abstract：:Research on deception focused on the investigation of event-related potentials (ERP) to facilitate our knowledge on cognitive-motivational processes underlying deception. We investigated the reliability of the frontal N2 amplitude in a modified Concealed Information Test (CIT) (N = 64 participants). Variations of Cron...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Kleene V,Lang-Keller N,Steffen M,Dreismann V,Leue A

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent literature shows great heterogeneity in the reported efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as a stand-alone psychiatric treatment. Aiming to increase its efficacy, tDCS has been combined with psychological interventions. Our state-of-the-art overview of such combined treatment trials indica...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Dedoncker J,Baeken C,De Raedt R,Vanderhasselt MA

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exploration of the physiological correlates of subjective emotional states has theoretical and practical significance. Previous studies have reported that subjective valence and arousal correspond to facial electromyography (EMG) and electrodermal activity (EDA), respectively, across stimuli. However, the reported ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Sato W,Kochiyama T,Yoshikawa S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although great progress has been made in our understanding of perceptual-cognitive expertise in team sports, the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying such cognitive advantage in the face of multiple, sometimes conflicting, channels of information are not well understood. Two electroencephalographic indices associated ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Wang CH,Lin CC,Moreau D,Yang CT,Liang WK

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interoceptive deficits are associated with medial temporal lobe (MTL) lesions, and especially the hippocampus, which may relate to interoception's reliance upon predictive coding and hence on mnemonic processes. Here, we develop a new task to assess interoceptive predictions and assess their dependence upon MTL memory...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Edwards-Duric J,Stevenson RJ,Francis HM

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past psychological theory and research suggest two opposing relationships between effort and reward valuation. Cognitive dissonance theory and research suggest that increased effort is associated with increased reward valuation, whereas theory and research on effort discounting suggest that increased effort is associa...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Harmon-Jones E,Willoughby C,Paul K,Harmon-Jones C

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) has been shown to play a role in variety of cognitive and social processes and different hypotheses have been put forth to explain OT's effects on brain and behavior in humans. However, these previous explanatory accounts do not provide information about OT-related temporal mod...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Pehlivanoglu D,Myers E,Ebner NC

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate variability (HRV) associated with parasympathetic activity (i.e., cardiac vagal tone) is reduced in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but possible confounding effects of respiration have not been studied sufficiently. Further, reduced parasympathetic inhibition might contribute to elevated heart rate (H...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Smith TW,Deits-Lebehn C,Caska-Wallace CM,Renshaw KD,Uchino BN

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interoceptive accuracy is frequently assessed using the Heartbeat Counting Task (HCT), requiring participants to count the number of times their heart beats. The HCT validity has been questioned, as participants may perform the task by estimating, rather than counting, their felt heartbeats. Participants could estimat...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Desmedt O,Corneille O,Luminet O,Murphy J,Bird G,Maurage P

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterised by alterations in the function of the autonomic nervous system. However, it is unclear if this dysfunction is threat-related or related to arousing stimuli in general. Pupillometry offers a simple non-invasive measure of ANS activity that can separate parasympathe...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Mckinnon AI,Gray NS,Snowden RJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of attachment styles on physiological responses during a perspective-taking task. Sixty-eight participants were selected according to attachment styles. Physiological responses were assessed using skin conductance responses (SCRs) in the three attachment groups (secure, insecure-anxious...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Henschel S,Nandrino JL,Pezard L,Ott L,Vulliez-Coady L,Doba K

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the Reward Positivity (RewP) and the novelty N2 component appear within the same spatio-temporal window. This signal overlap impedes the assessment of the RewP evoked by complex novel rewards like affective or motivational imagery. Here we conducted a series of experiments which successfully isolated signals of r...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Brown DR,Cavanagh JF

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive or negative feedback is usually used to maintain or shift a sorting rule in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). Previous studies have demonstrated that negative feedback evokes a larger P3 than positive feedback. However, it is unclear whether the neural response is different for negative feedback appeari...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Zhu M,Zhuo B,Cao B,Li F

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there have been suggestions that altered cognitive control and food reward sensitivity contribute to overeating in obese individuals, neurophysiological correlates of these mechanisms have been poorly investigated. The current study investigated event-related potentials (ERP) in 24 severely obese and 26 norma...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Testa G,Buongiorno F,Rusconi ML,Mapelli D,Vettor R,Angeli P,Amodio P,Schiff S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type of threat shown in an image influences the emotional salience of unpleasant images. Seventy-four participants (21 male) rated high threat, moderate threat, and neutral images featuring reptiles, firearms, or humans as electroencephalographic activity was recorded. The magnitude of P3b amplitudes coincided wit...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Miller RK,Martin FH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are large individual differences in dealing with everyday social stress. Therefore, we investigated the association of social inhibition (and its facets) with the emotional and physiological responses to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). METHODS:Undergraduate students (N = 312) completed the 15-ite...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Duijndam S,Karreman A,Denollet J,Kupper N

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When studying the factors which influence stress reactivity in within-subject designs, test-retest reproducibility data is needed to estimate power and sample size. We report such data regarding a new experimental stress protocol, based on simultaneous application of the socially evaluated, bilateral feet Cold Pressor...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Bachmann P,Finke JB,Rebeck D,Zhang X,Larra MF,Koch KP,Turner JD,Schächinger H

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trait extraversion has been theorized to emerge from functioning of the dopaminergic reward system. Recent evidence for this view shows that extraversion modulates the scalp-recorded Reward Positivity, a putative marker of dopaminergic signaling of reward-prediction-error. We attempt to replicate this association amid...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Smillie LD,Jach HK,Hughes DM,Wacker J,Cooper AJ,Pickering AD

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We set out to examine the relations between prenatal exposure to the natural disaster Superstorm Sandy, maternal depression, and offspring electrodermal activity (EDA). EDA was measured via skin conductance response (SCR) magnitude in 198 children (M = 42.54 months, SD = 12.76) during a startle paradigm. In keeping wi...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Buthmann J,Finik J,Ventura G,Zhang W,Shereen AD,Nomura Y

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensing of internal bodily signals, a process known as interoception, contributes to subjective emotional feeling states that can guide empathic understanding of the emotions of others. Individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) typically show an attenuated intuitive capacity to recognise and interpret othe...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Mulcahy JS,Davies M,Quadt L,Critchley HD,Garfinkel SN

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether the temporal dynamics of attention could be used to reconcile exploitative and explorative attentional learning theories. Participants trained on a categorisation task where some stimuli were predictive (P) of the correct response while others were non-predictive (NP). These stimuli were then u...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Russo S,Burns N,Baetu I

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Working memory can be enhanced by directing attention to task-relevant representations. Alpha oscillations are a neural correlate of spatial attention either to the perceptual or the mnemonic domain. Specifically, an enhancement of alpha power is observed in the ipsilateral posterior cortex to the locus of attention, ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Macedo-Pascual J,Hinojosa JA,Poch C

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may exhibit chronic autonomic nervous system (ANS) hyperarousal (e.g., lower respiratory sinus arrhythmia and higher heart rate) compared to their typically developing peers, reflecting a chronic biological threat response. The sustained nature of this cardiac threat sug...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Patriquin MA,Hartwig EM,Friedman BH,Porges SW,Scarpa A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the locus of the effect of alerting on response conflict, and examined whether this effect may be interpreted as an alerting-triggered imbalance of speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT). Participants performed the flanker task with an alerting tone in half of the trials and SAT manipulation. Beh...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Asanowicz D,Wołoszyn K,Panek B,Wronka E

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to analyze the covert attentional time course in early body processing areas in women with high body concerns. Therefore, we assessed the effect of pictures of one's own body and other bodies as distractions from a demanding dot detection task in 24 women with low and 20 women with high body concerns....

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Voges MM,Giabbiconi CM,Gruber T,Andersen SK,Hartmann AS,Vocks S

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be conceptualized within a framework of reward processing impairments. The Social Motivation Theory of Autism posits that reduced motivation to interact with people and decreased pleasure derived from social interactions may derail typical social d...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Greene RK,Walsh E,Mosner MG,Dichter GS

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used a novel eye-gaze contingent attention training (ECAT) to test the prediction that attention regulation is involved in reappraisal and rumination. Sixty-six undergraduates were randomly assigned to either the control or the active training condition of the ECAT. Active ECAT comprised training in allocat...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Sanchez-Lopez A,Everaert J,Van Put J,De Raedt R,Koster EHW

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated repeatedly that the evaluation of a face is not only influenced by the social message that is signaled by the face's emotional expression, but also by other social factors such as ethnicity or group membership. Studies in the field of startle research, however, have hitherto investigated only ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Paulus A,Renn K,Wentura D

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has found that high approach-motivated positive affect narrows cognitive scope. Additionally, this narrowing of cognitive scope in high approach-motivated states is related to neural correlates of motor-action preparation, including beta suppression over the motor cortex. However, past studies have o...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Threadgill AH,Gable PA

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Studies have linked self-reported discrimination to telomere attrition, a biological marker of accelerated cellular aging. However, it is unknown whether intersections between social categories-race, socioeconomic status (SES), sex, and age-influence the association of varying forms of discrimination with tel...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Beatty Moody DL,Leibel DK,Darden TM,Ashe JJ,Waldstein SR,Katzel LI,Liu HB,Weng NP,Evans MK,Zonderman AB

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased vascular reactivity to stress has been suggested to contribute to the greater risk for developing hypertension in African Americans. Here, we examined the way (hemodynamic profile) and the extent to which (compensation deficit) cardiac output and total peripheral resistance compensate for each other in deter...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Carnevali L,Ottaviani C,Williams DP,Kapuku G,Thayer JF,Hill LK

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mere presence of task-irrelevant auditory stimuli is known to interfere with cognitive functioning. Disruption can be caused by changing auditory distractors (the changing-state effect) or by a sound that deviates from the auditory background (the deviation effect). The unitary account of auditory distraction expl...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Marois A,Marsh JE,Vachon F

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Response to psychological stress can vary based on the extent to which the context is perceived as stressful, especially under different social conditions. The purpose of this preliminary study was to compare physiological stress (cortisol) and regulation (respiratory sinus arrhythmia, RSA) of 10-12 year old children ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Corbett BA,Muscatello RA,Baldinger C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Threat expectancy is the ability to predict an aversive outcome. What is not known is the influence of initial threat responding on the acquisition of verbal, attentional and perceptual biases towards conditioned threat cues. This study evaluated the extent to which initial unconditioned stimulus (UCS) responding was ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Gruss LF,Keil A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:According to current theoretical models of working memory (WM), executive functions (EFs) like updating, inhibition and shifting play an important role in WM functioning. The models state that EFs highly correlate with each other but also have some individual variance which makes them separable processes. Sin...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Krumpe T,Scharinger C,Rosenstiel W,Gerjets P,Spüler M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is still unclear why some individuals completely recover after an acute trauma and others develop a long-lasting post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study investigates whether the contingent negative variation (CNV) - a slow negative event-related potential - may be associated with the occurrence of PTSD af...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Kowalski JT,Falkenhagen F,Radtke Y,Niederberger U,Petermann F,Darabaneanu S,Steinmann E,Gerber WD,Siniatchkin M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two ERP experiments were designed to explore the effect of predictability (Exp1) and probability (Exp2) on the perception of others' pain, respectively. In Exp1, we compared the ERP responses to painful and non-painful pictures when they were fully predictable and fully unpredictable. Results revealed that when the va...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Liao C,Wu H,Guan Q,Luo Y,Cui F

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed an fMRI study to pinpoint the neural correlates of active and passive binding in working memory. Participants were instructed to memorize three words and three spatial locations. In the passive binding condition, words and spatial locations were directly presented as bound. Conversely, in the active bindin...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Grot S,Leclerc ME,Luck D

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feedback negativity (FN) event-related potential (ERP) is widely studied during gambling feedback tasks. However, research on FN and anxiety is minimal and the findings are mixed. To clarify these discrepancies, the current study (N = 238) used time-frequency analysis to disentangle overlapping contributions of de...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Ellis JS,Watts ATM,Schmidt N,Bernat EM

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interhemispheric transfer measured via differences in right- or left-handed motoric responses to lateralized visual stimuli, known as the crossed-uncrossed difference (CUD), is one way of identifying patterns of processing that are vital for understanding the transfer of neural signals. Examination of interhemispheric...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Simon-Dack SL,Kraus B,Walter Z,Smith S,Cadle C

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00