{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue on 'Effects of Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Brain and Cognition'.","authors":"Martina D'Agostini, Sander Nieuwenhuis","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 5","pages":"e70065"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144021688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcos Domic-Siede, Andrea Sánchez-Corzo, Xaviera Álvarez, Vanessa Araya, Camila Espinoza, Karla Zenis, Mónica Guzmán-González, Martín Irani, Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti, Romina Ortiz
{"title":"Human Attachment and the Electrophysiological Dynamics of Emotion Regulation: An Event-Related Potential Study.","authors":"Marcos Domic-Siede, Andrea Sánchez-Corzo, Xaviera Álvarez, Vanessa Araya, Camila Espinoza, Karla Zenis, Mónica Guzmán-González, Martín Irani, Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti, Romina Ortiz","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70075","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion regulation is pivotal in human interactions and well-being. Modulating one's emotional state is intricately linked with psychological, behavioral, and physiological responses. Extensive research has explored how individuals with varying attachment orientations manage emotions, predominantly through self-report measures and behavioral assessments. However, the influence of attachment orientations on temporal electrophysiological dynamics during emotion regulation tasks remains underexplored. Here, 90 adults' EEG brain activity was recorded while they engaged in tasks of attending to, reappraising, or suppressing emotions elicited by unpleasant images. Their attachment orientations were assessed using the Experiences in Close Relationships-12 (ECR-12) questionnaire to explore the association between Late Positive Potential (LPP) and attachment anxiety and avoidance amidst the deployment of emotion regulation strategies. Using Linear Mixed-Effects Model analysis, our results revealed a lower amplitude of the LPP during cognitive reappraisal, suggesting the efficacy of this strategy in diminishing emotional intensity. Moreover, higher attachment anxiety exhibited increased LPP amplitude during both Reappraisal and Suppression, as well as during the negative natural condition, indicating heightened emotional responses. This study provides novel insights into the relationship between attachment orientations and emotion regulation, as evidenced by EEG-based measurements of the LPP. The findings indicate that individuals with higher attachment anxiety display distinct electrophysiological responses, particularly in emotional scenarios.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 5","pages":"e70075"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144111819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adi Lustig, Amit Benady, Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, Meir Plotnik
{"title":"Reactivity of the Autonomic Nervous System During Visual-Physical Incongruent Walking Conditions-A Virtual Reality Study.","authors":"Adi Lustig, Amit Benady, Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, Meir Plotnik","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The force of gravity critically impacts locomotion regulation while walking on inclined surfaces. To construct an updated assessment about the gravitational consequences and change gait patterns accordingly, the central nervous system (CNS) integrates multiple sensorial cues, including vestibular and proprioceptive (i.e., body-based cues) and visual. Not much is known about the contribution of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) to locomotion regulation, especially when multiple types of sensorial cues are involved. Here we examine the responsiveness of the ANS, as reflected by cardiac reactivity, for example heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV), to coherent versus non-coherent sensorimotor signaling. Fourteen healthy young participants completed level, uphill, and downhill self-paced walking trials in a virtual reality (VR) environment in which the incline of the visual scene was either congruent or incongruent with the physical incline of the walking surface. We found that during level walking, incongruent visual cues (i.e., up/downhill scenery) triggered alterations in ANS balance, reflected in HRV decrease and in a residual increase of HR. Taken together with the fact that an ultimate change in gait patterns requires alterations in cardiac resources, we speculate that ANS function and its responsive modes of action are, in fact, facilitating adaptive behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 5","pages":"e70072"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144161958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adriana R Miller, Rafał Jończyk, Holly A Zaharchuk, Janet G van Hell
{"title":"Unlocking Second Language Novel Metaphor Processing: Behavioral and ERP Insights From First and Second-Language English Users.","authors":"Adriana R Miller, Rafał Jończyk, Holly A Zaharchuk, Janet G van Hell","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A growing literature uses event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate novel metaphor processing as a window into creative processes like conceptual expansion. Modulations of the N400 generally indicate that while novel metaphors are initially processed as semantic anomalies, after a connection is found relating the concepts, they pattern more with literal sentences. Existing research largely focuses on monolinguals, but less is known about novel metaphor processing in bilinguals' second language (L2). Here, we combine robust single-trial ERPs and behavioral measures to investigate how L2 English users process full-sentence novel metaphors. We compare our results to a previous study with English monolinguals using the same experimental design to test three competing hypotheses: L2 conceptual expansion will be more effortful than, more efficient than, or similar to L1. Group differences suggest more effortful processing for L2 English users than monolinguals. Behaviorally, L2 users show more sentence evaluation errors than monolinguals, particularly for anomalous sentences. ERP results in L2 users reveal an N400 semantic anomaly effect at the sentence-final position, with no significant differences between metaphorical and literal or metaphorical and anomalous sentences. Monolinguals show a graded N400 effect, with significant differences between literal and anomalous as well as metaphorical and anomalous sentences. By comparing L2 users' results with monolingual English users and using naturalistic full-sentence structures, our findings contribute to the emergent literature on L2 novel metaphor processing and conceptual expansion while also unraveling the cognitive challenges associated with incremental processing and integration of L2 metaphorical sentences.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 5","pages":"e70066"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12063520/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143990627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jane Tan, Kartik K Iyer, Michael A Nitsche, Rohan Puri, Mark R Hinder, Hakuei Fujiyama
{"title":"Dual-Site Beta tACS Over the rIFG and preSMA-Induced Phase-Specific Changes in Functional Connectivity but not Response Inhibition Performance in Older Adults.","authors":"Jane Tan, Kartik K Iyer, Michael A Nitsche, Rohan Puri, Mark R Hinder, Hakuei Fujiyama","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70060","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research suggests that changes in functional connectivity contribute to age-related declines in response inhibition. Through a double-blind crossover study, we investigated the effects of dual-site beta transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) over the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) and pre-supplementary motor area (preSMA) on functional connectivity measured with electroencephalography and response inhibition (stop-signal task performance) in 15 older (aged 61-79 years) and 18 young (aged 18-34 years) adults. Two tACS conditions were administered in separate sessions: in-phase tACS, where electrical currents delivered to rIFG and preSMA had a 0° phase difference, and anti-phase tACS, where currents had a 180° phase difference. Resting-state beta band rIFG-preSMA connectivity significantly increased after in-phase tACS for older and young adults and decreased after anti-phase tACS for older adults. Response inhibition significantly improved after both in- and anti-phase tACS for young and older adults. These findings suggest that tACS can potentially modulate rIFG-preSMA connectivity in a phase-specific manner in the aging brain, and that inhibitory performance might not be directly regulated by resting-state rIFG-preSMA phase connectivity. Due to the lack of sham control, placebo effects cannot be ruled out. However, the differing neurophysiological effects from in- and anti-phase tACS suggest that rIFG-preSMA resting-state phase connectivity is unlikely to underpin the changes in inhibitory performance. Future studies incorporating a sham control are required to verify these findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 5","pages":"e70060"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12051364/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143996293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unconscious Detection but Not Resolution of Cognitive Conflicts Occurs and Influences Conscious Control.","authors":"Qin Huang, Anmin Li","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The boundaries of unconscious processing have long been an intriguing topic. Despite existing research, the necessity of consciousness for effective high-level conflict control remains an open question. This study seeks to address this research gap through two subliminal Stroop priming experiments combined with event-related potential measurements, aiming to clarify the brain dynamics of unconscious cognitive control and its influence on subsequent conscious control. The participants were instructed to perform color-naming tasks for supraliminal Stroop or non-Stroop targets following subliminal Stroop or non-Stroop primes. In Experiment 1, the primes also served as targets, whereas in Experiment 2, they did not. In both experiments, prime-locked analyses revealed Stroop effects on N450 amplitudes but not on slow potential (SP) amplitudes. Furthermore, target-locked analysis revealed conflict adaptation effects on SP amplitudes and reaction times; the Stroop effects were smaller following Stroop primes compared with non-Stroop primes. Overall, these findings demonstrate that early-stage unconscious cognitive conflict detection occurs and affects subsequent conscious cognitive control; however, there is insufficient evidence to support unconscious conflict resolution. Our study provides valuable insights into the limits of unconscious processing and highlights the importance of further investigating the deep neural pathways underlying unconscious cognitive conflict processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 5","pages":"e70061"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144050868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differential Effects of Visual and Auditory Cognitive Tasks on Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements.","authors":"Geoffrey Kaye, Edan Johnston, Jaiden Burke, Natalie Gasson, Welber Marinovic","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEM) are important to gather visual information that guides our interactions with moving objects (e.g., tracking a tennis ball, or following a car when driving). In many neurological conditions, from Parkinson's disease to stroke, the voluntary control of SPEM can be compromised. Therefore, SPEMs can serve as sensitive proxies for assessing cognitive and sensorimotor function. Prior research has shown that SPEMs are influenced by attention and working memory load, yet it remains unclear how the sensory modality of concurrent tasks interacts with these effects. Here, we conducted a 3 (working memory load: no load, easy [low load], and hard [high load]) × 2 (sensory modality: visual vs. auditory) experiment to examine how working memory load and secondary task modality interact to affect SPEM in healthy young adults. Participants tracked a moving circle while simultaneously performing an arithmetic task, where they added either constant (1) or variable (1-5) numbers which were presented visually or auditorily. Our results showed that a secondary auditory task increased tracking variability during high cognitive load. In contrast, we found that the visual task improved tracking, reducing variability irrespective of cognitive load. We interpret our results as evidence that auditory processing requires additional top-down control that is critical for the control of smooth pursuit, diverting resources required for smooth pursuit and, consequently, increasing SPEM variability. These findings emphasize the importance of sensory modality in understanding the interactions between working memory and oculomotor control. We suggest that auditory secondary cognitive tasks may provide a more sensitive test of sensorimotor control deficits in future research with clinical populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 5","pages":"e70069"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12051362/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144012392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ricardo Benini, Leandro A Oliveira, Lucas Gomes-de-Souza, Adrielly Santos, Lígia C Casula, James P Herman, Carlos C Crestani
{"title":"Role of Sex and Age on Cardiovascular and Autonomic Responses During Acute and Repeated Restraint Stress in Rats.","authors":"Ricardo Benini, Leandro A Oliveira, Lucas Gomes-de-Souza, Adrielly Santos, Lígia C Casula, James P Herman, Carlos C Crestani","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study we evaluated the influence of sex (male × female adult rats) and age (adult × adolescent × aged male rats) in expression and habituation of the cardiovascular and autonomic responses to restraint stress in rats. For this, arterial pressure, sympathetically-mediated cutaneous vasoconstriction and heart rate (HR) were assessed in Wistar rats during a single (acute) or the 10th session of restraint. We found similar cardiovascular responses during the acute session of restraint stress in male and female animals. Cardiovascular habituation was evident as an accelerated HR return to pre-stress parameters during the recovery of the 10th restraint session and was also similar in both sexes. However, repeated restraint facilitated the sympathetically-mediated cutaneous vasoconstriction in females. Aged rats had reduced blood pressure reactivity during the acute restraint session in relation to male adult rats, whereas adolescents exhibited a facilitated HR return to basal parameters during recovery of the acute restraint. Also, adolescent animals had reduced tachycardiac and pressor responses during the 10th session of restraint stress. Taken together, the findings obtained in this study suggest that cardiovascular reactivity during an acute stress session as well as the habituation of tachycardia identified during repeated exposure to this stressor are sex-independent. However, females might present higher vulnerability to homotypic stressors in relation to males as consequence of an enhanced sympathetic reactivity. Regarding the influence of age, aging seems to limit cardiovascular reactivity during acute stress, whereas cardiovascular habituation processes appear enhanced during adolescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 5","pages":"e70062"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144014544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gabriel Zieff, Noora Sharma, Keeron Stone, Patricia Pagan Lassalle, Aiden J Chauntry, Erik D Hanson, Michelle L Meyer, Claudio Battaglini, Justin B Moore, Craig Paterson, Lee Stoner
{"title":"Acute Psychological Stress and Pulse Wave Velocity: Meta-Analysis and Recommendations for Future Research.","authors":"Gabriel Zieff, Noora Sharma, Keeron Stone, Patricia Pagan Lassalle, Aiden J Chauntry, Erik D Hanson, Michelle L Meyer, Claudio Battaglini, Justin B Moore, Craig Paterson, Lee Stoner","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Repeated exposures to acute psychological stress may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are not fully understood. The objective of this meta-analysis was to determine the effect of acute psychological stress on central pulse wave velocity (PWV) compared to pre-stress (baseline) levels in adults free of overt CVD. Electronic databases (PubMed, SPORTDiscus, and Google Scholar) were queried from inception to July 2024. Reference lists of eligible studies and previous relevant reviews were also screened. Studies were included if: (i) a noninvasive measure of PWV was used that included a central (aortic) arterial segment; (ii) participants were adults (≥ 18 years) free of overt CVD; and (iii) the acute stressor was purely psychological in nature. Appraisal and Synthesis Methods: Effect sizes were calculated as standardized mean differences (SMD) and pooled using a random-effects model. The magnitude of effect was adjudicated as trivial (< 0.2), small (0.2), moderate (0.5), or large (0.8). A total of 11,689 studies were identified, from which 7 studies (11 effects, N = 162 participants) were eligible for inclusion. Moderate Acute psychological stress induced a moderate (SMD: 0.51, p < 0.0001; 95% CI: 0.34, 0.68) increase (detrimental) in central PWV, and there was insubstantial heterogeneity between studies (Cochran's Q (10) = 2.62 (p = 0.99)). The small overall number of studies as well as key differences in study methodologies limit the ability to elucidate the magnitude and consistency of stress-induced increases in PWV. Nonetheless, the present findings suggest that acute psychological stress induces significant increases in central PWV among adults free of overt CVD. The acute PWV response to psychological stress likely contributes to elevated CVD risk over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 5","pages":"e70068"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12065061/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143979196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotion-Guided Attention Impacts Deliberate Multi-Evidence Emotion-Related Perceptual Decision-Making.","authors":"Hilary H T Ngai, Jingwen Jin","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion-guided endogenous attention (e.g., attending to fear) may play a crucial role in determining how humans integrate emotional evidence from various sources when assessing the general emotional tenor of the environment. For instance, what emotion a presenter focuses on can shape their perception of the overall emotion of the room. While there is an increasing interest in understanding how endogenous attention affects emotion perception, existing studies have largely focused on single-stimulus perception. There is limited understanding of how endogenous attention influences emotion evidence integration across multiple sources. To investigate this question, human participants (N = 40) were invited to judge the average emotion across an array of faces ranging from fearful to happy. Endogenous attention was manipulated by instructing participants to decide whether the face array was \"fearful or not\" (fear attention), \"happy or not\" (happy attention). Eye movement results revealed an endogenous attention-induced sampling bias such that participants paid more attention to extreme emotional evidence congruent with the target emotion. Computational modeling revealed that endogenous attention shifted the decision criterion to be more conservative, leading to reduced target-category decisions. These findings unraveled the cognitive and computational mechanisms of how endogenous attention impacts the way we gather emotional evidence and make integrative decisions, shedding light on emotion-related decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 5","pages":"e70059"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12034915/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144008945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}