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：:Although reduced cortisol reactivity to stress and increased circulating testosterone level are hypothesized to be associated with higher levels of externalizing behavior, empirical findings are inconsistent. One factor that may account for the heterogeneity in these relationships is prenatal testosterone exposure. Th...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Portnoy J,Raine A,Glenn AL,Chen FR,Choy O,Granger DA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tonic and phasic differences in peripheral autonomic nervous system (ANS) indicators strongly predict differences in attention and emotion regulation in developmental populations. However, virtually all previous research has been based on individual ANS measures, which poses a variety of conceptual and methodlogical c...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Wass SV,de Barbaro K,Clackson K

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous event-related potential (ERP) studies have identified the specific electrophysiological markers of advance preparation in cued task-switching paradigms. However, it is not yet completely clear whether there is a single task-independent preparatory mechanism for task-switching or whether preparation for a swit...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Capizzi M,Fehér K,Penolazzi B,Vallesi A

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a debilitating and prevalent disorder associated with lower quality of life and substantial economic burden. Recently, there has been strong interest in respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) as a biological predictor of later depression. Theoretical work suggests that higher resting RSA...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Yaptangco M,Crowell SE,Baucom BR,Bride DL,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclical fluctuations in the ovarian hormones 17β-estradiol (E2; estrogen) and progesterone (P4) predict emotions, cognitive processes, and behaviors relevant to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD); however, there are individual differences in sensitivity to normal hormone shifts. This study examined associations of...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Eisenlohr-Moul TA,DeWall CN,Girdler SS,Segerstrom SC

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:A theoretical framework has been put forward to understand attention deficits in schizophrenia (Luck SJ & Gold JM. Biological Psychiatry. 2008; 64:34-39). We adopted this framework to evaluate any deficits in attentional processes in schizotypy. Sixteen low schizotypal (LoS) and 16 high schizotypal (HiS) individuals p...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Fuggetta G,Bennett MA,Duke PA

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blunted cardiovascular stress reactions may be a marker for poor behavioral regulation. The present study examined the association between heart rate reactivity and perseverance, operationalized as the failure to complete a subsequent follow-up assessment. The heart rate (using electrocardiography), cardiac output (us...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Ginty AT,Brindle RC,Carroll D

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of research is demonstrating concordance between mother and child diurnal cortisol production. In the context of maternal history of depression, intergenerational concordance of cortisol production could contribute to hypercortisolemia in children of depressed mothers, which has been shown to increase r...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： LeMoult J,Chen MC,Foland-Ross LC,Burley HW,Gotlib IH

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreased heart rate variability and depression are both independent risk factors for cardiac mortality in clinical and non-clinical samples. The purpose of the current study is to examine the hypothesis that severity of depressive symptomatology is inversely associated with respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in a non...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Keen L 2nd,Turner AD,Mwendwa D,Callender C,Campbell A Jr

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mystery surrounds the cause of large individual differences in mental imagery vividness and strength, and how these might map onto mental disorders. Here, we report the concentration of sex hormones predicts the strength and vividness of visual mental imagery. We employed an objective measure of imagery utilizing bino...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Wassell J,Rogers SL,Felmingam KL,Bryant RA,Pearson J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated emotional responding in dysphoric individuals. Dysphoric (N = 25) and nondysphoric (N = 29) individuals completed an emotional imagery task, including pleasant, neutral and unpleasant emotional-eliciting scripts. Self-reported valence and arousal, and measures of cardiac autonomic activi...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Messerotti Benvenuti S,Mennella R,Buodo G,Palomba D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to discriminate speech sounds is crucial for higher language functions in humans. However, it remains unclear whether physiological aging affects the functional integrity of pre-attentive phonological discrimination. The neuromagnetic cortical responses during automatic change detection of speech sounds (/...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Cheng CH,Baillet S,Hsiao FJ,Lin YY

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social anxiety is thought to be maintained by biased attentional processing towards threatening information. Research has further shown that the experimental attenuation of this bias, through the implementation of attentional bias modification (ABM), may serve to reduce social anxiety vulnerability. However, the mecha...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Chen NT,Clarke PJ,Watson TL,MacLeod C,Guastella AJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:When determining the cause of a person's behavior, perceivers often overweigh dispositional explanations and underweigh situational explanations, an error known as the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE). The FAE occurs in part because dispositional explanations are relatively automatic, whereas considering the situat...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Kubota JT,Mojdehbakhsh R,Raio C,Brosch T,Uleman JS,Phelps EA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viewing personally familiar and loved faces evokes a distinct pattern of brain activity as demonstrated by research employing imaging and electrophysiological methods. The aim of the current investigation was to study the perception of loved faces combined with recalling past emotional experiences using whole-head mag...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Tiedt HO,Beier KM,Lueschow A,Pauls A,Weber JE

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in hormone levels during aging impact on cognition and mood. Serum concentration levels of testosterone (TT), estradiol (E2), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) and prolactin (PRL) were assessed in 120 community-dwellers (51+ years of age, m...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Castanho TC,Moreira PS,Portugal-Nunes C,Novais A,Costa PS,Palha JA,Sousa N,Santos NC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between motor skill and attentional reserve. Participants practiced a reaching task with the dominant upper extremity, to which a distortion of the visual feedback was applied, while a control group performed the same task without distortion. Event-related brain ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Rietschel JC,McDonald CG,Goodman RN,Miller MW,Jones-Lush LM,Wittenberg GF,Hatfield BD

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to examine the modulating effects of coping style on the response to psychosocial stress in remitted major depression (MD) and healthy controls. Thirty-three participants with a lifetime history of MD, who were in remission, and 32 age- and gender-matched healthy controls were recruited from a...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Höhne N,Poidinger M,Merz F,Pfister H,Brückl T,Zimmermann P,Uhr M,Holsboer F,Ising M

更新日期：2014-12-01 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

abstract：:Sensory attenuation is typically observed for self-generated compared to externally generated action effects. In the present study we investigated whether auditory sensory suppression is modulated as a function of sounds being generated by the upper or lower limbs. We report sensory attenuation, as reflected in a redu...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： van Elk M,Salomon R,Kannape O,Blanke O

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain more insight into the development of action control, the current brain potential study examined response selection, activation, and selective inhibition during choice- and stop-signal processing in three age groups (8-, 12-, and 21-year-olds). Results revealed that age groups differed in the implementation of ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： van de Laar MC,van den Wildenberg WP,van Boxtel GJ,van der Molen MW

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When one of the two hemispheres directs visuospatial attention to some contralateral location, this may imply that inhibition is exerted on the other hemisphere. In the dual rapid serial visual presentation task, two targets (T1 and T2) occur among two different visual streams, rapidly presented left and right. We rep...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Śmigasiewicz K,Weinrich J,Reinhardt B,Verleger R

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Exposure to long-term stress has a variety of consequences on the brain and cognition. Few studies have examined the influence of long-term stress on event related potential (ERP) indices of error processing. The current study investigated how long-term academic stress modulates the error related negativity (Ne or ERN...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Wu J,Yuan Y,Duan H,Qin S,Buchanan TW,Zhang K,Zhang L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies show that respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) decreases while performing cognitive tasks. However, there is uncertainty about the role of contaminating factors such as physical activity and stress-inducing task variables. Different methods to quantify RSA may also contribute to variable results. In 83 heal...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Overbeek TJ,van Boxtel A,Westerink JH

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-seven female students were assigned to groups consisting of 55 infrequent and 42 frequent binge drinkers. The groups were compared on self-report measures of impulsivity, sensation seeking, and alexithymia, as well as several measures relevant to neural and genetic mechanisms, such as brain activation during a ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Bauer LO,Ceballos NA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longer lasting performance in cognitively demanding tasks leads to an exhaustion of cognitive resources and to a state commonly described as mental fatigue. More specifically, the allocation and focusing of attention become less efficient with time on task. Additionally, the selection of even simple responses becomes ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Wascher E,Rasch B,Sänger J,Hoffmann S,Schneider D,Rinkenauer G,Heuer H,Gutberlet I

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes differences in blood pressure (BP) and baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) in relation to trait worry. 36 high worry and 21 low worry females were selected from scores on the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Cardiovascular parameters were obtained during rest, a self-induced worry period, and defense refle...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Delgado LC,Vila J,Reyes del Paso GA

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of biofeedback (BF), tomographic electroencephalogram (EEG) neurofeedback (NF) and electromyographic biofeedback (EMG-BF), both with phasic and tonic protocols, were compared for treatment effects and specificity in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Thirteen children with ADHD trained their br...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Maurizio S,Liechti MD,Heinrich H,Jäncke L,Steinhausen HC,Walitza S,Brandeis D,Drechsler R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study is a randomized controlled trial that aims to evaluate the efficacy of Neurofeedback compared to standard pharmacological intervention in the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The final sample consisted of 23 children with ADHD (11 boys and 12 girls, 7-14 years old). Parti...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Meisel V,Servera M,Garcia-Banda G,Cardo E,Moreno I

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects with low/undetectable startle are usually excluded from startle studies but few reports not confounded by this factor, show reduced startle in healthy impulsive subjects, or clinical populations with disorders of affect and impulsivity but also in schizophrenia and its prodrome. We examined the relationship o...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Giakoumaki SG,Roussos P,Tsapakis EM,Koiliari E,Pasparakis E,Zouraraki C,Bitsios P

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This event-related potential (ERP) study investigated neural correlates of cognitive reappraisal during the exposure to food cues. Thirty-three healthy, normal-weight women viewed images of high-caloric food and non-food items after an overnight fast. The participants were instructed to either passively look at the pi...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Sarlo M,Ubel S,Leutgeb V,Schienle A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antisaccade experiment, using happy, sad, and neutral faces, was conducted to examine the effect of mood-congruent information on inhibitory control (antisaccade task) and attentional orienting (prosaccade task) during the different episodes of bipolar disorder (BD) - manic (n=22), depressive (n=25), and euthymic (...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： García-Blanco AC,Perea M,Salmerón L

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Older people sometimes show a bias toward the processing of positive information. In this study, we used an event-related potential approach to examine whether such a positivity bias is also present during feedback processing in older adults. Our results suggest that a fast initial monitoring process, as reflected in ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Ferdinand NK,Kray J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between individual differences in acute fatigue and endogenous cortisol changes elicited by the sustained performance of cognitively demanding tasks (fatigue condition). Healthy males provided salivary cortisol measurements and subjective fatigue ratings, and were scanned (functional m...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Klaassen EB,de Groot RH,Evers EA,Nicolson NA,Veltman DJ,Jolles J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00