abstract：:Recent efforts to replicate structural brain-behavior correlations have called into question the replicability of structural brain measures used in cognitive neuroscience. Here, we report an evaluation of test-retest reliability of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measures, including fractional anisotropy, mean diffusiv...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Boekel W,Forstmann BU,Keuken MC

更新日期：2017-01-01 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 development of neurocognitive mechanisms in single word reading was studied in children ages 8-10 years using ERPs combined with priming manipulations aimed at dissociating orthographic and phonological processes. Transposed-letter (TL) priming (barin-BRAIN vs. bosin-BRAIN) was used to assess orthographic processi...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Eddy MD,Grainger J,Holcomb PJ,Gabrieli JD

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many everyday activities require time-pressured sensorimotor decision making. Traditionally, perception, decision, and action processes were considered to occur in series, but this idea has been successfully challenged, particularly by neurophysiological work in animals. However, the generality of parallel processing ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Hadar AA,Rowe P,Di Costa S,Jones A,Yarrow K

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of cardiac cycle time on attentional selection was investigated in an experiment in which participants classified target letters in a visual selection task. Stimulus onsets were aligned to the R wave of the electrocardiogram and stimuli presented either during the ventricular systole or diastole. Selection ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Pramme L,Larra MF,Schächinger H,Frings C

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The habituation of the acoustic startle reflex (ASR) was examined concerning individual differences in sensitivity to punishment (PUN) and sensitivity to reward (REW), within the general framework of the reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) of personality. Two hypotheses derived from the RST were evaluated: the sepa...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Blanch A,Aluja A,Blanco E,Balada F

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:Numerous studies have documented an inverse relationship between blood pressure and sensitivity to experimental nociceptive stimulation. The present study aimed to investigate possible associations between blood pressure and the occurrence and intensity of paradoxical pain induced by the thermal grill paradigm. Thirty...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Scheuren R,Duschek S,Schulz A,Sütterlin S,Anton F

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reward positivity is a component of the human ERP elicited by feedback stimuli in trial-and-error learning and guessing tasks. A prominent theory holds that the reward positivity reflects a reward prediction error signal that is sensitive to outcome valence, being larger for unexpected positive events relative to ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Heydari S,Holroyd CB

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotion regulation in the ongoing presence of a threat is essential for adaptive behavior. Threatening situations change over time and, as a consequence, require a fine-tuned, dynamic regulation of arousal to match the current state of the environment. Constructs such as cognitive flexibility, heart rate variability, ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Hildebrandt LK,McCall C,Engen HG,Singer T

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study assessed peripheral responses during decision making under explicit risk, and tested whether intraindividual variability in choice behavior can be explained by fluctuations in peripheral arousal. Electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate (HR) were monitored in healthy volunteers (N = 68) during the...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Studer B,Scheibehenne B,Clark L

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potentially life-threatening interoceptive sensations easily engage the behavioral defensive system. Resulting fear and anxiety toward interoceptive threat are functionally distinct states that are hypothesized to play a prominent role in the etiology of panic disorder. The present study aimed to investigate whether f...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Schroijen M,Fantoni S,Rivera C,Vervliet B,Schruers K,van den Bergh O,van Diest I

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is often accompanied by weight stigmatization; subsequently, individuals with obesity frequently face social rejection. It has been shown that recurrent negative social experiences can alter the perception of social cues. However, the way individuals with obesity process social stimuli is not well understood. ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Kube J,Schrimpf A,García-García I,Villringer A,Neumann J,Horstmann A

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:A rapidly growing body of research suggests that meditation can change brain and cognitive functioning. Yet little is known about the neurochemical mechanisms underlying meditation-related changes in cognition. Here, we investigated the effects of meditation on spontaneous eyeblink rates (sEBR), a noninvasive peripher...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Kruis A,Slagter HA,Bachhuber DR,Davidson RJ,Lutz A

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:In healthy individuals, a reduction in cardiovascular output and a shift to parasympathetic/vagal dominant activity is observed across nocturnal sleep. This cardiac autonomic profile, often measured by heart rate variability (HRV), has been associated with significant benefits for the cardiovascular system. However, l...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Cellini N,Whitehurst LN,McDevitt EA,Mednick SC

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two four-choice reaction time (RT) experiments used the lateralized readiness potential (LRP) and the limb selection potential (LSP) to assess the effects of spatial S-R compatibility on motor processes. Individual stimuli were presented at one corner of a square centered at fixation, and each response was made with t...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Miller J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccadic tasks are widely used to study cognitive processes, effects of pharmacological treatments, and mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders. In genetic studies, it is assumed that saccadic endophenotypes are traits. While internal consistency and temporal stability of saccadic performance is high for most of t...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Meyhöfer I,Bertsch K,Esser M,Ettinger U

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on the neural response to errors has an important role in the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project, since it is likely to link psychopathology to the dysfunction of neural systems underlying basic behavioral functions, with the error-related negativity (ERN) appearing as a unit of measurement in three RDoC...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Hanna GL,Gehring WJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative endeavors to foster a science of psychopathology based around dimensions of brain-behavior relationships as opposed to subjectively based diagnostic categories. A rapidly accumulating array of transdiagnostic commonalities, across multiple objective and subjective measure...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： McTeague LM

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:In accordance with simulation theories of empathy, the somatosensory cortex is involved in the perception of pain of others. Cognitive processes, like perspective taking, can alter empathy-related activity within the somatosensory cortex. The current study investigates whether this modulation is caused by the imagined...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Hoenen M,Lübke KT,Pause BM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Startle potentiation is a well-validated translational measure of negative affect. Startle potentiation is widely used in clinical and affective science, and there are multiple approaches for its quantification. The three most commonly used approaches quantify startle potentiation as the increase in startle response f...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Bradford DE,Starr MJ,Shackman AJ,Curtin JJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the psychophysiological correlates of the subjective experience of vicarious pain; that is, a spontaneous experience of pain when seeing another in pain. Forty-nine healthy, otherwise pain-free individuals aged 18-55 years completed empathy and anxiety questionnaires and were classified into th...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Nazarewicz J,Verdejo-Garcia A,Giummarra MJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides visual salience and observers' current intention, prior learning experience may influence deployment of visual attention. Associative learning models postulate that observers pay more attention to stimuli previously experienced as reliable predictors of specific outcomes. To investigate the impact of learning ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Feldmann-Wüstefeld T,Uengoer M,Schubö A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pupil response discriminates between old and new stimuli, with old stimuli characterized by larger pupil dilation patterns than new stimuli. We sought to explore the cause of the pupil old/new effect and discount the effect of targetness, effort, recollection retrieval, and complexity of the recognition decision. ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Kafkas A,Montaldi D

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the interplay between inhibition and updating, two executive working memory (WM) functions. We applied a novel task paradigm consisting of flanker stimuli presented within an n-back task and studied the interaction between inhibitory demands and load on WM updating using behavioral measures, EEG, and p...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Scharinger C,Soutschek A,Schubert T,Gerjets P

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When we change sidewalks because we see vomit or dog feces, we are avoiding disgusting stimuli. However, it is unclear how we shift spatial attention itself away from disgusting stimuli. In the present study, we used a multisensory spatial-cuing paradigm as a tool to test if a disgusting sound is avoided by redirectin...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Zimmer U,Keppel MT,Poglitsch C,Ischebeck A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research indicates that the reward positivity (RewP), an electrophysiological correlate of sensitivity and biases towards rewarding stimuli, is modulated by affective and motivational variables. Studies have provided evidence that states and traits associated with negative affect and reduced approach motivati...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Angus DJ,Kemkes K,Schutter DJ,Harmon-Jones E

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory sensory memory is an important ability for successful language acquisition and processing. The mismatch negativity (MMN) in response to auditory stimuli has been proposed as an objective tool to measure the existence of auditory sensory memory traces. By increasing interstimulus intervals, attenuation of MMN ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Bartha-Doering L,Deuster D,Giordano V,am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen A,Dobel C

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Startle blink as well as skin conductance responses (SCR) are widely used indices of learning processes associated with fear conditioning and extinction. During safety learning, the amygdala is under top-down inhibitory control by the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The capacity of the PFC to exert inhibitory control over su...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Wendt J,Neubert J,Koenig J,Thayer JF,Hamm AO

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying neurocognitive processes associated with effective inhibitory control is particularly relevant for individuals at high risk for disruptive behaviors, such as maltreated children. Performance feedback processing during a flanker task was investigated in maltreated preschool-aged children (N = 67) via an eve...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Roos LE,Pears K,Bruce J,Kim HK,Fisher PA

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：: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：:Long-term stability of individual differences in stress responses has repeatedly been demonstrated in adults, but few studies have investigated the development of stability in adolescence. The present study was the first to investigate the stability of individual differences in heart rate, parasympathetic (RMSSD, pNN5...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： van den Bos E,Westenberg PM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, autonomic nervous system, and immune system have been proposed to underlie the antidepressant effect of exercise. Using a population sample of 715 adolescents, we examined whether pathways from exercise to affective and somatic symptoms of depression were mediated by these puta...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Booij SH,Bos EH,de Jonge P,Oldehinkel AJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) may reflect central noradrenergic activity. In this study, we investigated salivary MHPG changes after awakening, and explored their relationships with cortisol and peripheral autonomic activity. The participants were 25 college students. Saliva samples were collected o...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Sugaya N,Izawa S,Yamamoto R,Ogawa N,Yajima J,Okamura H,Horiuchi S,Tsuda A,Nomura S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated responses to near-wins (i.e., nonwin outcomes that were close to a major win, and their counterpart, near-losses (nonwin outcomes that are proximal to a major loss) in a decision-making task, measuring (a) luck ratings, (b) adjustment of bet amount, and (c) facial muscle reactivity at zygomatic...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Wu Y,van Dijk E,Clark L

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing theories regarding the neural mechanism underlying the N2pc suggest that it reflects target enhancement or distractor suppression, but we suggest a different theory. In our study, participants viewed a bilateral dual-stream rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP). Each trial had either one or two targets (T1...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Tan M,Wyble B

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00