-12 year old boys were classified into four groups depending on whether or not they had a reading disability or attention deficit disorder. E...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Harter MR,Anllo-Vento L,Wood FB

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male and female subjects were compared on heartbeat, respiratory resistance, and light-tone signal-detection tasks. Subjects judged whether a series of 10 tones was coincident with their heartbeats; whether an external load added to the airway was either present or absent during targeted inspiratory cycles; and whethe...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Harver A,Katkin ES,Bloch E

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural basis of feedback expectation, which is crucial in learning theory, has only been minimally studied. Stimulus-preceding negativity (SPN), an ERP component that appears prior to the presentation of feedback, has been proposed as being related to feedback expectation. The present study showed, for the first t...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Morís J,Luque D,Rodríguez-Fornells A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies on aversive learning have suggested a right hemispheric advantage for eliciting autonomic reactions to a masked conditioned facial stimulus (CS) depicting anger. The present study investigated the effects of visual field (VF), stimulus awareness, and emotional valence of the CSs on indicators of condi...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Peper M,Karcher S

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior studies indicate that anxiety disorders are associated with heightened sensitivity to uncertain threat (U threat). Individual differences in reactivity to U threat have been measured in the laboratory with two methodologies-startle eyeblink potentiation and fMRI. While startle and fMRI are purported to relate to...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Gorka SM,Lieberman L,Shankman SA,Phan KL

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) holds a prominent place in models of the neural architecture supporting cognitive control and conflict processing. The findings of empirical and computational work lead to the prediction that the ACC is sensitive to response conflict and insensitive to nonresponse conflict. We teste...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： West R,Bowry R,McConville C

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00