Xu Fang, Rudolf Kerschreiter, Yu-Fang Yang, Michael Niedeggen
{"title":"Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses to Overinclusion Following Preexposure to Social Threat.","authors":"Xu Fang, Rudolf Kerschreiter, Yu-Fang Yang, Michael Niedeggen","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70107","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70107","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research demonstrated that experiencing a social threat can affect how individuals process subsequent social threats. This \"preexposure effect\" suggests that different social threats, such as loss of control and exclusion, interact within a common cognitive system. In this study, we extended the preexposure effect to examine how a prior social threat influences subsequent positive social interactions. Specifically, we investigated how the experience of a loss of control affects neural processing and retrospective evaluations of subsequent overinclusion. Our findings revealed that the event-related brain potentials (ERPs) previously related to the processing of exclusion and overinclusion (P3 effect) remained unaffected by the preexposure threat. However, the preexposure threat influenced the expression of frontal positivity (P2) which has been previously associated with the processing of social rewards. In addition, we observed that the expression of the perceived threat to belonging and negative mood depends on the continuation-or discontinuation-of the preexposure threat in the subsequent period of overinclusion. These results question the idea of a continuum of social participation ranging from exclusion to overinclusion. The latter appears to be more closely linked to the perceived valence of cues related to social inclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 7","pages":"e70107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12228052/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144567765","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":"MEGAP: A Comprehensive Pipeline for Automatic Preprocessing of Large-Scale Magnetoencephalography Data.","authors":"Seyyed Erfan Mohammadi, Hasti Shabani, Mohammad Mahdi Begmaz, Narjes Soltani Dehaghani","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70109","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Magnetoencephalography (MEG) data are often contaminated by various noise and artifacts, necessitating meticulous preprocessing. However, no pipeline has comprehensively examined all aspects of the different types of MEG noise, nor has any automatic preprocessing pipeline ever been presented. The impracticality of performing visual inspections for the preprocessing of large-scale resting state datasets, combined with the absence of automation, hinders the ability to take advantage of such datasets, including increased generalizability. Additionally, the absence of a standardized sequence for MEG preprocessing steps affects the reproducibility of research studies. Our MEG Automatic Pipeline (MEGAP) can automatically reduce noise and artifacts and is the first pipeline that can be used to preprocess large-scale resting state MEG datasets. We developed this pipeline by integrating and sequencing recent algorithms for each preprocessing step, ensuring automated execution, standardization, and organized outputs. The key features of MEGAP include correcting head movements, removing line noise without applying a notch filter, annotating muscle artifacts, removing sensor and environmental noise, and automatically detecting artifact components in Independent Component Analysis (ICA). We validated our pipeline using simulated and experimental data from the Cambridge Centre for Aging and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) dataset. Substantial improvements were achieved based on different evaluation criteria such as Normalized Mean Square Error (NMSE), correlation, and Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). MEGAP provides a robust framework for MEG data preprocessing, significantly reducing the manual effort in preprocessing by automating the required steps, contributing to more consistent and reproducible neuroimaging research outcomes, and facilitating the analysis of large-scale MEG studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 7","pages":"e70109"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144584609","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}
Armando Dos Santos Afonso Junior, Walter Machado-Pinheiro, Luiz Renato Rodrigues Carreiro
{"title":"Frontal and Parietal Activities Associated With Different Inhibitory Processes in a Stroop-Matching/Stop-Signal Task: A Channel-Wise fNIRS Study.","authors":"Armando Dos Santos Afonso Junior, Walter Machado-Pinheiro, Luiz Renato Rodrigues Carreiro","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70098","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70098","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inhibition is an important component of cognitive control that encompasses multiple processes, such as interference control, inhibition of prepotent responses and suppression of ongoing responses. Frontal and temporoparietal regions of the cortex are implicated differently in inhibitory functions. The Stroop-matching/stop-signal task is a recent task that uses Stroop stimuli and stop-signals to create conditions that allow the investigation of the three forms of inhibition aforementioned. The task provides a way to distinguish the effect of these inhibitions as well as their interactions using a single task. The present study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to assess frontal and temporoparietal activations during the Stroop-matching/stop-signal task. The main objective was to investigate which cortical regions each inhibitory function would recruit during this task. Fifty-two young adults (mean age = 21.4, SD = 3.44) participated. Performance results indicated the effects previously found in the Stroop-matching/stop-signal task. fNIRS results showed that the left inferior frontal cortex (IFC) and the bilateral intraparietal sulcus are involved in interference control; the left IFC also showed activation in inhibition of prepotent responses; and the right IFC was involved in the suppression of ongoing responses. The interaction between suppression of responses and the other two forms of inhibition lead to deactivation of frontal and parietal areas. Thus, each form of inhibition demanded by the Stroop-matching/stop-signal task seems to recruit specific cortical regions, supporting the distinction between inhibitory components at the neurophysiological level.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 7","pages":"e70098"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12230933/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144576157","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":"Active Inference in Music Perception: Motor Engagement to Syncopation Modulates Rhythmic Prediction Error.","authors":"Kai Ishida, Hiroshi Nittono","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70113","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70113","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In active inference, the sensory surprisal (a log-probability of sensory data) of the prediction error between prediction and sensory input is modulated by action. The urge to move (groove) induced by syncopation, which provides metric uncertainty, can be considered a case of active inference in music perception. The present study investigated whether rhythmic prediction error is modulated by improving the precision of rhythm perception through tapping in sync with the rhythm. Thirty-five participants listened to a rhythmic sequence while tapping the half-note beat (tapping condition) or holding a pillow (no-tapping condition), and electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded. In both conditions, the onset of the syncopated tone was rarely earlier (timing deviant: 20%) than the standard (80%). The timing deviant elicited mismatch negativity (MMN) in both the tapping and no-tapping conditions, reflecting a prediction error in timing. Moreover, the MMN was larger in the tapping condition than in the no-tapping condition, which may indicate increased precision due to tapping, even when motor-related potentials were controlled for. Neural entrainment was measured by calculating intertrial phase coherence (ITPC), which reflects oscillatory activity synchronized to stimulus frequency, and ITPC differed between the two conditions at beat-related frequencies. These results suggest that tapping enhanced meter and beat information and reduced the sensory surprisal of syncopation, resulting in a larger precision-weighted prediction error. These effects were not due to physiological arousal differences between conditions, as assessed by EEG power and heart rate variability. These results are discussed as evidence that bodily engagement modulates sensory prediction error within the active inference framework.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 7","pages":"e70113"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12287993/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144699348","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}
Soren Wainio-Theberge, Ignacio Spiousas, Jorge L Armony
{"title":"Physical Mechanisms of Emotions Evoked by Postural Feedback.","authors":"Soren Wainio-Theberge, Ignacio Spiousas, Jorge L Armony","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70095","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adopting physical expressions of emotion has been shown to have feedback effects on individuals' mood and behavior. For example, adopting the expansive and contractive body language of dominance and submission can affect individuals' feelings of power. However, the effects can be subtle and variable; we suggest that this may be due to inter-individual variability in the physical expression of the experimental posture, including both the magnitude of the posture adopted and the specific muscles used to adopt it. Here, we employed a postural feedback (i.e., \"power posing\") paradigm and recorded quantitative measures of body position algorithmically derived from video recordings (N = 101). We demonstrate for the first time that variation in neck flexion mediates the effects of posture on mood. We also investigated several other variables which, based on previous work, could additionally mediate or moderate the postural feedback effects, finding that subjective difficulty also mediates posture effects independently of neck flexion, with effects moderated by body awareness. Finally, we investigated the muscular processes underlying neck flexion in the posture using electromyography, demonstrating that the neck flexion which mediates mood effects is associated with sternocleidomastoid muscle activity. The present work carries implications for our understanding of the adaptive benefits of expansive and contractive postures, and provides important methodological insights into the paradigms typically used for research on postural feedback.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 7","pages":"e70095"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12206956/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144529334","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}
Emily M Kent, Anita Restrepo, Kelly E Faig, Sabina Raja, Stephanie J Dimitroff, Karen E Smith, Greg J Norman
{"title":"Loneliness Is Associated With Decreased Support and Increased Strain Given in Social Relationships.","authors":"Emily M Kent, Anita Restrepo, Kelly E Faig, Sabina Raja, Stephanie J Dimitroff, Karen E Smith, Greg J Norman","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70105","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prolonged loneliness can be detrimental to both mental and physical health. However, variability in how individuals respond to loneliness can shape health outcomes. Here, we explored whether loneliness is related to perceptions of support and strain given in family and friend relationships. Specifically, we assessed whether resting high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), a measure of parasympathetic nervous system activity that has been linked to emotion regulation and flexible adaptation, moderates self-evaluation of support and strain given. Participants from the Midlife Development in the US (MIDUS) dataset who had measures of loneliness, perceived support given, and perceived strain given in relationships, and resting HF-HRV were included in the current study. Loneliness was associated with decreased support and increased strain given in both family and friend relationships. Resting HF-HRV showed a trend-level moderation of the association between loneliness and perceived strain given to family, with the relationship being stronger for individuals with lower resting HF-HRV. No moderation was observed for strain given to friends. These results indicate that loneliness is linked to more negative self-evaluations of social support and strain, and that resting HF-HRV may partly buffer these effects in family relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 7","pages":"e70105"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12242097/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144601358","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":"The Influence of Reward Anticipation on Episodic Memory Among 6- to 9-Year-Old Children: An ERP Study.","authors":"Zhongge Lü, Jie Liu, Chenyang Shang, Jiaoyao Yu, Ping Wei, Qin Zhang","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research examining the effects of reward anticipation on episodic memory has primarily focused on adults. It is unclear how reward affects episodic memory among early school-aged children. Therefore, this study employed a study-recognition paradigm with reward and no-reward cues to investigate the influence of reward anticipation on episodic memory in children aged 6-9 years (n = 31), and recorded EEG to reveal the underlying neural mechanisms. Behaviorally, reward anticipation significantly improved the recognition memory accuracy of the child participants. Analyses of the encoding phase revealed that the amplitudes of the P1 and P3 components were significantly larger for rewarded items than for non-rewarded items, indicating stronger selective attention to rewarded items as well as children allocating more cognitive resources to learning rewarded items. Furthermore, we observed significant differences in the amplitudes of the N400 and SW components between rewarded and non-rewarded items, suggesting that children engaged in more detailed encoding processes for rewarded items. In the retrieval phase, we observed a significant reward effect in the 600-800 ms time window at the left centro-posterior electrodes, while in the 300-500 ms and 500-1000 ms time windows, parietal old/new effects were observed. This indicates that children's information retrieval may have primarily relied on recollection, with reward anticipation enhancing recollection. Overall, our study provides new evidence for the neural mechanisms underlying the enhancement of children's episodic memory through reward anticipation.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 7","pages":"e70104"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144576158","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}
Anna Längle, Gustavo A Reyes Del Paso, Ulrich Ettinger, Stefan Duschek
{"title":"Habitual Worry, Cognitive Control, and Heart Rate Variability in Adult ADHD.","authors":"Anna Längle, Gustavo A Reyes Del Paso, Ulrich Ettinger, Stefan Duschek","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70110","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with substantial impairments in well-being and quality of life. In addition to cognitive and behavioral symptoms, emotional dysregulation characterizes the disorder. This study investigated habitual worry in the context of cognitive control and heart rate variability (HRV) in adult ADHD. Groups with high and low ADHD symptoms (n = 51 per group) were selected from a large participant pool (n = 1020) using the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale. HRV was recorded during a breathing focus task assessing cognitive control. The task included two phases during which participants' ability to concentrate on their breathing was recorded before and after an instructed worry phase. While groups did not differ in HRV, participants with high ADHD symptoms reported greater habitual worry, more negative affect, and less positive affect than those with low ADHD symptoms. They exhibited less ability to concentrate on breathing, more frequent positive, neutral, and negative thought intrusions, and greater distress during instructed worry. In the total sample, habitual worry correlated negatively with breathing focus ability and positively with intrusive thoughts. HRV correlated positively with breathing focus ability and negatively with thought intrusions. Moreover, HRV correlated negatively with distress during instructed worry. Impaired cognitive control may contribute to exaggerated worry and negative emotional states related to ADHD symptoms. The lack of association between HRV and ADHD symptoms accords with previous studies. The correlations seen for HRV implicate prefrontal cortex function and vagal cardiac control in emotional regulation and inhibition of intrusive thoughts.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 7","pages":"e70110"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144619942","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":"Oscillatory and Aperiodic Contributions to EEG Event-Related Time-Frequency Metrics During Cognitive Control and Reinforcement Processing: A Registered Report.","authors":"Eric Rawls, Scott R Sponheim","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70073","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Brain oscillations, or rhythms, coordinate communication across distributed brain networks. These rhythms provide a foundation for the brain network interactions required for cognition. Oscillations coexist with non-rhythmic background aperiodic activity that forms a characteristic 1/f pattern in power spectra. Aperiodic brain activity is associated with cognition and can confound the detection of oscillations. In this Registered Report, we applied time-resolved spectral parameterization to EEG recordings during two common cognitive tasks. Neural dynamics recorded during many cognitive paradigms show similar patterns, including synchronization of mediofrontal theta (4-8 Hz) and desynchronization of posterior alpha (9-13 Hz) and central beta (15-30 Hz). Our results indicate that common task time-frequency signatures, including mediofrontal theta synchronization and parietal alpha desynchronization, can be attributed primarily to neural oscillatory phenomena. Intriguingly, we uncover evidence of stimulus-locked aperiodic power changes, which are responsive to the need for cognitive control and to reinforcement processing. Furthermore, aperiodic power correlated strongly with non-baseline-corrected total power estimates, and whereas oscillatory power correlated strongly with portions of baseline-corrected power estimates, it failed to correlate with other portions of baseline-corrected power. Finally, after baseline correction, aperiodic correlations with TF power remain high. These results indicate two primary outcomes. First, task TF signatures in theta and alpha bands reflect primarily parameterized oscillations. Second, aperiodic activity is time-dependent during cognitive processing, and these dynamics are not accounted for by baseline correction.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 6","pages":"e70073"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12134716/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144216724","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":"Facial Temperature Responses to Ostracism in Women: Exploring Nasal Thermal Signatures of Different Coping Behaviors.","authors":"Anneloes Kip, Thorsten M Erle, Ilja van Beest","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70081","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ostracism (feeling ignored and excluded) triggers psychophysiological responses associated with distress. We investigated different coping responses after ostracism and explored whether these were preceded by unique facial thermal signatures, reflecting autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. Using thermal infrared imaging, we recorded facial cutaneous temperature variations in female participants (N = 95) experiencing inclusion and ostracism using hypothetical Cyberball games. Coping after ostracism was assessed during a hypothetical Allocation Game, where participants could do nothing (withdrawal), reduce (antisocial), or increase (prosocial) the hypothetical earnings of their ostracizer. Contrary to expectations, most participants chose to withdraw (52%), with fewer opting for antisocial responses (30%) or prosocial responses (18%) after ostracism. Results from linear mixed-effects modeling revealed that substantial temperature variability occurred only in the nose region of the face. Both ostracism and inclusion showed a decrease in nasal temperature relative to baseline, but the average drop was greater during inclusion, suggesting stronger ANS activation during inclusion rather than ostracism. Crucially, exploratory findings showed that only participants who responded antisocially after ostracism exhibited steeper decreases in nasal temperature during ostracism compared to inclusion. This pattern suggests greater physiological reactivity among antisocial responders, particularly in contrast to those who chose to withdraw. Future research should integrate thermal imaging with other physiological measures and strengthen ostracism manipulations to understand the relationship between thermal responses and different coping behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 6","pages":"e70081"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12146686/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144249304","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}