abstract：:ERP averaging is an extraordinarily successful method, but can only be applied to a limited range of experimental designs. We introduce the regression-based rERP framework, which extends ERP averaging to handle arbitrary combinations of categorical and continuous covariates, partial confounding, nonlinear effects, and...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Smith NJ,Kutas M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this editorial, I discuss the advantages of interpreting brain data in the context of other bodily systems. I also discuss current research challenges that may greatly benefit from a psychophysiological approach in which multiple methods--both peripheral and central--are used to improve our understanding of brain f...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Fabiani M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a widely accepted notion that movement elements are assembled prior to movement execution in a central motor programming stage. However, it is not clear how this stage is structured-whether it is a unitary stage allowing different motor parameters to cross talk or whether there are several independent process...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Xu L,Sommer W,Masaki H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review and summarize seven molecular genetic studies of 17 psychophysiological endophenotypes that comprise this special issue of Psychophysiology, address criticisms raised in accompanying Perspective and Commentary pieces, and offer suggestions for future research. Endophenotypes are polygenic, and possibly influ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Iacono WG,Vaidyanathan U,Vrieze SI,Malone SM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole genome sequencing was completed on 1,325 individuals from 602 families, identifying 27 million autosomal variants. Genetic association tests were conducted for those individuals who had been assessed for one or more of 17 endophenotypes (N range = 802-1,185). No significant associations were found. These 27 mill...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Vrieze SI,Malone SM,Vaidyanathan U,Kwong A,Kang HM,Zhan X,Flickinger M,Irons D,Jun G,Locke AE,Pistis G,Porcu E,Levy S,Myers RM,Oetting W,McGue M,Abecasis G,Iacono WG

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This special issue addresses the heritability and molecular genetic basis of 17 putative endophenotypes involving resting EEG power, P300 event-related potential amplitude, electrodermal orienting and habituation, antisaccade eye tracking, and affective modulation of the startle eye blink. These measures were collecte...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Iacono WG

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of meta-analyses was undertaken to determine the contributions of sympathetic and parasympathetic activation to cardiovascular stress reactivity. A literature search yielded 186 studies of sufficient quality that measured indices of sympathetic (n = 113) and/or parasympathetic activity (n = 73). A range of ps...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Brindle RC,Ginty AT,Phillips AC,Carroll D

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated whether the right hemisphere preponderance of stimulus-preceding negativity (SPN) was affected by different categories of visual feedback stimulus. A time estimation task was performed with facial, verbal, symbolic, and no-feedback conditions. A principal component analysis identified an...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Ohgami Y,Kotani Y,Arai J,Kiryu S,Inoue Y

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Concealed Information Test (CIT) uses psychophysiological measures to determine the presence or absence of crime-related information in a suspect's memory. We conducted a meta-analysis on the validity of the CIT based on four physiological measures-skin conductance response (SCR), respiration line length (RLL), ch...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Meijer EH,klein Selle N,Elber L,Ben-Shakhar G

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Error processing is frequently examined using the error-related negativity (ERN), a negative-going event-related potential occurring after the commission of an error at frontal-central sites, and has been suggested as a neural biomarker that may be useful in characterizing trajectories of risk for anxiety. While the E...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Meyer A,Bress JN,Proudfit GH

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An age-related "anterior shift" in the distribution of the P3b is often reported. Temporospatial principal component analysis (PCA) was used to investigate the basis of this observation. ERPs were measured in young and old adults during a visual oddball task. PCA revealed two spatially distinct factors in both age gro...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Alperin BR,Mott KK,Rentz DM,Holcomb PJ,Daffner KR

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control-related cognitive processes are associated with cortical oscillations and modulated by catecholamine neurotransmitters. It remains unclear how catecholamine systems modulate control-related oscillations. We tested modafinil effects on rule-related 4-30 Hz oscillations, with double-blind, placebo-controlled (wi...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Minzenberg MJ,Gomes GC,Yoon JH,Watrous AJ,Geng J,Firl AJ,Carter CS

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological arousal is purportedly a key determinant in the development and maintenance of gambling behaviors, with problem gambling conceptualized in terms of abnormal autonomic responses. Theoretical conceptualizations of problem gambling are discordant regarding the nature of deficit in this disorder; some accoun...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Lole L,Gonsalvez CJ,Barry RJ,Blaszczynski A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capability model of frontal electroencephalographic (EEG) asymmetry suggests that brain activity during emotional challenge will be a more powerful indicator of predispositions toward psychopathology than activity observed at rest. EEG data were assessed during a resting baseline and a facial emotion task, wherein...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Stewart JL,Coan JA,Towers DN,Allen JJ

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, deviance in the reaction time (RT) distribution of saccades for patients with schizophrenia was explained using an oculomotor decision model. Here, RTs of visually guided saccades in young healthy men, healthy children, older adults, patients with schizophrenia, and patients with obsessive compuls...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Theleritis C,Evdokimidis I,Smyrnis N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objects compete for representation in our limited capacity visual system. We examined how this competition is influenced by top-down knowledge using event-related potentials. Competition was manipulated by presenting visual search arrays in which the target or distractor was the only color singleton compared to displa...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Hilimire MR,Corballis PM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the psychometric properties, including internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and number of trials needed for stability, for response time (RT) and conflict N2 amplitude measures of conflict adaptation (i.e., sequential trial or Gratton effects). Event-related potentials (ERPs) were obtained from 7...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Clayson PE,Larson MJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fingers and feet have long been accepted as optimal anatomical recording sites for electrodermal activity. The available literature suggests that the feet are more responsive than the fingers. The present report compared skin conductance level (SCL) and responses (SCRs) from the left foot and the distal phalanges ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Payne AF,Dawson ME,Schell AM,Singh K,Courtney CG

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied attention effects on the integration of written and spoken syllables in fluent adult readers by using event-related brain potentials. Auditory consonant-vowel syllables, including consonant and frequency changes, were presented in synchrony with written syllables or their scrambled images. Participants resp...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Mittag M,Alho K,Takegata R,Makkonen T,Kujala T

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Startle stimuli elicit various physiological and cognitive responses. This study investigated whether acoustic startle stimuli affect saccadic reactions in an emotional pro- or antisaccade task. Startle probes were presented either 500 ms before or simultaneous with an imperative stimulus that indicated whether a sacc...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Deuter CE,Schilling TM,Kuehl LK,Blumenthal TD,Schachinger H

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P3 amplitude reduction (P3AR) is associated with risk for adolescent-onset pathological substance use (PSU). In this longitudinal study, data from over 1,100 adolescent twins were used to examine P3AR in relation to early adolescent onset PSU (i.e., by age 14), late adolescent onset PSU (i.e., ages 14-18), misuse of d...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Perlman G,Markin A,Iacono WG

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between cortisol and adult attachment style, an important indicator of social relationships, has been relatively unexplored. Previous research has examined adult attachment and acute cortisol responses to stress in the laboratory, but less is known about cortisol levels in everyday life. The present st...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Kidd T,Hamer M,Steptoe A

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) show alterations in the cognitive control function of conflict processing. We examined the influence of these deficits on behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) indices of conflict adaptation, a cognitive control process wherein previous-trial congruency modulates...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Clawson A,Clayson PE,Larson MJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanisms by which oxytocin improves socioaffective processing, we measured behavioral and pupillometric data during a dynamic facial emotion recognition task. In a double-blind between-subjects design, 47 men received either 24 IU intranasal oxytocin (OXT) or a placebo (PLC). Participants in the O...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Prehn K,Kazzer P,Lischke A,Heinrichs M,Herpertz SC,Domes G

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous event-related potential studies have indicated that both a widespread N400 and an anterior N700 index differential processing of concrete and abstract words, but the nature of these components in relation to concreteness and imagery has been unclear. Here, we separated the effects of word concreteness and tas...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Gullick MM,Mitra P,Coch D

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive control is required for correct antisaccade performance. High antisaccade error rates characterize certain psychiatric disorders, but can be highly variable, even among healthy groups. Antisaccade data were acquired from a large sample of healthy undergraduates, and error rate was quantified. Participants wh...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Schaeffer DJ,Amlung MT,Li Q,Krafft CE,Austin BP,Dyckman KA,McDowell JE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-potential correlates of response conflict are well documented, but those of task conflict are not. Task-switching studies have suggested a plausible correlate of task conflict--a poststimulus posterior negativity--however, in such paradigms the negativity may also reflect poststimulus task-set reconfiguration po...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Elchlepp H,Rumball F,Lavric A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The empirical investigation of unobservable psychological processes usually rests on operational definitions. As an alternative, we propose the use of explicit causal models. This is particularly useful in psychophysiology, where formal models can be expressed mathematically, exploiting biophysical constraints, and in...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Bach DR,Friston KJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable evidence suggests that subliminal information can trigger cognitive and neural processes. Here, we examined whether elicitation of orienting response by personally significant (PS) verbal information requires conscious awareness of the input. Subjects were exposed to the Concealed Information Test (CIT), ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Maoz K,Breska A,Ben-Shakhar G

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to recent models on visual attention, both the salience of signals (bottom-up) and the intention to search for particular stimuli (top-down) are determinants for attentional selection. We investigated these mechanisms by varying the top-down set of participants that had to detect either luminance or orientat...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Schneider D,Beste C,Wascher E

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entry into adolescence is marked by dramatic changes resulting from a dynamic interplay among biological and psychosocial processes. Despite the complexity, development is often indexed only by age in event-related potential (ERP) studies. To broaden this approach, we address the effects of gender and pubertal develop...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Brumback TY,Arbel Y,Donchin E,Goldman MS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies propose that a mechanism termed "inhibitory tagging" acts upon the processing of the target at the attended location by temporarily blocking the stimulus-response mapping. Here we combined the cue-target paradigm with the Stroop task and measured event-related potential (ERP) responses to the color of a...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Zhang Y,Zhou X,Zhang M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of stress, which varies throughout an academic year, on proinflammatory and antiinflammatory cytokines were examined in 44 medical students. This was tested by comparing stimulated cytokines during a baseline period, stress period, and poststress vacation period. During the stress period, compared with the...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Koh KB,Lee YJ,Beyn KM,Chu SH,Kim DM,Seo WY

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were executed to provide new evidence relevant to the recent suggestion that fatigue should augment or retard cardiovascular response depending on the difficulty of the challenge at hand. Participants walked on a treadmill while wearing a vest fitted with 5 or 25 pounds of weight. Later, they mounted a rec...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Wright RA,Shim JJ,Hogan BK,Duncan J,Thomas C

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the P300-concealed information test's validity in detecting concealed memory when it is conducted immediately after the mock crime, whether the P300-CIT's detection efficiency is moderated by time delay remains unknown. Here, we conducted a mock crime study in which guilty participants were tested immediately ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Hu X,Rosenfeld JP

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression, diminished positive affect, and exaggerated negative affect have all been linked to right frontal cortical asymmetry as measured by electroencephalography (EEG). Emerging evidence, however, suggests that right frontal EEG asymmetry might be linked to empathic responding. EEG was used to assess baseline asy...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Tullett AM,Harmon-Jones E,Inzlicht M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Literature suggests that reduced electrodermal reactivity (EDR) is related to externalizing problems. However, the genetic and environmental etiology of this association is unknown. Using a standard habituation paradigm, we measured responses to 15 loud tones in four cohorts of adolescent twins (N = 2,129). We quantif...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Isen JD,Iacono WG,Malone SM,McGue M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural processes underlying an unplanned shift in movement control across limb systems were studied by recording event-related potentials (ERPs) as participants made a left or right hand movement followed by a left or right foot movement or vice versa. ERPs associated with both first and second movements replicate...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Miller J,Buchlak Q

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two ERP components have been observed following correct and incorrect responses, the error-related negativity (ERN/Ne) and the correct-related negativity (CRN). The function of these components is still under debate. We used a visual size discrimination task at three difficulty levels and utilized a temporospatial pri...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Endrass T,Klawohn J,Gruetzmann R,Ischebeck M,Kathmann N

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00