The Validity Issues of the Heartbeat Counting Task Are Not Ruled Out by Schultz et al. (2021): A Commentary
Biol Psychol. 2023 Sep 27:108693. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108693. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37775031 | DOI:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108693 (Source: Biological Psychology)
Source: Biological Psychology - September 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Olivier Desmedt Olivier Luminet Pierre Maurage Olivier Corneille Source Type: research
Do Schulz et al.'s (2021) Findings Support the Validity of the Heartbeat Counting Task? Joint Conclusion to Commentaries
Biol Psychol. 2023 Sep 27:108694. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108694. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37775032 | DOI:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108694 (Source: Biological Psychology)
Source: Biological Psychology - September 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Olivier Desmedt Olivier Corneille Olivier Luminet Pierre Maurage Claus V ögele Andr é Schulz Source Type: research
Evidence that pupil dilation and cardiac afferent signalling differentially impact the processing of emotional intensity and racial bias
Biol Psychol. 2023 Sep 27:108699. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108699. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInteroceptive cardiac arousal signals (e.g., from baroreceptor firing at ventricular systole compared to diastole) have been found to enhance perception of fearful versus neutral faces. They have also been found to amplify racially biased misidentification of tools as weapons when preceded by facial images of Black versus White individuals. Since pupil size is strongly coupled to arousal, we tested if experimental manipulation of pupil size influences fear processing in emotional judgement and racial bias tasks involving m...
Source: Biological Psychology - September 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Samantha Sherrill Jordan Watson Riya Khan Yoko Nagai Ruben Azevedo Manos Tsakiris Sarah Garfinkel Hugo Critchley Source Type: research
Distinct physiological responses to social-evaluative stress in patients with major depressive disorder reporting a history of peer victimization
This study examined whether peer victimization alters physiological and affective responses to potentially threatening social stimuli. For this purpose, reactions to socially evaluative stimuli of depressive patients and healthy controls with varying histories of peer victimization were compared. In a social conditioning task, we studied heart rate responses to unconditioned socially negative and neutral evaluative video statements, followed by the heart rate reactions to conditioned stimuli, i.e. still images of the faces of the same actors. Diagnosis of depression and peer victimization were both associated with a more p...
Source: Biological Psychology - September 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Benjamin Iffland Hanna Kley Frank Neuner Source Type: research
Elevated EEG heartbeat-evoked potentials in adolescents with more ADHD symptoms
This study aimed to investigate the association between ADHD symptoms and the heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP), known as a neural correlate of automatic interoceptive processing of cardiac signals, in adolescents.METHODS: HEPs of 47 healthy adolescent participants (53.2% female) with a mean age of 14.29 years were measured during an emotional face recognition task. In addition, participants completed a self-report screening for ADHD symptoms.RESULTS: ADHD symptoms were positively related to the HEP activity during the task in three of eight EEG sectors in the left hemisphere, as well as in all sectors in the right hemisphe...
Source: Biological Psychology - September 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lorenz Rapp Sandra A Mai-Lippold Eleana Georgiou Olga Pollatos Source Type: research
The detection of self-group conflicts in exercise behaviors differs with social network centrality: ERP evidence
CONCLUSION: Our results highlight the important roles of network centrality in encoding self-group exercise attitude discrepancy rather than in decision-making regarding exercise attitude adjustments. Interventions aimed at promoting exercise behaviors should be considered in a broader social environmental framework.PMID:37775033 | DOI:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108696 (Source: Biological Psychology)
Source: Biological Psychology - September 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mengfei Han Feifei Chen Mengjuan Shang Liu Yang Yongcong Shao Source Type: research
Why Desmedt et al.'s commentary does not apply to the findings of Schulz et al. (2021) concerning the validity of the heartbeat counting task
Biol Psychol. 2023 Sep 26:108689. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108689. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37769938 | DOI:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108689 (Source: Biological Psychology)
Source: Biological Psychology - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Schulz C V ögele Source Type: research
Why Desmedt et al.'s commentary does not apply to the findings of Schulz et al. (2021) concerning the validity of the heartbeat counting task
Biol Psychol. 2023 Sep 26:108689. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108689. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37769938 | DOI:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108689 (Source: Biological Psychology)
Source: Biological Psychology - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Schulz C V ögele Source Type: research
The relationship between self-reported chronic stress, physiological stress axis dysregulation and medically-unexplained symptoms
Biol Psychol. 2023 Sep 25:108690. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108690. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe positive feedback model of medically-unexplained symptoms posits that chronic stress affects the activity of the physiological stress axes, which in turn generates medically-unexplained symptoms. As a first step to empirically test its model assumptions, we investigated potential associations between chronic stress, physiological stress axis activity and medically-unexplained in a cross-sectional study. One hundred-ninety-nine healthy individuals provided self-reports on chronic stress and medically-unexplained symptom...
Source: Biological Psychology - September 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andr é Schulz Mauro F Larra Y Ramirez Claus V ögele Monika K ölsch Hartmut Sch ächinger Source Type: research
The Photic Blink Reflex as an Index of Photophobia
Biol Psychol. 2023 Sep 25:108695. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108695. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTwo recent studies of eye closure triggered by intense luminance increase suggest that this behavior reflects the melanopsin-based retinal activity known to underlie photophobia, the pathological aversion to light (Kardon, 2012; Kaiser et al., 2021). Early studies of the photic blink reflex (PBR) are reviewed to help guide future research on this possible objective index of photophobia. Electromyographic recordings of the lid-closure muscle, orbicularis oculi, reveal distinct bursts with typical onset latencies of 50 and 8...
Source: Biological Psychology - September 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven A Hackley Lenworth N Johnson Source Type: research
Face Motion Form at Learning Influences the Time Course of Face Spatial Frequency Processing during Test
Biol Psychol. 2023 Sep 23:108691. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108691. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStudies that use static faces suggest that facial processing follows a coarse-to-fine sequence; i.e., holistic precedes featural processing, due to low and high spatial frequencies (LSF, HSF) transmitting holistic/global and featural/local information respectively. Although recent studies have focused on the role of facial movement in holistic facial processing, it is unclear whether moving faces have the same processing mechanism as static ones, especially in the time course of processing. The current study uses the event...
Source: Biological Psychology - September 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hailing Wang Yujing Lian Anqing Wang Enguang Chen Chengdong Liu Source Type: research
Face Motion Form at Learning Influences the Time Course of Face Spatial Frequency Processing during Test
Biol Psychol. 2023 Sep 23:108691. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108691. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStudies that use static faces suggest that facial processing follows a coarse-to-fine sequence; i.e., holistic precedes featural processing, due to low and high spatial frequencies (LSF, HSF) transmitting holistic/global and featural/local information respectively. Although recent studies have focused on the role of facial movement in holistic facial processing, it is unclear whether moving faces have the same processing mechanism as static ones, especially in the time course of processing. The current study uses the event...
Source: Biological Psychology - September 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hailing Wang Yujing Lian Anqing Wang Enguang Chen Chengdong Liu Source Type: research
Face Motion Form at Learning Influences the Time Course of Face Spatial Frequency Processing during Test
Biol Psychol. 2023 Sep 23:108691. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108691. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStudies that use static faces suggest that facial processing follows a coarse-to-fine sequence; i.e., holistic precedes featural processing, due to low and high spatial frequencies (LSF, HSF) transmitting holistic/global and featural/local information respectively. Although recent studies have focused on the role of facial movement in holistic facial processing, it is unclear whether moving faces have the same processing mechanism as static ones, especially in the time course of processing. The current study uses the event...
Source: Biological Psychology - September 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hailing Wang Yujing Lian Anqing Wang Enguang Chen Chengdong Liu Source Type: research
Neural mechanisms of priming effects of spicy food pictures induced analgesia
In this study, the effects of the priming of spicy food pictures on pain perception were evaluated in female participants using standardized methods of pain. Results from behavior tests revealed that the priming of spicy food pictures significantly reduced pain perception, particularly at high-pain intensities. Electrophysiological analysis showed that the analgesic effects of spicy food pictures were linked to decreased pain-related event-related potentials, such as N2 and P2 amplitudes, and suppressed θ-oscillations in the sensorimotor cortex. Both N2 amplitudes and θ-oscillations activities were found to be correlated...
Source: Biological Psychology - September 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Di Yang Jin Jiang Wanchen Li Runjie Zhang Luzhuang Sun Jing Meng Source Type: research
Neural mechanisms of priming effects of spicy food pictures induced analgesia
In this study, the effects of the priming of spicy food pictures on pain perception were evaluated in female participants using standardized methods of pain. Results from behavior tests revealed that the priming of spicy food pictures significantly reduced pain perception, particularly at high-pain intensities. Electrophysiological analysis showed that the analgesic effects of spicy food pictures were linked to decreased pain-related event-related potentials, such as N2 and P2 amplitudes, and suppressed θ-oscillations in the sensorimotor cortex. Both N2 amplitudes and θ-oscillations activities were found to be correlated...
Source: Biological Psychology - September 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Di Yang Jin Jiang Wanchen Li Runjie Zhang Luzhuang Sun Jing Meng Source Type: research
